Category Archives: Notes
Brewed Thoughts – Maya Angelou
I want to thank you, Lord, for life and all that’s in it. Thank you for the day and for the hour, and the minute.
. . . even in a muddy pond, beautiful and strong.
“If you feel lost, disappointed, hesitant, or weak,
return to yourself, to who you are, here and now
and when you get there, you will discover yourself,
like a lotus flower in full bloom,
even in a muddy pond, beautiful and strong.”
~ Masaru Emoto
Text & image source: ॐ Nature Heals, Nature Reveals ॐ https://web.facebook.com/%E0%A5%90-Nature-Heals-Nature-Reveals-%E0%A5%90-729612107082182/
Your Story
Your story does not stand alone.
It is an interweaving with
the story of countless others,
affected by and affecting
the lives of persons you love
and persons you do not even know.
It is, further, a priceless page
in the book of the entire universe.
Name it as such and dare to claim
as your own, that bigger story.© 2016 Dennis Ference
Two Doves
1398. My family has…
**Painting is “Golden Tears” by Gustav Klimt
My daughter and her family have been in town since last Wednesday. It was the first time we had spent a good amount of time with them in months, and we had a very good time together as always. But it is very sad when they have to leave which they did this afternoon. And so tonight I find myself feeling very sad not only because they have gone back home but again because of the profound affect the assaults he endured have had on my oldest grandson. Though he is making a good come back, he still has grief to manage, hurdles to surmount, and a loss that can never be repaid or undone. And once again I find myself not only sad but angry and struggling with not wishing any ill will or harm to his predator. So it is that my tears “are words the mouth can’t say nor can the heart bear.”(Joshua Wisenbaker) And regret comes again knowing that “every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”(Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ) But I shall sign off and go to bed telling myself that “sadness gives depth. Happiness gives height. Sadness gives roots. Happiness gives branches. Happiness is like a tree going into the sky, and sadness is like the roots going down into the womb of the earth. Both are needed, and the higher a tree goes, the deeper it goes, simultaneously. The bigger the tree, the bigger will be its roots. In fact, it is always in proportion. That’s its balance.” (Osho)
I wanted to hurry into the work of my life
“I wanted the past to go away,
I wanted to leave it, like another country;
I wanted my life to close, and open
like a hinge, like a wing,
like the part of the song
where it falls down over the rocks:
an explosion, a discovery;
I wanted to hurry into the work of my life;…”
~Mary Oliver
Artist~Svetlana Berdnik
Text & image source: Moonlight Serenade https://web.facebook.com/Moonlight-Serenade-228504310532112/
#FridayFantasy . . . To give love is like the bird…
“To give love is like the bird
That comes and sit at your door,
Sings a song……….
And happily flys away………
It doesn’t ask anything in return.”
~ OSHO
Text & image source: Women for Peace https://web.facebook.com/WomenforPeaceWithRobinMellody/
The true power of a woman is in grace, not seduction.
The true power of the true woman is in grace, not seduction.
A grace that enchants and awakens in man the desire for protection.
Grace that evokes the yearning for all that is noble,
that invigorates the soul and stimulates the spirit to its fullest development.
Grace that brings longing for the luminous worlds, long lost.
Text & image source: The Day Without Tomorrow https://web.facebook.com/TheDayWithoutTomorrow/
Be yourself…
**Images found on Pinterest; collage created by Natalie
Sacred Touches 