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“Blessed are we who seek to know the wholeof who we are:The gifts The limitsThe light The shadowsThe strengths The weaknessesThe saint The sinner Who know, accept and seek to live in truth,Who readily say ‘I’m sorry’ and learn from mistakes,Who seek the good for all creaturesin the finitude of possibility. For the weight ofContinue reading “Thought for the day, Sunday 30th March”

“Birds and another animals begin to choose their mates as the growing year burgeons strongly in the strengthening sunlight. The green fire that runs over all the earth is sparked by this very sunlight and the deep germinating power of the earth. When plants reach toward the chlorophyll pigment within each leaf so that itContinue reading “Thought for the day, Saturday 29th March”

“Choice is your greatest power. It is an even greater power than love, because you must first choose to be a loving person.” Caroline Myss

“The world speaks to me in colours, my soul answers in music.” Rabindranath Tagore

“Some say the world will end in fire,Some say in ice.From what I’ve tasted of desireI hold with those who favor fire.But if it had to perish twice,I think I know enough of hateTo say that for destruction iceIs also greatAnd would suffice.” Robert Frost (1874 – 1963), poet, born on this day

“There is another game of hide-and-seek that the Great Mother plays. This is more like a fairy story. She hides sometimes in other people. She hides in anything. Any day you might see Her eyes, just looking into mother’s, or playing with a kitten, or picking up a bird that had fallen from its nest.Continue reading “Thought for the day, Tuesday 25th March”

International Day for the Right to the Truth concerning Gross Human Rights Violations and for the Dignity of Victims (created in honour of Archbishop Oscar Romero, murdered on this day in 1980) ““You can tell the people that if they proceed in killing me, that I forgive and bless those who do it. Hopefully, theyContinue reading “Thought for the day, Monday 24th March”

World Meterological Day “A small but persistent discipline is a great force; for a soft drop falling persistently, hollows out hard rock.” St. Isaac of Syria

World Water Day “When I lived under the black oaksI felt I was made of leaves.When I lived by Little Sister Pond,I dreamed I was the feather of the blue heronleft on the shore;I was the pond lily, my root delicate as an artery,my face like a star,my happiness brimming.Later I was the footsteps thatContinue reading “Thought for the day, Saturday 22nd March”

International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination and UNESCO World Poetry Day “My blood swims in everywater way, every tributarybetween here and the DeltaLayers of my lineage are pounded intohot red clay, tint the ring of trees,are hewn across the scarred fields of southern farms.From the striving metal of plows and guns,shifting whorls ofContinue reading “Thought for the day, Friday 21st March”