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All Souls’ Day “When Mexican villagers celebrate Los Dios de los Muertos (the Days of the Dead), the celebrants customarily scatter finely decorated skulls made of sugar amid the feast. Kids, of course, will eat anything. But it’s striking to consider that adults, too, partake of these cranial confections. The sugar skull symbolically reminds usContinue reading “Thought for the day, Sunday 2nd November”

All Saints’ Day “Mother Spirit, Father Spirit, where are you?In the skysong, in the forest, sounds your cry.What to give you, what to call you, what am I? Many drops are in the ocean, deep and wide.Sunlight bounces off the ripples to the sky.What to give you, what to call you, who am I? IContinue reading “Thought for the day, Saturday 1st November”

Samhain “Four Seasons fill the measure of the year;There are four seasons in the mind of man:He has his lusty Spring, when fancy clearTakes in all beauty with an easy span:He has his Summer, when luxuriouslySpring’s honied cud of youthful thought he lovesTo ruminate, and by such dreaming highIs nearest unto heaven: quiet covesHis soulContinue reading “Thought for the day, Friday 31st October”

“No need to wonder what heron-haunted lakelay in the other valley,or regret the songs in the forestI chose not to traverse.No need to ask where other roads might have led,since they led elsewhere;for nowhere but this here and nowis my true destination.The river is gentle in the soft evening,and all the steps of my lifeContinue reading “Thought for the day, Thursday 30th October”

“We are staring at the moonand I think for a second we becomewolves again.Screaming at the stars,growling at the ideathat this night might endand we will forget this moment,as in turn we will be forgotten.Our wild souls captured. We become wolves,and for once we are runningfor something.Instead of running from it.” Wolves by Ruth Awolola

“How to stop time: kiss.How to travel in time: read.How to escape time: music.How to feel time: write.How to release time: breathe.” Matt Haig

“I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow, the million moving shapes and cul-de-sacs of shadow. There was shadow in bureau drawers and closets and suitcases, and shadow under houses and trees and stones, and shadow at the back of people’s eyes and smiles, and shadow, miles and miles and milesContinue reading “Thought for the day, Monday 27th October”

“Listen!There is a call to worshipin the hidden sinewsof our being,a taut string waiting to be plucked,a melody longing to be sung.We are made for praise!An abundant earth calls it forth:pounding sea and babbling brook,sighing trees and their singing residents,shimmering stars and silent night,the growing and the greeningand the resting seedinvite a joyful song.A heartContinue reading “Thought for the day, Sunday 26th October”

Thought for the day, Saturday 25th October “The most valued lover, the most valuable parent, the most valued friend, the most valuable “wilderman,” is the one who wishes to learn. Those who are not delighted by learning, those who cannot be enticed into new ideas or experiences, cannot develop past the roadpost they rest atContinue reading “Thought for the day, Saturday 25th October”

“Stepping through the gate into Chatsworth Park early this morning, I saw the yellow, brown, and golden leaves quietly swirling to the ground, glinting in the sun that was just breaking through the cold, damp mist of morning. I crunched through the dead leaves piled at the bottom of the great gnarled trees with theirContinue reading “Thought for the day, Friday 24th October”