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“What is music to you? What would you be without music? Music is everything. Nature is music (cicadas in the tropical night). The sea is music, the wind is music. The rain drumming on the roof and the storm raging in the sky are music. Music is the oldest entity. The scope of music isContinue reading “Thought for the day, Tuesday 29th April”

“There have been times, lately, when I dearly wished that I could change the past. Well, I can’t, but I can change the present, so that when it becomes the past it will turn out to be a past worth having.” From I Shall Wear Midnight by Terry Pratchett (1948 – 2015), born on thisContinue reading “Thought for the day, Monday 28th April”

“Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you. Enter eagerly into the treasure house that is within you, and you will see the things that are in heaven, for there is but one single entry to them both.” St. Isaac the Syrian

“There is many a monster who wears the form of a man;it is better of the two to have the heart of a man and the form of a monster. ” Beauty and the Beast by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont (1711 – 1780), born on this day Image by Jennie Harbour

“The names of some butterflies suggest an almost military pecking order: the Monarch, the Red Admiral, the Silver Skipper. But these beautiful creatures recognize no such hierarchy. They all began as eggs, one no better than the next. Then they hatched into caterpillars, among the lowliest of creatures, inching along patiently in search of food.Continue reading “Thought for the day, Friday 25th April”

International Day of Multilateralism and Diplomacy for Peace “Oh Great Spirit,this is a Call for Peace across the land,so it is directed to the only Earth Dwellerswho are capable of making warand have done so since their beginning.I thank you, oh Creatorfor allowing the powerful discoveriesthat allow two-leggeds to reachinto all nooks and crannies,glades, caverns,Continue reading “Thought for the day, Thursday 24th April”

“And this our life, exempt from public haunt,Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,Sermons in stones, and good in everything.” From As You Like It by William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616), born on this day Image: Morning Amongst the Coniston Fells by J. M. W. Turner (1775 – 1851), born on this day

International Mother Earth Day “howl up the moon.bask in starlight andbathe in stories.make friends with dandelions.listen to the trees.walk out of your house barefootand let the grasswhisper poems to your toes.sigh.feast on cloud shapes.gulp the sunset.let the wind play with your hairlike a lover.sing the wild geese intonight’s grand unfurling.ask a caterpillar for a dance.cloakContinue reading “Thought for the day, Tuesday 22nd April”

World Creativity and Innovation Day “You advise me, too, not to stray far from the ground of experience, as I become weak when I enter the region of fiction; and you say, “real experience is perennially interesting, and to all men.” I feel that this also is true; but, dear Sir, is not the realContinue reading “Thought for the day, Monday 21st April”

Easter Sunday “And just when the darknessbecame too much to bearand the struggle too hard,the light broke throughand the caterpillar emergeda butterflydelicate but unbroken,wild and gentle,finally free to spread its lovely wingsand fly away on the wind.” L.R. Knost, writer