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“These are the egg-shaped gourdsfrom the old homesof our people a thousand years agoand they are in my hand.First, I introduce myself, the childof the child of the old ones.I listen to where they wish to live,ask them about the birds they need,the butterflies, insects when they blossom,and sing them songspeople say are forgotten,the wordsContinue reading “Thought for the day, Monday 1st January”

“My last word has to be gratitude, gratitude for being.. It is a harsh world, indescribably cruel. It is a gentle word, unbelievably beautiful. It is a world that can make us bitter, hateful, rapid destroyers of joy. It is a world that can draw forth tenderness from us, as we lean towards one anotherContinue reading “Thought for the day, Sunday 31st December”

“But I’ll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you’ll come to understand that you’re connected with everything.” Alan Watts (1915 – 1973), writer and philosopher

“The path of awakening and loving is a path without end. We cannot measure the worth of a single loving action, or the impact of a single caring gesture. We cannot know the results of a single meditation, or evaluate the learning we will derive by meeting a single difficulty with open-heartedness. When we connectContinue reading “Thought for the day, Friday 29th December”

“If we cannot lay aside the wound, then let us say it will not always bind us.Let us say the damage will not eternally determine our path.Let us say the line of our life will not always travel along the places we are torn.Let us say that forgiveness can take some practice, can take someContinue reading “Thought for the day, Thursday 28th December”

“Love for the joy of loving, and not for the offerings of someone else’s heart.” Marlene Dietrich (1901 – 1992), born on this day

How to Be a Poet (to remind myself) by Wendell Berry “Make a place to sit down.Sit down. Be quiet.You must depend upon affection, reading, knowledge, skill—more of each than you have—inspiration, work, growing older, patience, for patience joins time to eternity. Any readers who like your poems, doubt their judgment. Breathe with unconditional breathContinue reading “Thought for the day, Tuesday 26th December”

“Don’t tell me what you are against.Tell me what you love.What you cherish with your whole body.Being against contracts the heart.Being for opens the chestlike an orchid bending toward light.Now is the time to depart from the kingdom of fearand return to the palace of this human form.One sweet dark nerve in your solar plexusradiatesContinue reading “Thought for the day, Monday 25th December”

“Whether or not they contain the encapsulated wisdom of ages past, what is certain is that myths, fairy tales and folklore offer us a world imbued with participation mystique – a world in which humans are fully enmeshed. In this world, animals always have something to teach us, trees and plants can save or cureContinue reading “Thought for the day, Sunday 24th December”

“If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable.” Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 – 1926), poet