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“Drifter, on your feet, get moving!You still have time, go look for the Friend.Make yourself wings, take wing and fly.You still have time, go look for the Friend. Charge your bellows with breathlike the blacksmith taught you.That’s how you turn your iron to gold.You still have time, go look for the Friend… I trapped myContinue reading “Thought for the day, Friday 3rd November”

“As we slowly tread towards winter,let us learn how to befriend darkness.May we find our way in the night and welcome the shapes we see.Let us honour the voices of our ancestors,and the faces of friends lost through death or conflict.May we hear their whispers of wisdom,of laughter and of love.May their courage to liveContinue reading “Thought for the day, Thursday 2nd November”

All Saints’ Day “My life is made worthwhile by fighting bravely onfor those ideals I hold most great and holy.Though evil winds may blow, they will not rock the calmin my soul, which remains both quiet and lowly.For heaven waits for those whose spirits have won through,but I am sure that my life was worthContinue reading “Thought for the day, Wednesday 1st November”

Samhain / Halloween “Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;Conspiring with him how to load and blessWith fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees,And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shellsWith a sweet kernel; toContinue reading “Thought for the day, Tuesday 31st October”

“The particular mind of the oceanFilling the coastline’s longingWith such brief harvestOf elegant, vanishing wavesIs like the mind of timeOpening the shapes of days. As this year draws to its end,We give thanks for the gifts it broughtAnd how they became inlaid withinWhere neither time nor tide can touch them. The days when the veilContinue reading “Thought for the day, Saturday 31st December”

“I learned this wisdom from my fathers: There are two things it is forbidden to worry about; that which it is possible to fix, and that which it is impossible to fix. What is possible to fix – fix it, and why worry? What is impossible to fix – how will worrying help?” Rabbi YechielContinue reading “Thought for the day, Friday 30th January”

“If you are a true seeker of liberation you’ve got to be willing to stand alone. At the moment of Liberation everything falls away…everything. Suddenly the ground beneath your feet is gone, and you are alone. You are alone because you have directly realized that there is no other, there is no separation. There isContinue reading “Thought for the day, Thursday 29th December”

“I know this world is far from perfect.I am not the type to mistake a streetlight for the moon.I know our wounds are deep as the Atlantic.But every ocean has a shorelineand every shoreline has a tidethat is constantly returningto wake the songbirds in our hands,to wake the music in our bones,to place one fearlessContinue reading “Thought for the day, Wednesday 28th December”

“Friendship is a precious gift that can’t be bought or sold. Its value is greater than mountains made of gold. If you shall ask God for a gift, be thankful if he sends not diamonds pearls or riches, but the love and trust of friends. It is the friends you can call up at 4Continue reading “Thought for the day, Tuesday 27th December”

“Let no ungenerous thought be in our minds today, no intent that is hurtful to another, no purpose that has harm in it. Touch us, O God, with the sweet simplicity of Christmas joy, and may its gentleness and loving-kindness fill our hearts.” A. Powell Davies