This morning I was sitting out on the courtesy dock, over the water, meditating at sunrise. That doesn’t happen all that often anymore. Even great beauty can begin to be common place when you live with it everyday. It was cloudy today and there wasn’t the spectacular sunrise seen in today’s photo, but as myContinue reading “How Excellent!”
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Stay Calm, Be Safe and Enjoy the Eclipse
Happy Monday. Today is the big day — the Solar Eclipse of 2017. Here are a few tips for you concerning the eclipse. If you are traveling today, please drive safely. No driving with your cellphone out the window trying to take pictures and no stopping on the side of the road to view theContinue reading “Stay Calm, Be Safe and Enjoy the Eclipse”
Thought for Today
“And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.” – William Shakespeare – As You Like It Act II, Scene I
Lunch on the Deck
When the weather is warm Bob and I enjoy our lunch on the deck. During nice weather we will take any reason for being outside. We enjoy the cool breeze and being serenaded by bird song. After lunch we like to stay outside and spend some time looking up — like in straight up, overhead. So,Continue reading “Lunch on the Deck”
Thought for Today
“We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook. We must become members of a new race, overcoming petty prejudice, owing our ultimate allegiance not to nations but to our fellow men within the human community”.— Haile Selassie Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/spirit.html
The Prayer
This song always brings tears to my eyes, but especially now. This is my prayer for our world.
Thought for Today
“You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.” — Woodrow Wilson Read more at:Continue reading “Thought for Today”
Thought for Today
“Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/spirit.html
Thought for Today
“Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.” — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/spiritual.html
Be Nice
The two words I try to live by are be nice. Those are words I heard a lot growing up and still remember my mother’s voice saying them in a rather sharp tone, followed by my full given name. These were said when my mother thought I was doing something wrong. It took meContinue reading “Be Nice”
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