BY DAVID WAGONER Stand still. The trees ahead and bushes beside you Are not lost. Wherever you are is called Here, And you must treat it as a powerful stranger, Must ask permission to know it and be known. The forest breathes. Listen. It answers, I have made this place around you. If you leave it, …
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Thankful Thursday: You Reading This, Be Ready
BY WILLIAM STAFFORD Starting here, what do you want to remember? How sunlight creeps along a shining floor? What scent of old wood hovers, what softened sound from outside fills the air? Will you ever bring a better gift for the world than the breathing respect that you carry wherever you go right …
Thankful Thursday: Tiger Lilies
BY FRANCINE MARIE TOLF Like King David, they have drunk the wine of astonishment. Mouths open wide, they lean toward me in this alley, swearing the world is good, that it is easy to live on fire, unnoticed, and do nothing but praise. …
Thankful Thursday: A Blessing for the Inward Way
BY TRACY SHAW May you learn to dwell Below the surface of the days At home with the ebb and flow of Your own heart’s tides. May you find the womb space at the center of your Life, There grow wise in the sacred rhythm Of filling and emptying, Emptying and filling. There, held safe, May you surrender …
Thankful Thursday: Starfish
Eleanor Lerman This is what life does. It lets you walk up to the store to buy breakfast and the paper, on a stiff knee. It lets you choose the way you have your eggs, your coffee. Then it sits a fisherman down beside you at the counter who say, Last night, the channel was full of starfish. …