We’ve only been away a week and yet It seems we left in spring and have returned in summer Alliums, dog rose and sweet rocket have burst Mint, marjoram and geranium running amock Foxgloves rise above the fray The Ash tree is now clothed in soft green leaf wafting in the warm breeze And Lying Read more about Returning home[…]
I would not exchange the sorrows of my heart For the joys of the multitude.And I would not have the tears that sadness makes To flow from my every part turn into laughter. I would that my life remain a tear and a smile. A tear to purify my heart and give me understandingOf life’s secrets and Read more about Cycles[…]
One source says: “While meteorologists have a physical understanding of the circular rainbow around the sun, wisdom keepers of the Americas and Tibet have complementary spiritual understandings about this dramatic omen around the Sun which is known as the Whirling Rainbow or the Sunbow. For some traditional native people, the Sunbow or Whirling Rainbow is Read more about Rainbow Around The Sun[…]
This poem came through after watching David Attenborough’s Life on this Planet. If you haven’t watched it, may I HIGHLY recommend that you do and that you then share it far and wide. It’s causing a wave of awakening.. Amidst it all.Amidst uncertaintyEmotional frailtyRealization that how we have livedHas desecrated our worldUnknowinglyThen knowingly Because we didn’t,Because Read more about Treesisters calling[…]
Today is one of those excellent January partly cloudies in which fight chooses an unexpected part of the landscape to trick out in gilt, and then shadow sweeps it away. You know you’re alive. You take huge steps, trying to feel the planet’s roundness arc between your feet. Kazantzakis says that when he was young Read more about The first morning of visible breath[…]
Kazantzakis’ on Saint Francis The canary is like a man’s soul. It sees bars around it but instead of despairing it sings and wait and see, one day it’s song shall break the bars.
You must know that feeling when somebody gives you something and they are busy being the person that’s giving it, and then you are the person receiving it, it separates people. There’s another way, where I am giving you food but it’s God’s food and I am just the instrument through which the food is Read more about Ram Dass[…]
In out-of-the-way places of the heart,Where your thoughts never think to wander,This beginning has been quietly forming,Waiting until you were ready to emerge. For a long time it has watched your desire,Feeling the emptiness growing inside you,Noticing how you willed yourself on,Still unable to leave what you had outgrown. It watched you play with the Read more about For a New Beginning – John O’Donohue[…]