Posts Tagged ‘encouragement’
Stillnesse
at the still point, there the dance is ~ T. S. Elliott The word stillness comes from the Middle English, stillnesse for tranquility, peace, security. It’s paradoxical to think of dancing in stillness, but isn’t that what many of us are doing now? It’s been a month of social isolation for me, my husband…
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Creative expression, whether that means writing, dancing, bird-watching, or cooking, can give a person almost everything that he or she has been searching for: enlivenment, peace, meaning, and the incalculable wealth of time spent quietly in beauty. ~ Anne Lamott The empty page. A blank canvas. Knitting needles and a ball of yarn. Fabric and thread.…
Read MoreHonk It Through!
Come, come, whoever you are. Wanderer, worshipper, lover of living, it doesn’t matter. Ours is not a caravan of despair. Come even if you have broken your vow a thousand times. Come, yet again, come, come. ~ Rumi Rumi was a 13th century Muslim poet, theologian and mystic. I don’t know if you are…
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