“Sometimes I think that the point of birdwatching is not the actual seeing of the birds, but the cultivation of patience. Of course, each time we set out, there’s a certain amount of expectation we’ll see something, maybe even a species we’ve never seen before, and that it will fill us with light. But even if we don’t see anything remarkable – and sometimes that happens – we come home filled with light anyway.” ― Lynn Thomson, Birding…
“We are all in this together. And we will get through this, together.” – Antonio Gutteres, Secretary General, United Nations
“Autumn shows us how beautiful it is to let go of things.” – Unknown
On a Silent Trail: The Sanctuary Kenneth & Dorothy Stiffle “Non fatuum huc persecutus ignem” Latin translation : “it is no will-o’-the-wisp that I have followed here.”
Once Upon a Mountain Time “My solitude is not my own, for I see now how much it belongs to them-and that I have responsibility for it in their regard not just in my own. It is because I’m one with them that I owe it to them to be alone, and when I am alone they are not ‘they’ but my own self. There are no strangers.” From Confessions of a Guilty Bystander – Thomas Merton
“A tree’s most important means of staying connected to other trees is a “wood wide web” of soil fungi that connects vegetation in an intimate network that allows the sharing of an enormous amount of information and goods.” ― Tim Flannery, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate – Discoveries from a Secret World The Hidden Life of Trees The Hidden Life of…
The Look Book Modesty and simplicity is important, yes! Extremely important at all times times. But it is equally important to look good, feel good and be able to present oneself to the world looking good and “well packaged”. Sheesh!! You are probably thinking I’m talking about you as a commodity – “well packaged” huh! But isn’t it important for you to look good, to be able to feel good within?…
“For after all, the best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The butterfly said to the sun,”They can’t stop talking about my transformation. I can only do it once in my lifetime. If only they know they can do it at any time and in countless ways.” -Dodinsky
“When the risk it took to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” – Anais Nin