Sunday Muse

"In every walk with nature, one receives far more than he seeks."
~ John Muir

Sunday Muse

"...thinking of driving again the gravel roads of America at thirty-five miles per hour in order to see the ditches and gulleys, the birds in the fields, the mountains and rivers, the skies that hold our 10,000 generations of mothers in the clouds waiting for us to fall back into their arms again."
from "Cold Wind" by Jim Harrison

Sunday Muse

Sometimes we need the fog to remind ourselves

that all of life is not black and white.

~ Jonathan Lockwood Huie

 

Hello 2013

"May love fill your heart,

Compassion guide your mind,

Faith rule your soul."

~ Paul Coelho

Sunday Muse

A noiseless, patient spider,

I mark'd, where, on a little promontory, it stood, isolated;

Mark'd how, to explore the vacant, vast surrounding,

It launch'd forth filament, filament, filament, out of itself;

Ever unreeling them--ever tirelessly speeding them.

And you, O my Soul, where you stand,

Surrounded, surrounded, in measureless oceans of space,

Ceaselessly musing, venturing, throwing,--seeking

the spheres, to connect them;

Till the bridge you will need, be form'd--till the ductile anchor hold;

Till the gossamer thread you fling, catch somewhere, O my Soul.

~ Walt Whitman from "Leaves of Grass"

Sunday Muse

"The Amen! of nature is always a flower."
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

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The Joy of Books

All the rage on Twitter today... this video is just wonderful!  I think we all secretly hope that this is what really happens in a bookstore at night.  (Thanks to Clara Parkes and Tara Austen Weaver for sharing.)