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“love your whole story even if it hasn’t been the perfect fairy tale.”
-marilyn moushigian koulouris
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image credit: m.e. mcnair
May14
Tag Archives: life
Apr30
be merry.
walking by the heidelberg
a place that brims with happy noise
now sitting silent and empty
their words remind me –
‘be merry’
we need more of that.
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“the world i believe is far too serious, and being far too serious….
it has need of a wise and merry philosophy.”
-lin yutang
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-ann arbor, michigan, usa, april 2020
Apr20
falling.
forsythia bright in my quarantine kitchen
blossoms have begun to fall
everything is temporary.
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“Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing. We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don’t really get solved. They come together and they fall apart. Then they come together again and fall apart again. It’s just like that. The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy.” – pema chodron
Apr15
be.
be filled with wonder,
be touched by peace.
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quote credit: jarius l. adams
Apr14
roll.
sign on a closed store window, found while walking in a very quiet downtown
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“life is such a rolling coaster, either you roll with it willingly,
or roll with it unwillingly, but you must roll either way.”
-blaze olamiday
Mar19
quarantine.
home and in self-imposed quarantine
soon to venture back out
to the stars, the blue sky, the river, and the woods.
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‘the vast differences that separate the stars are providential.
beings and worlds are quarantined from each other.
the quarantine is lifted only
for those with sufficient self-knowledge and judgement
to have safely traveled from star to star.’
-carl sagan
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image credit: google images
Mar18
here is the world.
-frederick beuchner
Mar16
bloom.
even in the midst of the most challenging of times
the flowers never cease to bloom.
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“can we conceive what humanity would be if it did not know the flowers?”
~ maurice maeterlinck
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nectarine tree on a sunny day in sierra vista, arizona, usa
Feb10
little dark house.
back in the day
when my girls were little
if there was a power outage
I would tell them
we were just like the family
in ‘the little house on the prairie’
we could pretend we were them
have lots of fun
it was okay for a while
until it got old
the novelty wore off
when there was
no pa playin’ the fiddle
no butter to churn
no humming and singing
no stitchin’ to be done
no cows to milk
then we just had to wait it out
and it was not fun.
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“where a light can’t live, i know i can’t.”
-Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little House on the Prairie
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image credit: nbc tv
Jan30
art imitating life.
“what we write should surprise us, the way life surprises us.”
-marty rubin
I didn't have my glasses on.... 