During this string of stay-at-home days I find myself thinking back to the advice of a spiritual teacher I worked with in the 90’s. She used to say, “The most important thing you can do is to… Fill Up and Hang Around She was speaking in a spiritual sense, not Read more…
Recently I spent a couple of different days at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum. My first visit was a week and a half before Thanksgiving. The staff at the Arboretum were in the process of decorating inside and out. Inside they were hanging lights and stars, putting up Christmas trees, and Read more…
“Thou cannot harm a butterfly, without troubling a star.” ― Madeleine L’Engle, Troubling a Star I went out to the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum to wander and make photographs yesterday. Here are my favorites from my day. “Part of doing something is listening. We are listening. To the sun. To the Read more…
Anyone who knows me well knows that I am an inveterate reader. I need books like I need air. So you would think the prompt Inspiring Book would be easy for me. Not so! There are many many books and each has its season and reason. Inspiring Books — There Read more…
Often the greatest beauty is found in simplicity. “If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable.” ― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet May you walk in beauty. #AprilLove2018Day2