“Go spend time with the aspen trees. They’ll tell you how it works. They’ll tell you to look to your roots for energy. They’ll tell you there’s warmth below the surface.”
– Kaya McLaren
Tag Archives: Quotes
Perseverance
“An oak tree is just a small nut that persevered against the taunts of doubt and fear.”
– Matshona Dhliwayo
In a wild state
“I should be glad if all the meadows on the earth were left in a wild state, if that were the consequence of men’s beginning to redeem themselves.”
– Henry David Thoreau
On my mind
“Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.”
– Maya Angelou
A thought for this month, with a photo from last summer.
Hope
“Hope” is the thing with feathers,
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops – at all.
– Emily Dickinson
Full poem: “Hope” is the thing with feathers.
Sister Moon
Sister moon will be my guide
In your blue blue shadows I would hide
All good people asleep tonight
I’m all by myself in your silver light
I would gaze at your face the whole night through
I’d go out of my mind, but for you
– Sting
Into the Forest I Go
“And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.”
– John Muir
Coming into leaf
The trees are coming into leaf,
Like something almost being said.
The recent buds relax and spread,
Their greenness is a kind of grief.
O Tannenbaum
O Tannenbaum, O Tannenbaum,
Wie treu sind deine Blätter.
Du grünst nicht nur, zur Sommerzeit,
Nein auch im Winter, wenn es schneit.
O Tannenbaum, O Tannenbaum,
Wie treu sind deine Blätter.
Christmas in the Capitol rotunda, 2017.
Christmastime is here
One of my favorite Christmas songs. I love the melancholy mood of it. Merry Christmas everyone!
Christmas time is here.
Happiness and cheer.
Fun for all that children call,
Their favorite time of the year.Snowflakes in the air.
Carols everywhere.
Olden times and ancient rhymes,
Of love and dreams to share.Sleigh bells in the air.
Beauty everywhere.
Yuletide by the fireside,
And joyful memories there.Christmas time is here.
We’ll be drawing near.
Oh, that we could always see,
Such spirit through the year…