Go outside today.
Lift your face up to the sky, close your eyes and breathe.
Fill your lungs, unfurrow your brow and smile.
Repeat as often as necessary.
Showing posts with label serenity now. Show all posts
Showing posts with label serenity now. Show all posts
3.27.2011
3.20.2011
Serenity Now!
A journey of a thousand miles
begins with a single step.
~ Lao-tzu, Chinese philosopher
1.10.2011
1.02.2011
Serenity Now
VELVET SHOES
by Elinor Wylie
Let us walk in the white snow
In a soundless space;
With footsteps quiet and slow
At a tranquil pace,
Under veils of white lace.
I shall go shod in silk
And you in wool,
White as white cow's milk
More beautiful than the breast of a gull.
We shall walk through the still town
In a windless peace;
We shall step upon white down,
Upon silver fleece,
Upon softer than these.
We shall walk in velvet shoes:
Wherever we go
Silence will fall like dews
On white silence below.
We shall walk in the snow.
Unexpected Holiday & Being Still
By Marca
We had no plans for the holidays. My husband had to work and so we made no plans for visitors and big parties or activities. It was to be a low key Christmas. It worked out well since we are attempting to save money and resources for our big trip to China this coming year.
Enter one official letter from the government for an adoption appointment. We had to head home to our place down south where my mom lives. With only a couple of days before Christmas we decided we had better stay. DH got the extra two days off and we took a 14 hour road trip. Enter one phone call from little sister. One call brought surrounding family heading our direction. In short, we had a big family Christmas complete with a tree quickly decorated, gifts madly purchased and wrapped and a big feast. Enter the snowstorm. Christmas morning brought a visit from Santa and a beautiful layer of freshly fallen snow. Snow continued falling all Christmas day making the chance for our departure the next day very unlikely. We entered Christmas night in a beautiful content stillness from the warmth family resting inside to the quiet cold snowy blanket outside. Being still is a good thing. Sometimes, we don't do it ourselves and we are forced into it. That beautiful snow that arrived that Christmas morning was a gentle hint that we could just be still. And so we were. For a whole week. That was the best and most unexpected Christmas gift of the year.
Perhaps this a good introduction to our Serenity Now this week.
We had no plans for the holidays. My husband had to work and so we made no plans for visitors and big parties or activities. It was to be a low key Christmas. It worked out well since we are attempting to save money and resources for our big trip to China this coming year.
Enter one official letter from the government for an adoption appointment. We had to head home to our place down south where my mom lives. With only a couple of days before Christmas we decided we had better stay. DH got the extra two days off and we took a 14 hour road trip. Enter one phone call from little sister. One call brought surrounding family heading our direction. In short, we had a big family Christmas complete with a tree quickly decorated, gifts madly purchased and wrapped and a big feast. Enter the snowstorm. Christmas morning brought a visit from Santa and a beautiful layer of freshly fallen snow. Snow continued falling all Christmas day making the chance for our departure the next day very unlikely. We entered Christmas night in a beautiful content stillness from the warmth family resting inside to the quiet cold snowy blanket outside. Being still is a good thing. Sometimes, we don't do it ourselves and we are forced into it. That beautiful snow that arrived that Christmas morning was a gentle hint that we could just be still. And so we were. For a whole week. That was the best and most unexpected Christmas gift of the year.
Perhaps this a good introduction to our Serenity Now this week.
12.14.2010
Serenity Now
Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village, though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.
He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound's the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.
The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
His house is in the village, though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.
He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound's the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.
The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
When I was a little girl, I fell in love with poetry. Robert Frost became almost a friend. I felt as though I was a welcomed and familiar visitor at his farm. This poem has always been a favorite to read, reflect upon and share in my class. It speaks volumes to me. I hope that during this busy season it may be worth a quiet rest along your busy walk, one in which to savor. ~Marca
11.14.2010
Serenity Now
A man (or woman, thank you.) is rich
according to the number of things
he can afford to let alone.
~Henry David Thoreau, Walden
according to the number of things
he can afford to let alone.
~Henry David Thoreau, Walden
10.11.2010
10.03.2010
Serenity Now
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately,
to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not
learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die,
discover that I had not lived.
~Henry David Thoreau, Walden
9.26.2010
Serenity Now!
Finish each day and be done with it.
You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in;
forget them as soon as you can.
Tomorrow is a new day;
you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit
to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
9.20.2010
Serenity Now
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the
unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
~Hans Hofmann, Introduction to the Bootstrap, 1993
9.12.2010
9.07.2010
Serenity Now!
“First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.”
~ Napoleon Hill (American author, 1883-1970)
~ Napoleon Hill (American author, 1883-1970)
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