Peep

Pause

Nothing that is can pause or stay. The moon will wax. The moon will wane. The mist and cloud will turn to rain. The rain to mist and cloud again. Tomorrow be today.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Alive

i thank You God for most this amazing
day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which is yes

(i who have died am alive again today,
and this is the sun’s birthday; this is the birth
day of life and of love and wings: and of the gay
great happening illimitably earth)

how should tasting touching hearing seeing
breathing any–lifted from the no
of all nothing–human merely being
doubt unimaginable You?

(now the ears of my ears awake and
now the eyes of my eyes are opened)

e.e. cummings

1894-1962

Bathe

Awake

Only that day dawns to which we are awake.

Henry David Thoreau

Hear

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Arise

Darkness

Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light.

Madeleine L'Engle

Dark

We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.

Henry James

If I see you

If I see you

and only you,

then the world shall smile.

If I see you

and not my past,

then that world shall grow.

My needs,

my fears

my loneliness,

are all in black and white;

but you are made of beauty

unique and precious child.

Possibility lies within

the dreams you hold inside,

the magic of your laughter

and the hope within your eyes.

If we stand together,

then you may see me too,

and I will see a new world

reflected in your eyes.

You my love are beautiful

and the world has grown so wide.

Ruth Davmor

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Attract

Wild

You were wild once. Don’t let them tame you.

Isadora Duncan

Story

We cannot choose where to start and stop. Our stories are the tellers of us.

Chris Cleave

Adventure

Small

Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Woken

Newly woken,

bathed in raindrop diamonds:

white magic.

Ruth Davmor

Game

Sunshine chases

gently dancing showers

across the sky.

Ruth Davmor

Begin

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Cathedral

Alongside

I cannot walk another’s pain,
nor take it from them.
Yet gladly would I give a little of myself
to walk alongside
in companionship and love.
When the soul is darkest
and the light most hidden,
there would I offer the breath of self knowledge.
I cannot know the path to follow,
but if I could,
I would reflect the radiance of a person’s essence
back into their heart,
that they might find their own path
with sure and knowing steps,
and not walk those steps alone.
Where their path may lead
I cannot know.
Yet gladly would I follow.

Ruth Davmor

Burden

Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump: you may be freeing him from being a camel.

G. K. Chesterton

Words

She was fascinated with words. To her, words were things of beauty, each like a magical powder or potion that could be combined with other words to create powerful spells.

Dean Koontz

Form

Nook

The love of learning,

the sequestered nooks,

and all the sweet serenity of books.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Silent

In the silence of listening, you can know yourself in everyone, the unseen singing softly to itself and to you.

Rachel Naomi Remen

Speak

Magician

Does every magician… evoke the hidden conjurer in us all, bringing out the magical possibilities and potentials we did not know existed?

Azar Nafisi