Category Archives: life around us

Seen on a Saturday

Today was full of strange sights and interesting people, but I just had to ask these two girls if I could take a photo of them. Continue reading

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Reads and Analogies

“We are learning firsthand what everyone who has ever set out on this path has learned: we are all a paradoxical bundle of rich potential that consists of both neurosis and wisdom. – Pema Chödrön ” Continue reading

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Not Haiku, just what I saw.

To a woman, trying to return a book
received as a Christmas gift, having no receipt. Continue reading

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So says Mr. Wyeth

I plan to browse through three years of doing a month of writing poetry to see how it’s been for me so I can write something about it. Continue reading

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A Wish for the New Year

No Heaven can come to us unless our hearts find rest in today. Take Heaven! No peace lies in the future which is not hidden in this present little instance. Take Peace! The gloom of the world is but a shadow. Behind it, yet within our reach is Joy. There is a radiance and glory in the darkness, could we but see — and to see we have only to look. I beseech you to look. Continue reading

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