Singing

An early start to the day, to catch the birdsong at dawn in an annual celebration entitled “Dawn Chorus Day”, moments of joy even in these muted and confused times

A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer,

it sings because it has a song.

 Maya Angelou

What nature teaches

The god of dirt
came up to me many times and said
so many wise and delectable things, I lay
on the grass listening
to his dog voice,
crow voice,
frog voice; now,
he said, and now
,

and never once mentioned forever

Mary Oliver, Dream Work

When things are tough…

Don’t despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you see them perish.

Because the best things are always growing in secret.

Ben Okri

There is goodness all round

And this, our life…..finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

Shakespeare, As You Like It.

Sunday Quote: Always new

I never tire of birdsong and sky and weather.

Stanley Kunitz 1905 – 2006, American Poet

See with every turning day,
how each season makes a child
of you again,
wants you to become
a seeker after rainfall and birdsong,

David Whyte, Coleman’s Bed

Horizons

Recall the way you are all possibilities

you can see and how you live best

as an appreciator of horizons

whether you reach them or not.

David Whyte, Mameen