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
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
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
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.
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
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
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