loving nature, silence, spaces, and images of life and Light
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On the day when
the weight deadens
on your shoulders
and you stumble,
may the clay dance
to balance you.
And when your eyes
freeze behind
the grey window
and the ghost of loss
gets in to you,
may a flock of colours,
indigo, red, green,
and azure blue
come to awaken in you
a meadow of delight.
When the canvas frays
in the currach of thought
and a stain of ocean
blackens beneath you,
may there come across the waters
a path of yellow moonlight
to bring you safely home.
May the nourishment of the earth be yours,
may the clarity of light be yours,
may the fluency of the ocean be yours,
may the protection of the ancestors be yours.
And so may a slow
wind work these words
of love around you,
an invisible cloak
to mind your life.
John O'Donohue, Echoes of Memory
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November 27, 2009 at 2:51 pm
seeker2008
Your blog has a really homey feel. I have visited before in silence admiring it from afar. 🙂 I hope you had a nice thanksgiving. My best wishes to you
Dave
November 29, 2010 at 6:55 pm
Dorothea Walker
I stumbled onto your website by accident, but then I know that there is no such thing as an accident. I spent almost an hour with you. I loved your poems, quotations – everything! Thank you. Dorothea
September 29, 2011 at 5:09 pm
bob artemenko
Very cool – thanks for sharing your journey, I am starting to reveal mine at hugegod.com, you inspire me, Bob ; )
October 24, 2011 at 11:03 am
its margaret
Stopped by! Hello —and love your blog. Many blessings –it’s margaret
November 7, 2011 at 11:29 pm
Susan
There’s a you tube clip that two different people have posted on my facebook page of a murmuration of starlings, which lead me to want to know more about murmurations, so I Googled it of course, and found myself at your lovely site. Have enjoyed the quotes, poems and photography. Thank you for sharing. (I’m also looking for examples of good blogs, having just started one at susan-thrasher.blogspot.com.)
March 15, 2013 at 12:49 pm
El
Hi!
I found your website when I ‘googled’ ‘Honest to God’ because someone had been reading my post of the same name…
http://romancedesigner.blogspot.ca/2012/05/honest-to-god.html
I liked your post and how you took quotes from the book to write a ‘theology’ in a few short paragraphs and then… you ended that tiny little dissertation with the most simplest statement of all…
‘the beginning is to try to be honest… and go on from there.’ page 141
December 11, 2013 at 9:56 am
Nancy
I came here because a friend sent me the Maya Angelou poem about Peace at Christmas. I stayed because I think that I am a kindred spirit. Thank you for your compilation, for your writings and for making your soul’s searching available.to others.
February 5, 2015 at 10:56 am
PatriseArts
Thank you for reblogging my essay Dip Paddle; Pull; Repeat. I would appreciate it though, if you would credit it to me. Thank you!
August 8, 2015 at 2:43 pm
Kathy Brous
Please mark today’s EMDR blog VERY PROMINENTLY at the TOP “Created and edited by Kathy Brous and reprinted by permission of Kathy Brous and her website, AttachmentDisorderHealing.com from this link: http://attachmentdisorderhealing.com/emdr-sandra-paulsen-developmental-trauma/ ” unquote
That will remedy a severe problem and create a good relationship between us, since our collaboration would be a fine idea! But if you object, please know that it is entirely illegal to reprint another person’s hard work (mine) in full like this without communication or permission.