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Letting things go…

“I realize there’s something incredibly honest about trees in winter, how they’re experts at letting things go.” – Jeffrey McDaniel

Pace of Nature…

“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Listen to the silence…

“Listen to the silence, it speaks. Listen to your heart, it knows.” – Native American Proverb

Great Strength…

“Silence is a source of Great Strength.” – Lao Tzu

The silence is beautiful…

If you listen carefully, the silence is beautiful…

It just blooms…

“A flower does not think about competing with the flower next to it. It just blooms.” – Zen Shin

One daffodil is worth a thousand pleasure…

“If one daffodil is worth a thousand pleasures, than one is too few.” – William Wordsworth

Risen Indeed…

“I was glad when they said unto me, let us go into the house of the Lord”. – Psalm 122

Without light, nothing flowers…

“Without darkness, nothing comes to birth, as without light, nothing flowers”. – May Sarton

One of those March days…

“It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the…

The fog…

“Let us go in, the fog is rising”. – Emily Dickinson

The sweet air of spring…

“When all the world appears to be in a tumult, and nature itself is feeling the assault of climate change, the seasons retain their essential rhythm. Yes, fall…

Summer’s Secret…

“Of winter’s lifeless world each tree Now seems a perfect part; Yet each one holds summer’s secret Deep down within its heart.” – Charles G. Stater

Plan ahead…

“Plan for the future because that’s where you are going to spend the rest of your life.” – Mark Twain

The Cold of Winter…

“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.” ― John Steinbeck

Good Weather…

“Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.”…

Kindness is like snow…

“Kindness is like snow, it beautifies everything it covers.” – Kahlil Gibran

Laughter is…

“Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face”. – Victor Hugo

Trees…

Trees By Joyce Kilmer I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is prest Against the earth’s sweet…

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening…

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping…

Epiphany Sunday…

The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. – John 1:5

Rest and be thankful…

“Rest and be thankful.” ― William Wordsworth

So little to do…

“We have so much time and so little to do! Strike that. Reverse it.” – Willy Wonka

Comfort to make the rough places smooth…

“I will turn the darkness into light before them and make the rough places smooth.” – Isaiah 42:16 In memory of James E. Winner Jr. (7/12/1929 – 9/14/2010)

Soar!

“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar”. – Helen Keller

Peace…

“Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beauty…

“For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never…

Hope…

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul – and sings the tunes without the words – and never stops at all. – Emily Dickinson

Keep love in your heart…

“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead”. – Oscar Wilde

I’ll always be with you…

“If ever there is tomorrow when we’re not together… there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter…