Susan Piver at Shambhala Mountain Center Hold your experience with tremendous gentleness. Stay with yourself–always, always, always. Be kind, feel kindly, be loving… As you become friendly… more →
A Thousand Shades of Graywrote 5 hours ago: “You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the d … more →
wrote 1 day ago: What I wish I was doing today! Monday, May 20, 2013 Waxing Moon Saturn Retrograde Rainy and cool I’m … more →
wrote 2 days ago: This is the latest installment of quotes and words that move me for the weekend of 5/18/13 (Volume 3 … more →
wrote 2 days ago: Yellow Dahlia; photo taken at the Riverbanks Zoo and Botanical Gardens, Columbia SC 2012 All summer … more →
wrote 3 days ago: Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it. ~Mary Oliver … more →
wrote 3 days ago: What has been your greatest epiphany? Do you listen? Buy Elise Ballard’s book Epiphany here. … more →
wrote 4 days ago: A super-delicious week of reveling in the details of it all! Here are the playlists for the week, pl … more →
wrote 4 days ago: Mary Oliver Mary Oliver writes beautiful poetry. And thanks to blogger-poet Ronald Shields, I have b … more →
wrote 5 days ago: I do believe The wings of the swan Love the light of the setting sun. “Sometimes I need only to st … more →
wrote 5 days ago: Do you have to be good? Mary Oliver’s poem Wild Geese opens emphatically saying no – ‘You do … more →
wrote 5 days ago: The other morning I had the “pleasure” of having my teeth cleaned – when I was wal … more →
wrote 5 days ago: “Look up!” cried out a lady. She was walking her dog and I was running toward her. I was expectin … more →
wrote 6 days ago: As part of National Poetry Month, Metre Maids — a blog that brings poetry out of a particularl … more →
wrote 6 days ago: Look, the trees are turning their own bodies into pillars of light, are giving off the rich fragranc … more →
wrote 1 week ago: Around me the trees stir in their leaves and call out, “Stay awhile.” The light flows fr … more →
wrote 1 week ago: The topic of dharma – a Sanskrit word translating roughly as our purpose, or duty – has popped up a … more →
wrote 1 week ago: Last night the rain spoke to me slowly, saying, what joy to come falling out of the br … more →
wrote 1 week ago: I spent the weekend of my 10th wedding anniversary with the poems of Mary Oliver and mermaids but mo … more →
wrote 1 week ago: As I’ve mentioned, I absolutely love Mary Oliver poetry and this quote has just stuck lately: … more →