Yellow Rose

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“To love. To be…

“To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never, to forget.” ~ Arundhati Roy

Poppy Petal Abstract

“What is passio…

“What is passion? It is surely the becoming of a person.” ~ John Boorman

White Coneflowers

You with the Still Soul

Maybe you have a still soul that

goes murmurless like water in the deep

of rivers.

And perchance you wander

silent amid the din of the world’s

grinding barter like one

journeying in strange lands.

You, too, with the still soul,

have your mission, for beneath the

dashing, noisy waves must ever

run the silent waters that give the tide

its course.

~~ Max Ehrmann ~~

Yellow Marigold

Why I Wake Early

Hello, sun in my face.
Hello, you who make the morning
and spread it over the fields
and into the faces of the tulips
and the nodding morning glories,
and into the windows of, even, the
miserable and the crotchety—

best preacher that ever was,
dear star, that just happens
to be where you are in the universe
to keep us from ever-darkness,
to ease us with warm touching,
to hold us in the great hands of light—
good morning, good morning, good morning.

Watch, now, how I start the day
in happiness, in kindness.

~~ Mary Oliver ~~

Pink Rose

“Let your soul …

“Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.” ~ Walt Whitman