Life is a beautiful thing.
Just take it all in and breathe,
breathe, breathe.

~ Creola Johnson

“Linguists say that language comes after music
and we sang nonsense syllables

before we invented a rational speech
to order our days.”

~ Jim Harrison

"Half of what’s about to occur is unknown, both inside you and outside you."

~ David Whyte

Homemaking is creating an environment in which learning is possible.

~ Mary Catherine Bateson

"This is something you do find in Quaker meetings, actually, and in Buddhist meetings as well. The whole herd, and that may be 50 animals, will suddenly be still, completely still. And it's not just a stillness of voice, it's a stillness of body."

~ Katy Payne

Someone explained once how the pieces of what we are
fall downwards at the same rate
as the Universe.
The atoms of us, falling towards the center

of whatever everything is. And we don't see it.
We only sense their slight drag in the lifting hand.
That's what weight is, that communal process of falling.

~ John Glenday

Still, what I want in my life
is to be willing
to be dazzled –
to cast aside the weight of facts

and maybe even
to float a little
above this difficult world.

Sooner or later, I thought, 
the wind would begin to make sense 
if I listened hard 
and took notes religiously.

~ Don Thompson

And yet, though we strain
against the deadening grip
of daily necessity,
I sense there is this mystery:

All life is being lived.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke