Month: December 2013

Compassion…To Go With Traveling…

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To Go With Traveling copyright

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Traveling Together
by WS Merwin

If we are separated, I will
try to wait for you
on your side of things

your side of the wall and the water
and of the light moving at its own speed
even on leaves that we have seen
I will wait on one side

while a side is there

Peaceableness and The Dance

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Noticing Nature

This morning’s noticing comes first with sound.

Then follows to Hermit’s Thatch a writing entitled Peaceableness only a tiny snippet follows in all honor and respect to the author, please follow the link to the full piece.

“…The peaceful person is vilified by society because society is perpetual conflict, in a state of turmoil and struggle, adversarial and warlike. The face of society is at most seen to foster competition, entrepreneurial wiles, an optimism invested in the system, but its means and ends are incompatible with the creation of a peaceable person and a peaceful society….”
–Meng-hu
Peaceableness, Hermit’s Thatch

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Fox Sleep

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Noticing Nature

I was poking about, adding and removing things from my front stoop listings on Elisa’s Spot, and luxuriating in the choosing of items. I really think that I should love to hear more from the blog author of Such Stuff, however the last post was in 2012. There are a great many items there that, to me, are very much worth luxuriation time spent within them. One of these, as I decided to go through December posts, was the entry for Wednesday, December 14, 2011. At the end of the posting was a link to the entire poem by W.S. Merwin, entitled Fox Sleep. Here is the link to the entire poem.

My travels have me thinking of bits and pieces of the words of a famous benediction by Robert Schuller, “And now may the Lord bless you and keep you. May the Lord make His…

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