Keeping in mind...

After winter comes the summer. After night comes the dawn. And after every storm, there comes clear, open skies.

~Samuel Rutherford

A Kiss

As I am tucking Duncan in and kissing him goodnight...

"Mom, a kiss can have amazing possibilities."

Oh my dear sweet Duncan...yes, I believe you are correct.

Reminder

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

-Ralph Waldo Emmerson

Liberate

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light not our darkness that frightens us.

We ask ourselves 'who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? Your are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.

It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.

As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Marianne Williamson From her book: Return To Love

Dreams

"We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true." ~ Woodrow Wilson

"To those who can dream there is no such place as faraway."

-author unknown

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away. Henry David Thoreau

Green Tuesday: 20

"To me, a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug." ~Helen Keller

* I can't be totally certain, but I'm thinking Duncan would agree?

Green Tuesday: 16

"The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful."

-E.E. Cummings

*sorry late: I left the house at 5am today for Harrisburg and just got home - you know, because I haven't traveled enough lately!