Category: Spirituality

Broken but Blooming

We’re all broken but blooming. The lilacs are another brilliant mirror of who we can grow to be, and already are.

Look Deeply

When we look deeply at a flower, we can see the whole cosmos contained in it.

The Youth of April

“April hath put a spirit of youth in everything.”  — William Shakespeare

Unlocking Flowers

“Spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil.”  — Bishop Reginald Heber

Laughter

The earth laughs in flowers.”  — Ralph Waldo Emerson

April Flowers

“April brings the primrose sweet, scatters daisies at our feet.”  — Sara Coleridge

What Makes Flowers Beautiful

“Flowers don’t worry about how they’re going to bloom. They just open up and turn toward the light, and that makes them beautiful.”  — Jim Carrey

Where Does Hope Bloom?

“Where flowers bloom, so does hope.”  — Lady Bird Johnson

Brevity

We are so brief. A one-day dandelion. A seedpod skittering across the ice. We are a feather falling from the wing of a bird. I don’t know why it is given to us to be so mortal and to feel so much. It is… Continue Reading “Brevity”

Wisdom of Wendell Berry

I go among the trees and sit still.All my stirring becomes quietaround me like circles on water.My tasks lie in their placeswhere I left them, asleep like cattle.