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Posted on January 7, 2018
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With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts. – Eleanor Roosevelt
Posted on November 20, 2016
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Thanking heaven even for our difficulties and misfortunes is the best way to transform them. You will see your difficulties in a different light, as if you had wrapped them in a film of pure gold. – Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov
Category: GratefulnessTags: adrian michigan, autumn, autumn colors, autumn trees, fog, gratefulness, gratitude, nature, omraam mikhael aivanhov, photo, photography, quote, trees
Posted on November 9, 2016
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The theme for the month of November (on Sundays) is still Gratitude. But for this particular Wednesday, I’ve decided we need a change in the words of the nursery rhyme. I’m going to squeeze a little hope in alongside gratitude. Don’t you think they’ll… Continue Reading “Wednesday’s Child Is Full of . . . Hope”
Category: Hope / HealingTags: autumn, autumn leaves, fence, hope, nature, nursery rhyme, oak park, photo, photography, quote, trees, wednesday's child
Posted on February 14, 2016
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Today is the First Sunday of Lent In today’s reading from Romans 10:8-13, Paul writes “The Word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart.” We so often look and listen around us for God’s voice – for direction – for wisdom. Could… Continue Reading “Listen”
Category: LentTags: forest, illinois, lent, listen, nature, photo, photography, quote, river forest, romans 10:8-13, trees, winter
Posted on June 28, 2015
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Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light; I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night. Sarah Williams from “The Old Astronomer to His Pupil” in Best Loved Poems of the American People
Category: Hope / HealingTags: nature, photo, photography, poem, poetry, quote, santa cruz, sarah williams, sunrise, the old astronomer to his pupil, trees
Posted on March 8, 2015
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Everyone keeps asking – since I’ve moved from San Francisco to the Chicago area – how it’s going for me. How am I adjusting to winter in the midwest. Actually, I think that the snow is beautiful, and, really, it’s people that I miss.… Continue Reading “So How Is Winter for You?”
Category: BeautyTags: anton chekhov, bench, dominican university, grotto, illinois, nature, photo, photography, quote, river forest, snow, snow cushion, trees, winter
Posted on March 1, 2015
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In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration. – Ansel Adams
Category: WisdomTags: ansel adams, nature, photo, photography, quote, river forest, snow, sunrise, trees, winter, wisdom
Posted on July 4, 2014
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Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Category: WisdomTags: california redwoods, muir woods, nature, path, photo, photography, quote, ralph waldo emerson, redwood trees, trail, trees
Posted on May 20, 2014
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Mystery is what happens to us when we allow life to evolve rather than having to make it happen all the time. . . . Just to see. Just to notice. Just to be there. • Joan Chittister in The Gift of Years
Posted on April 28, 2014
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The day misspent, the love misplaced, has inside it the seed of redemption. Nothing is exempt from resurrection. – Kay Ryan
Category: EasterTags: chrissy field, creation, easter, fog, kay ryan, nature, photo, photography, quote, san francisco, trees