Nourturing the spirit

Bowl of Wisdom (carefully guarded by my wind up otter)

I thought I'd share a few of the beautiful messages I've been gifted from these little cards. They touch my heart and help me focus on things that I sometimes need reminding... sometimes a cosmic smack upside the head, lovingly - of course! ;)

Remember that what is hard to endure will be sweet to recall. - Tote Yamada

We rise by lifting others. - Robert Green Ingersoll

There is more to life than having everything. - Maurice Sendak

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning. - Lous L'Amour

We had only one simple rule in our home: Live harmlessly. - Sally Browne

The effect of one good-hearted person is incalcuable. - Oscar Arias

You really can change the world if you care enough. - Marian Wright Edelman

Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. - Mother Teresa

Treasure each other in the recognition that we do not know how long we shall have each other. - Joshua Loth Liebman

Where there is no love, put love - and you will find love. - Saint John of the Cross

A heart can be broken, but it will keep beating just the same. - Fannie Flagg

The thing always happens that you believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen. - Frank Lloyd Wright

Life is a promise. Fulfil it. - Mother Teresa

Be kind to one another. - Jim Henson

We need heart-to-heart resuscitation. - Ram Dass

"What is life's heaviest burden?" asked the child.
"To have nothing to carry," answered the old man. - Anonymous

How simple is it to see that we can only be happy now, and that there will never be a time when it is not now. - Gerald Jampolsky

Most people don't know how brave they are. - R.E. Chambers

Make your own trail. - Katharine Hepburn

One of the marks of a gift is to have the courage to fulfull it. - Katherine Anne Porter

If I could buy you for what you think you're worth and sell you for what you're really worth - I'd make a fortune. - Unknown

We are boundless creatures. - Kobi Yamada

Within you lies a power greather than what lies before you. - Anonymous

Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another. - Elizabeth Cady Stanton

You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star. - Friedrich Nietzche

Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and we must set off that spark in one another. - Kenny Ausubel

Seek not outside yourself, heaven is within. - Mary Lou Cook



It's Friday.
I've made myself a lucious coconut shake and have a few movies to enjoy and get lost in.
I hope the weekend gifts all of us with moments of silence and "me time." I am feeling winter very strongly and my heart and mind are being pulled inward as well as in many directions. I'm so happy weekend has found me!


This Is Not the House Pain Built
Dar Williams

My house is hard to find, but I'll give you directions,
You can visit sometime, down where all that I built surrounds me
Just make sure your car's got good shocks
There's steep hills, there's potholes, there's rocks
I work in the garden, my son plays around me
Close the gate behind you, there's a horse that can't get out
I will see you first, is that all right
And can you remember, can you remember

This is not the house that pain built
This is not the house that pain built
I was drowning in something, I jumped in the rift
And you knew me back then, when I spat on my gift, but no

It's tough and it's tiring when you go it alone
I learned about wiring, I learned about stone
The building is done but the work's never through
And I won't give up, no how, it reminds me of who I am and where I am now
I remember myself, that's the work that I do
On a spring night when the snow is melting
You'll see two sets of footprints walking
Look at all the stars, and turn around, and walk home,
Slowly walk home.

This is not the house that pain built
That is not a house that pain built
My friends all think that I holed up and hid
But I tell them I didn't, you know I don't think I did, no.

And this is where I let my pain go
This is where I let my pain go
This is where the footprints dance in the snow