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seasonal transitions

~when winter meets spring, Panhala photo

The expanding sunlight meets chilly temperatures today, as winter bows to spring’s promise of green, then blossom. Soon the daffodils and tulips will flag winter’s surrender, and the season of rebirth and renewal will have fully arrived. Are you ready, too?

Baldwin on love

~ the heart of it

Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word “love” as a state of being, or a state of grace–not the infantile American sense of being made happy but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth.

~James Baldwin

~the compassionate view

perspectives

We are all wounded inside in some way or other. We all carry unhappiness within us 
for some reason or other. Which is why we need a little gentleness and healing from 
one another. Healing in words, healing beyond words. Like gestures. Warm gestures.
Like friendship, which will always be a mystery. Like a smile, which someone 
described as the shortest distance between two people.   ~Ben Okri

New Year’s Blessing

From my sky to your sky,
may we stitch together this tattered,
ever-beautiful world
with more listening and less shouting,
more kindness and less hate,
more bread and no bombs,
more hope and less cynicism,
more reality and fewer lies,
more resources and less deprivation
and always, always, more love.
May blessings circle one and all in the New Year.