…there is no path,

you make the path as you walk…

Antonio Machado

A fish cannot drown in water.

A bird does not fall in air.

Each creature God made

must live in its own true nature.

Mechthild of Magdeburg

You are the laboratory 

and every day is an experiment.

Go and find what is new

and unexpected.

Joel Elkes

If your mind were a suitcase and could only hold five things, what would they be?

Taken from Mark Nepo daily reading…

Walker, there is no path,

you make the path as you walk.

Antonio Machado

What lies behind us 

and what lies before us

are tiny matters

compared to

what lies within us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Rise Up Rooted Like Tree

How surely gravity’s law,
strong as an ocean current,
takes hold of even the smallest thing
and pulls it toward the heart of the world. 

Each thing—
each stone, blossom, child—
is held in place.
Only we, in our arrogance,
push out beyond what we each belong to
for some empty freedom.
If we surrendered
to earth’s intelligence
we could rise up rooted, like trees.

Instead we entangle ourselves
in knots of our own making
and struggle, lonely and confused.

So, like children, we begin again
to learn from the things,
because they are in God’s heart;
they have never left [God]. 

This is what the things can teach us:
to fall,
patiently to trust our heaviness.
Even a bird has to do that
before he can fly. 

—Rainer Maria Rilke

What is your plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

Mary Oliver

I am only lost if I’m going somewhere in particular.

Megan Scribner

I would maintain that

THANKS

are the highest form of thought 

and that

GRATITUDE

is happiness doubled by wonder.

G. K. Chesterton