Here and Now
May 18, 2017
“Happiness, not in another place but this place … not for another hour, but this hour.” — Walt Whitman * * * In the Moment — View from Hatchett’s Point, Waterford, Connecticut — photo by Mary O’Connor © 2017
Category: Earth
New Beginnings
May 11, 2017
“And suddenly you know… It’s time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings.” — Meister Eckhart * * * Fresh Start — Photo by Mary O’Connor © 2017
Peace
May 4, 2017
“When despair for the world grows in me…I go and lie down where…the great heron feeds, I come into the peace of wild things….” Listen here to Wendell Berry read the complete The Peace of Wild Things as published in Wendell Berry, New Collected Poems © Counterpoint, 3/26/2013. * * * Great Blue Heron, watercolor painting … More Peace
Just Wait
May 1, 2017
“Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.” — Paulo Coelho * * * Waiting to Fully Be — Daffodils-in-wait photo by Mary O’Connor © 2017
Competition
April 24, 2017
“Life is not a competition. Life is about helping others and inspiring others so we can each reach our potential.” — Kim Chase * * * Pablo Sandoval, Boston Red Sox; Fenway Park, Boston, April 16, 2017, Red Sox vs. Tampa Bay Rays — Photo by Mary O’Connor © 2017
Street life
April 17, 2017
Lined up along the ledge, above the streets and gutters where they huddle together, tucking their beaks under blankets of dirty wings, until nodding and bobbing their heads, they take up the spin of the world turning round— and return to the spoils of the street, eyes rimmed red. * * * Street life — Poem and photo … More Street life
Showy
April 10, 2017
“A pretentious, showy life is an empty life; a plain and simple life if a full life.” — Rick Warren * * * The bountiful Royal Pink Bougainvillea makes a showy, but highly popular ornamental. — Photo by Mary O’Connor © 2017
Smothered
April 3, 2017
“Worrisome thoughts and their resulting feelings are a form of self-strangulation. They not only strangle your emotions. They affect your physical life as well, and your ability to focus and get things done.” — Andrew J. Bernstein * * * “Smothered” — Gumbo Limbo Nature Center, Boca Raton, Florida. Photo by Jan Logozzo © 2017
Togetherness
March 23, 2017
“Living in harmony with one another brings inner tranquility.” — Lailah Gifty * * * “Our world” — Photo by Jan Logozzo © 2017
Shadow
March 20, 2017
“Find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and dark which that thing provides.” — Junichiro Tanizaki * * * Patterns of Outreach — Photo by Mary O’Connor © 2017
