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Tag Archives: Wisdom
Notes from Inside a Black Hole
Serious illness, like a black hole, draws everything into itself. Energy, creativity, enthusiasm, all the factors essential to blogging, are subsumed and nothing is left outside. Which explains where I’ve been for so long. Not my illness, but the Hub’s. Now … Continue reading
Posted in Challenge, Flowers, Happiness, Health, Life and Death, Quotes, Wisdom
Tagged Black Holes, Courage, Health, Wisdom
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Borrowed Words (2)
In Japanese landscape gardening the word shakkei means “borrowed view.” The designer “borrows,” or incorporates, any view beyond property borders, thereby visually enlarging his own property and landscape. This winter in Northampton has meant enclosure in the house, trapped by unrelenting cold and snow, and enclosure … Continue reading
Not My Circus?
This morning, on fellow blogger Stef’s Daily Delights, I encountered this Polish proverb: Not my circus, not my monkeys! Well! I promptly decided to adopt the proverb as my mantra-of-the-day. Enough of the silliness, enough of the small stuff (I thought … Continue reading
“Growing Down”: Moving from MORE to LESS
Remember when you were, oh, say, six years old? And then, just a few months after your birthday, you were already counting, “I’m six and a half. In just three months I’ll be six and three-quarters. I’m growing up!” Growing up. … Continue reading
Posted in Challenge, Etcetera, Freedom, Health, Personal Essay, Wisdom
Tagged Alice in Wonderland, Growing Old, Growing Up, Lewis Carroll, Octogenarians, Through the Looking Class, Wisdom, Working Out
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All Shall be Well —
It’s a story that should begin, “Once upon a time.” It has that ageless storytale quality. Once upon a time there was a woman who was born on the 8th November 1342 (and how do we know that so definitively?), … Continue reading
Posted in Etcetera, Life and Death, Memory, Personal Essay, Quotes, Wisdom, Wonderings
Tagged Hermits, Julian of Norwich, Mystics, Revelation, Saints, Visions, Wisdom
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Getting Up Early in the Morning?
I know lots of people who do, but I don’t. (Normally, that is. This photo is an anomaly.) The warm shelter of the quilt is too cozy, my body insists on just a few more minutes — and then a … Continue reading
Of Making Many Books, There is No End — or Reward?
“Of making many books there is no end, and much study is a weariness of the flesh.” Ecclesiastes 12 It was that way right from the beginning, I’m sure. Carvers in stone, makers of runes, scribes in papyrus and parchment, … Continue reading
Like a Snake in Springtime …
“The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Spring, that season of new growth, is generally greeted with joy. And … Continue reading
Posted in Challenge, Etcetera, Nature, Personal Essay, Quotes, Spring, Wisdom
Tagged Change, Growth, Opinion, Snakes, Springtime, Wisdom
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Written in the Stars (in Chinese)
Not so long ago I wrote a post about my hooded eyes and my jealousy, and my tremendous relief when I found that the jealousy wasn’t really my fault, that I might have inherited it from my grandmother as I … Continue reading
Posted in Challenge, Etcetera, Happiness, Personal Essay, Wisdom
Tagged Anxiety, Astrology, Chinese Zodiac, Dogs, Psychology, Wisdom
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The Buddha Speaks of Happiness —
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. The Buddha
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