"There is one thing even I ..."

“There is one thing that even I, who have no worldly entanglements, would be sorry to give up, the beauty of the sky.”

Kenko

"If your everyday life seems poor to you ...."

“If your everyday life seems poor to you, do not accuse it; accuse yourself, tell yourself you are not poet enough to summon up its riches; since for the creator there is no poverty and no poor or unimportant place.”

Rainer Maria Rilke

Shed

Shed.
The lighter you are
The higher you get.

Bird Nesting

O wonderful! In sport we climbed the tree,

Eager and laughing, as in all our play,

To see the eggs where, in the nest, they lay,

But silent fell before the mystery.

For, one brief moment there, we understood

By sudden sympathy too fine for words

That we were sisters to the brooding birds

And part, with them, in God’s great motherhood.

Ellis Parker Butler