Everyday Gratitude
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The Poetry Box
It was a sunny Tuesday afternoon. I was practically giddy with excitement, having successfully installed my new, hand-crafted poetry box* in front of our house near Asheville, North Carolina. In the same way…
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Over the Rainbows
“Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail.” Robert Motherwell
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The Farmer’s Market
“The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum, and that as long as the sun still shines and people still can plan and…
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Pink Slippers, Black Nights, and Blue Ghosts
“Perhaps, the most courageous thing we can do as a people is to behold.” Mako Fujimura
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No Boundaries
“‘I like geography best,’ he said, ‘because your mountains and rivers know the secret. Pay no attention to boundaries.'” Brian Andreas, Story People
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More Meadow Moods
“To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter… to be thrilled by the stars at night;…
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Resting in the Green
“All I want…is to smell green, to taste air, to feel the earth want me… Phillip Pulfrey, from Love, Abstraction and other Speculations
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Winter’s Small Splendors
“Walk through the garden’s dormant splendor. Say only, thank you. Thank you. Ross Gay, from his poem, “Thank You”
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Save or Savor
“I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.” E.B. White
