A thing of beauty is a joy forever. John Keats I'm thinking a lot about beauty at the moment, not only about beauty as form or aesthetic,...

Our days are a kaleidoscope. Every instant a change takes place in the contents. New harmonies, new contrasts, new combinations of every...

You must learn one thing. The world was made to be free in. Give up all the other worlds Except the one in which you belong. David Whyte...

Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still. Henry David Thoreau Over the weekend I attended...

I wonder if all I think of as the real world is just a structure, a container for relationship. Carri I sit listening to the wind,...

Work and life are not separate things and therefore cannot be balanced against each other except to create further trouble. David Whyte...

Instead of dissipating our life in mere commotion, let us endeavor to recollect it so that our activity may be more profound, more...

We are fallen mostly in broken pieces...but the wild can still return us to ourselves. Robert MacFarlane I love this picture of my Polar...

Most people want you to make something cheap, write something short, share something funny, and fit in. But the people you serve… they...

Everything is held together with stories. That is all that is holding us together, stories and compassion. Barry Lopez I write today from...

It is six A.M., and I am working. I am absentminded, reckless, heedless of social obligations, etc. It is as it must be. The tire goes...

Words have little value in the kingdom of essential things. They're just decorations on the feelings too deep for us to put into...

How did it get so late so soon? Dr Seuss My great grandfather had a beautiful gold pocket watch, with intricate engravings and an...

The arts provide a bridge of understanding and artists can help us comprehend a different world. They encourage empathy. They give us...

...along with the other animals, the stones, the trees, and the clouds, we ourselves are characters within a huge story that is visibly...

I enjoy the sort of mental space this kind of isolation affords. There are no intrusions here, no unexpected inquiries or announcements....

You're hungry, I know, said the dreambear, but you need to be hungry for more than food. More than sleep. We all go to sleep and will be...

Don’t be afraid to be weird, don’t be afraid to be different, don’t worry too much about what other people think. Whatever it is that’s...

Stillness. One of the doors into the temple. Mary Oliver Eight years ago I visited Coniston Water - in the English Lake District. I'd...

It was the spirit of poetry who reached out and found me as I stood there at the doorway between panic and love. There are many such...