Some quotes from my tea bag tags.
Earth laughs in flowers.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship is a sheltering tree.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge
From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow.
—Aeschylus
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
—Lao Tzu
There are things you can’t schedule but if you show up every day, you’re going to see miracles.”
— Bo Lozoff from the movie “Mister Rogers and Me” a Wagner Brothers movie
off to on I disappear into the visible
by Francine Banwarth – cited from the Frogpond Musuem of Haiku
It is 4 am, and am fighting insomnia. That’s what a serving of Turkish Coffee ice cream at 9 pm gets you.
So I sit reading, and fuming at myself for it.
When I turned on the lights, I felt myself fading into the minutia of my things; belongings, chores, and tasks.
As soon as my husband begins to stir, I can get to the tasks, and turn my mindset to minimizing the ‘things’.
I am reminded, life is not about things: but being grateful for each breath of the journey – even the stinkin’ thinkin’.
Over the mountain
bright the full white
moon now smiles . . .
On the flower-thief
Kobayashi Issa (1763-1828)
Journeys in the Attic 