Thank you Karen for your words and pictures so glad your feeling better~ Step step breathe~I took my spouse went to ER last Sunday~ we reversed roles~ she was in horrible pain~ Gallstones ~ she having surgery Thursday ~ and I am so apprehensive for her~ worried about things out of my control ~ I am going to start this step ~step~ breathe. Thank you again ❤️
Oh Catherine, sending lots of love for you and Kary. I had my gallbladder out about 9 years ago and everything went fine, hopefully it will for her too!! Even when I can't get out and walk, I can feel my feet and breathe into them.
Step step step breathe - sounds like a great mantra. Love the Lord of the Rings reference. Yes, things seem to be happening in our time and we have to move slowly with it.
This was just what I needed to read this morning. I just saw a deer by water on my walk, and you put into words how I felt. Thank you for writing this.
I feel much the same way as you, my friend. This second half of life is turning out to be not at all what I expected. Instead of feeling more solid, many days it feels more and more fragile.
But you do offer guidance. On Sunday mornings, as I sit on my porch and listen to the birds and insects chatter away, your email every week guides me to a place of stillness and communion with nature. And your words "step, step, step, breathe" are wise counsel indeed. Thank you as always for sharing your beautiful images and words.
As we respond in the Mass, "Lord, hear our prayer." Prayers ascending for you and me and all of us as we navigate the slippery slopes and shifting sands of the times in which we live. May love, courage, and fortitude light our paths.
…I would like to beg you dear Sir, as well as I can, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.
Thank you for the Gandaf quote. Really love it
Thank you Vasant
Beautiful, and the Tolkien quote to close it. Perfect.
Thank you Karen for your words and pictures so glad your feeling better~ Step step breathe~I took my spouse went to ER last Sunday~ we reversed roles~ she was in horrible pain~ Gallstones ~ she having surgery Thursday ~ and I am so apprehensive for her~ worried about things out of my control ~ I am going to start this step ~step~ breathe. Thank you again ❤️
Oh Catherine, sending lots of love for you and Kary. I had my gallbladder out about 9 years ago and everything went fine, hopefully it will for her too!! Even when I can't get out and walk, I can feel my feet and breathe into them.
Karen thank you❤️
Step step step breathe - sounds like a great mantra. Love the Lord of the Rings reference. Yes, things seem to be happening in our time and we have to move slowly with it.
Thank you - and that reminds me I meant to put in the attribution on that quote and totally forgot!
This was just what I needed to read this morning. I just saw a deer by water on my walk, and you put into words how I felt. Thank you for writing this.
Thank you, I'm so glad.
I feel much the same way as you, my friend. This second half of life is turning out to be not at all what I expected. Instead of feeling more solid, many days it feels more and more fragile.
But you do offer guidance. On Sunday mornings, as I sit on my porch and listen to the birds and insects chatter away, your email every week guides me to a place of stillness and communion with nature. And your words "step, step, step, breathe" are wise counsel indeed. Thank you as always for sharing your beautiful images and words.
Thank you, I'm so glad and. I love the Sunday morning on the front porch.
As we respond in the Mass, "Lord, hear our prayer." Prayers ascending for you and me and all of us as we navigate the slippery slopes and shifting sands of the times in which we live. May love, courage, and fortitude light our paths.
Thank you Lauren and yes and yes.
Thank you for reminding us of the words of Rilke.
Have a peaceful, breath-ful week.
Steven
Oh, now I want to know which words of Rilke? I love Rilke and I don't know much of it.
Here you are:
Rainer Maria Rilke – Live the Questions Now
…I would like to beg you dear Sir, as well as I can, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.
Rainer Maria Rilke, 1903
in Letters to a Young Poet
Oh yes! I knew that one but I had forgotten. Thank you!!
Thank you and yes!