Words

In the mailbox this already hot summer Sunday...

The harvest of presence is beauty. – David Whyte

While all language is metaphor – and “The Watercourse Way” is certainly one among many – one word consonant with The Way is “blessing.” Living gratefullyin presence is its own blessing.

It’s not quite clear what a green thumb is. Some people have it, some people don’t. Maybe we can describe it as a mixture of extra nourishment and something intangible like attention, love, and care. For the houseplant, the green thumb is the difference between surviving and thriving. Mindfulness practice can have that effect on your life. – Christian Dillo

As for the body...it is the only vessel in the world that can hold, in a mix of power and sweetness: words, song, gesture, passion, ideas, ingenuity, devotion, merriment, vanity, and virtue. Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable. – Mary Oliver, Evidence, Beacon Press, 2009.

At times I'd be so overcome by the reconciliation I might achieve between imagination and writing, that I would feel a need to sneak out to the front door, sit on the doorstep, breathe in the sweet, cool air, gaze up at the night sky, and try to think of eternity, the soul, beauty, and images remote from lorries, spades and coal. It was as though something was urging me on in what appeared even to me to be a vain and hopeless quest. – Bill Naughton