To be filled with light . . .

It's Thor's day … after a below freezing, frosty morning, a mild and sunny day for TulseyTown . . .

Zen: exactly this, here and now.

Gratitude is not a passive response to something we have been given; gratitude arises from paying attention, from being awake in the presence of everything that lives within and without us. – David Whyte

This past week has been “finals” for thousands of students (and teachers)...including Joyce Vance.

103 years ago today in 1843 Charles Dickens published A Christmas Carol.

The French singer Edith Piaf was born on this day in 1915, Paris, France. She reinvented the French Chanson (ballad). Many have tried to copy her style and/or covered her songs, while the French-Canadian Celine Dion has met that challenge.

Let it be said: There is a power in love within us and returning to the whole world.

...you too have come into the world

to do this: to go easy, to be filled with light,

and to shine.

– Mary Oliver, “When I Am Among The Trees,” Thirst, Beacon Press, 2006