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     Here I go

                  Jumping off my plateau

into

the cold

blue

soothing waters

below

     There I go

                     It isn't easy you know

                                          But once I hit the water and splashed I knew I just had to go

Can you follow the laughing splashing

simply smashing…

On Thursday, I was driving into town and spotted a Raven in the middle of the highway. As I got closer, I could see that it was hit by a car. The bird was in the middle of the lane and about three miles from home. Knowing Ravens well from living alongside a family for twenty years, I suspected it was one of the pair that lives in the…

God is present in everything around us

Clicia Pavan

The secrets of life

in seed germination

the movements of the Earth

spinning endlessly.

the dew on the grass

in nature that charms,

smell coming from the earth

and the sun rising

flowers that bloom

perfuming the air,

the new leaves…

Sinfonia para Gaia!Mãe da Natureza

Entre as árvores e nuvens altas serenas

Você surge sorrindo Gaia

Com a brisa da manhã, me vendo acordar

Eu acordo sorrindo também

Para este sonho acordado que me chama

Vejo a natureza despertando como beijos de amor

Na flor desabrochando,no canto dos passarinhos

Eu sinto toda a…

Here's how she describes listening to #Beethoven's "Ninth Symphony" over the radio, Helen Keller wrote the following letter to the New York Symphony Orchestra in March 1924.

Dear Friends:



I have the joy of being able to tell you that, though deaf and blind, I spent a glorious hour last night listening over…

"I shall live beyond death,

and I shall sing in your ears

Even after the vast sea-wave

carries me back

To the vast sea-depth.

I shall sit at your board though

without a body,

And I shall go with you to your

fields, a spirit invisible.

I shall come to you at your

fireside, a…

A ti entrego meu coração

Clicia Pavan

Tenho você nos meus pensamentos

Mesmo sem olhar, te vejo

Pois nosso amor é algo

Mais do que corpo é alma

Te procuro em cada estrela

Te encontro nas minhas lembranças

Te encontro na saudades dos teus beijos

Não estás comigo mas estás em mim

Ès o farol que me guia

Na…

"Go placidly amid the noise and haste,

and remember what peace

there may be in silence.

As far as possible without surrender

be on good terms with all persons.

Speak your truth quietly

and clearly;

and listen to others,

even the dull and the ignorant;

they too have their…

Love

Look into an animal's eyes and, for a while, switch places with it. Her life becomes as precious as yours and you become as vulnerable as she is.

Now smile if you believe that all animals deserve our respect and our protection, because at some point they are with us and they are. "

Francis of Assisi, the monk enlightened by…

God when the darkness of the night arrive

I will not be afraid

For lighting up my darkness

Stars will be there



At this point

I feel a strange…

You should know that life is lonely. You come out alone and you go out alone. If you know that, it will get better. Some people will love you and some won't. That's life. If you know that, it's a pretty good life.

Yoko Ono

IMAGINE PEACE

You can sweep up the dust of a thousand ruined civilizations in this breath. You can gather the ashes of your ancestors in this breath. Whisk the DNA from all the microbes that ever swarmed the gut or swam the blood of rodent, honeybee, or leprous medieval peasant in this breath. You can…

"THE GENERAL'S DAUGHTER”

The girl in the photo is Anne de Gaulle; the third daughter of Yvonne Vendroux and General de Gaulle. She was born on New Year's Day in 1928. Her features, as you can appreciate, are characteristic of what we now call Down syndrome, and in Anne's case it was severe, so much so that she could barely walk…

CLAIR DE LUNE

Your soul is a chosen landscape

Where charming masquerades and dancers are promenading,

Playing the lute and dancing, and almost

Sad beneath their fantastic disguises.

While singing in a minor key

Of victorious love, and the pleasant life

They seem not to believe in their own happiness

And their song blends with the light of the moon,

With the sad and beautiful light of the moon,

Which sets the birds in…

EARTH SONG

Listen to things more often than beings.

Hear the voice of the fire, hear the voice of the water,

Listen in the wind to the sighing of the bush:

This is the ancestors breathing.

Those who are dead are never gone;

The dead are not down…

I lied and said I was busy.

I was busy but not in a way

most people understand.

I was busy taking deeper breaths.

I was busy silencing irrational thoughts.

I was busy calming a racing heart.

I was busy telling myself I am okay.

Sometimes this is my busy,

and I will not apologize for…