7 for Sunday

And then they got home, and there were piles of tasks, emails and messages waiting for them. The urgency of those piles threw them off their best intentions. The urgency of piles throws off all of our best laid plans. ~ Leo Babauta from, https://zenhabits.net/piles/ If I could have one wish this holiday season (maybe…

The old and the very young have always held sway for me because of bald and unerring candor, and the lack of affectation. They had either stopped posing or had not yet learned to pose. ~ Mylinh Shattan from, https://treehouseletter.com/2022/09/06/98853/ Intentional or not, I’m awarding style points for the innuendo which Shattan’s use of the…

The old and the very young have always held sway for me because of bald and unerring candor, and the lack of affectation. They had either stopped posing or had not yet learned to pose. ~ Mylinh Shattan from, https://treehouseletter.com/2022/09/06/98853/ Intentional or not, I’m awarding style points for the innuendo which Shattan’s use of the…

The results of fully listening are profound and couldn’t be more relevant today in times of immense distractions and a world constantly in a rush: Others feel accepted. They feel heard. They take their own words more seriously. By thinking out loud, they are discovering their own words and, by that, their own true selves.…

The best way to get a vivid impression and feeling of a landscape, is to sit down before it and read, or become otherwise absorbed in thought; for then, when your eyes happen to be attracted to the landscape, you seem to catch Nature unawares, and see her before she has time to change her…