Summit, Spirit, Sky: connect to Creator, community and creation!
Summit, Spirit, Sky: connect to Creator, community and creation!
Rings and jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only true gift is a portion of thyself. — Ralph Waldo Emerson The ring is the outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual bond, which unites two hearts in love. — Traditional blessing of wedding rings Those made of common metals served[…]
Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn’t people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them? — Rose Kennedy Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come. — Proverb Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all[…]
What happens to me when I cross the Piscataqua and plunge rapidly into Maine at a cost of seventy-five cents in tolls? I cannot describe it. I do not ordinarily spy a partridge in a pear tree, or three French hens, but I do have the sensation of having received a gift from a true[…]
The winter is past, the rain is over and gone. The flowers appear on the earth; the time of singing has come, and the voice of the turtle-dove is heard in our land. — Song of Solomon Time will work what no man knowethTime doth us the subject proveWith time still affection growethTo the faithful turtledove.—[…]
On Partridges What is a country without rabbits and partridges? They are among the most simple and indigenous animal products; ancient and venerable families known to antiquity as to modern times; of the very hue and substance of Nature, nearest allied to leaves and to the ground.— Henry David Thoreau If the partridge didn’t call at[…]
