Summit, Spirit, Sky: connect to Creator, community and creation!
Summit, Spirit, Sky: connect to Creator, community and creation!
Wild Geese — Frederick Peterson How oft against the sunset sky or moonI watched that moving zigzag of spread wingsIn unforgotten Autumns gone too soon,In unforgotten Springs!Creatures of desolation, far they flyAbove all lands bound by the curling foam; In misty lens, wild moors and trackless skyThese wild things have their home.They know the tundra[…]
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.—[…]
