Monday, November 4, 2024

A Wish for November



May you grow still enough to hear the small noises earth makes in preparing for the long sleep of winter, so that you yourself may grow calm and grounded deep within.

                                                             Br. David Steindl-Rast


My friend Barb posted this on her blog last year. It seems especially appropriate in this fraught November.

 

4 comments:

Barbara Rogers said...

Thanks for sharing!

Marcia said...

Difficult right now to feel calm.

Sandra Parshall said...

Lovely thought, but on this last day before the election, I cannot be calm.

JJM said...

To quote the Yankee Farm Wife: "The campaign rhetoric is building to an astonishing level, and watching it all go down is like watching the _Bourne Identity_ series back to back, back to back. Very tense. Not for those with weak hearts, for sure. I have never eaten so much popcorn in my life, nor do I ever remember washing it down with so much bourbon."

Bourbon. Now *there's* a thought ...