Artist/poet Diane Walker invites you to return to your compassionate and peaceful center
Tuesday, December 31, 2019
Monday, December 30, 2019
Sunday, December 29, 2019
Saturday, December 28, 2019
Friday, December 27, 2019
Thursday, December 26, 2019
As the old year glides away
And as the old year glides away,
We pause to ponder all the boats we missed,
Remember those who’ve crossed the great divide,
And imagine the excursions
we might hope or fear to take in the year to come:
This transitioning from one decade to the next
Is a blessed opportunity
To discover new depths of generosity and compassion:
To shed old habits like old skin
And set our sights on new, broader, horizons.
We pause to ponder all the boats we missed,
Remember those who’ve crossed the great divide,
And imagine the excursions
we might hope or fear to take in the year to come:
This transitioning from one decade to the next
Is a blessed opportunity
To discover new depths of generosity and compassion:
To shed old habits like old skin
And set our sights on new, broader, horizons.
Wednesday, December 25, 2019
Tuesday, December 24, 2019
Monday, December 23, 2019
Learning from trees
Make some time to sit among the trees.
They understand how it feels to be stripped bare;
To have known the joy of young fruit
Clinging to their branches
And the sharp ache when it falls away;
The glory of being clothed in golden color
And the chill of exposure
when all we thought defined us turns to dust.
For they’ve also learned to trust
That the short dark days will lengthen into light,
And find them taller, stronger, clothed once more,
And laden with new gifts to bring to life.
They understand how it feels to be stripped bare;
To have known the joy of young fruit
Clinging to their branches
And the sharp ache when it falls away;
The glory of being clothed in golden color
And the chill of exposure
when all we thought defined us turns to dust.
For they’ve also learned to trust
That the short dark days will lengthen into light,
And find them taller, stronger, clothed once more,
And laden with new gifts to bring to life.
Sunday, December 22, 2019
Saturday, December 21, 2019
Friday, December 20, 2019
Thursday, December 19, 2019
Modeling possibility
I long to live in — or perhaps return to —
A space, a mind, a country
Where what is round and what is square,
Opposing ways of viewing and reacting,
Can coexist in perfect harmony.
And if I can’t discover it, perhaps I can create it:
Find a way within myself to reconcile our differences;
to model possibility.
A space, a mind, a country
Where what is round and what is square,
Opposing ways of viewing and reacting,
Can coexist in perfect harmony.
And if I can’t discover it, perhaps I can create it:
Find a way within myself to reconcile our differences;
to model possibility.
Wednesday, December 18, 2019
Tuesday, December 17, 2019
Monday, December 16, 2019
Sunday, December 15, 2019
Saturday, December 14, 2019
Friday, December 13, 2019
Thursday, December 12, 2019
How can we trust?
Waiting can be so hard —
Those difficult situations when you thought you had
All your ducks (or in this case geese) in a row,
and then one wanders off
and then one wanders off
And it looks like all your plans may come to naught...
How can we keep on trusting
That what happens is still what’s meant to be
When we no longer have any illusion of control?
Wednesday, December 11, 2019
Tuesday, December 10, 2019
Monday, December 9, 2019
Sunday, December 8, 2019
Saturday, December 7, 2019
Friday, December 6, 2019
Thursday, December 5, 2019
Wednesday, December 4, 2019
Tuesday, December 3, 2019
Monday, December 2, 2019
Sunday, December 1, 2019
Saturday, November 30, 2019
Friday, November 29, 2019
Thursday, November 28, 2019
Wednesday, November 27, 2019
Tuesday, November 26, 2019
Monday, November 25, 2019
Sunday, November 24, 2019
Saturday, November 23, 2019
Friday, November 22, 2019
Thursday, November 21, 2019
Wednesday, November 20, 2019
Tuesday, November 19, 2019
Monday, November 18, 2019
Sunday, November 17, 2019
Saturday, November 16, 2019
Friday, November 15, 2019
Thursday, November 14, 2019
Wednesday, November 13, 2019
On seeking perfection
How many messages a day do we get,
Telling us we need to be younger, prettier,
Smarter, thinner, or more productive;
That if we simply purchased this item
Or joined this group, or read this book,
We could finally become
the more that we’ve been seeking?
When will we learn that we are enough,
and carry within us the resources we need
To become who we were born to be
And do what we were born to do.
We needn’t continue shaping ourselves
Into someone else’s idea of perfection:
We only need to continue becoming
More perfectly, completely
the souls we were sent here to be.
Tuesday, November 12, 2019
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