Maybe your bliss isn’t climbing a mountain or saving the world.

Maybe it comes right where you are, as you are, sitting in quiet contemplation

and appreciating the many ways you are blessed.

~Jody Doty

may we seek the bliss of offering our peaceful hearts….

inquiry for today~ may this Christmas day remind you of our deepest hopes for peace….

tiny, holy, lights within….

The rapid nightfall of mid-December had quite beset the little village

as they approached it on soft feet over a first thin fall of powdery snow.

Little was visible but squares of a dusky orange-red on either side of the street,

where the firelight or lamplight of each cottage overflowed

through the casements into the dark world without.

~Kenneth Grahame