Living is the constant adjustment of thought to life

and life to thought in such a way that we are always growing,

always experiencing new things in the old and old things in the new.

Thus life is always new.

~Thomas Merton

and I dreamt- may it be so….

inquiry for today~ may you know fire in your heart and always a soft belly…..

to witness this great belonging…..

Each new year is a surprise to us.

We find that we had virtually forgotten the note of each bird, and when we hear it again,

it is remembered like a dream, reminding us of a previous state of existence. How happens

it that the associations it awakens are always pleasing, never saddening,

reminiscences of our sanest hours.

The voice of nature is always encouraging.

~Henry David Thoreau