My life, at this time, is more like that of a boy, externally, than it has been since I was really a boy… My business is merely to live and to enjoy; and whatever is essential to life and enjoyment will come as naturally as the dew from Heaven.

I look back upon a day spent in what the world would call idleness, and for which I can myself suggest no more appropriate epithet; and which, nevertheless, I cannot feel to have been spent amiss. True; it might be a sin and shame, in such a world as ours, to spend a lifetime in this manner; but, for a few summer-weeks, it is good to live as if the world were Heaven. And so it is, and so it shall be; although, in a little while, a flitting shadow of earthly care and toil might mingle itself with our realities.

~Nathaniel Hawthorne

some simple knowings lift me up…

inquiry for today~ where will this go? where will you go?

may the days remind me of what was before….

The dream of my life

is to lie down by a slow river

stare at the light in the trees

to learn something

by being nothing

for a little while

but the rich lens of attention.

~Mary Oliver