still walking and waking: 8/9/09

Thursday, August 13, 2009

happy 10, my love

summer 1996

summer 1999

summer 2009

You want to love with me,

Love with me then.

I only ask that you still be my friend...

So I will love you, and love you I do.

It’s not complete yet, but you know we’re not through

And the days go their ways in blessings,

Moments of truth,

We truly dare not waste our youth.

- from a Keith Green song we sang at our wedding

When stories are shared, individual experiences become communal experiences. This is hospitality at its most profound.
- - - Doug Pagitt

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
- - - John Muir

We can't be bored in the woods if we understand them.
- - - Ray Jardine paraphrased

Of all the warning sounds that animals make, I think the one that's the least effective on me is a kind of clicking noise.
- - - Jack Handy

Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.
- - - Max Ehrmann

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

- - - Zora Neale Hurston

I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and a sword in my hands.
- - - Zora Neale Hurston

When you are in doubt, be still, and wait;
when doubt no longer exists for you,
then go forward with courage.
So long as mists envelop you, be still.
Be still until the sunlight pours through
and dispels the mists --
as it surely will.
Then act with courage.
- - - Ponca Chief White Eagle

Depart from evil, and do good. Seek peace, and pursue it.
- - - Psalm 34:14