BY FRANCINE MARIE TOLF Like King David, they have drunk the wine of astonishment. Mouths open wide, they lean toward me in this alley, swearing the world is good, that it is easy to live on fire, unnoticed, and do nothing but praise. …
Thankful Thursday
Thankful Thursday: A Blessing for the Inward Way
BY TRACY SHAW May you learn to dwell Below the surface of the days At home with the ebb and flow of Your own heart’s tides. May you find the womb space at the center of your Life, There grow wise in the sacred rhythm Of filling and emptying, Emptying and filling. There, held safe, May you surrender …
Thankful Thursday: Starfish
Eleanor Lerman This is what life does. It lets you walk up to the store to buy breakfast and the paper, on a stiff knee. It lets you choose the way you have your eggs, your coffee. Then it sits a fisherman down beside you at the counter who say, Last night, the channel was full of starfish. …
Thankful Thursday: Giving
Divorce can knock you down and tear your life to pieces. But, you can pull yourself back together with one word: Giving. You shift your biology when you give of yourself and practice generosity. It changes the neurochemistry in your brain and over time, with practice, you raise your happiness …
Thankful Thursday: When Giving Is All We Have
Alberto Ríos, 1952 One river gives …