dear kim ~
thank you so much for the very cool texture ... i look so forward to trying it out ... and of course can't wait til tuesday to see what amazing work you do with it!
please forgive this extra long post tonight, but i felt it was so fitting as we leave our week of 'time' and now venture into a week of 'comfort' ...
below my image is the passage for january 10th from sarah ban breathnach's simple abundance a daybook of comfort and joy ...
think i'll just let the words speak for themselves ...
nighty night night,
prairiegirl xo xo
Until It is Carved in Stone
It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth _ and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up _ that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had. _ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Visiting old cemeteries can be very illuminating. They are so still and silent. So quiet. Old cemeteries remind us that until it is carved in stone, realizing our heart's desire is possible every day if we recognize what it is that make us happy.
In Thornton Wilder's play Our Town a deeply poignant scene take place in a graveyard. Ghosts comfort the young heroine, who has recently died in childbirth. Emily, still longing for the life she has just left, wishes to revisit one ordinary, "unimportant" day in her life. When she gets her wish, she realizes how much the living take for granted.
Eventually her visit is too much for her to bear. "I didn't realize," she confesses mournfully, "all that was going on and we never noticed . . . . Good-by, world. Good-by, Grover's Corners . . . Mama and Papa. Good-by to clocks ticking . . . and Mama's sunflowers. And food and coffee. And new-ironed dresses and hot baths . . . and sleeping and waking up. Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you."
This is the season of Epiphany, when the renewal of light and revelation are celebrated in the liturgy of the Catholic, Episcopal and Eastern Orthodox churches. On our new path we seek everyday epiphanies _ occasions on which we can experience the Sacred in the ordinary _ and come to the awakening, as Emily finally does, that we cannot longer afford to throw away even one "unimportant" day by not noticing the wonder of it all. We have to be willing to discover and then appreciate the authentic moments of happiness available to all of us every day.
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i prefer my hardcover book, given to me by my dad for christmas 1996, but one may learn more about the simple abundance journey by visiting sarah's site ... pg xo
