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Ash Wednesday
T. S. Eliot If the lost word is lost, if the spent word is spent If the unheard, unspoken Word is unspoken, un heard; Still is the unspoken workd, the Word unheard, The Word without a word, the Word within The world and for the world; And the light shone in the darkness and Against the Word the unstilled world still whirled About the centre of the Silent Word.
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Let There Be Peace on Earth Song by Vince Gill Let there be peace on earth And let it begin with me Let There Be Peace on Earth The peace that was meant to be With God as our Father Brothers all are we Let me walk with my brother In perfect harmony. Let peace begin with me Let this be the moment now. With ev'ry step I take Let this be my solemn vow To take each moment and live Each moment in peace eternally Let there be peace on earth And let it begin with me  photograph: John Galt; of sculpture: Hank Willis Thomas -  Paul Gauguin, Breton Village in the Snow – ©Public Domain “Hurry,” by Marie Howe,
We stop at the dry cleaners and the grocery store and the gas station and the green market and Hurry up honey, I say, hurry, her blue jacket unzipped and her socks rolled down. Where do I want her to hurry to? To her grave? To mine? Where one day she might stand all grown? Today, when all the errands are finally done, I say to her, Honey I'm sorry I keep saying Hurry— you walk ahead of me. You be the mother. And, Hurry up, she says, over her shoulder, looking back at me, laughing. Hurry up now darling, she says, hurry, hurry, taking the house keys from my hands. for Advent Two  "A Christmas Carol in Art" Cambridge University Library Special Collections
“For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child himself.” Charles Dickens "Small groups of humans turning off their phones and paying attention for half an hour in their local park is obviously not, in itself, the revolution that will bring the attention frackers to their knees. But it offers a model we can build on, of people coming together to decide (and dispute!) how the world is, and how we think it ought to be. That is the practice of freedom — the essence of democracy — and the high purpose of education itself."
~ D. Graham Burnett, Alyssa Loh and Peter Schmidt (Mr. Burnett, Ms. Loh and Mr. Schmidt are members of the Friends of Attention collective.) "Now that autumn's silence is upon the land, one can hear the big, enduring voices which seldom shout the things they have to say. One can hear the earth declare that ice, the counterpart of fire, must be reckoned with. One can hear the hills assert their stony structure which forever underlies the soothing green of leaf and shade. One can hear the wind and water discussing polar regions and the fundamental wedge of frost that can level mountains. Listen closely, and one can har the patient throb of almost suspended life in the root, the bulb, the seed, the egg, waiting for another spring." - Hal Borland
A Thanksgiving Visitor  A Sharp-shinned Hawk (or "Sharpie")  Ash-throated Flycatcher
A rare visitor has the community gardeners listening carefully and birders stalking the perimeter. |
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"Perhaps this is one of the secrets of life--to know 'glory' when we see it."
--Charlotte Mason
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A wee explanation: this website was created as a way to amplify the daily surprise of seeing glory in one small life. The notebook entries represented here are all selected from things actually lived and noted on paper in an effort to live the full life British educator Charlotte Mason so ably championed.
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