The Book:
In recent days, I have been full of wit on the internet. Here are some entertaining examples: The Book: The Tweety:
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"Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold and hungry and weary." ~Henry David Thoreau Last night I camped out under the stars on the Blue Ridge Parkway. Even though it was cold the sunrise was worth it.
Montibus in claris semper vivida fides (Faith is vigorous in the clear mountains) <3, Michelle "Love does not always have to be this mountain top experience, but it does need to be as constant as a mountain; never moving, always steady and willing to stay." -T.B. LaBerge Thinking of the future with my head in the clouds,
Michelle (P.S. Happy Friday! WE MADE IT!) This week at work I ate my first Pawpaw, picked sweet potatoes with the Garden Crew for the campus to eat, planted grass, and played baseball with a rake and mud clumps.
I'm grateful my time spent in the sun reminds me of my many blessings here and reminds me that there is still so much to learn. Happy (almost) Friday! <3 Michy “Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.” -Albert Camus Happy autumn, lovlies! I hope this seasons brings you many opportunities to play in the leaves and pick delicious apples! All my love,
Michy <3 Happy Saturday, dear ones! In an effort to motivate myself out of bed this morning and to share sweet words that have inspired me I've put together a post of my favorite quotes, posts, and the like from recent days. I hope you enjoy!
"Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold and hungry and weary." ~Henry David Thoreau Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front "The sun is perfect and you woke this morning. You have enough language in your mouth to be understood. You have a name, and someone wants to call it. Five fingers on your hand and someone wants to hold it. If we just start there, every beautiful thing that has and will ever exist is possible. If we start there, everything, for a moment, is right in the world." ~Warsan Shire "You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free." ~Thich Nhat Hanh "The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention." ~Rachel Naomi Remen "You were created to bear and endure, oh Patient One" ~a portion from a Ba'hai prayer "Any activity done with love and perseverance is a spiritual practice." "A warrior feeds her body well. She trains it, works on it. Where she lacks knowledge, she studies. But above all, she must believe in her strength of will and purpose and heart and soul." ~David Gemmel Happy weekend, brave ones. You. made. it. Be a brave warrior today, Michy <3 Recently, my friend Ayla challenged me to list out (I'm extending this to others forms of literature) that have stuck with me over the years. SO if I had been able to lay in bed this weekend these are the books I probably would have chosen to read (in no particular order):
1) A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway 2) The Importance of Being Ernest by Oscar Wilde 3) The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde 3) Sonnet on Approaching Italy by Oscar Wilde 4) This is Water by David Foster Wallace 5) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 6) "Wild Geese" by Mary Oliver 7) anyone lived in a pretty how town by e.e. cummings 8) Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton 9) Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini 10) Le Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry An odd list for sure (and a little Oscar Wilde heavy) but these are the writings that of have stuck with me in recent years and I could definitely add a few more if I had to. What are some of your favorite reads? Tell me in the comments below! Happy Saturday, friends! Michelle You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about your despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world goes on. Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscapes, over the prairies and the deep trees, the mountains and the rivers. Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air, are heading home again. Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting -- over and over announcing your place in the family of things. And there will come a time, you'll see, with no more tears.
And love will not break your heart, but dismiss your fears. Get over your hill and see what you find there, With grace in your heart and flowers in your hair. |
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