Something beautiful and uplifting for a chilly, cloudy Friday.
The Secret ~ Planet Earth
As each day passes my art work area gets messier. So today, I decided to clean and rearrange everything and now all of my acrylic paint tubes and brushes are in their proper places and everything is ready to go.
I have two paintings I need to finish so they can be hung in a local shop and I know I should be working on them, but there are other things that need to be done.
Meanwhile, outside my window clouds are gathering and the promise of rain is in the air.
Before I go I will leave you with this poem by David Whyte;
Sweet Darkness
When your eyes are tired
the world is tired also.
When your vision has gone
no part of the world can find you.
Time to go into the dark
where the night has eyes
to recognize its own.
There you can be sure
you are not beyond love.
The dark will be your womb
tonight.
The night will give you a horizon
further than you can see.
You must learn one thing:
the world was made to be free in.
Give up all the other worlds
except the one to which you belong.
Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet
confinement of your aloneness
to learn
anything or anyone
that does not bring you alive
is too small for you.
“Everyday Goddessing is about sharing magical techniques and sacred wisdom with other beautiful Goddess women. I believe that within every woman there is a goddess, a wise woman, beautiful, creative, powerful, with a deep soul, and that everything we need and are looking for is already inside each of us.” – Rose Arizmendi
I love everything there is about the woods near our home ~ the sky, the trees, the bubbling creek nearby and the light falling through the branches.
Such beauty ~ magical ~ suspended all around me.
“Our life is a faint tracing
on the surface of mystery” . . .
~ Annie Dillard
Here are some photos I would like to share with you from my morning walk in the woods. The landscape so quiet and tranquil, with tree leaves vibrant with color like stained glass windows filtering the autumn light.
Precious moments ~ serene ~ my church in the woods.
Looking up into the clouds overhead immersing myself in the wonders of the natural world. The warmth of the sun penetrates me as I reach to embrace the sky. The earth is my mother, my home, my teacher
quote for the day;
“I, the song
I walk here.”
~ Indian Poem
“Everyday Goddessing is about sharing magical techniques and sacred wisdom with other beautiful Goddess women. I believe that within every woman there is a goddess, a wise woman, beautiful, creative, powerful, with a deep soul, and that everything we need and are looking for is already inside each of us.” – Rose Arizmendi