November 2018
It's not that you don't love them anymore.
You're trying to remember something
too important to forget.
Trees. The monastery bell at twilight.
Tell them you have a new project.
It will never be finished.
- Naomi Shihab Nye
1:00 PM Nov 30th
Teach people to float in the air and fall in love with themselves. To reach out with their hands, and let life out through their fingertips onto paper.
- Ray Bradbury
8:00 AM Nov 30th
A loud, sonorous peal, followed by gentle chiming, an echo. Then, silence. The bright stain of sunlight lengthens little by little over the lawn. It goes climbing up the red wall of the house, making the ivy glisten in a thousand dewy lights.
- Clarice Lispector
8:00 AM Nov 29th
I am the seasons, I think sometimes, January, May, November; the mud, the mist, the dawn. I cannot be tossed about, or float gently, or mix with other people.
- Virginia Woolf
8:00 AM Nov 28th
I absolutely demand of you and everyone I know that they be widely read in every damn field there is: in every religion and every art form and don't tell me you haven't got time! There's plenty of time.
- Ray Bradbury
8:00 AM Nov 27th
Praise the blue sky
that hasn't cracked yet. Praise the sun slipping down
behind the beechnuts, praise the quilt of leaves
that covers the grass: Scarlet Oak, Sweet Gum,
Sugar Maple.
- Barbara Crooker
8:00 AM Nov 26th
it is only
once in a while
that you see
someone whose
electricity
and presence
matches yours
at that
moment
- Charles Bukowski
8:00 AM Nov 25th
How close does the dragon's spume
have to come? How wide does the crack
in heaven have to split?
What would people look like
if we could see them as they are,
soaked in honey, stung and swollen,
reckless, pinned against time?
- Ellen Bass
8:00 AM Nov 24th
the earth
bracing itself and soaring, the air
finding every leaf and feather over
forest and water, and for every person
the body glowing inside the clothes
like a light.
- William Stafford
9:30 AM Nov 23rd
Gratitude is a real practice, as valid as yoga or Zen meditation or Sufi dancing - if you take it seriously. Gratitude starts with surprise. We deprive ourselves so much by not allowing ourselves to be surprised.
- David Steindl-Rast
8:00 AM Nov 22nd
This is not your week to run the Universe. Next week is not looking so good either.
- Susan J. Elliott
7:30 AM Nov 21st
He puts his brush to the canvas,
with one quick stroke
unfolds a bird from the sky.
Steps back, considers.
Takes pity.
Unfolds another.
- Jane Hirshfield
7:30 AM Nov 20th
You haven't healed, I can tell from how cruel you are.
- Warsan Shire
8:00 AM Nov 19th
My plan, then, in so far as the negation of all effort and purpose may be said to be a plan, is to stop evolving, to remain what I am and to become more and more only what I am - that is, to become more miraculous.
- Henry Miller
3:30 PM Nov 18th
Be a good steward of your gifts. Protect your time. Feed your inner life. Avoid too much noise. Read good books, have good sentences in your ears. Be by yourself as often as you can. Walk. Take the phone off the hook. Work regular hours.
- Jane Kenyon
7:45 AM Nov 16th
Taste as much of this as you can. Swallow what you need and spit out the rest.
- Taizan Maezumi
7:30 AM Nov 15th
We are whiplashed between an arrogant overestimation of ourselves and a servile underestimation of ourselves.
- Parker Palmer
8:45 AM Nov 14th
Statistically, the probability of any one of us being here is so small that you'd think the mere fact of existing would keep us all in a contented dazzlement of surprise.
- Lewis Thomas
7:00 AM Nov 12th
Get outside and air out your brain as often as possible… When all else fails, make coffee.
- Parker Palmer
9:00 AM Nov 11th
It is the autumn wind pressing against our bodies;
It is the changing light of fall falling on us.
- Edward Hirsch
8:00 AM Nov 10th
But just when the worst bears down
you find a pretty bubble in your soup at noon,
and outside at work a bird says, "Hi!"
Slowly the sun creeps along the floor;
it is coming your way. It touches your shoe.
- William Stafford
12:30 PM Nov 9th
It's noticing that cracks us open, lets something in.
Shows we're in use.
Uses us.
Right now. Right this minute.
- Lia Purpura
8:00 AM Nov 9th
The human mind is more like a hand than a Swiss Army knife. A human hand isn't designed to do any one thing in particular. But it is an exceptionally flexible and effective device for doing many things, including things we might never have imagined.
- Alison Gopnik
8:00 AM Nov 8th
I return to problems I can't solve, not because I am an idiot, but because the real problems can't be solved. The universe is expanding. The more we see, the more we discover there is to see. Always a new beginning, a different end.
- Jeanette Winterson
8:00 AM Nov 7th
Nov 6th 2018
If you're reading this, if there's air in your lungs on this November day, then there is still hope for you. Your story is still going. And maybe some things are true for all of us.
- Jamie Tworkowski
8:30 AM Nov 6th
Today you will say things you can predict and other things you could never imagine this minute. Don't reject them, let them come through when they're ready, don't think you can plan it all out. This day will never, no matter how long you live, happen again. It is exquisitely singular. It will never again be exactly repeated.
- Naomi Shihab Nye
7:00 AM Nov 5th
A man in a library asked the librarian, "Can you tell me where the self-help section is?"
The librarian replied, "Now, doesn't that kind of defeat the whole purpose?"
12:30 PM Nov 2nd
Why do you live in your body like you will be given another?
- Warsan Shire
8:00 AM Nov 2nd
I should tell you first that when the wind blows,
I feel wild joy, and when the settling leaves
restructure the street, I feel untied
- Christine Hartzler
8:30 AM Nov 1st
1:00 PM Nov 30th
Teach people to float in the air and fall in love with themselves. To reach out with their hands, and let life out through their fingertips onto paper.
- Ray Bradbury
8:00 AM Nov 30th
A loud, sonorous peal, followed by gentle chiming, an echo. Then, silence. The bright stain of sunlight lengthens little by little over the lawn. It goes climbing up the red wall of the house, making the ivy glisten in a thousand dewy lights.
- Clarice Lispector
8:00 AM Nov 29th
I am the seasons, I think sometimes, January, May, November; the mud, the mist, the dawn. I cannot be tossed about, or float gently, or mix with other people.
- Virginia Woolf
8:00 AM Nov 28th
I absolutely demand of you and everyone I know that they be widely read in every damn field there is: in every religion and every art form and don't tell me you haven't got time! There's plenty of time.
- Ray Bradbury
8:00 AM Nov 27th
Praise the blue sky
that hasn't cracked yet. Praise the sun slipping down
behind the beechnuts, praise the quilt of leaves
that covers the grass: Scarlet Oak, Sweet Gum,
Sugar Maple.
- Barbara Crooker
8:00 AM Nov 26th
it is only
once in a while
that you see
someone whose
electricity
and presence
matches yours
at that
moment
- Charles Bukowski
8:00 AM Nov 25th
How close does the dragon's spume
have to come? How wide does the crack
in heaven have to split?
What would people look like
if we could see them as they are,
soaked in honey, stung and swollen,
reckless, pinned against time?
- Ellen Bass
8:00 AM Nov 24th
the earth
bracing itself and soaring, the air
finding every leaf and feather over
forest and water, and for every person
the body glowing inside the clothes
like a light.
- William Stafford
9:30 AM Nov 23rd
Gratitude is a real practice, as valid as yoga or Zen meditation or Sufi dancing - if you take it seriously. Gratitude starts with surprise. We deprive ourselves so much by not allowing ourselves to be surprised.
- David Steindl-Rast
8:00 AM Nov 22nd
This is not your week to run the Universe. Next week is not looking so good either.
- Susan J. Elliott
7:30 AM Nov 21st
He puts his brush to the canvas,
with one quick stroke
unfolds a bird from the sky.
Steps back, considers.
Takes pity.
Unfolds another.
- Jane Hirshfield
7:30 AM Nov 20th
You haven't healed, I can tell from how cruel you are.
- Warsan Shire
8:00 AM Nov 19th
My plan, then, in so far as the negation of all effort and purpose may be said to be a plan, is to stop evolving, to remain what I am and to become more and more only what I am - that is, to become more miraculous.
- Henry Miller
3:30 PM Nov 18th
Be a good steward of your gifts. Protect your time. Feed your inner life. Avoid too much noise. Read good books, have good sentences in your ears. Be by yourself as often as you can. Walk. Take the phone off the hook. Work regular hours.
- Jane Kenyon
7:45 AM Nov 16th
Taste as much of this as you can. Swallow what you need and spit out the rest.
- Taizan Maezumi
7:30 AM Nov 15th
We are whiplashed between an arrogant overestimation of ourselves and a servile underestimation of ourselves.
- Parker Palmer
8:45 AM Nov 14th
Statistically, the probability of any one of us being here is so small that you'd think the mere fact of existing would keep us all in a contented dazzlement of surprise.
- Lewis Thomas
7:00 AM Nov 12th
Get outside and air out your brain as often as possible… When all else fails, make coffee.
- Parker Palmer
9:00 AM Nov 11th
It is the autumn wind pressing against our bodies;
It is the changing light of fall falling on us.
- Edward Hirsch
8:00 AM Nov 10th
But just when the worst bears down
you find a pretty bubble in your soup at noon,
and outside at work a bird says, "Hi!"
Slowly the sun creeps along the floor;
it is coming your way. It touches your shoe.
- William Stafford
12:30 PM Nov 9th
It's noticing that cracks us open, lets something in.
Shows we're in use.
Uses us.
Right now. Right this minute.
- Lia Purpura
8:00 AM Nov 9th
The human mind is more like a hand than a Swiss Army knife. A human hand isn't designed to do any one thing in particular. But it is an exceptionally flexible and effective device for doing many things, including things we might never have imagined.
- Alison Gopnik
8:00 AM Nov 8th
I return to problems I can't solve, not because I am an idiot, but because the real problems can't be solved. The universe is expanding. The more we see, the more we discover there is to see. Always a new beginning, a different end.
- Jeanette Winterson
8:00 AM Nov 7th
Nov 6th 2018
If you're reading this, if there's air in your lungs on this November day, then there is still hope for you. Your story is still going. And maybe some things are true for all of us.
- Jamie Tworkowski
8:30 AM Nov 6th
Today you will say things you can predict and other things you could never imagine this minute. Don't reject them, let them come through when they're ready, don't think you can plan it all out. This day will never, no matter how long you live, happen again. It is exquisitely singular. It will never again be exactly repeated.
- Naomi Shihab Nye
7:00 AM Nov 5th
A man in a library asked the librarian, "Can you tell me where the self-help section is?"
The librarian replied, "Now, doesn't that kind of defeat the whole purpose?"
12:30 PM Nov 2nd
Why do you live in your body like you will be given another?
- Warsan Shire
8:00 AM Nov 2nd
I should tell you first that when the wind blows,
I feel wild joy, and when the settling leaves
restructure the street, I feel untied
- Christine Hartzler
8:30 AM Nov 1st
