Tuesday

February 2022

I give thanks on this day and every day for the ability you gave me to gather the beauty of the land as if it were water that one takes with the lips, and also for the wealth of pain that I can carry in the depths of my soul without dying.
 - Gabriela Mistral
4:40 PM Feb 28th


All the trouble starts when people forget they're human.
 - Oliver Sacks
5:00 PM Feb 25th


A man's mistakes (if I may lecture you), his worst acts, aren't out of character, as he'd like to think, are not put on him by power or stress or too much to drink, but simply a worse self he consents to be.
 - Stephen Dunn
12:30 PM Feb 23rd


I don't deny that there should be priests to remind men that they will one day die. I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind men that they are not dead yet.
 - G. K. Chesterton
12:15 Feb 22nd


Be careful how you interpret the world: it is like that.
 - Erich Heller
11:30 AM Feb 21st


I am simply staying alive
As one does
At times by taking in,
At times by shutting out.
 - May Sarton
8:00 AM Feb 18th


If you can take it - take it and be.
If you can't - cheer up and go about
other people's business and do or undo
                  til you drop.
 - E. E. Cummings
11:40 AM Feb 17th


This is not
The age of information.
Forget the news,
And the radio,
And the blurred screen.
This is the time
Of loaves and fishes.
People are hungry,
And one good word is bread
For a thousand.
 - David Whyte
8:30 AM Feb 16th


Spirituality is the sacred center out of which all life comes, including Mondays and Tuesdays and rainy Saturday afternoons in all their mundane and glorious detail.
The spiritual journey is the soul's life commingling with ordinary life.
 - Christina Baldwin


Every day priests minutely
examine the Dharma
and endlessly chant
complicated sutras.
They should learn
how to read the love letters
sent by the wind and rain,
the snow and moon.
 - Ikkyu
1:00 PM Feb 14th
 

I can tell you that solitude
Is not all exaltation, inner space
Where the soul breathes and work can be done.
Solitude exposes the nerve,
Raises up ghosts.
The past, never at rest, flows through it.
 - May Sarton
5:35 PM Feb 10th


Life is serious all the time, but living cannot be. You may have all the solemnity you wish in your neckties, but in anything important (such as sex, death, and religion), you must have mirth or you will have madness.
 - G. K. Chesterton
1:00 PM Feb 9th


One has only to set a loved human being against the fact that we are all in peril all the time to get back a sense of proportion. What does anything matter compared to the reality of love and its span, so brief at best, maintained against such odds?
 - May Sarton
9:00 AM Feb 8th


We take a handful of sand from the endless landscape of awareness and call that handful of sand the world.
 - Robert Pirsig
9:30 AM Feb 3rd


Someday, if we live long enough
we will tell our love stories to a stranger from
down the hall,
inventing what we must
to explain the rule of time and the
uncertainty of our place in this world.
 - Don Snyder
1:00 PM Feb 1st