Posts by Pat:
Here comes the sun!
Summer has finally arrived, even when the weather doesn’t seem to agree! And June to me is a month of celebrating Life! The recent graduates are beginning their new lives; we celebrate the masculine influences in our lives with Father’s Day; and the summer solstice brings the longest day of sunlight.
I recently saw an article that talked about the power of one ray of sunlight. Did you know that it takes about 8 minutes and 20 seconds for that one ray of sun to arrive on that blade of grass in the yard?
Everything on earth depends on the sun doing what it does.
That same source that can scorch and burn like the sun in the tropics can also gently enter into the tiniest of cells in a plant and give it life.
With the increasing light, nature is showing off in all its beauty. And even when the sun is hiding behind a cloud, it is always there.
And so I believe it is with us. The life, the light, within us is always there even if seemingly obscured by circumstances in our life or hiding behind our fears.
As you enjoy the sun warming your world, let yourself also enjoy your light illuminating your life and those of those around you. This is a time for celebration of all that you have and all that is available to you.
Will you let your light shine?
A reminder from a dad…
One day little Jim was taking a walk with his father in the rugged roads of the mountain near their house. Suddenly, he slipped and hurt himself and screamed “AAAhhhh!” He immediately heard a voice from the mountains saying “AAAhhhh!” Jim forgot his hurt and shouted “Who are you?” and again heard that voice saying […]
Train your elephant!
In those days when an elephant would walk through a town with its keeper, the elephant’s trunk was a curious part of the equation. It had a natural tendency to explore whatever it wanted, disrupting fruit carts and kiosks as it made its way down the street. It had no qualms about helping itself to […]
The Clothesline Paradox
If you take down your clothesline and buy an electric clothes dryer, the electric consumption of the nation rises slightly. If you go in the other direction and remove the electric clothes dryer and install a clothesline, the consumption of electricity drops slightly, but there is little credit given anywhere on the charts and graphs […]
The waves of life…
Life is always coming at us. There’s always something more on our to-do list. There’s always some unexpected event that comes crashing into our lives. There’s always something not going according to plan. There’s always something more on the calendar. We can certainly choose to feel overwhelmed by those things. We can hide under the […]
Speaking of angels…
Just for fun, see what these youngsters have said! “When an angel gets mad, he takes a deep breath and counts to ten. And when he lets out his breath, somewhere there’s a tornado.” Dan, 7 “It’s not easy to become an angel! First, you die. Then you go to heaven, and then there’s still […]
The Crystal Cup
A Zen master was given a beautifully crafted crystal cup. It was a gift from a former student. He was very grateful. Every day, he enjoyed drinking out of his glass. He would show it to visitors and tell them about the kindness of his student. But every morning, he held the cup in his […]
A Curious Boy
In 1925, one year before he entered school, Isaac Asimov taught himself to read. His father, uneducated and thus unable to support his son, gave him a library card. Without any direction, the curious boy read everything. “All this incredibly miscellaneous reading, the result of lack of guidance, left its indelible mark. My interest was […]
So what’s in a color?
And here’s why: Green is a combination of the colors yellow and blue, each of which brings its own unique energy to the overall feeling of the color green. Blue exudes calm and peace. Yellow radiates liveliness and high levels of energy. As a marriage between these two very different colors, green is a unifier […]
Be more like a tree..?
Monday is Earth Day! Thoughts of Mother Nature are appropriate! Being more like a tree means… Reaching for the sky and rooting down deep. And the deepest roots reported depth is 400 feet by a Wild Fig tree at Echo Caves in South Africa. On the other hand, there are those tall redwoods… And having […]