Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.* Anne Lamott
Breathing in the scent of Mother Earth stimulates the release of the hormone oxytocin, the same chemical that promotes bonding between mother and child, between lovers.. Held in loving arms, no wonder we sing in response.** Robin Wall Kimmerer
Where are your sanctuaries? The places you step in to in order just to be – your nature, walks, silent buildings, writing, painting, god …
[T]here is a fire you must tend to every day. The hardest one to take care of is the one right here. Your own fire, your spirit. We all carry a piece of that sacred fire within us. We have to honour it and care for it. You are the firekeeper. Robert Wall
I have learned to be content with whatever I have. I know what it is to have little, and I know what it is to have plenty. In any and all circumstances I have learned the secret of being well-fed and of going hungry, of having plenty and of being in need.** The Apostle Paul
It is possible to forget the secret, to forget how to live gratefully, so I will have to keep writing it out: If you stick with writing, you will get better and better, and you can start to learn the important lessons: who you really are, and how all of us can live in the face of death, and how important it is to pay much better attention to life, which is why we are here.^ We each are capable of creating a beautiful story, Forged through humility, gratitude and faithfulness A story that will help us see differently: Both the gaze that sees and the object that is seen construct themselves in the one act of vision. So much depends on how we see things.^^ I suspect we will find that life-in-all-its-fullness will open to us, no matter what: Be joyful though you have considered all the facts.*^
for we are story makers, not just storytellers* Robin Wall Kimmerer
To forgive yourselves and others constantly is necessary. Not only is everyone screwed up,, but everyone screw up.** Anne Lamott
I think that allowing ourselves a new story may be an act of forgiveness, a new beginning, Whether the story change is major or minor. There’s more than one “Once upon a time” available to us, Forgiveness being a larger story for our personal tales to be held within, So here I am, Once again upon a time …
You have travelled too fast over false ground; Now your soul has come to take you back. Take refuge in your senses, open up To all the small miracles you rushed through.* John O’Donohue
When I let go of the destination for a moment … When I let go of the destination for a moment … When Ilet go of the destination for a moment … When I let go of thedestination for a moment … When I let go of the destination fora moment … When I let go of the destination for a moment … When I let go of the destination for a moment …
*John O’Donohue’s Benedictus: For One Who is Exhausted).
It’s a grand thing to get leave to live.* Nan Shepherd
Your big break. Some people get one. Most people don’t. But if you’re reading this, it means that you’ve received more than one, perhaps a countless number of, little breaks.** Seth Godin
I guess we’d all agree on how it’s important to live before we die, Given the biggest break of all – That of being here. The odds were stacked against us, but here we are with daily options on how we want to live. The Windigo is a Anishinaabe legendary monster that exists to consume and consumes to exist, But the more the Windigo ingests the hungrier it becomes: Windigo is the name for that within us which cares more for its own survival than for anything else.^ Robin Wall Kimmerer sees the Windigo’s footprints in all of our corporate and personal destructiveness: industrially-blemished lakes, deforested hillsides, coalmine-wasted countryside, poisoned waterways, New kitchens replaced with newer kitchens, Clothes we never wear, food going to waste. The Windigo does not live, perhaps does not even survive, but only exists: What native people once sought to rein in, we are now asked to unleash in a systematic policy of sanctioned greed.^ None of us have failed to be taken in by this monster, but there’s another part to our story – Perhaps we have noticed how we recover when we give, When we notice our talents, energies and values, turning these outwards in giftedness to others, we find life is richer.
When in doubt, come back to the stories.* Chris Guillebeau
When we see in new ways and have the courage to speak it, we access a deep power of the soul.** Philip Newell
Some have forgotten and wandered away from their story, Others have not explored theirs. But we all have a story, the best place to return to when we are lost.
He views his musical practice as a chance to enrol others in a journey, and the volunteers in his orchestras find that this journey -the chance to lean into possibility, to fail, to connect, to hear and to be heard – changes their lives.* Seth Godin, of Ben Zander)
the only essential is this: the give must always move** Lewis Hyde
If you are passionately following your songline, it’s likely that you were influenced by one or more following theirs, Which also means that others may be inspired by you, To find and to follow their songline.
Our social patterns such that the successful man is not supposed to be afraid or bored or lonely. He must find this world the best of all worlds; in order to have the best chance for promotion he must repress fear as well as doubt, depression, boredom, or hopefulness.* Erich Fromm
These perigrini, as they were also known, viewed their wanderings, or peregrinations, as a process of seeking their places of “resurrection” – they were searching for their path of new beginnings.** Philip Newell
Before the path of fresh beginnings will appear, we must admit this is not where we want to be.
THIN|SILENCE 
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