19 posts tagged “flora”

they cannot move you

no one tries no one pulls you

out from your hold

like a tooth aching a jawbone...

i was made with a heart of stone

to be broken

with one hard blow

I've seen the ocean

break on the shore

come together with no harm done...

it ain't easy living...

i want to be

as deep

as the ocean

mother ocean

some people tell me 

home is in the sky 

in the sky lives a spy

i want to be more like the ocean 

no talking

all action...

no talking

all action...'

 - Jane's Addiction, Ocean Size

Sometimes it is hiding but it is always there.

The more we can see the magic in one thing, a tiny flower, a mango, someone we love, then the more we are able to see the magic in everything and everyone.

Where does the mango stop and the sky begin?'

 - Joshua Kadison

'I believe anything is possible.

Research into quantum physics

proves that a system changes

simply by someone observing it.

Therefore, all you have to do is be

awake and aware of your environment, 

and that enables you to 

transform everything around you...'

 - Christine Anderson

 - John Muir

'If you've never been thrilled to the very edges of your soul by a flower in spring bloom, maybe your soul has never been in bloom.'

 - Audra Foveo

'Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.'

 - Rainer Maria Rilke

All this via Whiskey River - http://whiskeyriver.blogspot.com/

'Mirabelle's ambition is about one-tenth of 1 percent of what would be called normal.  She has been at Neiman's almost two years without moving one inch forward.  She considers herself an artist first, so her choice of jobs is immaterial.  It doesn't matter to her if she is selling gloves or repainting apartments, as her real work is done in the evening with artists' crayon.  Thus, she has zero ambition in these day jobs, and she tends to leave it to chance when it comes to getting and changing them.  She is not aware that some people fight like alley cats for desirable situations.  She presents a resume, fills out an application, waits, and finally makes a call to see if she got the job.  Usually a confused secretary will answer and say that the position had been filled weeks ago.  This aimlessness in presenting herself contributes to her feeling of being adrift.'
 - Steve Martin, Shopgirl

  'A work of art, has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual, and only the individual reader is important to me.'
- Vladimir Nabokov

'You don't know you're in a ghetto until somebody goes over the wall, I suppose.'
- Theresa Duncan

'This time she came upon a large flower-bed, with a border of daisies and a willow-tree growing in the middle.
"O Tiger-Lily!" said Alice, addressing herself to one that was waving gracefully about in the wind, "I wish you could talk!"
"We can talk!" said the Tiger-Lily, "when there's anybody worth talking to."'
- Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass

'I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.'
 - Frank Lloyd Wright

"Heart physiologists find more chaos in the healthy heart than in the sick heart."
-- Ralph Abraham, mathematician via page 21 of Pronoia by Rob Brezsny.

  We love this poem very much, primarily because it shows we're not alone in thinking these kinds of things.  Of course we found it at WhiskeyRiver:

CAN YOU IMAGINE?
For example, what the trees do
not only in lightning storms
or the watery dark of a summer's night
or under the white nets of winter
but now, and now, and now - whenever
we're not looking. Surely you can't imagine
they don't dance, from the root up, wishing
to travel a little, not cramped so much as wanting
a better view, or more sun, or just as avidly
more shade - surely you can't imagine they just
stand there loving every
minute of it, the birds or the emptiness, the dark rings
of the years slowly and without a sound
thickening, and nothing different unless the wind,
and then only in its own mood, comes
to visit, surely you can't imagine
patience, and happiness, like that.
- Mary Oliver via http://whiskeyriver.blogspot.com/2008/06/can-you-imagine-for-example-what-trees.html

"When Bodhidharma was asked, "What is the first principle of the holy teaching", he didn't say suffering. He said, "Vast emptiness. Nothing holy." This is what the Heart Sutra says, too. The Heart Sutra says, "Things are founded on emptiness." This means really that things don't truly have a cause. Things have a virtue in themselves beyond anything we can say that causes them. So you have a virtue in yourself beyond anything that brought it about. Any suffering that arises in you because of your history, any gifts you have because of your history, these are strong things, yet they are also just a pure appearance of Buddha nature. Even your suffering and also your joy. I think in some sense we can't take credit for either. We just have to learn to love our lives so deeply that we welcome whatever comes."
- John Tarrant
Poison and Joy
via WhiskeyRiver:  http://whiskeyriver.blogspot.com/2008/05/when-bodhidharma-was-asked-what-is.html

Today marks the mid-point of Spring and we are bound and determined to celebrate.  We kicked off the festivities last night, sitting under the orange tree with friends and taking in the night air.  This morning we updating that old May Day tradition by placing digital flowers on your virtual doorstep (see above).  Although a dance around a Maypole is not planned, it may somehow be in our future - you never know what can happen at the height of Springtime.  Another May Day tradition we hope to revive is crowning a beautiful May Queen - who knows, it might be you...  At any rate, we hope to continue in this glorious, celebratory vein until we fall asleep tonight, exhausted from all the festive revelry and general good works.

To get you in the May Day mood...
“May flowers always line your path and sunshine light your day.
May songbirds serenade you every step along the way.
May a rainbow run beside you in a sky that’s always blue.
And may happiness fill your heart each day your whole life through.”
- Irish Blessing