Showing posts with label gratitude meme. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gratitude meme. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 8, 2021

Gratitude Mojo: My gift to the world


I am water and stardust
walking through day
treading on earth
receiving a cedar branch
receiving belonging.

watching
sunlight make sugar
in the graceful, bright
Ponderosa needles.

watching a bee
gather nectar
in a yellow flower.

me witnessing him
he witnessing me

time is not
what the world wants.
it wants my attention,
my devoted,
passionate
attention.

--Joyce Wycoff

Friday, September 9, 2016

Daily Gratitude: Love

Day 19/365: I am so grateful for the outpouring of love of my two aunts Lerrea and Wanda in my childhood. Looking back through these long years, I realize that I learned how to love in large part from those two amazing women.

Other thoughts on learning love:

“Love, too, has to be learned. In the end we are always rewarded for our good will, our patience, fair mindedness, and gentleness with what is strange; gradually, it sheds its veil and turns out to be a new and indescribable beauty:—that is its thanks for our hospitality. Even those who love themselves will have learned it in this way: for there is no other way.”
-- Friedrich Nietzsche

"Some day, when we have harnessed the power of the sun and the waves and gravity, we will learn how to harness the power of love.  And then, for the second time, we will have discovered fire."
-- Teillard de Chardin

"Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put his trust in life."    
 -- Joseph Conrad