We are so brief. A one-day dandelion. A seedpod skittering across the ice. We are a feather falling from the wing of a bird. I don’t know why it is given to us to be so mortal and to feel so much. It is a cruel trick, and glorious. LOUISE ELDRICH

Remember, you have two lives....

Remember, you have two lives. You get your second life when you realize you have only one. FRANK LIDDY

When I "wake at dawn", I am thankful that I can get another couple of hours of sleep.

Wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving. KAHLIL GIBRAN

A WORLD THAT IS A WONDER BEYOND WORDS.....

To be alive in this beautiful, self-organizing universe — to participate in the dance of life with senses to perceive it, lungs that breathe it, organs that draw nourishment from it — is a wonder beyond words. JOANNA MACY

Oh no, it is almost my bedtime...

This moment is an opportunity to come alive. BR. DAVID STEINDL-RAST

Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.

Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it. MARY OLIVER

There will be something, anguish or elation, that is peculiar to this day alone. I rise from sleep and say: Hail to the morning! Come down to me, my beautiful unknown. JESSICA POWERS