June 21 2018 SUMMER SOLSTICE

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Calling in the light -
Summer’s sun crosses the sky.
Healing glow blesses.
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Image – NBC news - 2003 Summer Solstice at Stonehenge
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May 31, 2018 EACH DAY, BEGINS ANEW

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Summer approaches -
Early fruit ripens with sun –
Taste of things to come.
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Sometimes, with berries especially, we are given a foretaste of the life to come, an opportunity to assess. Have we over watered diluting the sweetness of the fruit? Have we underwatered creating undersized body and dry pulp to the fruit? Or have we created the correct balance to create and bring about the best possible berries?
Because of the nature of berry production if we are observant and discerning we can make changes through the growing season to improve outcome.
Let us juxtapose these thoughts to the garden of human earth life. Let us assess the trajectory of the life we have been given.
Where do you want to be in 5 years, 25 years or 50 years?
Each day, each moment the journey begins anew. Each choice – some oh so small and some huge create change or increased focus to the trajectory of our life.
As I look at the challenges many face, without the benefit of spiritual path, I feel such empathy for them. The task of creating positive change in their life must feel daunting. Without a spiritual discipline pulling oneself up and out of the mire must be arduous. The seeds of their intentions are scattered to the wind – falling where they may.
Yet, with even a little intention, focus, prayer we can begin the journey towards the light … towards the creation of goodness.

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“We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, 

begin no day where we have ended another day; 

and no sunrise finds us where sunset left us. 

Even while the earth sleeps we travel. We are the seeds of the tenacious plant, 

and it is in our ripeness and our fullness of heart that we are given to the wind and are scattered.”

― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

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TO PICK BERRIES, painting created by Andrey Shishkin

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Night Blooming Jasmine

Dog sleeps at my feet,
Dawn is yet hours away.
Fragrant night blooms.

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In the quiet of the night while the world sleeps
– so very peaceful.

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My mother, who had grown up in Northern Minnesota, loved many of the plants that grew well only in the more southern climes. One of those plants was the Night Blooming Jasmine. As a child, I would occasionally wake long before the dawn. It was a favorite time for me. To sit on the couch in the living room and just be. On a summer’s night with the window open – the aroma of Jasmine wafting in – This time is heaven in it’s quiet simplicity. The peace at this time was and continues to be a place where there is a recharging of life.
I now naturally wake long before the dawn. How fortunate I am to have fallen into this pattern early. Those who sleep until after the sun has risen – do not know what they are missing.

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