SERENITY...

"If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will not find it anywhere else..." -Marvin Gaye

"And joy is everywhere; it is in the earth's green covering of grass; in the blue serenity of the sky..."-Rabindranath Tagore

"Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and love..." -Nhat Hanh

"Tomorrow is a new day. Begin it well and serenely..." 

                                -Ralph Waldo Emerson

 "From serenity comes gentleness, comes lasting strength..." 

                       -Pam Brown

"Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway..." -Mother Teresa

"It is the stillness that will save and transform the world..." 

                                                                                                -Eckhart Tolle

         "Grant me the serenity ..." -Reinhold Niehubr

"The order and serenity of our minds, the spirit of patience and tender mercy in our hearts..."

           -James Martineau

      "Serenity is an open door..." -Byron Katie

               "Speak peace to the soul..." - Ezra Taft Benson

"You have to be still for a moment to even notice there is silence outside..." -Eckhart Tolle

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"I will awaken the dawn..."-Psalm 108:2

OASIS...

"The gardener cultivates wildness, 

                but does so carefully and respectfully, 

in full recognition of its mystery..." -Michael Pollan

"A garden always has a point..."- Elizabeth Hoyt

"To dream a garden...

...then to plant it..."-Stanley Crawford

"Gardening gives you an appreciation...
 

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for the strength of life,

                    but it also shows you its fragility..." -Matt Puchalski

                                       

"Have you ever heard

                the wonderful silence

                                            just before the dawn?

Or the quiet and calm 

                         just before a storm ends? 

The hush of a country road at night...

            all very beautiful

                         if you listen carefully." 

                                                                                              -Norton Juster

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"Create space simply 'to be'..."-Gabriella Goddard

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"Find a moment of stillness, give your heart a chance 

                      to tell you where you really want to be..." -Dodinsky

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"With each breath you take, 

                        you create space around your heart...

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...close your eyes. Notice. 

                   Trust that you choose 

                         what enters this space."- unknown

"Peace is always right here..." - Carol Tuttle

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"...it's a place where I find myself...

                                     ... when I need to lose myself..."

                                                                                           -Alice Sebold

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"Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you."-John 14:27

LAST DAY in APRIL...

AFTERNOON on a HILL by Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)

I will be the gladdest thing

Under the sun

I will touch a hundred flowers

 And not...

...pick one!

I will look at cliffs

and clouds

with quiet eyes,

watch the wind bow down the grass,

and the grass...

RISE!

And when the lights begin to show,

Up from the town,

I will mark which must be mine,

And then start down!

Photographs 2026 "The Lord himself will fight for you. Just stay calm!" Exodus 14:14