Circling the Wagons It is time
to circle the wagons
for a while.
I have been too long
in hostile lands,
pushed by
menacing winds.
Like a child
in its mother’s arms,
I need to feel again
the illusion
of safety.
Rest and Reevaluation
There are times in our lives when we need to pull back from our day to day responsibilities to get a larger view of our present situation. Rest and reevaluation give us some breathing space, and provide us with a way to view our lives from a different perspective.
When we feel that our lives are becoming too hectic, it is a perhaps wise to pause for a while to review and reevaluate our circumstances, and to make those changes which might help us to cope better with the present and plan more effectively for the future.
The idea is to make decisions and act on them.
To decide what is important to accomplish,
to decide how something can next be accomplished,
to find time to work at it and to get it done.
Karen Kakascik
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Green Things
There were always
green things in my life.
Small wild flowers,
Lilac bushes,
arboretums
where lovers walked
and children came to play,
forests edging round a lake
where we would go on Sundays.
And loving so these wild things,
I planted in my yard a forest too,
which now, full grown,
repays me
with its healing.
Nature
Observing and participating in nature helps us in many ways. We are thrilled by its beauty, awed by its power, and humbled by its tranquility. It provides us with a closeness to eternal values and a better understanding of our human place in the universe. It has inspired poets, writers and artists to produce works which have enriched all our lives.
When life’s problems become too difficult, we can be grateful that it is always possible to escape to nature and benefit from its comfort and its healing.
See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all.
Socrates
Nature has been for me, for as long as I can remember,
a source of solace, inspiration, adventure and delight:
a home, a teacher, a companion.
Lorraine Anderson
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