Poem by Sendell Berry. The Peace of Wild Things.

When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am fre

Wisdom from Marianne Williamson.

To trust in the force that moves the universe is faith. Faith isn’t blind, it’s visionary. Faith is believing that the universe is on my side, and that the universe knows what it’s doing. Faith is a psychological. awareness of an unfolding force for good, constantly at work in all dimensions. My attempt to direct this force only interferes with it. My willingness to relax into it allows it to work on my behalf. Without faith, I’m frantically trying to control what it is not my business.

Alicia,

Well, if you folloow the Damriscotta river out towards the ocean, you’ll come to East Boothbay on the right and Christmas Cover on the left and South Bristol. At that poiint there’s a channel through which you can motor your boat into John’s Bay, Take a left and go into the western most part of the bay and you would find on a peninsual my family’s former property. From South Bristol, take a right and your headed out to sea past Pemaquid Light. I spent many happy summers there as a boy.

Dearest Holly,
Your words of wisdom are a great help to me. I have no trouble thinking of the things that I enjoy like petting my cat, going on a walk in the morning with my wife, just sitting in our beautiful house and looking out the French doors, admiring the Live Oak’s in our yard, and drinking my morning protein shake knowing how healthy it is for me. I think when I do my gratitude work I need to slow down and savor more. That’s something I picked up from you. You talk about sipping your coffee with greater appreciation. In these moments where I know there is a certain enjoyment I’ll do my best to slow down and really absorb the good feelings. I do that already with my little kitty. We have a regular ritual which is after my wife and I have finished watching TV in the evening we open the door and call for him to come inside. I go into the bedroom and call him anc my wife comes in and he runs and jumps up on the bed and squats down purring like crazy. I a pull out a little brush and start brushing under his chin on the side of his faces d his head. I’ll also massage him along his back bone. When he purrs he also started to give it a trilling sound which I never heard from any other cat. It’s his expression of super happiness. I’ll put to good use a lot of what you’ve told me. Thanks so much.
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