prayers that are made out of grass...

"Every day I see or hear something that more or less kills me with delight,

 that leaves me like a needle in the haystack of light. 

It was what I was born for - to look, to listen, to lose myself inside this soft world - 

to instruct myself over and over in joy, and acclamation. 

Nor am I talking about the exceptional, the fearful, the dreadful, the very extravagant - 

but of the ordinary, the common, the very drab, the daily presentations. 

Oh, good scholar, I say to myself, 

how can you help but grow wise with such teachings as these -

 the un-trimmable light of the world, 

the ocean’s shine, 

the prayers that are made out of grass?"

~ Mary Oliver,"Mindful"
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Pink Muhly (Ornamental) Grass

 seeds available at CaribbeanGarden on etsy

go easy, be filled with Light, and shine...

"... never hurry through the world
but walk slowly, and bow often.

Around me the trees stir in their leaves
and call out, "Stay awhile."
The light flows from their branches.

And they call again, "It's simple," they say,
"and you too have come
into the world to do this, to go easy, to be filled
with light, and to shine."

~Mary Oliver

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"Sun Embraced Trees"

artwork by LightAdoringART - available on etsy 

say the right word and the wine expands...

''Why worry about the loaves and fishes?
If you say the right words, the wine expands.
If you say them with love
and the felt ferocity of that love
and the felt necessity of that love,
the fish explode into many.
Imagine him, speaking,
and don’t worry about what is reality,
or what is plain, or what is mysterious.
If you were there, it was all those things.
If you can imagine it, it is all those things.
Eat, drink, be happy.
Accept the miracle.
Accept, too, each spoken word
spoken with love.''
~ Mary Oliver