Impact
We can observe the character of our impact on the world around us in the sort of people who come to us for guidance or direction.
We can observe the character of our impact on the world around us in the sort of people who come to us for guidance or direction.
“You can’t use too much water or it will be slippery.” A stooped gentleman swipes his mop in between chair legs and around a table leg in deft arcs. The air is rich with donut scents from rows of fritters and glazed, cakes and old-fashioned. “Now you try.” The old man offers the mop handle to…
In the forest it sounds like it’s raining long after a heavy storm has passed. Millions of droplets make their way leaf to leaf toward earth through a thick canopy. No more rain falls from still pregnant clouds overhead and the puddles in the open are glass. Yet just yards away I hear a rain…
A Chinese proverb translates to: “The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The second best time is now.” We are adept at finding things we wish we had done differently a long time ago. Past decisions we didn’t make. The path we did not lay for ourselves. Knowledge like this is…
Picture a blue, canvas-lined laundry cart. The kind of thing you might have thrown used gym towels into back in high school. A Goodwill worker gestures you toward the left side of the lot and rolls one of a matching pair of blue carts forward as you idle to a stop. A younger man follows…
When all else fails, simple pleasures will remain.
Wet ground, wet grass, wet leaves from rain last night Partly cloudy sky, bright sun shines on fall leaves of orange yellow red brown every color in between Light breeze drifts fingers through forest Shakes each crinkly translucent pennant so the whole of Autumn shimmers