One Good Thing: Mindful Writing Challenge for January 2013

Monday, December 31, 2012

Mindful Writing Challenge for January 2013

icy mist veils the shoulders of peaks

sugar snow falls silently on seedpods

a necklace of fox tracks points the way

During the month of January,

I'll write daily Small Stones to remind myself to pause and observe closely.

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Happy New Year my friends!

8 comments:

DeannaDecember 31, 2012 at 11:37 AM
What a lovely way to start the New Year. Happy New Year, Barb. Many blessings to you and yours in 2013.
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DuffDecember 31, 2012 at 11:42 AM
What beautiful thoughts and photos to end the year. So glad that we will be doing the Small Stones again. It was our meeting place a year ago! Happy New Year to you and will be so happy to join you in the river of small stones starting tomorrow.
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AnonymousDecember 31, 2012 at 11:48 AM
So very beautiful! Wishing you an amazing start to a good year ahead.
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TexWisGirlDecember 31, 2012 at 12:43 PM
wonderful to have you back again!
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Nancy JDecember 31, 2012 at 12:45 PM
Lovely words for the New Year, may the Small Stones bring thoughtful words to you each day/month/ and for all of 2013. Happy New Year Greetings to you and yours, we are OK here, Hugh is well, and we continue to be so thankful for all, both closer to home , and for all my wonderful friends so far away. Take care, fond hello from Jean
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SnapDecember 31, 2012 at 1:02 PM
Many Happy New Year Wishes to you and yours! A lovely way to end the year and start the new.
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Carol MattinglyJanuary 2, 2013 at 5:37 PM
Sugar snow...you're speaking my language.
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Inger-MJanuary 4, 2013 at 4:17 PM
I love "necklace of fox tracks"!
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Inspiration from Others

We either make ourselves happy or miserable. The amount of work is the same. - Carlos Castenada, mystic and author (1925-1998)

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission. - Eleanor Roosevelt, diplomat, author, and lecturer (1884-1962)

Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big,  worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's  the grain of sand in your shoe. - Robert Service, writer (1874-1958)

People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering. - Saint Augustine (354-430)

A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words. -- Unknown

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste they hurry past it.
- Soren Kierkegaard, philosopher (1813-1855)

A painting is never finished - it simply stops in interesting places. - Paul Gardner, painter

To see a world in a grain of sand, / And a heaven in a wild flower, / Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, / And eternity in an hour.
- William Blake, poet, engraver, and painter (1757-1827)

Those who wish to sing always find a song. - Swedish proverb

This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere: the dew is never all dried at once: a shower is forever falling, vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.
- John Muir, naturalist, explorer, and writer (1838-1914)

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.

- Virginia Woolf, writer (1882-1941)

Simply give others a bit of yourself:
a thoughtful act,
a helpful idea,
a word of appreciation,
a lift over a rough spot,
a sense of understanding,
a timely suggestion.
You take something out of your mind,
garnished in kindness out of your heart,
and put it into the other person's mind and heart.
- Charles H. Burr