Off in the nether lands, I heard a sound

Like the beating of heavenly wings

And deep in my brain, I can hear a refrain

Of my soul as she rises and sings

Anthems to glory and anthems to love

And hymns filled with earthly delight

Like the songs that the darkness composes to worship the light

Dan Fogelberg, from Nether Lands

“Going to Walden is not so easy a thing as a green visit. It is the slow and difficult trick of living, and finding it where you are.”

Going to Walden by Mary Oliver

“What I want in my life is to be willing to be dazzled—

To cast aside the weight of facts

and maybe even to float a little above this difficult world.

I want to believe I am looking into the white fire of a great mystery.”

Take ten minutes and breath deeply. Ask the “soft animal of your body” what it really needs right now.