This is a poem that I found in a children’s book that I recently read to my kids. I thought it was so beautiful.
Here it is:
You’re here for a reason, you certainly are.
The world would be different without you, by far.
Ok so I admit, I eat microwave popcorn every night with a handful of chocolate chips. I love it and it is my nighttime snack.
After about one year of eating this snack every night, a thought crossed my mind that the popcorn may not be so good for me. What was the gooey stuff that was in the microwave popcorn package?
What if becoming who and what we truly are happens not through
striving and trying but by recognizing and receiving the people and
places and practices that offer us the warmth of encouragement we
need to unfold?
Here is a poem that I noticed while staying at the Wolf Den Cabins (near Algonquin park) this past week. I thought it was beautiful.
Its called “Advice from a Tree”:
Did you know there are programs in Toronto to match people with garden space to people that need garden space?!
How does it work?
People with garden space lend the space to people that want to plant. Then everyone shares in the harvest.
You may be thinking, I have space in my garden, but why would I want to share it?!
The arrangement can be a win win scenario for both parties.
For the party lending the space:
Walmer Road Street-side “Sharing Your Backyard” (or Front Yard!) Veggie Garden:
I loved this excerpt and letter I came across in a book I was reading called “Against Wind and Tide”, by Ann Morrow Lindbergh (the wife of well known Charles Lindbergh).
It was a letter addressed to her son Land, who recently started university at Stanford.