Dear Readers,
Nearly four years ago I launched Images For Renewal and today, close to 500 posts later, it is time to turn over a new leaf: to substitute regular weekly and monthly submissions for spontaneous ones.
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The air was fragrant with a thousand trodden aromatic herbs, with fields of lavender, and with the brightest roses blushing in tufts all over the meadows … continue reading …
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The spring came suddenly, bursting upon the world as a child bursts into a room, with a laugh and a shout and hands full of flowers. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow continue reading …
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To look at any thing,
If you would know that thing,
You must look at it long:
To look at this green and say,
“I have seen spring in these
Woods,” will not do – you must
Be the thing you see:
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To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life.
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After the cold, gray days of winter, our eyes are often surprised by Spring’s early messengers: bulbs poking their heads from out of the rich soil; new buds forming on flowering plants; blossoms of ornamental plum scenting the air; the pastel beauty of a single rose refreshed by the morning dew. Spring is the planet’s most powerful symbol of renewal.
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You’re a middle-aged woman living alone. It’s a very cold winter’s day … but sunny … so you give your cat a goodbye pat on the head and reluctantly venture outside to do your shopping. Before long, you’re rosy-cheeked and nearly chilled to the bone. Spotting a familiar refuge, you slip into the neighborhood café for a cup of tea and human camaraderie.
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For the past few years on the occasion of Valentine’s Day, Images For Renewal has featured articles about Federico Hewson’s Valentine Peace Project. The Project continues to engage young writers from across the country and the world who have been invited again in 2013 to submit poems of love and peace. Each of these poems is photocopied and attached to donated fair trade roses, which, on February 14th, are distributed by Valentine Peace Project volunteers to the general public in various cities across the globe.
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My work is loving the world.
Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird —
equal seekers of sweetness.
Here the quickening yeast; there the blue plums.
Here the clam deep in the speckled sand.
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What is the greatest gift we can give each other? It is the gift of awareness.
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