For 28 years silver-haired Mildred Norman Ryder wandered from place to place across America, walking over 25,000 miles to bring a message of peace to everyone she encountered. On her journey she took no money, personal belongings, or food. No cell phone, for in those days cell phones hadn’t been invented. What propelled her was confidence in the intrinsic kindness of human beings and trust in the goodness of life itself. She called herself Peace Pilgrim. Some have likened Peace Pilgrim to a Twentieth Century Saint Francis of Assisi.
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Great, wide, beautiful, wonderful World,
With the wonderful water round you curled,
And the wonderful grass upon your breast ~
World, you are beautifully drest.
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Mature as he was, she might yet be able to help him to the building of the rainbow bridge that should connect the prose in us with the passion. continue reading …
Even
After
All this time
The sun never says to the earth,
“You owe
Me.”
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Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness. ~ C.S. Lewis
Before I could ask him to explain his teaching method, he handed me a chartreuse flyer he’d found taped to a fence along the route he walks with Sadie, his adorable Schipperke, early each morning along West Cliff Drive:
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by Viktoria Vidali on September 1, 2009
in Music, Poetry
by Viktoria Vidali on August 6, 2009
in Quotations
It is at the edge of a petal that love waits. ~ William Carlos Williams
Work like you don’t need money,
Love like you’ve never been hurt,
And dance like no one is watching.
