Happy Easter to you, if you celebrate this holiday. Happy Spring to everyone - it's more welcome to me than those things I gave up for Lent. Now, if it would JUST get warmer....
Some quotes that have struck chords with me lately (from my workbook for the class on Deep Ecology I'm taking):
"Art is the elimination of the unnecessary." -Pablo PicassoThe last one was interesting, because they used it in the documentary, "F.L.O.W.: For Love Of Water" that they're showing at Baxter Avenue this week. I feel connected when I hear sentiments repeated from one life aspect to another. It makes me think I'm onto something, good or bad.
"If what we have we receive as a gift, and if what we have is to be cared for by God, and if what we have is available to others, then we will possess freedom from anxiety." -Richard Foster, Celebration of Discipline
"...we have come to define progress as the degree to which our lives become more artificial, the degree to which we surround ourselves with man-made systems." -Theodore Roszak
"I think a deeper feeling of care begins with allowing ourselves to move into awe -- with all of the different creatures, no matter which ones we've picked." -Brian Swimme
"How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land?...If we do not own the freshness of the air and the sparkle of the water, how can you buy them?" -Chief Seattle
I hope this Spring will find me riding my bike more, creating healthier and yummier meals for friends and family, and really getting stuff growing in my yard and in paint. What are your spring goals?
That is the happiest cup of coffee in the world. My spring goal is to ride my bicycle more!
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