Category: Simply Said - fairdare

essential

6/14/2019

It came to me while picking beans, the secret of happiness.
Something essential happens in the vegetable garden.
It's a place where if you can't say "I love you" out loud,
you can say it in seeds.
And the land will reciprocate, in beans.
~Robin Wall Kimmerer :: Braiding Sweetgrass

beauty

6/7/2019

There is beauty to be found in the most unassuming moment...
just after dinner is eaten + before the dishes need to be done,
waiting in the pick-up line,
walking the dog,
bedtime with a child,
just before the knob is turned,
just after the knob is turned,
before eyes are opened onto a whole new day,
in a familiar hug,
a familiar number on caller ID,
just outside the door,
just by looking up,
just by slowing down.
Beauty. It's waiting.

prayer

5/31/2019

For me, scaling down implies a kind of trust that it is OK to do
just this, right here, right now.
Letting go of controlling the macroscopic outcome,
action becomes a kind of prayer,
a kind of aligning oneself with the world one wants to see.
~Charles Eisenstein

use

5/24/2019

Use..."its stories are those of engagement, satisfaction, responsibility,
capabilities, material reverence, vital materialism, skilled fingers,
tacit knowledge, of acting as if 'stuff' is properly ours.
~Kate Fletcher

responsibility

5/17/2019

Nothing strengthens the judgement
+ quickens the conscience like
individual responsibility.
~Elizabeth Cady Stanton

free

5/10/2019

We have to be people
who set each other
free.
~Harry Hay

pleased

5/3/2019

Nature is pleased with simplicity.
And nature is no dummy.
~Sir Isaac Newton

makers

4/26/2019

Paths are made by walking.
We are makers of alternative routes.
The craft of use [how we use our clothing] is a stance
+ avenue of action for a different future.
~Kate Fletcher in Craft of Use

grants

4/19/2019

Though he works and worries, the farmer
never reaches down to where the seed turns
into summer. The earth grants.
~Rainer Maria Rilke

abundant

4/12/2019

Three keys to more abundant living:
caring about others,
daring for others,
sharing with others.
~William Arthur Ward