Healing After Loss

Mockingbird in the Japanese Garden



"You cannot prevent the bird of sorrow from flying over your head,
but you can prevent it from nesting in your hair."
~Chinese proverb

Healing After Loss

Japanese Garden Hermann Park

"I pray to the birds because I believe they will carry the messages of my heart upward.
I pray to them because I believe in their existence,
 the way their songs begin and end each day --
 the invocations and benedictions of Earth.
I pray to the birds because they remind me of what I love other than what I fear.
And at the end of my prayers, they teach me how to listen."

~Terry Tempest Williams

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Several months ago I asked you to hold Roo and her Cowboy in your hearts.

Cowboy and Mr. Dragon fought the same horrible cancer.

Cowboy has gone on to the stars.

Healing After Loss

Buddha in Musashi's Garden

"I must learn to open bottles, move the furniture, open stuck windows,

go home alone, investigate the noise in the night, eat alone,

make decisions alone, handle money alone, go on trips alone,

fight with service companies alone, be sick alone, sleep alone,

sing alone."

~Sonja O'Sullivan

Good Morning!

Calla Blooming In Musashi's Garden

Speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee.

~Job 12:8

Good Morning!

The first Gardenia bloom of the season in Musashi's Garden.

"Joy comes from simple and natural things, 

mists over meadows,

sunlight on leaves,

the path of the moon over water. 

Even rain and wind and stormy clouds bring joy,

just as knowing animals and flowers and where they live."

~Sigurd F. Olson

This quote, and others I'll be sharing off and on, 

is from the book

HEALING AFTER LOSS

Daily Meditations for Working Through Grief

by Martha Whitmore Hickman.

The book is a gift from a dear friend -- thank you Kim. 

Wishing you WELL and a JOY filled day.