Category Archives: Living Simply

Forty-two Spirals Around The Sun

Posted on December 10, 2019 by hernibs

Me the poet dreaming my dreams, you the artist creating new scenes, me dissolving in desperate tears you holding tightly, dispelling my fears, we jumping into improbable things learning new patterns and finding our wings creating our world and living … Continue reading →

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Transformation

Posted on December 9, 2019 by hernibs

Transformation has little to do with intelligence, willpower, or perfection. It has everything to do with honest humility, willingness, and surrender. ~Richard Rohr

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Light In Darkness

Posted on December 8, 2019 by hernibs

She, In the dark, Found light Brighter than many ever see. She, Within herself, Found loveliness, Through the soul’s own mastery. And now the world receives From her dower: The message of the strength Of inner power. ~Langston Hughes “Helen … Continue reading →

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Puddles

Posted on December 7, 2019 by hernibs

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Mini Mushrooms

Posted on December 6, 2019 by hernibs

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If There Is. . .

Posted on December 5, 2019 by hernibs

If there is light in the soul, There will be beauty in the person. If there is beauty in the person, There will be harmony in the house. If there is harmony in the house, There will be order in … Continue reading →

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Winter Wardrobes

Posted on December 4, 2019 by hernibs

Winter is on it’s way. . . Evergreens wait patiently for cold weather, their trendy green tips accenting darker winter wardrobes. Maples, finding nothing new to wear, choose to spend winter naked rather than wear the same thing two years … Continue reading →

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Mycelium Quartet

Posted on December 3, 2019 by hernibs

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Warmth of Kindness

Posted on December 2, 2019 by hernibs

I place another dry fir log onto hot coals in the wood stove, I am warmed and filled with thankfulness for a tree once dead and seemingly useless that fell one windy night across our power lines. Hydro was there … Continue reading →

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December

Posted on December 1, 2019 by hernibs

When winter winds are piercing chill, And through the hawthorn blows the gale, With solemn feet I tread the hill, That overbrows the lonely vale. ~Excerpt from Woods In Winter by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – 1807-1882

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Cures For Depression

Posted on November 30, 2019 by hernibs

Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression. ~ Dodie Smith born 1896 English playwright

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Sufficient

Posted on November 29, 2019 by hernibs

“We each have a choice in any setting to step back and let go of the mind-set of scarcity. Once we let go of scarcity, we discover the surprising truth of sufficiency. By sufficiency, I don’t mean a quantity of … Continue reading →

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Council Meeting

Posted on November 27, 2019 by hernibs

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Art

Posted on November 27, 2019 by hernibs

Art washes from the soul the dust of everyday life. ~Pablo Picasso

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Handmade Christmas Tree

Posted on November 26, 2019 by hernibs

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