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Summer Splendors, Photos and Quotes

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This post is inspired by a quotation I clipped from the top of the Vineyard Gazette newspaper, and which I have had pinned to my wall for many years as wonderful words to live by:

To let no bird fly past unnoticed… to have the mind a storehouse of sunsets,
requires a discipline in pleasure and an education in gratitude.
~G.K. Chesterton

Here are a few summer photographs from life here on the Vineyard, mixed with quotations from my One Hundred Fortunes Collection.

We are not separate from Being. We are in it. ~Plotinus

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The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
D.H. Lawrence

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We are shaped and fashioned by what we love. ~Goethe

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The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
~Henry David Thoreau

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In every human being, there is a special heaven
whole and unbroken.
~Paracelsus

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At the center of your being you have the answer.
You know who you are
and you know what you want.
~Lao Tzu

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The only wealth is life.
~Henry David Thoreau

First Lily

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There is a lotus on our fishpond. In the morning, it opens its petals to drink in the sun. In the evening, it folds its petals in again, like hands in prayer.

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This has helped me to consider the naturalness of my own rythms- how I open my petals sometimes, and how I fold them in when it is time to rest.

May Snapshots

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Blue Serenity…

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Beach Plum Flowers at Lambert’s Cove…

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Rowboat…

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Lilacs…

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Solar and wind…

Walking along the shore at Lucy Vincent

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sdc11010 The beach in winter has its own beauty. We walked here on three different days this week, each cold, haunting, and with its own colors and moods. sdc11025