A Wilderness of Sweets
“Our garden is now a wilderness of sweets. The violets, sweet briar, and primroses perfume the air, and the thrushes are full of melody...
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The Blue Flower
Literature, Nature, Transcendence
The Blue Flower
Literature, Nature, Transcendence
Welcome to The Blue Flower! The Blue Flower is a passion project of contemplative writing, an inspirational blog where I reflect on and synthesize observations, ideas, and experiences that heighten awareness, quicken the imagination, and fuel spiritual curiosity. The blue flower is a literary symbol, originating with German Romanticism, that represents a longing for beauty and the transcendent. You can learn more about the significance of the blue flower as a symbol in my "About" section.
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And Every Breath We Drew Was "Hallelujah"
I watched the dawn come, Watched the spring dawn come. And the red sun shouldered his way up Through the grey, through the blue, Through...
Attentive Creation: Making Pysanky Eggs
On the difference between concentration and attention: “To concentrate implies bringing all your energy to focus on a certain point; but...
Sacred Spaces: Without and Within
“To have a sacred space is an absolute necessity for anybody today. You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don’t...
I See Men as Trees, Suffering
Desert Flowers (Keith Douglas, 1943) Living in a wide landscape are the flowers – Rosenberg I only repeat what you were saying – the...
The Close and Holy Darkness
"We are bathed in mystery…That will always be our destiny. The universe will always be much richer than our ability to understand it.”...
Out of the Mud
“How significant that the rich, black mud of our dead stream produces the water lily -- out of that fertile slime springs this spotless...
Beautiful and Useful
'Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be beautiful or believe to be useful' - William Morris Most people living in America...
Beauty and Bread
“Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and...
The Meditative Power of Gardens
"To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour."...
"Love is a Great Beautifier"
“Love is a great beautifier” (Little Women, Louisa May Alcott). When was the last time, while observing or speaking with someone, you...
Life Stand Still Here
Sometime in March I projected ahead and planned to write this entry around Mother’s Day. Then, with recalibrating during this time of...
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