Shadowed ~

"I beg you to keep me in this silence

 so that I may learn from it
the word of your peace
and the word of your mercy
and the word of your gentleness

 to the world: and that through me

 perhaps your word of peace

 may make itself heard
where it has not been possible

 for anyone to hear it for a long time."

Thomas Merton

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the woods are silent

in January's deepest cold

only the shadows

 foretell

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God is within her, she will not fall;

 God will help her at break of day.

from

 Psalm 46

  

 

Sun dog ~

on a cold

January morning

 a sun dog

appears

to bid the month

adieu

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about this occurrence click

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January Hush ~

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"A hush is over everything,

Silent as women wait for love;

The world is waiting for the spring."

Sara Teasdale

“Stand still.

 The trees ahead and bush beside you are not lost.”

 Albert Einstein

 "Now close the windows and hush all the fields:
If the trees must, let them silently toss."

Robert Frost 

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The January Blues ~

the old cathedrals

are good

but the great blue dome

that hangs over

everything

is better

Thomas Carlyle