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“I will not take for granted,
The long roads I was given to walk
Because walking gave me courage
And courage is a gift to be carried
Along for a lifetime.

I will not take for granted,
Those words that came in whispers
And steadied my spirit
When I did not feel
An ounce of peace inside me

I will not take for granted,
The fierce stories of grandmothers and
The solemn teachings of grandfathers.
Or the ten thousand prayers
That were wept on my behalf.

I will not take for granted,
The friends who shone into me
When my own light grew thin.
Those who stayed
When things got hard and
Those who showed me that
There’s a time for everything -
Even walking away.

I will not take for granted,
The music, the birds
The flowers, the skies.
For when I could not find beauty,
They reached in and caused my heart
To pause with gratitude.

I will not take for granted,
That my soul is eternal and
The murmurs of my grief
Are only temporary.

I will not take for granted,
This one life.”
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~ Ullie Kaye : 📷 Unknown

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“Listen for guidance
Among the trees,
Dried leaves fragrant underfoot.
Listen to the crows and finches,
To the whistle of wind
Through pine needles.
Most of all, listen to
The whispers of your soul
And the knowing in your bones.
When your inner compass points
In a new direction, dare to follow.
In the stillness of meditation
Or the tumult of the day,
Listen for what’s next.
Truth will come in many
Ways and contexts.
Listen - - and begin.”
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~ Danna Faulds : 📷 Unknown

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“It is said that before entering the sea, a river trembles with fear.

She looks back at the path she has travelled, from the peaks of the mountains, the long winding road crossing forests and villages.

And in front of her, she sees an ocean so vast, that to enter there seems nothing more than to disappear forever.

But there is no other way.
The river cannot go back.

Nobody can go back.
To go back is impossible in existence.

The river needs to take the risk of entering the ocean because only then will fear disappear, because that’s where the river will know it’s not about disappearing into the ocean, but of becoming the ocean.”
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~ Kahil Gibran : 📷 Caspar Jade

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“The secret of all belonging is to somehow learn to belong to yourself first. If you are not able to be at home in your own life then no matter where you are, with whom you are, or what you are doing there will always be a massive ravine of emptiness between you and everything.

There is some lovely way in which it is given to each individual to create the rest of their own belonging in their own hearts and minds and I often think that our souls are always artistically active in trying to shape forms of belonging in which we can truly rest and from which our deepest possibilities can be challenged and awakened.”
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~ John O’Donohue
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Image of Anouk Aimée from the film “Les Amants de Montparnasse” by Jacques Becker

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“You keep asking for a sign to keep going; not realizing that your hunger for one is the sign. That the ache to believe, despite having no reason to, is the belief. You think doubt means you’re off track, but doubt is part of devotion. If it didn’t matter to you, you wouldn’t question it so much. If it wasn’t real, you wouldn’t be this afraid to lose it. Most people stop right here; in the uncertainty, in the in-between, in the part that feels like nothing’s working. But the fact that you’re still here, still searching, still yearning for a way forward, that means something. This is the way forward. You are the only bridge between what doesn’t exist and what someday will.”
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~ Nelly Maré : 📷 Unknown

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Stillness is vital to the world of the soul. If as you age you become more still, you will discover that stillness can be a great companion. The fragments of your life will have time to unify, and the places where your soul-shelter is wounded or broken will have time to knit and heal. You will be able to return to yourself. In this stillness, you will engage your soul. Many people miss out on themselves completely as they journey through life. They know others, they know places, they know skills, they know their work, but tragically, they do not know themselves at all. Ageing can be a lovely time of ripening when you actually meet yourself, indeed maybe for the first time.
There are beautiful lines from T. S. Eliot that say:
‘And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.’
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~ John O’Donohue : 📷 Edu Garcia

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“I will cut adrift
I will sit on pavements
And drink coffee
I will dream;
I will take my mind
Out of its iron cage
And let it swim
This fine October.”
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~ Virginia Woolf : 📷 Unknown

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“We are born into bodies
That are fluid and free...
Rhythm, breath,
Music and movement
Become tools of seeing
And then freeing the habits
That hold us back.
When we move our bodies
Then our hearts begin to open,
When the body and the heart
Taste freedom
The mind won’t be far behind.”
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~ Gabrielle Roth : 📷 Andrey Stanko

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“I am made for Autumn. Summer and I have a fickle relationship, but everything about autumn is perfect to me. Wooly jumpers, scarves, thin first, then thick, socks. The low slanting light, the crisp mornings, the chill in my fingers, those last warm sunny days before the rain and the wind. The moody hues and subdued palette punctuated every now and again by a brilliant orange, scarlet or copper goodbye.”
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~ Alys Fowler : 📷 Unknown

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“I have been busy finding calm. It sounds crazy, I know. But it is a full time position and it pays so well. I have sorted through the things that bring me peace and the things that disrupt it. I have spent hours just doing what I love. Or loving what I do. I drink tea now. Slowly. And I can almost feel it hug me as it wanders down my chest and fills my lungs with the kind of breath that is thankful. I say hello to people walking by. I wave from a distance like a schoolgirl through the windowpane. I watch the rain. As it glides and shimmers and slides across pavement. I wonder at how the sun paints her light upon my wall. And how she always seems to do it as I’m just about to fall. Casting down anchors wherever I am called to be silent and trust the waters. And I have been busy growing things like my heart. And my hope. And my treasure above. And learning the difference between joy and happiness. So if you cannot find me for a while, I have been busy. Finding calm. It sounds crazy, I know.”
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~ Ullie Kaye : 📷 Laura Wencker
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I was certainly busy finding calm during my time away and yes it did include drinking welcomed cups of tea after returning from long walks out in the stunning Derbyshire and Yorkshire countryside.
I hope you have all been keeping well and have been enjoying the gentle delights of September.
Sarah 🍂🫖 xx

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“This strangely
Still pause
Between summer
And autumn,
Greenery and gold,
And the heat
And rising wind
That is once again
Readying itself
To rush it all away
In a climactic symphony
Of colour and scent
Is in my opinion,
One of the best parts
About living on earth.”
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~ Victoria Erickson : 📷 Unknown
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I know I am not alone in my love for this special time of year - the energy, the quality of the light, the gentleness, the anticipation of new things coming…….
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For all of the above reasons, this is why I love taking a holiday in early September and I’m looking forward to spending nourishing time in the Derbyshire Peaks and the Yorkshire Dales.
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I wish you all a wonderful new month. Enjoy this time of transition and shall be back here when it is officially Autumn.
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Love Sarah 🧡xxx

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“In order to
Sort out the chaos
And complications
And confusions,
We must come back
To the simplest thing
We do know.
What feels like
Nourishment?
Begin with That.”
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~ Victoria Erickson : 📷 Unknown
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Wishing everyone enjoying the August Bank Holiday next Monday a nourishing long weekend. I shall be back here the week after that.
With love Sarah 🤍xx