Good morning! Another delightfully quiet day beginning at the Window. These past few days have been filled with study and thought and meditation and revelation. I'll share one poem I like particularly - by Hafiz found in "I Heard God Laughing" by Daniel Ladinsky.

Silence

A day of Silence

Can be a pilgrimage in itself.

A day of Silence

Can help you listen

To the Soul play

Its marvelous lute and drum.

Is not most talking

A crazed defense of a crumbling fort?

I thought we came here

To surrender in Silence

To yield to Light and Happiness

To dance within

In celebration of Love's Victory.

It is surprising to me, but I almost regret the very cold days are ending soon. I have been hibernating like a bear - except baking bread, and stuffing myself with cookies and hot green tea and sweet potatoes and greens and black-eyed peas - and napping beneath a wool blanket my brother brought many years ago from Iceland when he was stationed there in the Navy. I've sheltered the two outdoor spicketts (spigots??) with heavy ski mittens old as the hills. Can't imagine why Bob even bought them - maybe when he was doing long walks.