Does the ocean separate these tiny islands, or does it connect them? There is no music without silence, no words without the white space between them, no relationship without the separation between us. The very atoms that make up the universe are more space than matter.
What open space will you reach into or across today?
Do you ever feel like your life is going around and around on the same track, constantly moving, but taking you nowhere new? And yet, the repetitive carousel ride is one of the great joys of childhood. Perhaps what is most wonderful about riding a carousel is not the circular motion, but the opportunity to wave at the loved one who, again and again, disappears and comes into view.
Who or what has put in a welcome reappearance in your life lately?
If ever a secular day deserved sacred status, it would be Election Day. The right to vote, to make our voices heard, to weigh in on the issues that affect our lives, is a precious gift that is perhaps only fully appreciated by those who have had to struggle to gain that right.
Whose struggle for full enfranchisement will you honor as you cast your vote?
“I don’t know whether I believe in God or not. I think, really, I’m some kind of a Buddhist. But the essential thing is to put oneself in a frame of mind which is close to that of prayer.”
―Henri Matisse
What do you do to put yourself in a frame of mind that is close to prayer?
Today we “fall back,” setting our clocks back an hour for the end of daylight savings time. It isn’t exactly a free hour—it’s an hour that you saved up back in March that you must now withdraw from that time bank. Wouldn’t it be great if we could collect interest on the time we save, gathering minutes as the months go by? But the only way to add to an hour is to get the most you can from each minute that you have.
How will you spend the hour that you have been saving all these months?
