Author Archives: Laura Dobson

“The earth is mother,she is mother of all that is natural,mother of all that is human…The earth should not be injured.The earth should not be destroyed…All nature is at the disposal of humankind.We are to work with it.Without it we can not survive…With nature’s help,humankind can set into creationall that is necessary and life-sustaining.” HildegardContinue reading “Thought for the day, Sunday 17th September”

“I’m trying to get people to see that we are our brother’s keeper. Red, white, black, brown or yellow, rich or poor, we all have the blues.” Riley B. King (better known as B. B. King), born on this day in 1925

INTERNATIONAL DAY OF DEMOCRACY “Peace cannot exist without justice, justice cannot exist without fairness, fairness cannot exist without development, development cannot exist without democracy, democracy cannot exist without respect for the identity and worth of cultures and peoples.” Rigoberta Menchú Tum, K’iche’ Guatemalan human rights activist, feminist, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate.

“The leaves are turning and change is in the air… As the palette of nature changes and the fall colors grow more intense, embrace your own changes. That which does not change is not fully alive. As humans in chaos, we sometimes long for stability, but flux and ongoing evolution bring us to our fullestContinue reading “Thought for the day, Thursday 14th September”

“Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature.” Michael Faraday, who discovered the ‘Faraday effect’, the influence of a magnetic field on polarized light, on this day in 1845

“It was early,which has always been my hourto begin lookingat the world and of course,even in the darkness,to beginlistening into it, especiallyunder the pineswhere the owl livesand sometimes calls out as I walk by,as he didon this morning.So many gifts! What do they mean?In the marsheswhere the pink lightwas just arriving the minkwith his bristleContinue reading “Thought for the day, Tuesday 12th September”

“We ought to dance with rapture that we should be alive and in the flesh, and part of the living, incarnate cosmos. I am part of the sun as my eye is part of me. That I am part of the earth my feet know perfectly, and my blood is part of the sea. MyContinue reading “Thought for the day, Monday 11th September”

This Day We Say Grateful: A Sending Blessing by Jan Richardson “It is a strange thing to be so bound and so released all in the same moment,to feel the heart open wide and wider still even as it turns to take its leave.On this day, let us say this is simply the way loveContinue reading “Thought for the day, Sunday 10th September”

“How to unmask a blessing in disguise:Stare it in the face and say, “I know you are not just a lousy day or bad luck. I know you are a good friend—even if for the life of me I cannot determine how. I know there is only one Source of All Things, and nothing canContinue reading “Thought for the day, Saturday 9th September”

INTERNATIONAL LITERACY DAY “Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.” Frederick Douglass “Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. It is a tool for daily life in modern society. It is a bulwark against poverty, and a building block of development… For everyone, everywhere, literacy is, along with education in general,Continue reading “Thought for the day, Friday 8th September”