Author Archives: Laura Dobson

“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”

INTERNATIONAL DAY OF CLEAN AIR FOR BLUE SKIES “When fire breaks out in a ten-story building, the person living on the first floor cries out for help. The person living on the tenth floor says that it is not his problem. But it soon will become his problem too. He does not realize that. AmmaContinue reading “Thought for the day, Thursday 7th September”

KRISHNA JANMASHTAMI “I remember how my mother would hold me.I would look up at her sometimes and see her weep.I understand now what was happening.Love so strong a force it broke the cage,and she disappeared from everything for a blessed moment.All actions have evolved from the taste of flight;the hope of freedom moves our cellsContinue reading “Thought for the day, Wednesday 6th September”

“What actions are most excellent?To gladden the heart of a human being.To feed the hungry.To help the afflicted.To lighten the sorrow of the sorrowful.To remove the wrongs of the injured.That person is most beloved of God who does most good to God’s creatures.” Saying of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him)

“To flower out in the sunshine and air,a seed falls into the loam,where the dead gatherlike old old friendsto compost their pain into beauty.I am a seed.To sing, I fall into silence.To radiate golden joy, I fall into darkness.To know wisdom, I leave the dry land of thinkingand fall into the ocean of bewilderment.Are youContinue reading “Thought for the day, Monday 4th September”