Author Archives: Laura Dobson

“Master of the Universe, grant me the ability to be alone. May it be my custom to go outdoors each day among the trees and grass, among all growing things. And there may I be alone in prayer, to talk with my Creator, to express everything in my heart. And may all the foliage ofContinue reading “Thought for the day, Friday 26th May”

“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well… Do not follow where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and make a trail.” Ralph Waldo Emerson,Continue reading “Thought for the day, Thursday 25th May”

“Sometimes, constellations land into our veins,illuminating their branching networks with ancient starfire.Stop long enough for a ray of golden lightto slant through trees and trick you out of your skin.Stay long enough for this love to catch you up.When it finally does, turn your face to beauty andsurrender to your own weeping.When that happens, theContinue reading “Thought for the day, Wednesday 24th May”

“Every relation, every gradation of nature is incalculably precious, but only to the soul which is poised upon itself, and to whom no loss, no change, can bring dull discord, for it is in harmony with the central soul… Always the soul says to us all, Cherish your best hopes as a faith, and abideContinue reading “Thought for the day, Tuesday 23rd May”

International Day for Biodiversity “On certain afternoonsthe radiance of thingsjust as they are, requiresno politics, no ideology.First it rains,then the sun comes out,the warming and coolingof the globe, the risingand falling of my diaphragm.Both Winter and SummerI am free, no more importantthan a morning glory.Most of my DNAI share with a mouse,infinitude with gnats.Endangered herdsContinue reading “Thought for the day, Monday 22nd May”

“All gifts of nature and of grace have been given us on loan. Their ownership is not ours, but God’s.. Treat all things as if they were loaned to you without any ownership – whether body or soul, sense or strength, external goods or honours, friends or relations, house or hall, everything. For if IContinue reading “Thought for the day, Sunday 21st May”

The Last Bee by Brian Bilston – a poem for World Bee Day “After the last eehad uzzed its last uzz,the irds and the utterfliesdid what they could.ut soon the fields lay are,few flowers were left,nature was roken,and the planet ereft.”

Thought for the day, Friday 19th May “We have no word except kindness for the love that we use every day. Kindness is a courtesy that we owe to all, an act of inclusion that notices the human condition and its needs, however rushed we may be. But kindness is not a custom that comesContinue reading “Thought for the day, Friday 19th May”

“Iba’che NaNa, Womb of Creation,She Who Gave Birth to All Things,From your dark depths the first spark came into Being.Your luminous Egg exploded in the midst of eternal night,is joyous dance formed the great lights. You Who Gave Us Sun and Moon, Earth and Sky, Body and Spirit,Awaken from your sleep, Deep Night.Lift your eyelidsContinue reading “Thought for the day, Thursday 18th May”

“Many children have pet turtles, and they often create a little parkland for the creatures in their backyards.. They bring it water and foliage every day, and yet still the turtle will run away, to the extent that what it does can be considered running.. But the turtle may be moving toward something rather thanContinue reading “Thought for the day, Wednesday 17th May”