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Michael Valliant

2 years

‘Kingfisher’s Wing’ moments are those that jump out of a mundane day and catch us and stick with us and show us some light. May we all have them, recognize them, and appreciate them. Read on for more:

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Michael Valliant

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2 years

This poem by @maggiesmithpoet hits me every time I read it.

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Michael Valliant

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5 years

Both of these individuals were born on this day, Nov. 27, Bruce Lee in 1940, Hendrix in 1942. I have no idea what to make of that, but it seems pretty cool, two folks that have had a huge and wide influence on pop culture and beyond. #BruceLee #JimiHendrix #birthdays

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1 year

“The purpose of poetry is to return that which is familiar to its original strangeness.” —Charles Simic

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2 years

“If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable.” ― Rainer Maria Rilke

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Michael Valliant

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2 months

"...there was the simple understanding that to sing at dawn and to sing at dusk was to heal the world through joy. The birds still remember what we have forgotten, that the world is meant to be celebrated." —Terry Tempest Williams

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Michael Valliant

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4 months

“We live in a perpetually burning building, and what we must save from it, all the time, is love.” —Tennessee Williams

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Michael Valliant

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2 years

“I need to be silent for a while, worlds are forming in my heart.” ― Meister Eckhart

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Michael Valliant

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4 years

@emdashphillips I was sitting in a cafe before a George Saunders reading, reading an older book of his short stories. Saunders walked into the cafe, started to walk by, saw what I was reading, stopped & said, “Put that sh** down, it’ll ruin your brain.”

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Michael Valliant

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2 years

It’s a new month. And that means new calendar art from @_Francis_co_Art

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Michael Valliant

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1 year

“Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.” —Camille Pissarro

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Michael Valliant

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2 years

It’s a new month. And that means new (and the last for 2022) calendar art from @_Francis_co_Art —always a great way to start a month.

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Michael Valliant

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2 years

It’s a new month. And that means new calendar artwork from @_Francis_co_Art

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Michael Valliant

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6 years

I just finished DAYTRIPPER by @fabiomoon & @Gabriel_Ba & I am totally blown away. I want to lead a class on graphic novel as literature, using single books that new readers would dig. What books would you include? @thirdeyecomics @kellysue @neilhimself @TomKingTK @HeatherAntos

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Michael Valliant

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9 months

“I believe that poetry is very old. It’s very sacred. It wishes for a community.” —Mary Oliver via OnBeing

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Michael Valliant

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10 months

“Autumn is a second spring, where every leaf is a flower.” —Albert Camus, born on this date in 1913.

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Michael Valliant

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4 months

“Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.” —Mary Oliver

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Michael Valliant

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2 years

Autumn in a single tree.

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Michael Valliant

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1 year

Calvin gets it…

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Michael Valliant

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2 years

"Here I came to the very edge where nothing at all needs saying, everything is absorbed through weather and the sea... ...and every day on the balcony of the sea, wings open, fire is born, and everything is blue again like morning." —Pablo Neruda

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Michael Valliant

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2 years

“There is a moment in every dawn when light floats, there is the possibility of magic. Creation holds its breath.” —Douglas Adams

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Michael Valliant

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1 year

“I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.” —Walt Whitman

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2 years

“That one is sometimes able, among the disturbances of the present world, to wander into some good and beautiful whereabouts of the woods, grow quiet, and come to rest is a gift, a wonder, and a kind of grace.” —Wendell Berry

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2 years

“It is not our job to remain whole. We came to lose our leaves Like the trees, and be born again, Drawing up from the great roots.” —Robert Bly

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Michael Valliant

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1 year

The neighborhood sun wakes up the colors for the day.

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Michael Valliant

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2 years

When the colors of a tree make you walk outside and just stare at it.

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Michael Valliant

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2 years

In this morning’s reading, “Green Koan” by Rita Dove from “Playlist for the Apocalypse.” “—given to soften or harden us, as we choose.”

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Michael Valliant

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5 years

I’ve been reviewing some @TomKingTK books & I have deduced a few things: 1. Batman kills babies. 2. Bros before heroes. 3. Life is but a dream. 4. It was either on a boat. Or the street. 5. Chocolate. 6. May it please Omega, 7. Darkseid is. 8. Hell yeah.

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Michael Valliant

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2 years

“It is very important to go out alone, to sit under a tree—not with a book, not with a companion, but by yourself—and observe the falling of a leaf, hear the lapping of the water, the fishermen’s song, watch the flight of a bird, and of your own thoughts.” —Jiddu Krishnamurti

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Michael Valliant

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7 months

“I do not understand the mystery of grace -- only that it meets us where we are and does not leave us where it found us." —Anne Lamott

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Michael Valliant

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2 years

“Time held me green and dying, though I sang in my chains like the sea.” —Dylan Thomas

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Michael Valliant

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1 year

“I dream of lost / vocabularies that might express some of what / we no longer can.” —Jack Gilbert (from “The Forgotten Dialect of the Heart”)

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Michael Valliant

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2 years

It’s a new month. And that means new calendar art from @_Francis_co_Art . Make it a creative and grateful November!

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Michael Valliant

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4 months

“Use the gifts you have received, and pass on the love that has been given to you.” —St. Therese of Liseaux

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Michael Valliant

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2 years

"Any patch of sunlight in a wood will show you something of the sun which you could never get from reading books on astronomy. These pure and spontaneous pleasures are 'patches of Godlight' in the woods of our experience." —C.S. Lewis

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Michael Valliant

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1 year

"Happiness, not in another place but this place...not for another hour, but this hour." —Walt Whitman

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Michael Valliant

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2 years

Trees always seem to have different things to say to us when we listen.

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Michael Valliant

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1 year

“…the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never visited.” —C.S. Lewis

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Michael Valliant

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1 year

“It is a strange and magical fact to be here, walking around in a body, to have a whole world within you and a world at your fingertips outside you. It is an immense privilege, and it is incredible that humans manage to forget the miracle of being here.” —John O’Donohue

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Michael Valliant

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4 months

Grateful to be in a beautiful place, to notice the sun setting, and to be able to make time to watch it paint the horizon.

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Michael Valliant

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2 years

“Autumn is a second spring, where every leaf is a flower.” —Albert Camus, born on this date in 1913.

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Michael Valliant

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2 years

“If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable.” —Rainer Maria Rilke

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Michael Valliant

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2 years

“We must have escapes. Emergency exits. Portals to secret worlds Where we can sneak Away for a while— Reclaim our souls. —Scott Stillman

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Michael Valliant

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2 years

“Even After All this time The Sun never says to the Earth, "You owe me." Look What happens With a love like that, It lights the whole sky.” —Hafiz

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Michael Valliant

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9 months

Yesterday as I was pulling out of the driveway, the palette of the neighborhood was brown leaves on the ground, dead or sleeping grass, bare branches. Except for one rose, who thought differently, whose color was a protest, a style statement & a reminder. Shine when it’s in you.

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Michael Valliant

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2 years

“My heart must be open to the cosmos with no language / unless we invent it moment by moment in order to breathe.” —Jim Harrison

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Michael Valliant

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2 years

“I think, that if I touched the earth, It would crumble; It is so sad and beautiful, So tremulously like a dream.” —Dylan Thomas

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Michael Valliant

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2 years

“If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally anchored. One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.” —Henry Miller

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Michael Valliant

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6 months

“I need to be silent for a while, worlds are forming in my heart.” ―Meister Eckhart

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Michael Valliant

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1 year

“Ten times a day something happens to me like this - some strengthening throb of amazement - some good sweet empathic ping and swell. This is the first, the wildest and the wisest thing I know: that the soul exists and is built entirely out of attentiveness.” —Mary Oliver

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Michael Valliant

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2 years

“If you have a library and a garden, you’ll want for nothing.” —Cicero

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Michael Valliant

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1 year

“To lose a passport was the least of one’s worries. To lose a notebook was a catastrophe.” —Bruce Chatwin

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Michael Valliant

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8 months

“Ten times a day something happens to me like this—some strengthening throb of amazement—some good sweet empathic ping and swell. This is the first, the wildest and the wisest thing I know: that the soul exists and is built entirely out of attentiveness.” —Mary Oliver

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Michael Valliant

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1 year

"We're all golden sunflowers inside." —Allen Ginsberg

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Michael Valliant

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2 years

“You were made and set here to give voice to this, your own astonishment.” —Annie Dillard

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Michael Valliant

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8 months

“Create a place for people to live like human beings…”

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Michael Valliant

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2 years

Drinking coffee and reading, I can hear my daughter’s breathing from the next room. When she was a baby, hearing her breathing while she slept was the most relaxing, peaceful sound. She turns 18 in a couple months and that is still true. Life changes so much and stays the same.

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Michael Valliant

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2 years

“Swiftly arose and spread around me the peace and joy and knowledge that / pass all the art and argument of the earth” —Walt Whitman

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Michael Valliant

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4 months

Mindfulness can turn minutes into moments.

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Michael Valliant

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2 years

“I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.” —Wendell Berry

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Michael Valliant

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3 months

“There’s always a sunrise and always a sunset and it’s up to you to choose to be there for it,’ said my mother. 'Put yourself in the way of beauty.’” —Cheryl Strayed

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Michael Valliant

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2 years

“And all of a sudden In the midst of that quiet, It seems possible To live simply on this earth.” —Charles Simic

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Michael Valliant

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2 years

Goal: to get my mind this calm and clear and reflective and colorful.

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Michael Valliant

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9 months

“We are small living things awakened in the stream, not gods who carve out rivers. We cannot eliminate hunger, but we can feed each other. We cannot eliminate loneliness, but we can hold each other. We cannot eliminate pain, but we can live a life of compassion.” —Mark Nepo

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Michael Valliant

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1 year

We are within the 10-ish day window that the magnolia tree in the front yard is in straight bliss mode.

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Michael Valliant

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1 year

After a month in and out of the hospital, returning to school last week, younger daughter kept her eyes set on senior prom, which was last night. It was a rainy evening, but she and her friends brightened up everywhere they went. Next up: graduation.

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Michael Valliant

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2 years

“You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather.” —Pema Chödrön

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Michael Valliant

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2 years

“Every moment is a fresh beginning.” ― T.S. Eliot

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Michael Valliant

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10 months

“It is not our job to remain whole. We came to lose our leaves Like the trees, and be born again, Drawing up from the great roots.” —Robert Bly

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Michael Valliant

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2 years

It’s a new month and that means a new calendar page from @_Francis_co_Art

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Michael Valliant

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2 years

"The stillness of this earth / which we pass through / with the precise speed of our dreams." - Jim Harrison

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Michael Valliant

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1 year

“For any writer who wants to keep a journal, be alive to everything, not just to what you're feeling, but also to your pets, to flowers, to what you're reading.” —May Sarton

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Michael Valliant

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2 years

Blackwater Wildlife Refuge

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Michael Valliant

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2 years

“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.” —W.B. Yeats

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Michael Valliant

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1 year

“‘Wow’ means we are not dulled to wonder... ‘Wow’ is about having one’s mind blown by the mesmerizing or the miraculous: the veins of a leaf, birdsong, volcanoes” (or a sunset on the river) “...Awe is why we are here. And this is this state is the prayer: ‘Wow.’” —Anne Lamott

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Michael Valliant

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2 years

Older daughter is 21 today. To adventures behind and adventures ahead, not a single day has been boring or routine for an introvert dad with an an extroverted daughter with a sensitive heart and a racing mind.

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Michael Valliant

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4 years

What to do with the time given us. An essay on perspective, wonder, love & life. For the time that we have: #wonder #love #life #essay #writing

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Michael Valliant

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3 years

“You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith and hope.” - Thomas Merton

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Michael Valliant

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2 years

The time of year where we add layers against the cold, while the trees take a different approach: stark simplicity.

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Michael Valliant

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2 years

When your co-worker is fostering a sweater-wearing puppy named “Alvin,” it changes the dynamic of staff meetings.

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Michael Valliant

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6 months

“May my mind come alive today To the invisible geography That invites me to new frontiers, To break the dead shell of yesterdays, To risk being disturbed and changed.” —John O’Donohue, from “A Morning Offering”

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Michael Valliant

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1 year

"There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream." —William Wordsworth

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Michael Valliant

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2 years

Every time I am in a hurry to get somewhere, when I look there is always an opportunity to take in something cool, wonder, and be grateful.

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Michael Valliant

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2 years

“The most basic lesson that all art teaches is to stop, look, and listen to life on this planet, including our own lives, as a vastly richer, deeper, more mysterious business than most of the time it ever occurs to us to suspect” —Frederick Buechner, “ABC’s of Faith”

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Michael Valliant

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2 years

That sounds about right…

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Michael Valliant

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3 years

Otis Redding was here (in spirit).

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Michael Valliant

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5 months

“Eyes were not meant to see themselves.” —Thomas Merton

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Michael Valliant

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3 years

“I pretended to work like others from morning to evening, but I was absent, dedicated to invisible countries.” ― Czeslaw Milosz

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Michael Valliant

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6 years

I am beyond amped for @TomKingTK & @MitchGerads Mister Miracle next week. I hadn't heard of MM before, so digging into Jack Kirby's DC creations has been awesome. And finding this from @Polygon makes me want to read the old story to get ready for the new

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Michael Valliant

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4 months

“When each day is the same as the next, it’s because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day that the sun rises.” —Paulo Coelho

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Michael Valliant

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1 year

“Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.” —John Muir

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Michael Valliant

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1 year

It was a big night: younger daughter graduated from high school. Same school her sister & I both graduated from. She had to overcome more than either of us did & did it her own way. Grateful for her, proud of who she is & what she’s done—celebrating & appreciating the moment.

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Michael Valliant

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2 years

“One moment, I feel the sorrow of separation, One moment, I’m a mystery in Mystery’s arms.” —Rumi (translated by Haleh Liza Gafori)

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Michael Valliant

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5 months

Spring is a symphony around the yard here, with each blooming, a new part. The magnolia tree played the prelude; I have to say, the purple beaded iris is one of my favorite instruments.

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Michael Valliant

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4 months

“It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.” —Rainer Maria Rilke One part of the garden, four colors of irises reciting their verses. Two have already read, others about to come on stage.

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Michael Valliant

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2 years

“In difficult times carry something beautiful in your heart.” —Blaise Pascal

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2 years

Morning walkabout, Martinak State Park.

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Michael Valliant

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5 months

“Blooming is falling open backwards in a bright unknowing.” —David Bailey, from “Preludes for Falling Open”

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Michael Valliant

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2 years

“Sometimes everything has to be inscribed across the heavens so you can find the one line already written inside you. Sometimes it takes a great sky to find that first, bright and indescribable wedge of freedom in your own heart.” —David Whyte

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1 year

“I look; morning to night I am never done with looking. Looking I mean not just standing around, but standing around as though with your arms open. And thinking: maybe something will come… And now I will tell you the truth. Everything in the world comes.” —Mary Oliver

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