#100divinations — Public Fediverse posts

blessed is the person
who delights in seeing
the inner child in every one
and the magic in all creatures
who does not shun difficulty
and can turn with equal reverence
toward sorrow and joy
who can trust fear as
the balsam of courage
and pain as an instrument
for opening the heart
who can pause to notice
the delicate lustre of a lichen
and the undulations of the light
who dares to make hope
an axiom of being
and is strong enough
to be changed by love

--

from An Almanac of Birds - #100Divinations for Uncertain Days by #MariaPopova @mariapopova (The Marginalian) https://www.themarginalian.org/almanac-of-birds/

a person is a silent note
in the mouth of probability
hungry for song

begin with a single sound
low as thunder
soft as pale blue
rising calm and bright
into the sky of your heart
until you become
a meteor of joy

--

from An Almanac of Birds - #100Divinations for Uncertain Days by #MariaPopova @mariapopova (The Marginalian) https://www.themarginalian.org/almanac-of-birds/

this whole existence
is a a bright cry of surprise
uttered by the dark unknown
a terminal excursion
of the living flesh
from the edge of space!
to that inner place
where time is made of hope
and the light is never dead

--

from An Almanac of Birds - #100Divinations for Uncertain Days by #MariaPopova @mariapopova (The Marginalian) https://www.themarginalian.org/almanac-of-birds/

to be liberated
dive toward doubt
with great eagerness
given to being surprised
or remain ossified
a safe distance
from alive

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from An Almanac of Birds - #100Divinations for Uncertain Days by #MariaPopova @mariapopova (The Marginalian) https://www.themarginalian.org/almanac-of-birds/

under the surface
of the present
exists a sea
of possibility

to reach it
a person must
wade in the muddy
rivers of change
and traverse the uncertain
without sinking

(FLAMINGO. Phoenicopterus ruber)

--

from An Almanac of Birds - #100Divinations for Uncertain Days by #MariaPopova @mariapopova (The Marginalian) https://www.themarginalian.org/almanac-of-birds/

have great patience
with all attempts at changing
for patience is respect
bestowed on the present
and a kindness to time

--

from An Almanac of Birds - #100Divinations for Uncertain Days by #MariaPopova @mariapopova (The Marginalian) https://www.themarginalian.org/almanac-of-birds/

encounter each other
at the outer edge of desire
with almost hopeless mercy
and a reservoir
of mutual respect

risk every safety
and every constant
for a single sunbeam
of wonder
a golden reflection
of a larger life
in the pure stream
of the possible

(Great blue Feren)

--

from An Almanac of Birds - #100Divinations for Uncertain Days by #MariaPopova @mariapopova (The Marginalian) https://www.themarginalian.org/almanac-of-birds/

the whole anxiety of living
is that we imagine death
as a hand sure to strike
and cannot easily conceive
of a hand certain to hold
but in the natural arrangement
of time and chance
death is no different from life
which is merely the possible
fastened to the present
and the sunshine of now
is only bright against
the deep blue sky of never

Great White Heren

--

from An Almanac of Birds - #100Divinations for Uncertain Days by #MariaPopova @mariapopova (The Marginalian) https://www.themarginalian.org/almanac-of-birds/

the stream of the true
is formed by
drops of doubt

--

from An Almanac of Birds - #100Divinations for Uncertain Days by #MariaPopova @mariapopova (The Marginalian) https://www.themarginalian.org/almanac-of-birds/