Visual Meditation: To Learn From Animal Being (& Happy Birthday Tune!)
June 12, 2008 · by Christine
excerpted from “To Learn from Animal Being”
May we learn to return
and rest in the beauty
Of animal being,
Learn to lean low,
Leave our unlocked minds,
And with freed senses
Feel the earth
Breathing with us.
May we enter
Into lightness of spirit,
And slip frequently into
The feel of the wild.
Let the clear silence
Of our animal being
Cleanse our hearts
Of corrosive words.
May we learn to walk
Upon the earth
With all their confidence
And clear-eyed stillness
So that our minds
Might be baptized
In the name of the wind
And the light and the rain.
-John O’Donohue, To Bless the Space Between Us
Today is Abbess Petunia’s 11th Birthday! She welcomes birthday wishes from humans and canines alike in the comments! Both photos above are of her in all her wise and restful glory. The bottom image was the featured photo for our previous Poetry Party, but it is one of my favorites so here it appears again in her honor.
** Make sure to visit this week’s Poetry Party! **
-Christine Valters Paintner @ Abbey of the Arts
Posted in Visual Meditation | 8 Comments »
June 12th, 2008 at 4:14 am
Happy Birthday, Tune!
Best wishes from Molly and Sam, too.
June 12th, 2008 at 5:35 am
Sweet, lovely Tune — Happy 11th Birthday, you beautiful brown-eyed girl! With love from Anna, Cody and Sassie
June 12th, 2008 at 6:14 am
oh, abbess, you are a remarkable sage, gloriously beautiful in your repose!
happy happy birthday, petunia!!!
love, lucy and curry
p.s. we, of course, love the o’donohue poem!
June 12th, 2008 at 6:12 pm
I love that dog.
Happy Birthday, oh beautiful Tune!!!
Suz, Sophie and Chryssie
June 12th, 2008 at 9:35 pm
Tune says rank rou!
June 13th, 2008 at 7:22 am
Happy Happy Birthday, dear Tune! I’m glad you’re not camera-shy. You’re very photogenic!
Our Bailey also turned 11 this March 30th
I don’t get very many pictures of her because she doesn’t like cameras at all. She hears the lens opening and off she goes to hide. Must be the ‘poodle’ in her.
June 15th, 2008 at 10:46 am
Suz says, “righ ruv rue!!!”
June 16th, 2008 at 7:23 pm
How about a birthday week ~ Happy Belated Birthday dear Tune!!
Love and blessings and a virtual chocolate kiss (the safe kind for dogs) from Hershey, the beloved 4 legged canine at this home