unfolding

 watercolor

on cold-pressed Kilimanjaro paper

“Live the life that unfolds before you- 

love goodness more than you fear evil.”

― Jonathan Rogers, The Bark of the Bog Owl

how little it takes

                                           

                                                           watercolor on aquaboard

                                       “Again I resume the long

                                        lesson: how small a thing

                                         can be pleasing, how little

                                         in this hard world it takes

                                          to satisfy the mind

                                            and bring it to its rest.”

                                                   ― Wendell Berry, Sabbaths

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the grace of another day

watercolor on aquaboard

“Life is grace. 

Sleep is forgiveness.

 The night absolves. 

Darkness wipes the slate clean,

 not spotless to be sure,

but clean enough

 for another day's chalking.” 

― Frederick Buechner, The Alphabet of Grace

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fathomless mystery

watercolor on aquaboard

“Listen to your life.

 See it for the fathomless mystery it is.

 In the boredom and pain of it, 

no less than in the excitement and gladness: 

touch, taste, smell 

your way to the holy and hidden heart of it, 

because in the last analysis

 all moments are key moments, 

and life itself is grace.” 

― Frederick Buechner, Now and Then: A Memoir of Vocation

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