Magic, Mystery, and Sacred Moments
Jarod K Anderson - Jul 30
Birds are dinosaurs who shrugged off a couple apocalypses. Some eat bone marrow. Some drink nectar. They outswim fish in the sea. They smile politely at gravity’s demands.
I am grateful to see them. I am grateful to feed them. I am grateful to know them.
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Talk to the birds, trees, rocks – as if they were neighbours or friends. The world around you will suddenly become more alive.
“Connection isn’t about nature in our service, a slave to our needs, a commodity for our use, a sticking-plaster for our stresses. Nature isn’t there to provide us with therapy; that isn’t what connection is about.
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Apr 7
Nurturing something is key to staying friends with life.
There are worthy things in this world that need your power and attention. You can't give it to all of them. But you can listen when something in you whispers, "this one."
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When life is full of such things, made with care, connected by a web of stories to people and places we know, it is a rich life, a nourishing life.
Charles Eisenstein • Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition
Anything can be a ritual, you just have to name it before it ends. This was a Ritual of Permission.
Miranda July • All Fours: A Novel
Jarod K Anderson
Jul 28
I can't understand the sky the way a vulture does. I can't know what a pond is the way a musk turtle knows. I will never comprehend a tree as a footpath like a squirrel can. But I will sense the presence of these unknowable perspectives like the sun on my face and I am grateful.
By knowingly seeking encounters with Hestia in our daily life, by letting her quiet, calm, orderly presence influence our behaviour, we can come to the awakening that there is sacred Mystery in the mundane.





