Comments on: Shrine Shrine Post #2: Spider Woman and Tagore Shrines

by: new girl

Sat, 03 Mar 2007 15:38:49 +0000

It took me a while to get to this post because I needed some time on my hands to give it its due.

I want to cry from all the beauty and the life. You truly are living in the world because you love it, Sbird.

Re adoption and children — not strange at all. You must have read this before, but I will print it here:

And a woman whol held a babe against her bosom said, Speak to us of Children.

And he said:

Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite,
and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far.
Let your bending in the archer’s hand be for gladness;
For even as He loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow that
is stable.

Kahlil Gibran

by: operation tigerlily

Thu, 01 Mar 2007 02:17:26 +0000

Your property is AMAZING! I am melancholy just looking at the photos.

by: Mrs. Vandertramp

Mon, 26 Feb 2007 12:14:49 +0000

Breathtaking.

by: Jenny

Mon, 26 Feb 2007 00:54:24 +0000

I just loved your post. My girls are such a gift and children are such a gift and I wish that more people would think of it in those words. I was thinking this though just the other day but I had no idea how to put it into words except to say that I don’t want to take the twins for granted like I see some parents of biological children take their kids for granted. I know this is a blanket statement, it is only meant to mean some people in my life. I just see it as they feel their kids are a “given” as you say and not a gift. I will always remember this post when I feel luck to have the opportunity to raise my precious gifts.

-Jenny

by: WendyN

Sun, 25 Feb 2007 22:44:10 +0000

It’s so beautiful.

by: Jessi

Sun, 25 Feb 2007 20:35:22 +0000

So amazing.

by: Jacquie

Sun, 25 Feb 2007 14:22:55 +0000

Those pictures are absolutely gorgeous. Love the one of your dog standing on the rock.

I especially love your last five paragraphs.

by: Aimee

Sun, 25 Feb 2007 01:45:59 +0000

Seriously, I want to come live with you:) Really beautiful.

by: OmegaMom

Sun, 25 Feb 2007 00:38:27 +0000

Very beautiful, and what a lovely view. I was talking with my mom, and she thinks that she and dad may have almost purchased that ranch at one point in time! They loved that entire area.

And very nice selections from the readings.