New Year's LIGHT

Photo taken by my son, Keith, while backpacking last summer
in Glacier Peak Wilderness, WA.

The sun never says to the earth,

"You owe me."

Look what happens

with a love like that.

It lights up the whole sky.

-- Hafiz of Shiraz

    Persian poet, 14th century

This week's morning light over the Puget Sound.

I was turned on to the Persian poet Hafiz by one of my yoga teachers just before the New Year. Joy -- a good name for a yoga teacher -- left us with this quote by him:

I wish I could show you,

when you are lonely

or in the darkness,

the astonishing LIGHT

of your own being.

Sunrise this week behind our house.

And that's the thought I'll leave with you on this, my mother's birthday,

and my first post of the new year.

Have a beautiful day