Soaring With the Haaks: Waiting in the Quiet

Contentment

Learn to like what doesn't cost much.

Learn to like reading, conversation, music.

Learn to like plain food, plain service, plain cooking.

Learn to like fields, trees, brooks, hiking, rowing, climbing hills.

Learn to like people,

even though some of them may be different...

different from you.

Learn to like to work and enjoy the satisfaction of doing your job as well as it can be done.

Learn to like the songs of birds, the companionship of dogs.

Learn to like gardening, puttering around

the house and fixing things.

Learn to like the sunrise and sunset, the beating of the rain

on the roof and windows,

and the gentle fall of snow on a winter's day.

Learn to keep your wants simple and

refuse to be controlled by the likes and dislikes of others.

Lowell Bennion

I sit and wait in the quiet.

lauren said...: is that your yard? how pretty!!; November 17, 2010 at 10:22 PM
Wendy said...: :) If you're like me, the quiet is so sweet and so rare, that I force myself to sit and savor it, whenever it comes.
Beautiful picture.; November 20, 2010 at 8:06 PM
Soaring High said...: yes, it is the front yard. It's like a fairy wonderland.; November 21, 2010 at 6:27 AM