Daily Nourishment for December 24, 2024: Sliences between Human Beings
Daily Nourishment Read Time: 45 seconds
Pause/Prompt/Practice Time: 15 minutes
Pause.
Take three deep breaths with a six-count inhale and a six-count exhale while looking at the art below.
Night Snow at Ikegami
Japan
1930s, early Showa period (1926-1989)
https://www.artsbma.org/collection/snowy-landscape-with-figures/
Prompt.
Or read the poem “Snow” by Naomi Shihab Nye and choose a few words or a phrase to meditate on for a bit.
Practice.
Set a timer for five minutes and journal or take notes on anything that comes to mind.
Or write about a recent period of silence you noticed in the presence of another person.
Or sit in silence and look at more art below that features snow.
Horseneck Brook
John Henry Twachtman
1890s
https://www.artsbma.org/collection/horseneck-brook/
Want More?
Watch this video with Naomi Shihab Nye on The Art of Revision.
And here’s one more work of art that features snow.
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