• May 1
  “The god of the cannibals will be a cannibal, of the crusaders a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant.”

• Second of May
  “Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

• May 3rd
  ‘Appreciating nature in our own backyard can be a first step to being a good steward of the earth,’

Colleen Redman, Loose Leaf Notes

• May Fourth
  We are always getting ready to live but never living.
  –Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) (via Appalachian Treks: Living)

• May Fifth
  EPICYCLE
  The Awakened Eye
  Frederick Franck
  “For at that instant sunlight and sky, grasses, bee and I merged, fused, became one, and still: remained sun and sky and grass and bee and I. It lasted for a heartbeat, an hour, a year … Then, as abruptly, I was I again, but filled with an indescribable bliss — were they not Elysian Fields?”

Parabola Magazine

• MAY 12
  “The job of being human is not figuring things out, but getting lost in thought. Isn’t that what holding a vestige to the light is? Holding a vignette in mind? Shards, bits. Considering them, lost in thought . . . Isn’t thought supposed to find something, find an answer? But lost in thought is where we often were, where we wanted to be, you and I across the yellow kitchen table, another cup of coffee.”
  – Patricia Hampl
  The Art of the Wasted Day
  thrive

• May 13
  “Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity.”
  ― John Muir, Our National Parks