This painting is inspired by the quote ‘Rest peacefully, sweet mind. Rest peacefully sweet body’, from the book ‘How to be sick’ by Toni Bernhard.
The quote is from the chapter about compassion, about how to send messages of self compassion and kindness to ourselves.
May we all rest peacefully 😊
At the end of the garden
sipping beer,
the bench in early evening sun
still warm.
I read a new book,
Chinese mountain poetry,
a subject about which
I know little.
Centuries apart,
it seems we write
about the same things.
Then a sparrow chirps
in the hedge,
pulls me fully
into the present moment.
Always, and only,
this moment.
Life in the Fresh Air 