{"id":19,"date":"2010-12-08T16:40:08","date_gmt":"2010-12-08T16:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/dailyjoys\/2010\/12\/open-your-windows-even-if-its-cold.html"},"modified":"2010-12-08T16:40:08","modified_gmt":"2010-12-08T16:40:08","slug":"open-your-windows-even-if-its-cold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dailyjoys\/2010\/12\/open-your-windows-even-if-its-cold.html","title":{"rendered":"OPEN YOUR WINDOWS Even If  It&#8217;s Cold!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-file\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/dailyjoys\/may%20your%20walls%20know%20joy%20cat%20cover.pdf\">may your walls know joy cat cover.pdf<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(click the line reference if you would like to see the book cover.)<\/p>\n<p>What a fascinating experience to see something so old and familiar in an entirely new light.<\/p>\n<p>Years ago I wrote a home blessing after returning from a long journey to Ireland.&nbsp; After writing it, the text turned into many things including a home decor poster, greeting cards and calendar covers.&nbsp; It has been quoted by other authors in books about relationships, love, family, home and fung shui.&nbsp; And most recently it has served as the title to my own homage to the joys of home: MAY YOUR WALLS KNOW JOY (Red Wheel-Weiser-Conari Press).&nbsp; The full poem is:<\/p>\n<div>May your walls know joy,<br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; each room hold laughter,<br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; and every window open to great possibility.<\/p>\n<p>A friend sent me a message today, delighted that this poem bannered across an Art Gallery Holiday Newsletter.&nbsp; At a quick glance, and without my glasses I misread my own words to be:<\/p>\n<p>MAY EVERY WINDOW OPEN TO GREET POSSIBLIITY. In this day this means: possibility is simply waiting for me to open the window.&nbsp; Yes.&nbsp; It is winter. It is cold outside.&nbsp; Still!&nbsp; OPEN the window &#8211; possibility is waiting.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>may your walls know joy cat cover.pdf (click the line reference if you would like to see the book cover.) What a fascinating experience to see something so old and familiar in an entirely new light. 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