Mumbles Visitors, Swansea Bay, Wales, UK, June 9, 2019
Photographs by Ing-On Vibulbhan-Watts
John was waiting for me to come down from Oystermouth Castle hill.
Oystermouth Castle (Welsh: Castell Ystum Llwynarth) is a Norman stone castle in Wales, overlooking Swansea Bay on the east side of the Gower Peninsula near the village of the Mumbles.
I looked down seeing Mumbles village.
We walked along the shops of Mumbles center toward the promenade by Swansea Bay.
Beautiful baskets of mixed flowers are hung in front of some shops and bars.
Father and son were enjoying ice-cream together by the view of Swansea bay.
Swansea bay at the time of a receding tide.
People enjoyed walking along the promenade of Swansea bay.
Over all the mountaintops is peace.
In all treetops you perceive scarcely a breath.
The little birds in the forest are silent.
Wait then; soon you, too, will have peace.
By JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE (1749 – 1832)
From A SPECIAL GIFT OF PEACE & CALM BY A HELEN EXLEY GIFTBOOK, Published in 2001
Leave home In the sunshine: Dance through a meadow – Or sit by a stream and just be. The lilt of the water Will gather your worries And carry them down to the sea.
By J. DONALD WALTERS
From A SPECIAL GIFT OF PEACE & CALM BY A HELEN EXLEY GIFTBOOK, Published in 2001
THE PEACE OF BEING AT ONE WITH NATURE
The morning sun, the new sweet earth and the great silence
By TC. MCLUHAN
From A SPECIAL GIFT OF PEACE & CALM BY A HELEN EXLEY GIFTBOOK, Published in 2001
Once you have heard meadowlark and caught the scent of fresh-plowed earth, you cannot escape peace.
By SEQUICHI
From A SPECIAL GIFT OF PEACE & CALM BY A HELEN EXLEY GIFTBOOK, Published in 2001
I lay in a meadow until the unwrinkled serenity
entered into my bones, and made me into one with the browsing kine, the still greenery, the drifting clouds, and the swooping birds.
By ALICE JAMES 91848 – 1892)
From A SPECIAL GIFT OF PEACE & CALM BY A HELEN EXLEY GIFTBOOK, Published in 2001
DRAW AWAY
I can’t bear a journey to the village –
I’m too contented here. I call my son to close the wooden gate. Thick wine drunk in quiet woods, green moss, Jade gray water under April winds –
and beyond the simmering dusk of the wild.
By TU FU
From A SPECIAL GIFT OF PEACE & CALM BY A HELEN EXLEY GIFTBOOK, Published in 2001
Do not let trifles disturb your tranquility of mind.
Life is too precious to be sacrificed for the nonessential and transient.
By GRENVILLE KLEISER
From A SPECIAL GIFT OF PEACE & CALM BY A HELEN EXLEY GIFTBOOK, Published in 2001
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