Sacred Ruminations: Photo Hunt #10

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I appreciate all of you who visit, and I enjoy the comments many of you leave behind. I do my best to respond to any questions in a timely manner if your email is available. In addition, I do my best to visit your blogs and leave comments as time permits.

Click to learn ... How I Became a Blogger

Late in October of 2007, I started playfully exploring possibilities here and at Small Reflections. Initially I published daily on both sites, but in mid-January of 2008, I gave myself permission to rethink things.

Since committing to Blog 365 at Small Reflections, I've continued to publish daily there, but I'm considering alternating days and/or experimenting a bit with a variety of possibilities in an attempt to balance my online activities with my "real life" ... without giving "short shrift" to either blog. Therefore, it's all a work in progress, and I hope you'll bear with me.

Food for Thought

(or reminders for myself)

Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.
Barbara De Angelis

"Whatever can come to a woman can come to me
Whatever can happen to anyone can happen to me."
Muriel Rukeyser

"I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much."--Mother Teresa

"It is better to ask some questions than to know all the answers." James Thurber

"Forgive yourself for everything you did not know in the past but do now. Don't waste any of your precious energy beating yourself, or anyone else, up. Your power to change your life is in the present, regardless of your past."
Dr. Christiane Northrup

"Your purpose is to heal yourself first in mind and intent. Declare this principle to yourself -- I intend to walk the highest path to my awakening. I am fearless in the face of learning to discipline my mind and actions so they are attuned to my true divinity." Doreen Virtue

"Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in this life has a purpose." Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

More thoughts ...

"It requires a direct dispensation from Heaven to become a walker." Henry David Thoreau

"It is no small task to change one's focus from what can go wrong to what can go right and to empower women to shift from destructive behaviors to those that are generally associated with health. I want to awaken that still, small wise, intuitive voice in all of us, that voice of our own body that we have been forced to ignore through our culture's illness, misinformation, and dysfunction. I want to give you the courage to listen to that voice and act on it." Dr. Christiane Northrup

"No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place." Maya Angelou

"I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well. Diane Ackerman

"No one needs to know that you've shut the world out and are meditating as you stroll down the street. Twenty minutes to a half-hour every day is a good amount of time to restore a sense of serenity." Sarah Ban Breathnach

"One of the marks of an intelligent person is to be able to distinguish what is worth doing and what isn't and to be able to set priorities." Anne Wilson Schaef

"One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love." Sophocles

More thoughts ...

"Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength." Sigmund Freud

"I need to understand the dynamics of effort & success. I will spend my energy on things & and activities that bring me the most fulfillment. I will spend less energy on the "stuff" that ultimately has no meaning to me." Dr. Christiane Northrup

"However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do if you do not act upon them?"
Buddha

"The greatest contribution that you can make is the aliveness that comes from simply being yourself, living your truth, and doing what you love. The passionate expression of who we are will heal the world." Shatki Gawain

"It is in solitude that we discover that being is more important than having and that we are worth more than the result of our efforts. In solitude we discover that our life is not a possession to be defended, but a gift to be shared." Henri H. Nouwen, theologian

"I am ready to supply the earth's needs with my riches. I seize upon my wealth within and give freely as I am replenished." Doreen Virtue

"... perception can be given a new purpose. ... Follow His Light, and see the world as He beholds it. Hear His Voice alone in all that speaks to you. And let him give you peace and certainty which you have thrown away, but Heaven has preserved for you in Him." A Course in Miracles

More thoughts

"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it." Rumi

"I believe I'm here to speak my truth and that's all I have to do. I don't have to make people understand it... I just have to speak the truth." ~Anne Wilson Schaef

"A woman is like a teabag-only in hot water do you realize how strong she is." Eleanor Roosevelt

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow.
Learn as if you were to live forever."
Mahatma Ghandi

"...We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us. ... And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." Nelson Mandela

“Each of us has that right, that possibility, to invent ourselves daily. If a person does not invent herself, she will be invented. So, to be bodacious enough to invent ourselves is wise.” - Maya Angelou

“Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.”
Rumi

"A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place, but a seed to be planted and to bear more seeds toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea." ~ Henry David Thoreau

"I have lived long enough to learn how much there is I can really do without.... He is nearest to God who needs the fewest things." Socrates

Welcome to Sacred Ruminations

Saturday, July 26, 2008

Photo Hunt #10 - Hanging

Note: If you're looking for Sky Watch or Haiku Friday you'll find them below this post. Camera Critters & Smiley Saturday are at Small Reflections.

This is my 10th ...

but ... (the 1st 6 are at Small Reflections
and #7-9 are here at Sacred Ruminations )

Theme: Hanging

This 6' tall dream-catcher hangs in my bedroom.
Click for other Photo Hunters participating this week.

Thought for Today
"Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions." Edgar Cayce

25 comments:

Anonymous said...: That is interesting picture and cool shot. Happy weekend!; July 26, 2008 at 8:47 AM
Hootin Anni said...: What a gorgeous dream catcher! And it looks massive in size too...beautiful. [LOL about hanging over the patio, and no one to snap a photo?!!]

Have a terrific weekend.; July 26, 2008 at 9:03 AM
Dianne said...: I haven't commented in such a long time! I get wrapped up in the dailyness of life :)

That is a beautiful dream catcher.

Now I'm going to go see camera critters; July 26, 2008 at 9:26 AM
Anonymous said...: Hey there! Wow, a 6 foot long dream catcher?!

Thanks for visiting my blog. :) I enjoyed your Photo Hunt!; July 26, 2008 at 9:57 AM
Emzkie said...: a dream catcher? interesting... i dont have any idea hehehe..; July 26, 2008 at 10:22 AM
Anonymous said...: a dream catcher? interesting... i dont have any idea hehehe..; July 26, 2008 at 10:23 AM
Anonymous said...: Nice photo. Hugs and Blessings.
I hope that you are haveing a grand day!Mike G.said that (its an A.A. thing); July 26, 2008 at 2:28 PM
peppylady (Dora) said...: What a big dream catcher. I hope it catches a lot of nice big dreams; July 26, 2008 at 7:08 PM
Susan Cook said...: Cool dream catcher. Hope it gives you good dreams! Thanks for stopping by mine :); July 26, 2008 at 7:11 PM
Anonymous said...: what does a dream catcher do?; July 26, 2008 at 11:17 PM
Barb said...: Storyteller, it's a very good thing the Dreamcatcher is hanging at your house, because if it were hanging here, my 2 gray boys would have killed the fethers by now!; July 27, 2008 at 5:34 AM
Sarge Charlie said...: I bet is is just full of dreams it has captured.; July 27, 2008 at 7:05 AM
Mary said...: Storyteller,

I love your dream catcher. I have several around my home and one in my car. Great shot for the "hanging" theme.

Blessings,
Mary; July 27, 2008 at 7:35 AM
Mary said...: PS. Love your Sky Watch photos in the previous post. Beautiful!; July 27, 2008 at 7:36 AM
Gattina said...: That's special, I think I have never seen such a thing !; July 27, 2008 at 8:10 AM
Anonymous said...: Nice dream catcher!; July 27, 2008 at 8:21 AM
philos said...: Wow! That's big! Does it work?; July 27, 2008 at 10:03 AM
Karen said...: Wow--that's huge! I lost my dreamcatcher during one of my moves...and come to think of it, my insomnia started after that...a coincidence? Perhaps not...; July 27, 2008 at 3:28 PM
storyteller said...: To all – I appreciate each of you visiting my Photo Hunt ‘Hanging’ and I’ve enjoyed seeing what many of you have shared in response to this week’s prompt. I bought this for myself about 12 years ago after happening upon it in a store with Indian artifacts and jewelry … in the midst of a ‘life crisis of sorts’ … at a time when I was trying to capture my dreams in a journal for guidance. I don’t know how effective it is, but I love it hanging on my wall (though it’s pretty dusty at the moment). Fortunately my cat lives outside and has no access to the feathers. I have a smaller one downstairs and have earrings in the shape of a dreamcatcher too. I love the symbolism. Hope you’ve all had a wonderful weekend. Thanks for spending a bit of it visiting my blog.
Hugs and blessings,; July 27, 2008 at 6:23 PM
Anonymous said...: That's a neat dream catcher. Looks pretty calming to me- maybe because of the white feathers (?). They are feathers right?; July 28, 2008 at 6:42 AM
Anonymous said...: Wonderful photo! I love dream catchers.; July 28, 2008 at 8:46 AM
storyteller said...: Mama Meji – Yup … they’re white feathers … and it is calming ;--)

Annie – Thanks. It’s not the easiest thing to photograph actually (being basically white on white) but I did what I could. I love dream catchers too.

I appreciate both of you dropping by and sharing your thoughts. Hope you had a lovely day.
Hugs and blessings,; July 28, 2008 at 8:33 PM
tnchick ♥ said...: Beautiful hangings. My Mom has one similar... she loves it. They are very nice.; July 29, 2008 at 1:15 PM
Unknown said...: I use to have one of these. Nightmares bad. What a symbolic peace of happiness.; July 30, 2008 at 3:45 AM
storyteller said...: TNChick and Chuck
Thanks to both of you for visiting and sharing your thoughts about my ‘hanging’ Dream Catcher Photo Hunt of a week ago. I enjoyed sharing it and love having it nearby as I sleep.
Hugs and blessings,; August 3, 2008 at 4:20 PM