Sacred Ruminations: SkyWatch#5 & HF#60

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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

Friday, August 1, 2008

SkyWatch#5 & HF#60 - Remembering ...

My first Sky Watch is at Small Reflections.

Thanks to Scylla at Law & Motherhood for this cool Haiku button

As we waited for
others to return and board
the return shuttle

from St. John's island
in the Caribbean ... I
focused on the sky

with my camera
and captured this bird in flight ...
soaring through the skies.

Watching this morning
takes me back ... remembering
Caribbean Cruise.

Click for others participating in Sky Watch this week at its new home.
~ ~ ~
Click for Haiku Friday #61 at Small Reflections.

For others participating in Haiku Friday this week go to A Mommy Story or Playgroups are no Place for Children. (To see my previous Haikus, click on the Haiku Friday label below this post or in the sidebar under About Me where you'll find a 'directory' of my Haikus on both blogs).

Thought for Today
"Nostalgia is like a grammar lesson: you find the present tense, but the past perfect!" Owens Lee Pomeroy

24 comments:

Snap Catch said...: Great catch for skywatch! Happy weekend! Hope you'll visit mine too...; August 1, 2008 at 6:14 AM
ellen b. said...: Beautiful. I enjoyed watching the bird fly with that beautiful sky. Have a great weekend and happy August to you!; August 1, 2008 at 7:43 AM
magiceye said...: that looks lovely!

have posted a picture of a partial solar eclipse that we had in our mumbai skies today!

have a super weekend!; August 1, 2008 at 7:53 AM
Indrani said...: Enjoyed seeing the bird soar freely in the sky. Wish we were free like them.; August 1, 2008 at 7:55 AM
Texas Travelers said...: Oh wow. Now I want to get on a ship and feel the sea breeze.

Nice post and thanks for the visit,
Troy and Martha; August 1, 2008 at 8:11 AM
Anonymous said...: i've never been on a cruise. are they really all that??

lovely video clip.; August 1, 2008 at 8:31 AM
Raven said...: Gorgeous sky and wonderful video of the bird flying. I love watching them fly.; August 1, 2008 at 9:13 AM
Anonymous said...: Oh my gosh, just gorgeous!! Love this.; August 1, 2008 at 9:21 AM
Unknown said...: Now that was a real treat! Nice job *big grin* and blessings and huggies too.

p.s. i have a gift for you. it's here: Perfect Blend of Friendship; August 1, 2008 at 10:02 AM
Joyce said...: What lovely memories . . . and I enjoyed the humorous quote. :); August 1, 2008 at 10:07 AM
Anonymous said...: AWESOME!!; August 1, 2008 at 10:29 AM
SandyCarlson said...: Lots of good stuff there, Storyteller. Thank you. God bless.; August 1, 2008 at 11:02 AM
Anonymous said...: Hi Storyteller! I love your video and your thought for the day. Thanks for visiting I Was Born2Cree8 today. I enjoyed your comment.

Alice at: I Was Born2Cree8
My 1st SWF post is here: Sky Watch Friday

Reba’s dog blog: Reba’s Run
Reba’s 1st SWF post here: Sky Watch Friday; August 1, 2008 at 12:30 PM
Anonymous said...: Nice one. Mine is up as well. Hope to see you there! Have a great weekend!

Cheers,
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http://www.thomasweblinks.us; August 1, 2008 at 3:15 PM
Jules said...: SO did you ever find out phat type of bird it is?; August 1, 2008 at 4:01 PM
Eve said...: I love your thought for today. (The Haiku is nice, too.) I always enjoyed grammar in school so this is right up my alley.; August 1, 2008 at 5:44 PM
Roan said...: Beauitful blue! Happy Friday!; August 1, 2008 at 6:51 PM
esnorway said...: great SWF nice pic have good weekend; August 2, 2008 at 3:48 PM
Kelly said...: I really enjoy your blog! Great photos!; August 2, 2008 at 3:51 PM
kjpweb said...: Cool! I think that's the 1st SWF Video I've ever seen!
Cheers, Klaus; August 3, 2008 at 12:28 PM
Karen said...: It's a moment of being "one" with the world and all that's on it...beautiful!; August 5, 2008 at 6:57 AM
storyteller said...: To all – Thanks to all of you for visiting my ‘soaring bird video’ at Sacred Ruminations for this week’s combined SkyWatch & Haiku Friday. I appreciate all of your comments and am delighted to have the distinction (according to Klaus) that mine was the first ‘video’ Sky Watch ever. How ‘kewl’ is that!!! I love seeing ‘sky views’ from all over the world each week (without having to leave home) and always learn something new as I make my rounds to as many participants as time permits. I hope you’ll return and I look forward to future visits to your sites as well.
Hugs and blessings,; August 5, 2008 at 8:24 AM
Tina Coruth said...: Storyteller,

What an excellent capture of Skywatch Friday! Beautiful!

Hugs,
Tina
ps I fixed mine. I wasn't able to get back. It was a hectic weekend. I will be sure to at least pop in for a second the next day no matter what is going on.; August 5, 2008 at 11:00 AM
storyteller said...: Tina – I’m delighted you got a chance to see and enjoy it. I’ll drop by yours in a little while (after I walk Molly) and return to the computer. Isn’t it frustrating when our ‘virtual’ and real lives conflict? LOL All’s well that ends well.
Hugs and blessings,; August 5, 2008 at 11:26 AM