Sacred Ruminations: Haiku Festival

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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

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Monday, May 11, 2009

Haiku Festival - Spunky Sparrows

lovely neighborhood
garden delicacies bring
numerous sparrows

Click to embiggen ...
for other Haiku Festival Participants,
and for my other 'Haiku Festival' posts at
Grandma's Garden at Happily Retired Gal
& Day Lilies at Small Reflections.

Feel free to join the Haiku Festival Fun today!

more garden delights
collaged & shared earlier
on another blog

Thought for Today
"Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes." Carl Sandburg

17 comments:

christina said...: Ah, the beauty of the sparrow. This is beautiful.
Happy haiku day!
: ); May 11, 2009 at 9:17 AM
Karen said...: Absolutely beautiful pics--I love the color!; May 11, 2009 at 9:59 AM
Lea said...: and how happy those sparrows are! Thanks for your gift of haiku and the visits!; May 11, 2009 at 4:30 PM
Flower said...: Sparrows live freely and you have found them living happy!! Wonderful Haiku!
Thanks for stopping by my blog! I see so much on your blog to notice..I'll be back! I like the list you created about why you blog!; May 11, 2009 at 5:01 PM
Golden West said...: I have sparrows, as well, and enjoy their presence daily. Nice meeting you!; May 11, 2009 at 5:19 PM
Leenie said...: Thanks for stopping by. Thanks also for reminding us that the common little sparrows can be a source of fun and beauty. Love your blog with all its colors and quotes; May 11, 2009 at 6:01 PM
Anonymous said...: Thank you for your visit and for bringing me to visit your sparrows. Lovely haiku!; May 11, 2009 at 6:50 PM
Willow said...: Sweet haiku and sweet photo!; May 11, 2009 at 9:54 PM
Willow said...: PS: I see you live in the OC. I'm a bit north of you--in the VC.; May 11, 2009 at 9:58 PM
Leora said...: I love the little sparrows! Thanks to Michelle, I now know what a sparrow looks like. Many live around my house. A beautiful garden Grandma has.; May 12, 2009 at 2:53 AM
Jennifer Thermes said...: Lovely springtime sparrows! These are great photos. :-); May 12, 2009 at 7:14 AM
Anonymous said...: I am guessing that this is the post for Nature Notes...How wonderful to be able to combine poetry and photography...two gifts.....Thank you for participating....Michelle; May 12, 2009 at 12:47 PM
DeniseinVA said...: What a delightful collage of the little sparrow. Wonderful!; May 12, 2009 at 1:27 PM
Quiet Paths said...: I always really enjoy your collages. Garden delicacies indeed! Great 'ku.; May 12, 2009 at 6:28 PM
Carver said...: Beautiful collage of sparrows.; May 12, 2009 at 7:36 PM
SandyCarlson said...: This is a delightful post.; May 13, 2009 at 12:43 PM
Anonymous said...: Awesome post. Really enjoyed reading your blog posts..; January 21, 2011 at 2:27 AM

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