Sacred Ruminations: Shadow Shot #18 - Blog Your Blessings Sunday

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

This is my eighteenth …

More Neighborhood Shadows

Frequent visitors
may find palm trees familiar
yet the shadows I've

captured & collaged ...
photos taken in the late
afternoon are new.

For new visitors
I share a few more snapshots
of my neighborhood

palm trees to provide
perspective for the shadow
photographs above.

Click to embiggen for better viewing
and for others participating in Shadow Shots at Hey Harriet

"Don't let yesterday use up too much of today."
Cherokee Indian Proverb

Really Good Things

1. Monday I enjoyed a delightful lunch with the Retired Gals but skipped the shopping spree afterward because I wanted to be alert for the first Digital Media class at Adult School.

2. I remember enough from my previous PSE6 classes to keep up in the Digital Media class I'm taking this session Mondays & Wednesdays from 6-9pm. I knew my friend Carol was enrolled but am pleasantly surprised to learn my neighbor Barbara is taking the class too. I made these on Wednesday evening ...

3. I received a DVD in the mail this week with Alaska photographs from my sister & her husband so I can view their travels vicariously.

4. As noted in the daily gratitude list in the sidebar at Small Reflections ...

I'm finally getting my photos organized and tagged in a methodical manner.

I'm gradually figuring out a useful set of 'keywords for tagging' photos & learning to use the 'software tools' to integrate previous tags into the new system I've generated experimentally.

I'm able to access my blogs even though something has gone crazy with my 'C-drive' leaving less than 8mb of 'free' space after running a Back Up to my 1TB 'G-drive' last night.

5. I appreciate those who regularly BYB on Sundays visiting & leaving comments on the weekend even when my own BYBS post is missing. Sometimes the day just gets away from me and I post belatedly, but other times (as for the past few weeks) life intrudes and I don't get around to it at all. I hope to catch up with your recent posts soon ... though I'm not sure just when that will be.

What are some blessings in YOUR life currently?

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go to My Blog Rolls and/or click on the
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Thought for Today
"Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you." Carl Sandburg

16 comments:

Carin said...: Those palmtrees make fabulous shadows!; May 17, 2009 at 1:18 PM
Sarah said...: It looks so beautifully sunny there beneath the palm trees! Lovely.; May 17, 2009 at 1:30 PM
Sarah said...: Oh-well done with the digital imaging too-it is all a mystery to me!; May 17, 2009 at 1:32 PM
Rosebud Collection said...: There is something so beautiful about palm trees..I just love them.
Wonderful shots..Happy SSS..; May 17, 2009 at 1:56 PM
SandyCarlson said...: I love hearing about your blessings. I am glad you have fun and keep on with the camera. These shots are lovely.; May 17, 2009 at 4:37 PM
That is the chicken said...: Wonderful shots of the palm trees. I always like your palm tree shadows...no palm trees where I live!; May 17, 2009 at 4:45 PM
Jeri ~ said...: I love your palm tree shadows! All your collages are magnificent!; May 17, 2009 at 5:37 PM
Raven said...: Lovely collages as always. I enjoyed the flowers in the post below too.

Congrats on getting your photos organized. Sounds wonderful to me.

Hope the big California fires are not impacting you. You have been in my thoughts over the past couple of weeks.; May 17, 2009 at 6:28 PM
Hey Harriet said...: Love your shadowy palm trees collage! Organising your photos sounds like a good idea. Something I really need to get on top of. One day... Have a great week :); May 17, 2009 at 7:09 PM
Gemma Wiseman said...: The fronds of palms create such relaxing arced shadows! Lovely in a collage!; May 18, 2009 at 3:18 AM
Dianne said...: trees are so generous - they give wonderful shadows
I love hearing your excitement about your classes; May 18, 2009 at 7:23 AM
Karen said...: There is an ebb and flow to everything--even within the world of blogging. I'm enjoying what you produce when you produce it--no stress, just joy.; May 18, 2009 at 9:11 AM
Mom Knows Everything said...: I've never seen a real palm tree before. I guess I need to start heading south eh. ;o); May 19, 2009 at 10:09 AM
Gattina said...: I wished I could lay under these palm trees !; May 19, 2009 at 10:10 PM
PERBS said...: I guess I did miss this last week -- I did drop by and must have been too early. . . anyway, glad to see yoru blue skies in the collage and read about your class. It must be fun!; May 24, 2009 at 1:01 PM
Inday said...: Thought provoking good words, quote and blessed life looking upward to the tall palm trees watching skyward.; May 25, 2009 at 6:24 PM