Sacred Ruminations: Today's Flowers

About Me

1st Blogoversary Post
2nd Blogoversary Post
101 Things About Me
2007 Blog Review
Top 7 in '07 Small is Beautiful Review
My 100th Post
A Milestone Missed?
Why I Blog

My other blogs
Small Reflections
Happily Retired Gal
Bling & Blurbs

My Blog Rolls - have been moved to a Blog of their own.

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, May 30, 2009

Today's Flowers - Shadow Shot Sunday

Macro Monday, Ruby Tuesday & more Today's Flowers
are at Small Reflections ...
and this post could work for Ruby Tuesday too!
Scroll down for Shadow Shot Sunday
Haiku Sky Watch Friday & Camera Critters
are in the next post here ...

The SECOND time my
Mr. Lincoln bloomed this year
it produced these two

lovely red roses
rather than just one the way
it did earlier.

This is my twentieth …

Click to embiggen for better viewing
and for others participating in Today's Flowers
Shadow Shots at Hey Harriet

If you missed Purple
Passion Photo earlier
you will find it here.
(A previous Today's Flowers post last week.)

Thought for Today
"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion." Dalai Lama

26 comments:

Sylvia K said...: Gorgeous roses and perfect shadow shots! Great combination! Enjoy the rest of your weekend!; May 30, 2009 at 5:42 PM
Hey Harriet said...: Beautiful selection of roses and their sweet shadows. Have a great week :); May 30, 2009 at 9:40 PM
Gemma Wiseman said...: Your flowers are absolutely delightful! And love how you have collaged their vibrant colour!; May 30, 2009 at 9:52 PM
diane b said...: like your roses and your blogs from another retired teacher.; May 31, 2009 at 2:46 AM
Rosebud Collection said...: So beautiful..Don't know how people get such beautiful flowers..
since my don't do well. I try, but really not good at it.
Happy SSS.; May 31, 2009 at 5:09 AM
Evette Mendisabal said...: So pretty!; May 31, 2009 at 5:15 AM
Maude Lynn said...: I love the shadow!; May 31, 2009 at 5:45 AM
PERBS said...: Your roses are beautiful! Ours are blooming too and youw ill spot one on my blog today and more later this week -- only because I ahd trouble with blogger today.

I like your collage!; May 31, 2009 at 7:38 AM
marLou said...: These are gorgeous roses!; May 31, 2009 at 12:28 PM
Carletta said...: I'd love to take a stroll through your garden - you always have such beauties to share!
Great shots to fit both memes!

My post is here: Carletta’s Captures.; May 31, 2009 at 12:56 PM
Ari_1965 said...: Oh, there's nothing like roses. Lovely. Lovely photos, too. My portulaca have just started to bloom, the sweet little things. I bring this up only because they are also called moss roses. I love their almost-succulent foliage.; May 31, 2009 at 1:28 PM
Karen said...: Wow--such beauty!!; May 31, 2009 at 2:48 PM
Naturegirl said...: Stunning! Your red roses are simply stunning!; May 31, 2009 at 3:35 PM
Dianne said...: the rose shadow at the bottom is perfect!; May 31, 2009 at 4:35 PM
Arija said...: Nice selection of roses for todsy's flowers.; May 31, 2009 at 10:26 PM
Amila Salgado said...: Those red roses are quite a treat.
Have a good week!; June 1, 2009 at 9:37 PM
Tulip said...: pretty vibrant red roses.; June 2, 2009 at 5:28 AM
Felisol said...: Wonderful Abraham Lincoln!
I haven't seen him in Europe!
I guess nothing surpasses a red rose.
From Felisol; June 2, 2009 at 7:20 AM
Anonymous said...: What a wonderful composition of red roses, your work never stops impressing me!; June 2, 2009 at 10:09 AM
Robin said...: You always have such wonderful roses. Thank you for sharing them.; June 2, 2009 at 12:04 PM
Unknown said...: Beautiful red!!; June 2, 2009 at 1:32 PM
Ebie said...: You have a beautiful garden. And red is one of my favorite colors. Enjoy your daily walk along the beach!; June 2, 2009 at 7:38 PM
DeniseinVA said...: Fabulous roses, stunning photograph. Thank you for sharing them with Today's Flowers.; June 2, 2009 at 7:54 PM
CyberCelt said...: Wow! Those roses are beautiful. At one time, I had 20 rose bushes. I had to leave them when I left my husband. I miss the rosebushes more. LOL

My WW post is up if you wish to see it:
http://advertising-for-success.blogspot.com/2009/06/wordless-wednesday.html; June 2, 2009 at 8:27 PM
Anonymous said...: Those roses are absolutely beautiful :)
I wish I can smell them!; June 2, 2009 at 8:31 PM
Mom Knows Everything said...: The roses are absolutely gorgeous!; June 3, 2009 at 7:12 AM