Sacred Ruminations: Mostly Wordless (T-13) Color Carnival

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

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Mostly Wordless (T-13) Color Carnival

Colorful blossoms
in my front yard currently ...
mixed varieties

Click to embiggen for better viewing
and for others participating in Thursday Thirteen,
Mostly Wordless Wednesday, Color Carnival, and Wordless Wednesday.
Macro Monday Mosaic & Today's Flowers
are in the next post here.

Thought for Today
"In June, as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them." Aldo Leopold

27 comments:

Americanising Desi said...: wowwwwwwww!!

happy WW

You Dont Need to Say Much; July 1, 2009 at 7:37 AM
Cascia Talbert said...: That is beautiful. I love summer flowers!; July 1, 2009 at 9:57 AM
Mom Knows Everything said...: Ohhhh...those are just gorgeous!!!; July 1, 2009 at 10:30 AM
lissa said...: love the flower pics, my favorite would be the pink ones at the top which I have idea what the names are; July 1, 2009 at 5:23 PM
Sweet Serendipity said...: Wow are they gorgeous!; July 1, 2009 at 6:20 PM
SandyCarlson said...: You bring beauty into my week. Thank you.; July 1, 2009 at 7:23 PM
Dianne - Bunny Trails said...: Those are gorgeous! The colors are just beautiful. :D; July 1, 2009 at 7:38 PM
Susan Cook said...: Beautiful! I always love your flower pics. Happy WW!; July 1, 2009 at 7:51 PM
Alice Audrey said...: I like the symmetry in the way you stacked the pictures this time. Very nice.

Hey, I moved. I'm at www.AliceAudrey.com now.; July 1, 2009 at 8:14 PM
jams o donnell said...: Wow such beautiful flowers. Happy WW; July 2, 2009 at 12:55 AM
More Than Words said...: Such pretty flowers!!!!!; July 2, 2009 at 1:23 AM
jillconyers said...: Love all the color! Makes me want to have more flowers planted in my yard :); July 2, 2009 at 4:30 AM
Hazel said...: You're so lucky to have a yard blooming with flowers in great colors. I enjoyed looking at them. Thanks for sharing. Happy Thursday.; July 2, 2009 at 4:47 AM
Susan Demeter said...: Beautiful collage! These are all so gorgeous! :) Happy belated WW and thank you for visiting my blog :); July 2, 2009 at 4:50 AM
Martha said...: Such pretty flowers and so colorful! :-); July 2, 2009 at 5:46 AM
PMKU said...: Great colors! Happy TT.; July 2, 2009 at 6:58 AM
Gattina said...: What a color festival !; July 2, 2009 at 8:19 AM
Devilish Southern Belle said...: Love your morning glories! I always let them wildly grow all over everything here in the summers.

Happy TT!; July 2, 2009 at 9:37 AM
Sandy Kessler said...: all yours - wonderful keep them in your heart all winter. I make calendars of them thse homemade kind. sandy; July 2, 2009 at 5:13 PM
Inday said...: Ain't they all a wonder? Very colourful!; July 2, 2009 at 7:36 PM
Sherrie said...: Hi!
Beautiful Flowers! Thanks for stopping by my place. Have a great day!

Sherrie
http://sherrie-myphotosgoodorbad.blogspot.com/2009/07/127-of-365security.html; July 3, 2009 at 7:14 AM
flowerweaver said...: Your flowers are all so lovely! I'm sure the pollinators are enjoying them too.; July 3, 2009 at 4:05 PM
Pacey said...: colorful flowers indeed and nicely presented to us.; July 3, 2009 at 4:17 PM
Martha@A Sense of Humor is Essential said...: Beautiful flowers, visiting for the Color Carnival.; July 3, 2009 at 5:21 PM
Unknown said...: These bright, colorful flowers can chase the dull away! :); July 3, 2009 at 6:47 PM
Jama said...: They are so lovely!; July 8, 2009 at 1:21 AM
PERBS said...: You certainly found a way with your mosaic to bring many beauties together as one. I found it neat that you "pasted" all the smaller ones onto a flower background!; July 8, 2009 at 6:46 PM