Metal Sculpture discovered in Taos, NM Click image for others
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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.
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.
How 'kewl'
thanks Mike
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If you need a smile click this 'doggie' video ... delightful surprise!
Procrastination habit I wish I could break ... perhapsTHISmay help?
Entertaining and thought-provoking musical clip you'll want to view.
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
Intriguing Idea
"Nothing real can hurt you. Nothing unreal exists. Therein lies the peace of God." A Course in Miracles
Sanctuario de Chimayo
Encountered in 2007 on the High Road from Santa Fe to Taos on my way to a Writers Retreat
photos by storyteller -- on the grounds of Sanctuario de Chimayo on the High Road from Santa Fe to Taos, MN
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
"We become what we think about." ~ Earl Nightingale
Welcome to Sacred Ruminations
I hope you'll look around & leave comments then visit me at my new blog ... Giraffe Journal and/or website ... Labyrinth Journal both self-hosted at WordPress where I publish as myself rather than under a pseudonym.
I've not had much time for posting or blog visits, but if you're interested I hope you'll find time to check out my new blog, Giraffe Journal or my Labyrinth Journal website ... both self hosted at WordPress. Thanks for your visit and have a delightful day ;--) Hugs and blessings,
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Bobbie of Almost There brought the Pinwheels for Peace project to my attention and I'd like to share with you because ... "in today's world, peace needs to become more than just a word."
"Pinwheels for Peace is an art installation project started in 2005 by two Art teachers, Ann Ayers and Ellen McMillan, who teach at Monarch High School in Coconut Creek, Florida, as a way for their students to express their feelings about what’s going on in the world and in their lives. The project was quickly embraced by their students and the entire school community and by millions of art teachers, teachers, parents, children and adults who desire peace in our world.
The first Pinwheels for Peace were installed on Sept. 21, 2005. Since then, we have grown from 500,000 pinwheels planted the first year, to 2 million pinwheels in 2008!"
"The pacifist's task today is to find a method of helping and healing which provides a revolutionary constructive substitute for war." ~Vera Brittain, 1964
"Don't let yesterday use up too much of today." Cherokee Indian Proverb
I'm blessed with many wonderful friends ... and am grateful for the serendipitous chain of events that led to me discovering this 'virtual' world known as the Blogosphere. A widget in my sidebar reminds me that I'll celebrate my 2nd Blogoversary in just about a month. I had no clue back then what would unfold, but I appreciate the connections with so many others throughout the world who not only share thoughts on their own blogs, but visit & comment on mine. Each is a blessing and I'm delighted to have encountered all.
Today as I reflect on my life and share about 'Whirled Peace' ... I'm reminded of my gratitude for Mimi Lenox who conceived of a wonderful idea in the Fall of 2006 and followed through ... encouraging people from all over the world to join her in a Blog Blast for Peace.
This seems like a good chance to announce that the next Blog Blast for Peace launch is November 5th 2009 I'd like to invite you to participate. You can click here for more information at Mimi's and the badge below to get your peace globe.
here to see globes created by others
I hope to see your Peace Globe and Blog Blast this year.
