Sacred Ruminations: Scenic Shadow Shot Sunday plus BYBS

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
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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.

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, October 3, 2009

Scenic Shadow Shot Sunday plus BYBS

Scroll down for Blog Your Blessings on Sunday

More photographs from
my sister in Fairhaven ...
RV traveling

I don't know how they

manage sharing this small space,

but somehow they do.

Fairhaven, Washington

Once again I share
photographs from my sister ...
Mosaic by Me ;--)

Poster Edges

Click to embiggen for better viewing
and for others participating in
Scenic Sunday
Shadow Shot Sunday

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

See my Daily Gratitude List
in the sidebar at Small Reflections
and the lists I've transferred to Happily Retired Gal

What are some blessings in YOUR life currently?

For others who 'Blog Their Blessings'

go to My Blog Rolls and/or click on the
Blog Your Blessings logo
above Really Good Things.

For those who participate in Sacred Life Sunday
click the logo below:

Blessed Be ... and so it is!

Thought for Today

"Good things happen to those who hustle." Anais Nin

19 comments:

Chubby Chieque said...: Looks your having fun, Madame?

Love the boat shadow with it's reflection too. That's gorgeous.

Happy SS; October 3, 2009 at 10:25 AM
Sylvia K said...: Delightful shadow shots as always! Love reflections in the water and the sidewalks and flower shop ones! Lovely!

Have a great weekend!

Sylvia; October 3, 2009 at 10:26 AM
eileeninmd said...: Great photos, they are all wonderful. The flower shop looks really cute. Thanks for sharing your scenes.; October 3, 2009 at 10:44 AM
Martha Z said...: A nice collection of photos. I like the effect of the poster edges.; October 3, 2009 at 11:01 AM
Rosebud Collection said...: All the pictures/shadows are wonderful. Just a lovely collection of beauty.
Happy SSS.; October 3, 2009 at 1:14 PM
Rona Michelson said...: I love the pictures and what you have done with them. The one on the lower right is a gem. Thanks so much!; October 3, 2009 at 3:55 PM
Guy D said...: Excellent selection of shots, I love that cupcake sign.

All the best
Guy
Regina In Pictures; October 3, 2009 at 4:14 PM
penny said...: You always have the most delightful shots.. no matter what!
They are beautiful, Thanks for sharing :); October 3, 2009 at 4:26 PM
Ralph said...: All simple shadows and nice. The branches leave a simple web on Katie's shop. The shadows and reflection of the boat give character to the dockside, The branches on the sidewalk and flower shop give a natural look. A nice view to a lovely place!; October 3, 2009 at 4:29 PM
Dorothy said...: It's always so fun to see other peoples ideas in photos...great pictures.

Dorothy from grammology
grammology.com; October 3, 2009 at 5:10 PM
Unknown said...: Tons of nice shadows. That flower shop looks unique and inviting!; October 3, 2009 at 5:30 PM
Hey Harriet said...: Mmmm! Cupcakes! These are all so colourful! Fairhaven, Washington looks like a very pretty location :); October 3, 2009 at 9:26 PM
Jim said...: An interesting slice of life there.
Sydney - City and Suburbs; October 3, 2009 at 11:27 PM
A Wild Thing said...: What a fun tour of your neck of the woods and beyond...it's always good to see a sunny day and they all are in some way.

Have a great weekend!; October 4, 2009 at 3:14 AM
Magical Mystical Teacher said...: At Katie’s Cupcakes
we find a warm, sweet welcome—
frosting on the cake!; October 4, 2009 at 4:47 AM
Gaelyn said...: Love the views of Fairhaven. Haven't been there since graduating from WWU in the early 90s. Thanks for the memories.; October 4, 2009 at 6:29 AM
gengen said...: It is very pretty another good work..Happy SS!; October 4, 2009 at 7:44 AM
Tes said...: Oh wow, such wonderful photos from you and your sister. Your mosaic is pretty. Very creative! You should join Mosaic Monday!; October 4, 2009 at 2:23 PM
Tammie Lee said...: my my my
so many wonderful photos of our world! Thank you for sharing.; October 4, 2009 at 9:12 PM