Sacred Ruminations: Haiku Sky Watch - Celebrating my 2nd Blogoversary

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

Thursday, October 22, 2009

Haiku Sky Watch - Celebrating my 2nd Blogoversary

Who knew how much fun
blogging would be way back when
I decided to

start this second site
on October twenty-third
2007?

Today's post makes my
four hundred seventy-fourth
... rather amazing.

Please accept this gift as a token of our appreciation
for stopping by and commenting ;--)

If you have the time
click to celebrate with me
at Small Reflections.

Revisiting skies
shared previously in this
multi-mosaic

Click to embiggen for better viewing ...
and for others participating in Haiku Friday and Sky Watch

Thought for Today

"The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice." George Eliot

26 comments:

Louise said...: Happy Blogoversary! Two years, wow! Love your mosaic.; October 22, 2009 at 3:41 PM
Anonymous said...: A GREAT BIG HAPPY BLOGOVERSARY goes out to you! Visiting your blog is always a treat!; October 22, 2009 at 5:07 PM
Sylvia K said...: Oh, yes! Happy Blogoversary! Love your collage today, as always!

Enjoy your weekend!

Sylvia; October 22, 2009 at 5:29 PM
Carver said...: I love your mosaic of sky shots. Happy blog anniversary!; October 22, 2009 at 5:38 PM
eileeninmd said...: Wonderful skywatch mosaic! Happy blog anniversay.; October 22, 2009 at 5:51 PM
Lew said...: Conratulations! You have captured some gorgoeus skies!; October 22, 2009 at 7:07 PM
This Is My Blog - fishing guy said...: HRG: Congrats on 2 years, I just past it myself. Love all the different skies you shared this week.; October 22, 2009 at 7:12 PM
Dimple said...: That's an impressive mosaic! Happy blog anniversary!
Thanks for the visit!; October 22, 2009 at 7:40 PM
Inday said...: And George Eliot justifies the growth of your blogging breeze!

Happy Second Anniversary today!

Your skywatch mosaic gathers glitters.; October 22, 2009 at 9:05 PM
Ebie said...: Congratulations to you 2nd blogoversary! A perfect collection of beautiful skies, a mosaic within a mosaic!; October 22, 2009 at 10:28 PM
diane b said...: happy blogoversay! Nice mosaic jumbo size; October 23, 2009 at 3:15 AM
penny said...: I'm glade to add my congratulations, you certainly do deserve it. All of your blogs are delightful, Thanks for sharing your beautiful thoughts and photos with us...

Be well, be Happy :); October 23, 2009 at 3:56 AM
Anonymous said...: What a nice mosaic. And the first photo, too. Happy Two Years and Going!; October 23, 2009 at 5:05 AM
Teena in Toronto said...: Happy blogoversary :); October 23, 2009 at 5:08 AM
Deborah Godin said...: This is a neat post - the brevity of haiku, and the abundance of skies in the mosaic!; October 23, 2009 at 6:58 AM
Quiet Paths said...: Way to go, lady! congrats on the two years. And all those sky photos are incredible!; October 23, 2009 at 7:47 AM
Tammie Lee said...: gorgeous blue skies!
Happy Happy Celebration to you!!; October 23, 2009 at 10:24 AM
George said...: Congratulations on your blogoversary! That is a giant masaic that you've made.; October 23, 2009 at 11:03 AM
SquirrelQueen said...: Congratulations on your Blogoversary, two years is amazing. I have not yet reached my first, you are an inspiration.

Ms. Kitty is so pretty and reminds me of my Miss Cindi Lou Who.

Have a wonderful day,
Judy; October 23, 2009 at 1:45 PM
Joyce's Journey said...: Congratulations on two years! That is wonderful. Bet you never imagined!!; October 23, 2009 at 9:00 PM
http://graceolsson.com/blog said...: I like the mosaic...and your shtos too...congrats and HAVEA NCIE WEEKEND

http://graceolsson.se/mittliv/2009/10/23/mittlivisverige/; October 23, 2009 at 11:28 PM
Inday said...: Ma'am, in Conjunction to the celebration of your blogosversary, Please collect this from my Appreciation Award Blog.

All you do is click on Forward this picture and it will take you to a page where you may pick up the embedded code.

I have also re-featured you in my blog comments blog.

Have a profitable weekend!; October 24, 2009 at 1:08 AM
EG CameraGirl said...: Two years! That's amazing. Such dedication.; October 24, 2009 at 3:25 AM
Lisa Wilson said...: Congrats on 2 years!! I just had my 2nd Blogoversay for my Mountains Rule blog. :); October 24, 2009 at 1:20 PM
Janie said...: Beautiful mosaic, and so many lovely skies. Happy blogiversary to you.; October 26, 2009 at 9:21 AM
Mary (MPJ) said...: Happy 2nd Blogoversary to you!! :); November 10, 2009 at 3:01 PM