smile or frown heaven or hell admiration or scorn heaven or hell peace or discord heaven or hell acceptance or criticism heaven or hell tranquility or anger heaven or hell kind or cruel heaven or hell love or hate heaven or hell Which will it be for us … Continue reading Heaven Or Hell
Despite what is occurring in our collective lives regarding health, regarding relationships, regarding family and work, we were all born with free will to choose how we will live. So with this is mind …. Be Peace Be Compassion Be Light Be Love Be Kindness Be Comfort Be You … Continue reading Night Light
When someone does something that really really bugs you and you find yourself getting upset about this something, and then as your relentless thoughts about this something persist night and day tormenting you and plain driving you nuts(!), this usually inadvertently indicates there is something within yourself the Universe is attempting to get your … Continue reading Mirrors
There are times in life when what you dream of what you strive for seems so far out of reach no matter what you do. How do you get from here to there when everything in your Mind’s Eye seems to exist in another world one whose passage is so unclear? And then … Continue reading Life’s Irony
Friends, as a Nature Photographer, I am witnessing things I’ve never before witnessed, which to be truthful, alarms me. I believe we are in an era of unprecedented events, events that yes we all need to be concerned about. This is January in Western New York. Every Winter we get a lot of snow … Continue reading A Matter For Concern
My “intentions” for the first of the New Year, fell short. Did I pout? Did I complain? No. I had wanted to go out with my cameras. However, the weather did not cooperate leaving yesterday with a very heavy cloud cover. The light was good grief awful to even think to photograph in. Grey. All … Continue reading Creative Contemplation
Years I complained. Years worth. How I dreaded each Autumn when the leaves would fall so that once again I could see the “junk” that has again collected right next to our property line. This year however, I stopped resisting, accepting what is for what is. The view from my kitchen window went from a … Continue reading Sunday Stillness
Do your best when you get bothered to be as a duck water flowing off your back so as not to be bothered at all. ~~~~~ When you are broken and a mess there still is great beauty within that chaotic mess that selectively draws order. ~~~~ In the stillness of the moment … Continue reading Sunday’s Shares
To know what love is what love isn’t has to be experienced first and then and only then real love becomes known to the heart. ~~~~ I get super nervous photographing people as I feel it is an invasion of privacy. If I do take human pictures it mostly is from the back or in … Continue reading To Know
In leaning in close to encourage another it’s as though Heaven itself conjoins with Earth. ~~~~ Every other year since I have been blogging, I would literally run after the colors seen in Fall. Hundreds if not thousands of pictures have been taken in past years. There is something about Fall that is so … Continue reading Encouragement
If our brain is a part of who we are inclusive of our thoughts, then “who” is the awareness, the invisible voice, who not only interprets our thoughts but discusses them with us as well? Hmmmmm … About this image — This is the first landscape image you have seen taken with my Canon EOS … Continue reading Thoughts Of A Thinker
Do any of us perceive what the future holds? No. Thus, live this day as though your last. Cease the grouching and smile instead. Why would you want to spend perhaps your very last day with a frown and a curse when you could very well have a wide smile upon your … Continue reading Life Is A Gift
Those who do not show kindness to others do not show gentleness to themselves. Those who do not show encouragement to others do not show support to themselves. Those who show anger to others show vexation to themselves. Those who show ridicule to others do not show high self-esteem to themselves. … Continue reading Smoky Mirror
Written for Wendi. Bless you on your journey. Reading the words, “Always the battle of the Spiritual Warrior is with the self. Funding a will though action, yet unattached to outcomes, remaining mindful that all you can do is stay out of your own way and let the Will of Heaven flow through you — these are … Continue reading Unconscious Fear
Do we ever really see the entire picture within each and every moment? ~~~~ Do we think it possible to be able to know all there is to know? ~~~ Do we take into consideration that life itself offers us patterns and standards if we but fully open? ~~~~ Do we have … Continue reading Do We?
Why are roses symbolic of Love when along with the rose come very sharp thorns that if not handled with care do prick and make bleed? Could roses be representations of Love because Love includes both Beauty and pain? ~~~~~~ Handheld manual macro photography/ “Roses … Continue reading Love And Roses
Without the walk with the talk actions are fraught in empty naught. Walk your talk solid and true for those around you to believe in you. Otherwise you aint but a taint in this world a blight a nuisance ζ an empty shell rattling in your own hell. ~~~~~ Why else does the butterfly … Continue reading Consequences
A young boy, no more then ten, stood before me with words that had alarm bells clanging in my head. He said, “I always expect the worse. What if the apocalypse happens and I am not ready for it?” I stood rooted to the spot, appalled. In my mind I screamed, NO NO NO! Gently … Continue reading Make Your Own World
One evening not long ago I hovered between the plane of wakefulness and sleep. In that space I saw so clearly what I have been saying for many moons. I saw Infinity glowing as a soft abstract muted mural and within the plane of Infinity were seen dark finite lines that man created as such … Continue reading No-Time
Hold on to your hats! Buckle your seat belts! You are about to enter the Extreme Color Zone that will have you blasting through space and time. This catapulting will bring you in Now Moment and perhaps even Bliss. For me to be crawling in the mud is a JOY like no other. As … Continue reading Fly To Bliss
Our precious Bella lost her fight to live at 8:30am on April 1st. Her little body finally gave out after many years of being unwell. Mom and Dad were right there with her as she passed. For hours afterwards, Mom, Dad and all her brothers and sisters were able to say goodbye. This death was … Continue reading Bella Marie
In those times of unadulterated daggers and darkness LIFE materializes at the most unexpected moments When you don’t think you can take another step forward LIFE lifts the boulders from off your shoulders Within the fiery blasts of agony exploding unrelentingly LIFE quietly with dignity brings glowing Calm When shock and horror … Continue reading LIFE
In order for the hidden dark to be both diagnosed and assessed the Divine Knife plunges to incise and to sunder surgically excising a Way for Light to infiltrate making possible cauterization of the long forgotten dis-ease destructively devised in long ago past and unconsciously for decades existing, a monster of epic proportions … Continue reading Transcendental
Not too long ago, I walked away from my cellphone. Hubby converted our wireless in our home to hardwire ethernet and I could no longer use my cellphone except via DATA. Research shows the health risks of using wireless and cellphones outweigh their convenience. So now, I use my cellphone only for texting purposes (few … Continue reading Functionalism Versus Gentleness
In Heaven On Earth 