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Monday

I took this one day… while I stood in an empty parking lot, looking up . I was suddenly visited by a passing bird. These birds have a wonderful way of soaring across open skies drifting on currents.

I woke up today, thinking, I should go back to the parking lot..not that the bird will magically reappear … but to touch base with the woman I was when I went to that same part of the forest every day for almost 10 years. (maybe more)

Don’t know about you. but years have worn something down in me. I can’t yet define what that exact change is.. but I know…deep down inside, that there is a part of me that no longer, sees “life” the same way.

Over the years I have said goodbye to so many of my dearest and closest friends…. FB keeps sending us reminders, memories… it’s fun, sometimes.. but… really…. today… this moment… now… this is where I am and what I have to deal with …

i.e. I just had a moment of wishing that could still hit a key and a word would underline.. anyone else remember that function. It was a common feature, we had it in all word processing software./features. Not now. Some “genius” who probably never wrote for a living or loved using the written word to communicate… decided, he/she seldom used that feature, so obviously the rest of the world didn’t need it either.

and please, don’t get me started on the # of people in the world who can’t really read or write properly .. never mind.. how to do simply addition.

oh dear, oh dear, oh dear.. time to find my way down to the car and a patch of woodland….. have a good day everyone.. here is your thought for the day

Use dissatisfaction and complaints as a springboard to improvement

If you only complain about something, nothing will get better. Look for the short comings in your thinking and come up with creative solutions to your problems.

Oyashikiri

the bird is a vulture

Today

Today and everyday – Believe in yourSelf.

When you look in a mirror.. take a good look at the “person” looking back at you. A few times now I’ve not really recognized the woman who gives me a startled look, when I glance her in passing by the bathroom mirror that I can’t ignore.

From a closet size bathroom (in my previous home) to the ballroom size one I have now… it has been an adjustment. I think that in the past, I seldom if ever really looked at or in a mirror unless I wanted to check something…ie. my hair before leaving the house…. even then, it has not been a priority.

My sister and I have had belly laugh chuckles.. because we’ve ( I won’t say which of us) has arrived at a choir practice to have a choir mate quietly give us a whisper… )

Yesterday I woke to a sound of continuous knocking on my door, I was horrified to find out that it was after nine, I am usually up and out of the door by 7:00-7:30 ………. do you know what I did? Something I’ve never done ..ever. I answered the door and promptly went back to bed. AND … I gave myself permission to stay in and not go out at all .. all day!!!! in fact, except to get up to eat and check my messages.. I spent most of the day.. “in bed”. Dearest friends .. that was a first…. not because I didn’t feel well, or ached anywhere, no.. I simply wanted to sleep.. so I did. Wow.. is this a sign of “maturity”…

Can it be true.. I actually had a day of doing “nothing” except what I felt like doing…….Wow.. double wowzoooooh earth shattering isn’t it.

PL Precept # 17 Grasp what is most essential.

Oyashikiri

lundi

Use dissatisfaction and complaints as a springboard to improvement

If you only complain about something, nothing will get better. Look for shortcomings in your thinking and come up with creative solutions to your problems.

PL2016

Finding gratitude – connect to the moment. Give voice to your needs, soak in life’s little gifts… we live in a society that obsesses over physical appearance and fitness… it is essential to confront the self critic that lives within us all.

Oyashikiri

Sunday

Experience the joy of change

It is truly amazing when you look back at yourself this year compared to last year, or today, compared to yesterday, and realize who much you have improved or changed.

PL Precept #16 All this progress and develop

Oyashikiri

jeudi

It isn’t always important to be doing “something”

It is OK, to allow yourself to do “nothing”

Leave your cell phone in the house, or in another room, turn it off.

When was the last time you looked up and simply took in the vast blue sky, or counted the fluffy clouds drifting overhead.

PL Precept #20

Live maintaining equilibrium between mind and matter.

Oyashikiri

lundi

Hello, bom dia… it was nice to be out enjoying fresh air and open skies. too often animals are kept in human made cages that keep them in buildings eating man made products instead of being out in the open air, grazing. Drove for miles yesterday on back roads, passing dozens of farms and farmland. Not a grazing animal in sight.

To be fair I do live in a populated province and myself live in a major city in the country, however, I made the effort to drive away from the city and populated suburbs and city sprawl.

I am a believer that we need to spend more time keeping in touch with nature’s healing energy. Can you spend a day away from your cell phone, a computer/television and/or electronic gadgets?

PL Precept #15 All is a mirror

Oyashikiri

pictures are from my files a trip taken to rural Quebec a couple of years ago.

Thursday

In order to overcome difficulties in your life, you need to think hard, be creative. AND…. know how to get a good night’s sleep. Life is always interesting,

Oyashikiri

kanwaza

When the winds are so strong you find that your fence gave in to the force. We call this “kamuwaza” (God’s Act)

It happens, you accept it, and deal with it. no more, no less.

Obviously it is time to repair and rebuild.

Life happens, how we accept and deal with the “opportunities” that is on us,

PL Precept # 4 Being annoyed limits your expression.

PL Precept # 5 One’s Self is lost by being emotional.

Weather good, feel like fence building?

Oyashikiri

fun with a sweet potato

a door

When is a door more than just a door – when it lets you in to somewhere you want to be, and closes to give you privacy. I’ve shown you these beauties before.. Was in Almonte the other day got to visit them again.

These doors lead to a place of spiritual growth and personal renewal.,

WE enter and leave through doors constantly ,. some we never give a second thought to… do we ever give thanks or show appreciation for the service they render … smiles… ok… just think about how many doors you encounter in every day of your amazing life. If you had a nickel for every door you have used in your lifetime to date… I think our piggy bank would be full to bursting.

Happy Thursday everyone. – Smile . . . let someone know you care….

PL Precept # 21 Live in Perfect Liberty

Oyashikiri

Almonte is in Ontario, Canada

you will find more doors by visiting Dan’s No Facilities site… https://nofacilities.com/2026/05/14/misc-pittsburgh-doors/

wednesday

Wisdom comes naturally when you are humble

You will stop growing if you have a conceited or boatful mind. Always remember to be humble.

PL2016.5

Oyashikiri

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