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Good Morning Everyone!

Remember this picture. I’ve used it before. I loved the stained glass windows. I loved how the windows survived while the insides of the church was showing the rubble and decay of neglect and time. Not being the photographer who took this picture, I do not know what the outside of this building looked like. My vision can only drink in what I see. My emotions and feelings toss and turn inside my head looking for the words to explain what seeing this moment in time does to and for me.

Today’s meditation/lesson >The bigger the task, the more your convictions are tested < So many questions arose when I looked at the church, the light from outside is still coming through the windows, on a bright sunny day, how mesmerizing the view must be. How enchanted I am just gazing at the light coming in through the various colours. The peeling on the old walls has formed a lace pattern of intricate designs, were I there today, I would zoom in for a closer look. (times like this I miss my viewer in SL) ( LOL.. for those of us who are part of the community in the virtual world of SL, there is a lot I’m sure that we at times wish we could do in our everyday lives as easily as we do in our other reality)

We all have windows in our lives, and mostly we look out.. not into them. Why is that do you think? When we encounter a challenge, are given a diagnosis we don’t really want … … what is it we tend to do. Look on Google, ask around about it, share the information with a friend.??? We’re given a window, what do we do with it…

Windows are symbolic of consciousness. Yet windows are often simply part of our physical space, and are given thought to when we need to ope or close the shutters /blinds.. or look out to see if it is raining. Unlike the door which we interact with on a daily basis. Using it to enter or leave the premises, yet I doubt we pay that much attention to it. Tasks and challenges/opportunities are like windows and doors in our lives. We “see” them, we use them, but often don’t really “see” them at all. They just are.

Sometimes we need to look at the window, really look at it, and see it not only from outside, but from inside as well. When we encounter resistance in our thinking, we are looking in only one direction, usually out, it is often what is inside that is at the heart of the matter.

Come sit with me, share this time to contemplate the moment. Together we will live this moment in time, so when we move on, this moment will not be forgotten. Our windows allow the light to come in, when it does, let it shine……………….

“If what you desire

is to be inspired and feel joy

but the opposite keeps showing up,

Rather than cursing fate

you can view yourself

as simply being

out of creative

vibrational alignment.”

quote- Dr.Wayne W. Dyer

top picture – St.Curvy’s Abandoned church in HDR Michigan, by tony lafferty01, flickr

pictures of windows found on Pinterest

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Aging – best before date

Maxine always has something to say! As we mature, age, our bodies start to lose the zest and vigor, our minds may still want to play and experience all that life has to offer, but the balance between body and mind has shifted. We’ve all at one time or another had the e-mails or faxed “words of wisdom” passed around to us.

All cute and all words to quote and use when times get tough when we think we are getting old. Usually if I am to believe the moaners and groaners out there in the 25-45 year age group getting older is a process and accept it or not, it is a journey that has to be taken. The magazines, and marketing shows all want us to think that we can stop the process, there are products out there to make one look younger, or a way to apply makeup so you take years away. The French have an expression, “whether you want or you don’t want it, life happens” that is a literal translation.

Laughter is timeless – Imagination has no age – and Dreams are forever (Walt Disney) I can tell you that when for some reason or another I’ve had to visit a home for the elderly, I don’t hear a lot of laughter. When you look into the faces of the men and women who are sitting there lined up in chairs, facing or backs to the sunshine. You usually meet eyes that are blank, with no laughter waiting to spill over, just a tired, resigned look of apathy. No one wants to be in that position, no one goes out of their way to be alone in their very senior years, but for some this is where their journey will bring them.

Even the young are facing such moments. Social media, has a lot of pluses, but it also has the potential of leaving us more alienated from life than we’ve ever found ourselves before. We (society) has taken steps to ensure that what we put into and on our bodies has a best before date emblazoned on it. We joke, and talk about getting old, but we don’t really prepare, really prepare for old age. We accept that a plant will grow and go through the cycle of its life and die, but our own life cycle, we tend to put on hold. We want to live at all costs, and we are always so busy planning how we will do that.. We do not live the moment. If we are unhappy with something, we cleverly, create other means of satisfying that itch, or passion. There is a lot of talk of improving our own SELF. it is a huge task, do we really work hard putting our utmost sincerity (makoto) into dealing with our own issues. Happiness is something that begins within. One first has to be happy with one’s SELF, in the end, that is all you have is your SELF.

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A Cheerful Smile

We were three sisters, out for the first time in our adult lives, on a day trip. What a time we had, due to the distance one sister has to come, this was a very special and rare occasion. Speaking for myself, I rediscovered a full belly laugh, silly laughing, and just plain fun. Over time. we forget just what sisters can be like together when on their own. No other family members, no husbands, children etc. Just the three sisters. The further we got from “home base” the sillier some of our behaviour became. Can I give you specifics no… but there were times when we laughed so hard it was freeing. uninhibited and to onlookers maybe a tad ridiculous. But we didn’t care. We were having fun, the innocence of children at play.

The middle sister seemed to forever be saying…. let’s be positive, we’re here, let’s just enjoy ourselves. Hmmmm those moments seemed to happen when our grown up habits snuck up and popped up. It is hard at times to really just cut loose. However, we did put our best effort into it, and had one fun time. The happy face is still with me today.

May each and every one of you have a lot of happy moments today. Remember to smile, if someone is not smiling, give them yours. =^_^=

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Good Morning Everyone!

Celebrate the day, put your whole heart and makoto into everything you do (sincerity). Never regret the choices you make, learn, embrace the moment and step into the next one. The above picture appears in several places on Pinterest, and a different author of verse is under each one, So to you dear artist and creator of this moment. I say kudos on a wonderful visual interpretation of life.

Dance to the music of life. The Universe is all around us. Therefore, so is LOVE.!!!! Oyashikiri

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Help I need help

If you heard those words, what would you do? I watched in utter amazement the other day while a small clip played out for me on my screen.

His words in the first part of the clip, are in French, and he is asking for help.

For those of you following me on Twitter and Facebook, you’ve seen this already, but to me it is a message that bears repeating.We are all unique, different, we all make choices that have us looking and acting differently from our neighbours. No matter, what we must all remember is that for all our differences, we are all the same. the key to having harmonious relationships with people around us is acceptance.

It takes all many different pieces, of different sizes and shapes, to make an instrument that produces mellow sound that we know and love.. So in life, does it require the many varieties, shapes and sizes of human beings with different ideas and philosophies to blend and harmonize the world.

Blessings be…… Oyashikiri

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Insulin

I don’t know what struck a chord of anxiety more when the doctor first told me I had to face the fact that I was diabetic or when he suggested that insulin might be the best route for me to take. My life had been spent thinking I lived a very healthy lifestyle. No coffee, tea, pop, alcohol, I don’t smoke, have good lifestyle habits, bed before midnight when I can, up early, exercise on a daily basis yada yada yada. Still some years back the doctor sat me down and pulled out the results of my latest blood tests and a comparison chart and began showing me why I was well on my way to being diabetic. Let me tell you the logical, intelligent me, suddenly became a very cautious, stubborn, and uncooperative patient. I did not do what I tell my own client/patients to do. I resisted and gave the doctor no amount of (now I realize) non productive reasons why I wanted to continue doing it my way. My way being no drugs, just making changes to diet and whatever else I could do with my lifestyle.

I’ll tell you now, it didn’t work. A year later the doctor was again showing me numbers and comparing where my numbers should be and where they are, One can only be obstinate for so long. Once the D word had been given to me, I had to do a lot of soul searching, on how come I was having to deal with being Diabetic, like it was some awful curse, I had to bear. I did talk to the minister and I prayed, I didn’t want it. Eventually I came to realize that my body needed help, and my mulish behaviour was counter productive.

Diabetes is a silent killer. Often the only way you know you are headed down the slippery slope is from your doctors diligence in yearly check up tests, and the comparison of results with the overall history of your visits and what YOU tell him are your concerns. It took the doctor several years to get me on the medications I needed to be on. Once you are a diabetic you are (your health) is measured by a whole new set of numbers.
I won’t bore you with the ups and downs I had to live through before I accepted that I was a type 2 Diabetic, and that medical assistance was needed if I was to continue living the lifestyle I wanted to, Even when I could finally say I am Diabetic, it took me some time to really really accept it as fact. Skip forward now to a couple of years later.

In praying to be a better person, to try harder to listen to the inner voice within me, I genuinely began seeking to improve myself, my momentum towards being more at ease with being Diabetic grew more positive and more balanced in my daily life. So this past month when the doctor again used the I word (Insulin) I was open to the idea. I was ready to open the door and walk out into the freedom of living with Diabetes and have it part of my life, not a burden I had to carry. Is this a work in progress, I don’t really know, I can only take life a step at a time. AND please don’t show this blog to Dr. Dy, he will only comment that the pictures flatter me. He has been a “saint” thought this journey with me.

Rev. Tiago spoke of appreciation yesterday…. I really have true appreciation for my GP.

Always pray to become a better person. Oyashikiri

Donkey pix. Pinterest

last picture >dailymaial.co.uk

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Rev Tiago de Medeiros Chagas – Photography

My name is Rev. Tiago de Medeiros Chagas, and I am a Brazilian minister of a church founded in Japan. I consider the Church of Perfect Liberty a universal church.

In the end of last year, I decided to buy a camera to take some pictures of my family. I always had cameras (point-and-shoot), but I was never a big enthusiastic about taking pictures. I used to do it in big family events and so forth, but that’s it! My level of photography could be considered below beginner. For those who understand about photography, I didn’t even know the difference between a point-and-shoot camera and a DSLR!

Rev. Eugene (the head minister of the Church of Perfect Liberty in Ottawa, whom is my supervisor) studied about photography in school, so, he knows a lot about photography. One day, when I was trying to take an impossible photo with my camera, he kindly explained to me why I wouldn’t be able to do what I intended to, as well as, what I should do in order to take that photo. Maybe as a response to his kindness, I became very interested to know more about photography, understand more about words, such as ISO, aperture, and shutter speed, which by the way, I had never heard before.

Since then, I’ve been trying to learn more and more about photography.

I bought a very basic entry DSLR camera, because it was the cheapest one I could find and went online trying to learn more about photography. I was able to find several websites, blogs and channels on youtube of photographers who have been teaching people for FREE.

At first, my wife was not completely happy about it. She said that I was spending most of our free-time watching those videos, and that she wanted me do something else, but since I started taking pictures, and she could notice that, gradually, I was taking better pictures of her and our daughter, she got very happy and excited. In fact, she started to encourage me to watch more and more videos to better understand the fundamentals of photography, in order to take better pictures.

If I could say something about my own skills in photography, I would say that I am still in the level below beginner if that exists. There are so many things I need to understand about photography in order to call one of my photos an artistic expression, however, if we compare present photos with the ones I took in the past, I can say that there was a big improvement.

I am very impressed by those people who can learn by themselves about anything. I am not like that. In order to learn a little bit about anything and now especially photography, I have been asking questions to many people, watching many videos of those photographers who use their time to record photography lessons to post on youtube for anyone out in this entire world. Even though I am not a very intelligent man, thanks to assistance of many people, my questions about photography have been kindly answered, for which I am truly thankful.

In our lives, it is very difficulty to improve ourselves without others’ assistance. Maybe it is impossible to do it. We do need assistance all the time. Since the moment that we were born, we receive assistance from others like the doctors and nurses for the labour, our parents for pretty much everything, our teachers for education. When we grow up, even though we are completely healthy and we can work, if there is no job for us, we will be very difficult to survive. Also, one can be self-employed as a photographer for example, if there is no store open to buy a camera, it will be impossible for anyone to do their job.

If one is a very skilled chef, probably it will be easy to find a job in one restaurant, but if all the stores close down and there is no ingredients, despite of great skills, there won’t be anything to be done to express one’s self. Therefore, the great results one produces are deeply related to the great effort of many other people. We should never forget that. So, now it comes the one question. What can we do to honour those people who helped us so much?

For the Church of Perfect Liberty, appreciation has the meaning of expressing your gratitude for others, but also, do something in return. Transform your feeling of appreciation into action. And how can we do that? For those you have contact with, you can return a favour with something else, but for those who you don’t have contact anymore, like the physician who performed your labour, the nurses, teachers from kindergarten, or even your parents who did so much for you, that there is nothing you can do that can pay this ‘debt’ you have with them.

As human beings, we can put wholehearted effort into whatever we do, in order to honour those people and try make them feel proud of us. Based on our actions, they can feel that it was worth all their effort to help us.

Thank you very much,

Rev. Tiago de Medeiros Chagas (all photographs in this post by Rev.T)

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happy Mother’s day!

Today we celebrate not only Ancestor’s Day (11th of each month) but in Canada it is Mother’s Day as well. I am very blessed to still have my Mother in my life, she is a witty, caring and loving person who has managed to meet all her challenges with a determination that has been awe inspiring. 93 years young, she still faces life head on. Happy Mother’s day Mom… =^_^=

Life flowers, Mothers come in all shapes and sizes – first and foremost they are women.

“Don’t drown in life looking for a woman. Drown in a woman looking for life” Gibran (Khalil Gibran)

With sincere Makoto, (sincere effort) give thanks, and show appreciation. Many readers are a parent themselves I pay tribute to you all. The role of a parent takes on m any guises, always the most important aspect of life is LOVE

Celebrate Mother’s Day – Happy Mother’s Day to each and every parent who lives and shares the joy of parenting .. Oyashikiri

photos found on PInterest

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Good morning smile, happy day!

Isn’t this just the cutest most adorable face.. looks like a big smile plastered on his/her face. Its real, it’s called a Whale-head or Shoe-billed stork an dis found in tropical east Africa. It can be found in large swamps from Sudan to Zambia. It is interesting what can compel a person to want to go somewhere, this bird I’d really love to experience. See it walk, hear how it communicates, what a wonderful morning discovery.

This Swamp Sculpture can be found in Eastern Ireland. It is called the Ferryman’s End. (Victoria’s WayRoundwood.co. Wicklow, Ireland) I’ve been to swampy areas in my travels, but I have never experienced for myself some of the world known swamp lands, I was most intrigued by this sculpture, the artist had to conceive the idea, build it, and then place it. Amazing workmanship. Since swamps to me are just boggy areas found in low lying land and usually freeze over come the cold weather. Swamps that house alligators, crocks and life forms all year round due to the totally different climate and geography hold a fascination for me.

This is Swamp Forest in Naikoon Provincial Park, Haiida Gwaii, BC. Canada, I found this picture while looking for inspiration to make a one of a kind doll that was going to be a swamp fairy.

Photo by John Hunter, 9/2005 – he canoed through the swamp in South Carolina, I’m afraid that this morning I have lost myself in the swamps. This can happen, I was going to talk on a very different subject, blame it on the Shoe-billed stork, his smile just captured my imagination and off I went further into the swamps. =^_^= I make no apologies, the artists/photographers of these pictures did such a good job of catching the moment, preserving them for us to enjoy, that I willingly wandered from point X to point B. My choice. … now what do you think, I found this house, wonder if it is for rent. I might sit a spell and delight in the moment. Care to join me?

Life is what we make it… thanks for travelling with me this morning.. on our mini journey. Happy Saturday! Oyashikiri

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No regrets

Having attended at blues concert the other night,my mind is still tripping through the various emotions and feelings that played through the night. The DJ had a tremendous knowledge of the music he played and he knew how to blend and knit the sounds so smoothly that you were drawn in almost immediately to his web. The DJ was one, SkyRider Sicling he plays nothing but the blues, down home southern blues. His partner is Butterflyrose, (owner of Sweet Magnolias) together they bring the house down. I will be reporting more on them at a later time.

What DJ Sky brought to me, were sound vibrations, that vibrated and sang through me like a massage that started inside and worked its way through out my body,( as the song goes), to higher and higher planes of personal ecstacy. If you are a music lover, what ever style you connect with, you know what I mean. This DJ has a talent for weaving a spell with his selections. that is an art form. Many other’s have a talent with music and can put together a good play list, This is not what this DJ does, he knows his music so well, that he can actually work the songs into a total experience that encapsulate you in his web. Compare the difference of going to the movies, and going to an Imax theatre.

His music may not be your style, but you appreciate the blues in anyway shape or form, you owe it to yourself to hear this man’s performances. I am told he does a gospel hour on Sundays, I have yet to attend or hear what he does with Gospel, but you can believe me when I say, as soon as I can get to one of his Gospel presentations, I’ll be there.

In life, we all face difficulties / challenges, and how we deal with them always involves choices. Sometimes we make good choices, and other times, we don’t quiet hit the mark. I’ve learned that if I am faced with a choice, its because I have a lesson to learn. Whatever that lesson is, it is mine, I own it. When you own the choices you make in life, when you look at problems as opportunities for growth. You have no regrets… life is good. Another door opens.

Blessings everyone! happy start to the week-end. Oyashikiri

Tunes found on YouTube

1- Edith Piaf, non je ne regrette rien

2. Bobby Blue Bland – you have to hurt before you heal

3- Candy Dulfer, living for the love of you, with guest Angie Stone