Friendship – sometimes it is easier with a friend
and it is a good friend that will let you be silly
and share in your moment, to create a smile.
Share a smile today…
they are contagious!!
Namaste – Oyashikiri
**photo, Howard Berman (Getty Images)
*** lovedaylemon on flickr
It’s Monday…. oh dear…. the start of another week. Wonder what is on the agenda for today… last week seems so far away, Had I made plans, are my days all booked. Seems strange that last week, I thought this week was going to be clear … and I would have lots of time to explore.
The weather really doesn’t matter, I’m still left to ponder all on my own, of just what or how and when, this day will come to and end. The excitement of life comes from expressing our individuality. We are born with a one of a kind personality and individuality, or unique character, that is ours alone. In order to express our ourselves fully, it is important for us to live each moment to its fullest. With our out most makoto (sincerity)
There are times when we are faced with which or what path we want to be on. It really doesn’t matter if you go left or right, what matters that whatever you do, is what you want to do, and that you travel the path taking in each moment as best you can.
The 1st of the month we celebrate, Day of Peace. Today and everyday, let us, no matter where we are, work towards wold peace. What ever you decide to do today, do it well, if you have time, sit for a spell… and enjoy the day, give thanks for being part of a world that holds an abundance of love, joy and laughter, we need only cultivate it in our lives. Peace be with you.
Oyashikiri – Namaste
picture of gorge in Switzerland (Jura Mtn, valley)
picture of lake Sils, Switzerland
A friend asked me the other day.. what was I reading, I replied I was reading the Jewish Pleasure Principle by Rabbi Dr. Reuven P. Bulka. “No, that isn’t what I meant, aren’t you reading a “real” book”
Now having known this friend a long time I knew what she meant, she was asking if I was reading a “leisure” book, to her the hardcover, was not “leisure” but a text-book. A publication that speaks of formulating a Judaic approach to pleasure,attitudes to suffering, depression and mourning etc.was not her idea of “leisure”.
However the reading of a good stimulating journal that explores and attempts to put balanced perspective through an investigation of primary sources, to me…. is interesting and I enjoy my discoveries. Pleasure itself cn be viewed within the framework of the totality of life. As a writer, I thrive on reading what someone else has put to paper, especially on topics that I find thought-provoking and interesting.
Yes I do enjoy a good novel, where the settings are exotic, or can stimulate the gray cells into providing me a dreamy far away place where the drama of someone’s life unfolds, casts a spell and has me in that world for days until the story ends.
I had an interesting conversation with a young lady the other night, she boldly talked to me about intimate moments in her life, and I took it in and listened. She spoke of loneliness and I flashed back to my younger years, we all live the same emotions in our own way. We are not all story tellers, but we are characters in or own “stories” (lives). How we play out our days, and create our endings… now that is another story.
oh…what a find the perfect place to be…………….uh huh….. not for me…. what….. the water, the privacy the quiet cabin in the woods by a lake.. nope…. I would find this stifling, I wouldn’t like the dampness, or the bugs.
No, this is for me, open, bright, small, with just enough place for 1 maybe 2, but up near the clouds where the mind can explore and where sight and sound have no bounderies. oh man…………….yesssss
Wherever you are today, whatever you are doing…. enjoy …. take it in…. make it yours…..
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Take pleasure to another level, share.
Namaste – Oyashikiri
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One’s character shines through, when we help those who cannot help themselves.
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Yesterday we drove out to Combermere, Ontario, to the Madonna House Pioneer Museum and St. Raphael’s Handicraft Centre. It is a beautiful drive through cottage country, I confess to being so tired, that I fell asleep on the way up and missed a lot of beautiful scenery. For those who know Madonna house, I need not explain it, but a short note for those who are new to Madonna House, it is run by missionaries, all items that are on display in the museum, or for sale in the shops, are donated, and ALL the proceeds go the poor.
The museum is pat of the Renfrew County Museums Network, there is a main shop with a multitude of collectibles, curios and antiques. There is an Art Gallery with paintings, prints and other works of art. One of my favourite haunts is The Small Shop, a thrifty shopper’s favourite, vintage items, costume jewelry and countless pieces of interest.
It is known for its Book Shop with a wide variety of used books, rare and antique special collections. The Pioneer Museum is a must if you are interested in an extensive Canadian Collection of old tools and…. the museum was built from 100 year old hewn logs by experts in the Madawaska Valley. for the museum, it is a guided tour.
Coming up Labour Day Week-end. September 5th and 6th. 1 pm – 4 pm they are having a Heritage Fest. Where you can see first hand, their skills in wool carding, spinning,weaving,felting, bee hive demonstrations, butter churning, pottery, and wood carving.
Madonna House is self-sufficient, in that it runs a farm to produce, for example, the sheep fibres used in the wool carding, spinning and weaving, cows for the milk, and butter, this is a must visit for families that want their children to know what life was like, prior to all the modern technology that we are bombarded with today.
Coordinates for Madonna House 2887 Dafoe Road, (Hwy 517) Combermere, Ontario. 613-756-3713 or visit http://www.madonnahouse.org please if you have the time, visit their website, they are dedicated to loving and living a life of service, in all aspects of everyday life….
Namaste – Oyashikiri
Abandoned or forgotten, is there a difference…
On the 11th of each month, we in PL (Perfect Liberty) celebrate Ancestors Day,
with a special ceremony. Through this ceremony, we express our gratitude
for the love and virtues of our ancestors, asking that we ourselves, continue
to grow and learn to bring love and understanding to others in the world around us.
By now, most of you know I love to discover an old abandoned vehicle, and capture it
to enjoy and add to my Pinterest board, the neighbours I’m sure appreciate that i don’t
bring them home to display on the front lawn, or the back forty. Not all of them are left to the elements
some like the one above have been lovingly restored, and are happily on the road again.
We can do that with an object, but with a human heart, no……
Once the love and laughter is gone, and the body fails to carry on
we are left with an empty space, all that will remain is a memory in its place
Appreciate and love .. today…
In expressing appreciation to God in our daily lives, with sincerity (makoto)
we renew our determination to follow and practice a way of life that ensures
our memories and our quality of life in the moment, will be good ones.
Seek to retain focus in your faith and connection with God
Always – Forever
Namaste – Oyashikiri
If you have never lived with a whippet you have not had the occassion to see them in sleep mode. They can run like the wind, jump like kangaroos, sneak like thieves, but when it is time to sleep, they zone,
Humans do a lot of running,moving, and racing about, but when it comes to sleep, many miss the boat.. We might sleep, but we seldom totally zone. Those of us who do, who are able to simply lie down and “disappear” letting our bodies totally rest, and our minds shut down, are very blessed.
I’d like to share with you a true story. A dear friend has told me over the years about how her daughters first husband went to work one day and never returned.
Police were called in and for years, there was a search for this man, The family even hired a private detective. Eventually all hope was lost, he had vanished, and there was not a sign of him anywhere.
He had left behind a daughter. My friend’s daughter and her 1-year-old child were left wondering what had happened. For years they suffered the pain of not knowing. Eventually with time, for my friend’s daughter, she was able to put the past behind, and she remarried and had another daughter.
The daughter, the one whose father had just up and left, spent a lifetime, yearning and wondering. Married now with two children of her own, she still grieved for the father she had never known. In her heart, she prayed that one day he would be found and returned to her, or at least, they would learn of what had happened and closure for her could happen.
In her heart, she kept his memory alive, remember she was only a year old when he disappeared. Yet she held her father in her heart and always in her prayers.
The other day, 35 years later, he knocked on his parents door, a mature adult man, white hair (he had been fair ) with a the question, was he welcomed. You can imagine the shock, the tears, the reunion of the parents with their son.
He saw his daughter that Sunday, she invited the grandparents, their son (her estranged father) to dinner to meet her husband and her two daughters ( his grandchildren).. After dinner with the husbands permission, he and his daughter took a long walk together, to talk and get to know one another. Love is……
Faith and prayer are powerful tools. Life happens … not when we want or expect it to.. But when it is meant to happen.
Namaste – Oyashikiri
What is.. no more… no less.
whippet pictures Pinterest
I’m short on words today, but I can inject a good quote and a couple of funnies into your day.. It is a lovely day, I hope you get to enjoy it, it is the open road for me today… I’m gonna make my way into the country, pass fields of corn and clover, old barns and ones that have been made over into something all brand new. Be back soon.
btw.. programs that don’t have spell check..are grrrrr…in my book
Have you ever been walking on a clear day, just going about on your every day travels, when you find yourself suddenly shrouded with a fog, that seemed to appear out of nowher…..There is an old expression, “i was blind sided” means something happens and you never saw it coming. It happens. Sometimes more often than we would like it to.
Lessons in life are never straight forward, they are a way for life to remind us that we have gotten slack or lazy in how we are living or proceeding in life. We do not walk alone on the earth, we are surrounded by others who are going about their lives in the same way. Each with feelings, miseries and problems of their own. It is how we deal with the challenges in life that sets us apart and makes us unique in who we are, and what we are. Not just towards others, but to ourselves. We must never forget that we count, and that love, and light comes from within.
We need not look far to see the signs of distress, loneliness, and abandoned dreams, we need only turn on the telly or a radio to hear about the conflicts happening all over the world. The reality is that is only one side of the coin. In this creative photo manipulation, instead of the foot coming down – causing gloom and doom, it is being lifted and kept away by the steady, reliable protective hand of GOD/TAO.
The TAO/WAY is always there … ALWAYS, we decide we can look at it in the distance, or we can walk through the door/portal and discover what lies beyond self imposed restrictions. We are responsible for our choices and our actions.
Believe, have faith, cross over – discover new realities, you are and never will be alone – God is everywhere, in the air you breathe and the essence of your life.
Surreal… … no life … is real
Namaste – Oyashikiri
*A special Thank You to my friend Mollie who got me started on this, when I found one of her pins.(Pinterest)
** bridge in China (Zhangiajie,Hunan)
***last picture, Bt images
Really?
Could this be me?
Why do I feel this way….
I am sad because i failed to see
that my Russia Olive (tree)
needed me..
You see I planted her
when she was very young,
and until recently I have checked her every day
she is not hard to miss,
she is right outside my bedroom window
and to the left of the deck when I go out.
Yet with the heat
and with all the … this and that…
that have been happening in my days
I saw she was getting top-heavy,
but I didn’t go further then register that thought
in my sun drenched, heat wilted brain
With an overnight rain, now she bows her head
in shame, for she is no longer standing proud and vain
Yes she has even started to bear fruit
her very first year to produce fruit
now she needs repair
True in nature on her own, she would be fine
but i adopted and brought her here
and put her down in the ground of a city lot
I took responsibility, and then forgot
The PL Second Founder said: When you have to pay for things, pay them joyfully and quickly without regret. In the same manner when you something to be done, let’s do it without any reluctance or hesitation. When you have to say something necessary, let’s express boldly and shamelessly without any compromise. This is the mot natural and right way to follow, PL Precept 19. Begin once you Perceive.
Namaste – Oyashikiri
yes.. she will be attended to today!!
Russian Olive, Elaegnus angustifolia,photo by B.N. Sullivan
I fell in love……once……..
and then by chance,
it happened again…….
each time i thought, this is forever……
how silly, how young, how unprepared
for the passion of erotic bliss
there is a difference
you do know this….. of course you do
there is lust and there is sex
but when young what do you expect
true love comes from within
lasting love is a gift….
it begins with knowing how to care
really care for the goddess/god within
Once….. you have tasted and known such love
there really can be no other
the giving of one’s self, is not a solitary action…
In nature, there is a force that builds from within
how it is released is known only by the force that holds the key
once, I recognized that love was not
a physical connection
that spiritual makoto (sincerity) was the main ingredient
the once, became forever
no matter the conditions, no matter what is on the surface
the eternal flame lives within
once fanned, it will grow and flow
oh yes, false and fake eruptions can be reproduced
man-made, they won’t last, there is a lot of fizzle and then poof, its gone
when you truly allow Nature to erupt in all its glory
the moment will live/love on.. history has been made
Namaste – Oyashikiri
France, Monet gardens
daiymail.co.uk,Mount Etna
Iceland, Eyjafjallajökull volcano
Hawaii volcano, photo by Greg Vaughn
science for kids
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