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Southern Gospel

Sometimes a song will come to you and it stays, this song I heard for the first time maybe a couple of months ago, and it has since been with me almost daily I hear myself humming it in the car and whenever I’m feeling a need for a pick me up. It was a song I heard on the internet, so I wasn’t able to just play it when I wanted, but I loved the song. While wandering through a thrift shop one day, I was looking for music for my mother who enjoys gospel, one of the CDs I found was called Southern Gospel, Share the Joy, it was an artist sampler from 1999. I added it to the pile I had found for my Mother paid and left the store. When giving the disks to my Mother, this one somehow got missed and was still in my car. I put it in the player and imagine my surprise when the 3rd son in was Ivan Parker singing “he’s on Time”

Now let me be clear here, I grew up in a house with music, Big Bands and the like,my favourite stations were the ones I could get from American stations that played Motown, dooWop and the like. I was an R & B (Rhythm and Blues) enthusiast. While my friends listened to Pat Boone, Elvis Presley and Everly Brothers, my Mother would listen to Johnny Cash and Loretta Lynn. Whatever genre of music you enjoy, you enjoy it because it speaks to you, it weaves its magic and pulls on your feelings. When I went through a phase of writing songs, I found that my writing lent itself to the new country that was becoming popular. When I traveled the roads playing in clubs, we were mainly an R & B band that would include a mix of the new country that rocked. However when we found ourselves booked in a club that was mainly a honky tonk country “joint” we had to adjust. Agents would send us anywhere they could book us. That was what life was like on the road. We learned to make the best of where we were, not only did we learn to expand our horizons, we met wonderful people and learned about cultures totally foreign to us. Bonus we saw amazing landscapes in all 4 seasons as we drove from one gig to the other.

Even when you put all your efforts into something, you may find yourself on a different road then you thought you were on. No matter where you are, you are always where you should be. Once you realize that this is where you are, look around and see just where you have landed. Take a look, and a second one if you need to, life is a blessing we are here to experience the various journeys, challenges included. If you are unhappy with the present, by travelling away from your unhappiness you will discover that you will have traveled with a hitch hiker… happiness is a state of mind, it isn’t a commodity that can be bought or sold.

Flowers for you today, fellow travelers on this road we are traveling …you touch my heart, I thank you over and over for you “friendships” I truly appreciate each and every one of you.

Namaste – Oyashikiri

** Austria Landscapes by Dmitris Belokons (found on easyidea.info)

*** arrangement by Crossroads Florist, Mahwah,NJ

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A new day.. a new beginning

~quiet reflection~

still waters and gentle mist

are a blessing and a gift

the sky a tranquil blue

calls me to you

the day is brand new

as I renew my vow to you

of dedicated devotion

amen

Namaste ~ Oyashikiri

verse by Q

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Bonjour c’est mardi, good morning everyone!

In exercise of meditation /concentration, trying to force results will only lead to an undesired outcome. Changes no matter what they are, ( although at the time we don’t think it is what we want), in time we learn, they are usually the best for us, and the catalyst to an improved and better state of BEING.

Let us pray/meditate today for all who need to feel an extra boost of positive energy coming their way. Take time today to touch base with a friend, smile at a stranger, wish people a good day. May YOUR day be blessed with the knowledge that you are loved.. always and forever… Oyashikiri

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Funny how time slips away

This picture* was taken somewhere along the Central Coast, farmland,ocean, ocean, farmland with some nice mountains thrown in along the way for good measure. I talk a lot about quiet, contemplation and the living life as it it presented to you. Being unique each and every one of us, experiences life in a different way. No matter how grown up I get,I never cease to be amazed at how much I am touched by another human beings courage, or determination in the face of challenging news or obstacles that are put in their paths.

No matter how difficult today seems, when you have that piercing moment of stabbing pain and doubt, remember that it is only a passing segment in you life, and that tomorrow will be another day. Actually in an hours time, this moment will be part of history.

LOL how often of late do I hear, darn I forgot what I came in to do, or I know I left my glasses somewhere, for me its my car keys, they turn up, inanimate objects get put down, or left behind when something new (thought/phone call/distraction) comes along.

In PL, there is a Principle that I have to work hard at everyday to do my best to live in this way. It is PL Principle #2, I will not have complaints about others, matters, nor the weather. Rather I will always be creative and will look for shortcomings in my own thinking and actions. Principle #6 – I will not be stubborn, being captured by my own thoughts. There are only 21 principles in PL (Perfect Liberty) but by golly, each one packs a mitt full of lessons to work on … My challenge every day is to try and bring each one into my life as my journey through the day progresses.

It helps me to be reminded to leave the past in the past, and to remember that what is important is what I am doing right now, this very moment. ( I smile thinking of you as I write this knowing that you will be reading my words sometime later today.) A friend asked me who I am speaking to when I get personal … I’m speaking to each and ever pair of eyes that wander through my thoughts with me. I feel very blessed to have met you through this blog. And believe me when I say that I appreciate each and everyone of you, I’ll never tire of our friendship, it will change, it will flow, and it will grow. That is what life is all about.

WE are not inanimate objects, we are a life form, part of the Universe, we survive and regroup, we are like the moss and the lush green forest that reclaims what time forgets. It is a slow process, but the growth is life. Life is beautiful in all its stages.

Ireland – Heaven’s Trail – every two years, (June 10-18) the stars line up with this path. Time – Funny how it slips away =^_^=

Now is always the start of something new. – Have a greet Saturday everyone! You are in my prayers – Oyashikiri

* posted by Monica Roberts -Pinterest

** the land that time forgot, by Peteryoung1 on flickr

*** found on 28dayslater.co.uk

**** blogs4fun271.blogspot.com

**** – Ireland, via Alianne Hemmsherk

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Guten Tag ! Buongiorno!

Sometimes I just have to share with you some of my finds.

Sometimes I find a photograph that leaves me without words to express what I am thinking, or the wonder that fills my mind, Is it real, how did it happen or come to be… It was posted on Pinterest by a Nathan Eames. (Poole,UK)

Every day I have such moments in my life. Moments where I am simply overcome with an emotion that carries me away. It could be something as simple as walking outside with one of the dogs and seeing a squirrel run across the hydro or telephone line as easily as I walk along a sidewalk. The other day I noticed a small purple violet peaking out from a small clump of freshly unfurled moss green leaves. There are crumbling pieces of broken concrete from a weather worn bird bath that somehow seem to give character to the sprawling juniper. If I look even harder I see the faces of long forgotten art dolls looking out at me wondering if I’ve forgotten them. I have. There is just so much to see, explore and experience right here at home, yet when I see the finds of others. like the picture above. I truly am amazed. Isn’t technology wonderful. How blessed we are to live in an age of “social media” where artists can share their works, visual and otherwise by simply posting it for others to see.

Value your time here, actually see the world around you, listen to the sounds of life that fill your day. Most of all, appreciate the true worth of those around you. Family, friends, tell someone you care, don’t assume they know. We all need to know we matter in someone else’s world.

No matter how big or small the part we play, we are all ONE under the moon/stars/sun. Blessings… Oyashikiri

bottom photo via Jane Abernathy Hahn -Pinterest

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Friendships

Why I am not blue

and why I’m not missing you.

a new morning begins each day
and always the night will slowly sink away

You my friend are always with me

Friendships that are true

will stand the tests of time, and will always be

love is not a measurement of time

it is a true connection with the Divine

it is knowing and believing

we are ONE

I do

found on 500px.com Stephen Oachs on Fivehundredpx

Sometimes a picture is worth a 1000 words. this picture just left me in awe. Stephen Oachs, I would love to be standing where you were when you got this pboto.

Have a grand day everyone… Blessings… Oyashikiri

Top photo – Pinterest

words are mine, Q

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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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Fitness

$minteral, fractal, nature's art found on flickr$

Fitness, what does the word conjure up in your mind when you think of fitness, is it your weight, your overall body’s ability to work out, run, walk, do? What exactly does it mean to you. I went to the gym first thing this morning after the feeding of the dogs. Somehow my body seems to prefer waking up to the familiar routine of walking and spinning. To those of you who have traveled along with me for some time, you remember years ago when I first started at TAC (www.theottawaathleticclubs.ca ) how fired up I was, enthusiastic was an understatement. I was going 7 days a week, you couldn’t keep me away. Thankfully that was back then, now I am much more realistic. ah ha ah. am I hearing some snickers out there.

After my workout, I come home and have fresh fish for breakfast. When I looked for fish recipes I was surprised to find that there were so few plain fish, steamed, or baked recipes, with NO batter, or not drenched in butter or sauces. Anyway, I beg pardon I am digressing. Being back at the gym I find myself more “intune” with a part of me that somehow got very lazy over winter, and truth be told, rather boring.

Ok so I won’t be doing that anytime soon, but I am working out, and I have signed up with a personal trainer. Michelle from Epic Fitness, a smaller gym that’s focus is on personal training. epicfitnessottawa.com Why 2 different gyms, because they are so totally different. Yes they basically are both gyms but their approach and their styles are different. I tried a PT at TAC earlier on my “fitness” journey, but it just didn’t work out, I obviously was not ready for the guidance or really open to allowing someone else help me.

Fitness is not only the physical part of your life, it involves a total commitment from ALL of you. If our Makoto (sincere effort) isn’t 100% then no matter who you are working with, they will encounter a resistance. You may not even know you are doing it, but for you to succeed at achieving your goal, you must partner with the trainer in a relationship much like a friendship so you can accomplish what you set out to do.

C.S. Lewis said >Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art…. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival. <

Good Morning everyone! Friday is well on its way. Enjoy the day! Be yourself it is the only way!

Love and Blessings… Oyashikiri

pictures >Pinterest (top picture -fractal mineral.jpg)

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dag/Hallo, hello? you hearing me?

Buen dia. bonjour, once the greetings are said, how carefully do you listen. Do you sometimes feel that you are talking into a void, even though you have someone there, talking with you, do you sometimes feel their thoughts are elsewhere? When it happens to you, how do you react, do you pretend you don’t notice, or do you end the conversation and move along. I guess it can depend on the situation. I was on the receiving end of such a conversation last night, someone initiated a conversation with me, then suddenly it was as if, the person was in another room, then he said he had another incoming call, would I mind waiting. Sound familiar, happen to you? My reply is to say, hey no problem call me back when you have time, and I hang up. I personally would not do that to someone I had called, nor do I appreciate someone doing it to me. Call me old-fashioned, but if you call to speak with me, then whoever else is calling can wait.

More and more with the new technology the niceties are slowly fading in our interaction with others. Communication is peppered with icons, acronyms and broken down sentences so that maybe your message is understood, maybe it isn’t. Our cell phones, iPads, note books even make spelling corrections for us, that can and often completely change the direction or context of the message being sent. The question should be, not only can you hear me, but do you understand what I am saying to you.

I have one friend who can drive me crazy when he texts … I can see he is writing, and so I wait, the little pen stops, and nothing comes across to my screen, he does this several times, so I can see that he has something to say, but what I also see is he changes his mind 3, 4, sometimes 5 times and then says nothing. It is a catch 22, I’m thrilled at being able to text to friends all over the world, have real-time conversations, but on the other hand,I miss a good old-fashioned letter, where thoughts are carefully put on papers, maybe even a few doodles, then signed with care/ love, and sent. The recipient always knew that the person who wrote, spent time composing and thinking about what to share, then took the time do do an envelope and post the visit for you to receive and enjoy. Snail mail, miss it!

The empty corridor reminds me of communication today, we are in such a hurry to get on to the next task or conversation, we miss out on the nuances and often the intent of the conversation we are currently having. Listening will soon be a lost art. The ability to have a real meaningful conversation will it fade into history too? We all want to have, and be good friends. And, Lit we desire relationships that are long lasting and enduring. To achieve this, after we say our Guten Tag, we really do have to listen and be present in the conversation we are entering into. Yes! Listen to others carefully and with a clear mind.

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Estrella (Sp.) Star

Good Morning Everyone =^_^=

Do stars mean anything to you? I remember back (way back) when we were given a star for good behaviour, etc. in school. Report cards would have stars on t hem to show how well you had done in different assignments, or topics. In school plays we got to wear a star on our head (on a headband) and a pretty dress to show “good”. Stars being nocturnal are associated with night. Stars, the 17th enigma of the Tarot, the representation of the soul uniting spirit with matter (Intercommunication of the different worlds) As a light shining in the darkness, the star is a symbol of the spirit. In reference books it is pointed out that the star rarely carries a single meaning, it nearly always alludes to multiplicity.

In today’s world, we don’t go around putting stars on our colleagues foreheads, or post it note it to their shoulders, but we can show appreciation by saying thank you, or job well done. All people have good qualities, focus on the good in others. After years of marriage, my husband still says “thank you” for his dinner/supper or whatever, and tells me when he enjoys/ likes something that I’ve done. When we first married, he had to remind me more than once to be more verbal in my appreciation, he was right, I took for granted at time that he would know how much I appreciated things he did around the house, I saw them, but I didn’t say anything. We need to say thank you, and/or recognize the good in others. We sure appreciate the kind words when they come our way.