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Monday, yay another week!

Sunday morning found me standing in gales of wind, trying to capture this beauty without being blown away. A chain like fence wasn’t making it easier for me, but I wanted to capture the iron bird waiting to fly.

A different plane stood by, they both looked like the were waiting. I searched the area for signs of life, there were vehicles in the parking lot, but no signs of humans. This training field is near the Asian grocers where I shop, so I do often see small planes waiting for their next chance to soar up into the clouds. I had a service to be at, so didn’t get to stand around, one day I’ll have the timing right, meanwhile, I will enjoy them at rest.

A plane did soar through the skies above … but t was a big commercial plane heading off into the yonder. The main airport is not far from the location where I was standing… Unless you live or are near an airport, or a flight path… you seldom see or hear a plane these days. Just because we don’t hear or see them, doesn’t mean they are not there.

Later, in the afternoon I found myself out in the other end of the city, travelling down a road where this factory or industrial building caught my eye. During the week this place would be busy with big cement trucks and other industrial machinery working away … I would not have been drawn to the place. Probably driven by without giving it a glance. But yesterday it was the shapes and colours that drew my attention. It was a must that we drive down so that I could get out and walk to where I could get a better look.

There is something wonderfully appealing in the creative world around us. It is so diverse. How can we not marvel at the minds that pulled together to create so many of “hard core” ART around us in our everyday lives. I drive a truck, I enjoy getting in and being able to drive to where I want to go. It is important to remember and appreciate all the things we so easily take for granted in life.

The pilot might fly the plane, but he had to train, someone had to build the plane, it didn’t build itself, the hours of testing, the research and developement for the bet materials, the combinations, the safety standards, so much goes into our being able to live the lives we do. Let’s remember to give thanks, and to appreciate not only the people around us, but the many things in life that make our lives easier.

giving thanks, gratitude

appreciation

Namaste – Oyashikiri

taken in and around Ottawa, Canada

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Mr.Spud

Facebook has a habit of popping the past at you. This morning, I found this on my FB page. I wondered what on earth !! then I read the notation at the bottom, they had provided that too.

Do you recall what you did 6 years ago? And the next question, Do you really want to know?

Curious, that’s all.

Personally I care more about what I’m doing now and how I live now, PL Precept # 16 All things progress and Develop. Every moment counts, I love the experience of living. The past.. yes it was good at the time, but the reality is, I don’t even know where Mr. Spud is today, what happened to him. OH and the spuds, were they significant? who knows, that was then, this is now.

Enjoy the day everyone!

It is full of such potential and possibilities

PL Precept #21 Live in Perfect Liberty

Namaste – Oyashikiri

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country roads

There are times, when we are simply on a road, going nowhere in particular, just going. Sometimes roads are long and winding, other times, they simply are a cleared piece of land that cuts through a woodland, hillside, or acres of farmed land. Before it was the norm to have air conditioning in a car, we would drive with the windows open, experiencing the highs and lows of the ambience around us. Our senses were alert to all the world around us, including the dust that swirled around the car on hot lazy days, pebbles hitting the side of the car, the manure in the fields. We were bombarded with a myriad of sights,sounds and smells. We looked around more, we took in everything around us.

We took the tracks that led to places that were simply “lost in time”… When we stopped the world came alive with different sounds, and the blissful renderings of a countryside alive with the sounds of nature gave us a rhapsody of “quiet”

PL PRECEPT # 7 Everything Exists in Relativity

Fun, we walk =^_^=

Namaste – Oyashikiri

pictures taken rural Quebec-by Q

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Friendship & salads

Hey everyone, look, a salad. it just isn’t any salad, my sister made this salad. So what is the big deal, well let me tell you. When my sister was here visiting (from away) she had a bite with us, where my husband had made one of his super delicious salads. She liked it so much, that she savoured that experience till she got back to CA, and then made one up for herself.

Hers is different, it is her own taste buds that went to work to create the vision you see above. No two people will create the same masterpiece. Like friendships, we are all unique in what we bring to the relationship. I love my sister, she is my sister, however, when we were out one day on an excursion, we met a lovely lady in a Tim Horton’s.. neither of us knew her, but we sat with her and enjoyed the visit.

At one point in the conversation, my sister said, “we (she and I) were getting know each other”…. ding, it registered with me.. WOW it was true. just because we are sisters, doesn’t mean that we really know each other, we lives miles apart, and see each other only so many times a year. Our daily lives and our “habits” or the way we go about our lives, is really unknown to the other.

Her making this salad and sharing the picture with me, brought home, how special she is, and how much I do love her, as not just my sister but a friend. One that I hope to get to know better over the years to come.

PL Precept #18 Each moment is a Turning Point

PL Precept #16 All things Grow and Develop

PL Principle # 3 I will live with a mind of appreciation towards others and things

Have a grand start to the week-end.

what ever you do,

ENJOY!

Namaste – Oyashikiri

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Thursday Doors May 12

There is always a door, we need only find it.

Patience and Faith,

will guide us

PL Precept #11 – always be with God

There is something enduring about older vehicles

when you opened a door or closed one

there was a “feel” to it, that doesn’t come with the automobiles of today.

=^_^=

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Wordless Wednesday =sunshine yellows and….

So pretty, so bright, little dandelion

you are the Bee’s delight

no matter where you grow,

your golden glow

will beckon

and of course, euphorbia polychroma

the dense tuft of surprisingly green leaves

and lovely bright yellow bracts

reaching for the skies

the magnolia tree is preparing to shine

in a day or two

these delicate fuchsia buds will open

the deep defined leaves of the ivy

have started their climb

soon the buddha will be covered

not smothered,

but dressed in a living cloak or vest

next to the corkscrew hazel

this Amur maple has

started to protest the long winter

and is showing her strong desire

to break free and thrive again

all around

new growth abounds

the ground has come alive

and so my dears, have I

for like the seasons

each day is a new beginning

as the bees stir and begin their quests

the delicious dandelions

awaits their visit

Yay another day has begun

Happy Wednesday everyone!

Namaste – Oyashikiri

pictures and text -Q

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live love

Today is a busy world, how we keep in touch tends to be with a text, and e-mail .. AND if we are moved, we pick up the phone and have a chat. So often I hear that the chosen way to connect is by text.

I was out with my Mother and sister yesterday, my Mom is legally blind, and can no longer stand for long periods of time, due to a very nasty hip and bad back, so she is in a wheelchair. She has always enjoyed receiving, and sending out cards. At 95 she still has that desire to “keep in touch” and for her, she likes doing it by card and with a phone call. At 95 she is no longer surrounded by her many many friends, the cards arriving and the calls, have long ago stopped happening.

My sisters’ and I find ourselves doing her card shopping, she likes to always have cards on hand to send or give to friends and acquaintances, some of my friends who used to participate in the ATC (Artist Trading Card) rounds, used to send her cards, simply to share with her. She loved it. She has binders of saved mini art pieces that she can go back to and remember. To my wonderful friends who still send her an ATC and /or card, I appreciate and love you with my whole heart for being so thoughtful and generous, in sharing your gifts.

Since way before our time, love,caring appreciation, recognition was shared with a card, sentiment, letter, it was something done by the person sending, the special personal greeting, that when received, was always a special moment, and a time when a “fresh” connection was made … across the miles, distance and time vanished as the friendship was forged into a tighter bond.

It is not in the number of times, you do something, or how often you call, it is in the quality of the time you spend, and the sincerity of your actions.

Namaste = Oyashikiri

If I have not already shared the following clip with you, then please, if you have the time. give it a listen..

For a great video on letting go… take a moment to watch Amanda Gore

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Monday’s discovery

Early mornings find me quietly enjoying the creativity and thoughts of my fellow bloggers. anticipating my first cuppa ice-cold coffee, when Marga Demmers’ blog opens up.. The Photographer Smiled It was a fun read, and got me thinking about where I put my singing lids. You have all heard of singing bowls, yes?

Singing bowls (also known as Tibetan Singing Bowls, rin gongs, Himalayan bowls or suzu gongs) are a type of bell, specifically classified as a standing bell. Rather than hanging inverted or attached to a handle, singing bowls sit with the bottom surface resting, and the rim vibrates to produce sound characterized by a fundamental frequency (first harmonic) and usually two audible harmonic overtones (second and third harmonic).^{[citation needed]}

Singing bowls are used worldwide for meditation, music, relaxation, and personal well-being. Singing bowls were historically made throughout Asia, especially Nepal, China and Japan. They are closely related to decorative bells made along the Silk Road from the Near East to Western Asia. Today they are made in Nepal, India, Japan, China and Korea. – source Wikipedia

You can read more about the bowls on Wikipedia, I have a small collection, I love the sound produced in the older, (antique) bowls, they produce a harmonic overtone that resonates with me. The complex harmonic frequencies simply “speak” volumes to me. Each voice is unique. The hand-made bowls are my preference.

Modern bowls today, are manufactured. However, if you search you can still find newer ones that have been made in the traditional way. I admit to being a bit of a snob when it came to the bowls.. I went out of my way to search out and find just the “right” ones (for me and my uses)

I used them in my personal meditation and prayers, and with students and “clients” To this day, the sound of a bowl will ring out in the day or night-time atmosphere, as I allow myself to drift with the vibration and sound. The longer the bowl sings, the deeper the journey.

The bowls will sing if you run your wooden instrument along its sides, caressing it with a gently rhythm, or you can gently tap it with the leather or covered end of your mallet.. (personal preferences are many)

Rin gong at Kiyomizu-dera Kyoto

work by Michael Maggs click for more info

Those of us who enjoy and use the singing bowls, are passionate about them, and many will often give performances or demonstrations of just how melodic and mind satisfying the voices are. I play only for my own enjoyment and purposes.. however, many practice and use the bowl to play for large audiences.

Having a fondness for the bowls, you know that as I travelled and made my way around “treasure” shops, I looked for bowls that had been cast off, or simply given away, the previous owner thinking them merely decorative. while on such a hunt I happened to be in the aisle where they had on display pots, pans, lids and other household items. We had a pot that needed a cover.. so I was idly picking up different lids when I was jarred to attention, when this one lid sang to me. What… it was ugly, heavy and battered looking.. to be sure, I found myself a wooden stirring stick, and tentatively gave it a tap… WOW…. zing went the strings of my heart.

Love can happen when you least expect it to. It is just something that happens, we can go out and search all we like, but it is when we are ready, and open to the experience that we become naturally receptive to the calling, “voice” of another.

LOL all this to say… thanks to Marga, I dug out my lids ( I later found the one on the right, at home, waiting for me to see it just wasn’t a lid)

Love beckons from strange places, and when you least expect it. Isn’t Love Grand!!!!

HAPPY MONDAY EVERYONE

Namaste – Oyashikiri

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a far away place -dreams

Situated at the foot of the Sredna Gora Mountain, this property has a good disposition being 30 km away from Stara Zagora – the sixth largest town in Bulgaria. The property is located at the center of a nice and peaceful village, where you can face the beautiful nature and go fishing in the river nearby. One of the most famous winter ski resorts – Pamporovo is disposed 168 km away from the village.

The house consists of two stories, with living area of 90 sq. m., a garage for one car, an outbuilding and a garden vast 504 sq. m.

Ground floor: Here you can find an entrance, two rooms and a bathroom/WC. The house was built from sun-dried bricks and stones, the flooring here is wooden, and the frames of the windows are wooden, too.
First floor: An external staircase leads to it. There is a corridor, two bedrooms and a closet here. The flooring in the corridor and one of the bedrooms is cement, and the other premises have wooden flooring. The walls are made of sun-dried bricks, and the frames of the windows are wooden.

The garden is a small one and planted with box-trees, flowers, fruit trees, trellis vine. There is also a drill, which helps for the irrigation.

The house is in basic condition. It needs refreshment and renovation of the plasters. The property is supplied with electricity, running water /outside and inside/ and it is connected to the main sewerage system. An asphalt road leads to the property; it is accessible in the whole year.

The village itself offers shops, a café, a school, a church, a police station, a health service, a post office, a community center, a library, a kindergarten and regular bus transport to the towns and the villages in the vicinity. The region around is suitable for fishing, hunting, mountaineering and village tourism development. So do not miss the chance to become the new owner of that house.

I don’t know if you can access the website, I hope so … for years now I have been receiving the listings from this company, I saw a documentary one day on some travel station, and fell in love with the rural area of Bulgaria. The above is so totally foreign to my current lifestyle and how I go about my life, BUT it appeals to something inside of me.

When I read about places to visit and explore, seldom do I see anything about Bulgaria. In the documentary I saw, men still rode their carts pulled by donkeys through the village, everything seemed so peaceful.

Live your life to the fullest. But never stop dreaming. Our dreams allow us to travel beyond current boundaries, and offer promise of what lies ahead.

travel slowly, travel light,

most importantly, travel with God

PL Precept # 11 Always be with God

Namaste – Oyashikiri

listing is with Bulgarian Properties

photo from second picture is of a different property, it is development land near Veliko Tarnova

Within a short distance from the property there is a bus stop. In the neighborhood you can find a church and a town hall. Additionally, the area provides the following amenities for a pleasant and comfortable living and entertainment: a cafe, a mineral springs, a near architectural reserve, a near cave, a near monastery/monasteries, a near nature reserve, a reservoir/lake and a river. It is also worth-mentioning that there is no heavy industry in a close proximity.

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down by the river

When we live a life of “art” it does not only encompass you, but it affects the multitude of people around you. When we express our artistic ideas, and put them into action, if it pleases others, as well as ourselves, we are on the road towards a more peaceful existence.

By now you know that I love to sometimes just drive, and let the road take me to wherever it leads. I don’t mind taking a turn I’ve never taken before, or even stop on a side street, just to feel that ambiance of the area I am in, It is interesting that when out, I can chit-chat and happily chatter away with total strangers. yet when I come home, shut the door to the outside, I can do a total 360 degrees. Turn off the phones, and just bury myself in the quiet of the creative happenings in my studio/office.