Animals
- Perspective
If you love taking photos,then you will agree with me that there is absolutely no lightso perfect as early morning. Once the sun has risen above the horizon,its rays are horizontal with the earth making colors the most vibrant. And so, with the greenest...
- Scenes From An Autumn Day
Early Autumn in our neck of the woods... The corn is dry... the leaves are changing... the grass remains green... all under the bluest of blue skies! Love!I took the above pictures on my way to the feed store yesterday.Running errands is like being...
- Protecting The Divine
I walk outside in the morning, bathed in the light of the rising sunand I come alive. The earth reaches up to support my soles,and in doing so, stirs my soul. My skin is kissed by the gentle breeze that gives dry leaves flight,and I humbly thank...
- Slowing Down
Yesterday was a "slow down" kind of day.I needed it.Truly. Stop. Take a deep breath...really deep...exhale slowly. Feel it? That's the sort of day it was. After all the preparations, the lists, the projects of the past few weeks,I took a day...
- Miracles
Last week, during "Staycation" I noticed that one of our kids was reading a bookabout bringing miracles into your life.I have been thinking a lot about this subject all week long. It seems to me that nowadays in this hustle-bustle world in which we live,that...
Animals
An Exercise....
Consider, for a moment, these tall grassy fronds blowing in the Autumn breeze...
Look at the way the sunlight plays with each frond...
turning it into spun platinum,
with sparkling light and shadows against the clear blue sky.
Imagine being asked to paint what you see.
You couldn't paint it without the use of many colors.
And yet, in our mind's eye we so often over-simplify what we see.
We might say that the leaves on a tree are green,
yet it would take a box of many colors to create a life-like representation of them.
Sure, a rose is a rose...
but in taking time to really see it, really smell it, really touch it...
a rose will become much more.
It will become an amazingly magical delicate miracle of nature.
So, my challenge to you is this....
try to take the time to look at the world as if you had to paint it.
Observe how light plays with objects, casting highlights and shadows.
Imagine what colors you would have to add to your palette to bring life to your picture.
I promise you this...
looking at your world in this manner will bring magic to your day.
You will learn to appreciate the simple things more than you can imagine.
And if you are up for just one more challenge....
take a lesson from Ginger and MaryAnn.
Take a moment to lie in the grass.
Feel the cool earth beneath you,
the warmth of the Autumn sun washing over you,
and maybe the cool breeze making the tiny hairs on your skin stand on end.
What do you hear? What do you smell? What do you feel?
Why do you think Ginger is smiling?
You see, at the end of it all....
when we draw our last breath and close our eyes for the last time,
I know we will not wish that we had done just one more load of laundry,
or had cleaner floors....
no....
we will wish that we could lie in the grass just one more time and surround
ourselves with the beauty of our world!
- Perspective
If you love taking photos,then you will agree with me that there is absolutely no lightso perfect as early morning. Once the sun has risen above the horizon,its rays are horizontal with the earth making colors the most vibrant. And so, with the greenest...
- Scenes From An Autumn Day
Early Autumn in our neck of the woods... The corn is dry... the leaves are changing... the grass remains green... all under the bluest of blue skies! Love!I took the above pictures on my way to the feed store yesterday.Running errands is like being...
- Protecting The Divine
I walk outside in the morning, bathed in the light of the rising sunand I come alive. The earth reaches up to support my soles,and in doing so, stirs my soul. My skin is kissed by the gentle breeze that gives dry leaves flight,and I humbly thank...
- Slowing Down
Yesterday was a "slow down" kind of day.I needed it.Truly. Stop. Take a deep breath...really deep...exhale slowly. Feel it? That's the sort of day it was. After all the preparations, the lists, the projects of the past few weeks,I took a day...
- Miracles
Last week, during "Staycation" I noticed that one of our kids was reading a bookabout bringing miracles into your life.I have been thinking a lot about this subject all week long. It seems to me that nowadays in this hustle-bustle world in which we live,that...