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Tell It
We have enough people who tell it like it is – now we could use a few who tell it like it can be. ~ Robert Orben
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Tagged art, bc, Beauty, freedom, happy place, heart, home, hope, inspiration, Life, light, photograph, Quote, remember, Robert Oben, seeing, thoughts, words
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Compassion
Like honesty, compassion may be expressed through verbal means but its basic form of communication is silence. ~ Clark E. Moustakas
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Tagged bc, Beauty, Clark E. Moustakas, communication, compassion, forest, freedom, heart, honesty, hope, inspiration, Life, nature, photograph, Quote, remember, share, silence, survival, thoughts, words
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Regrets
Don’t regret the past, just learn from it. ~Ben Ipock
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Tagged Beauty, Ben Ipock, freedom, hope, inspiration, learn, Life, memories, past, Peace, photograph, Quote, regrets, remember, seeing, survival, thoughts, words
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Circumstantial Evidence
Man is not the creature of circumstances. Circumstances are the creatures of man. ~Benjamin Disraeli
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Tagged Benjamin Disraeli, circumstances, Covid, creatures, evidence, Life, photograph, Quote, seeing, survival, thoughts, winter, words
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My Opus
Why am I doing this, all these binders, too much information. I started researching my family tree, then trying to fit pieces of my personal puzzle together from the years I’d lost when I was ill. It became a habit, … Continue reading
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Tagged albums, binders, diaries, family, heart, history, inspiration, Life, memories, nature, opus, past, photograph, present, record, share, survival, thoughts, words, Writing
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Tête-à-tête
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Tagged bc, Beauty, Fall, flowers, garden, impatiens, Life, nasturtium, nature, photograph, red, thoughts, words, yellow
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Life In The Cemetery
A beautiful, quiet place to contemplate the meaning of life. Words, symbols, plants, flowers, birds all add meaning to the place where ones body ends up, and where life no longer has any meaning at all except to those who … Continue reading
Character
You show your character in nothing more clearly than by what you think laughable. ~Goethe
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Tagged character, Goethe, laughable, Life, photograph, Quote, remember, thoughts, words
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Hope
Hope is the thing with feathers, That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words And never stops at all. ~Emily Dickinson
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Tagged bc, Beauty, Emily Dickinson, feathers, hope, inspiration, Life, nature, photograph, poem, remember, sings, soul, survival, tune, words
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Dawn Chorus Off Key
Dawn chorus welcomes a brand new day, ‘Good morning, Good morning,” the birds seem to say, And then some human gets on the line, with grating complaint and pitiful whine. I’ve not heard a bird sound quite as bitter as … Continue reading
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Tagged birds, dawn chorus, Life, photograph, poem, thoughts, Trump, tweet, twitter, words
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Victim or Victor
A victim continues to look at what they lost, a victor looks at what was kept.
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Tagged bc, Beauty, forest, freedom, happy place, hope, inspiration, Life, nature, Peace, photograph, Quote, remember, survival, thoughts, words
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Balance
A great many people in this country are worried about law and order. And a great many people are worried about justice. But one thing is certain: you cannot have either until you have both. ~ Ramsey Clark
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Tagged balance, bc, Beauty, don't worry, forest, justice, law and order, Life, nature, photograph, Quote, Ramsey Clark, remember, seeing, words
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Criticism
The best criticism of the bad is the practice of the better. Oppositional energy only creates more of the same. ~Centre for Action and Contemplation
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Tagged bc, Beauty, Centre for Action and Contemplation, contemplation, criticism, inspiration, Life, nature, oppositional energy, photograph, practice, Quote, seeing, thoughts, winter, words
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Dukkha
How we relate to others – to what others say and do (or what they don’t say or do) – dominates much of our experience. If we drop down into this reactivity, what we find there is always the same: … Continue reading
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Tagged bc, Beauty, dukkha, freedom, inspiration, Life, Marjorie Schuman, nature, Peace, photograph, Quote, snow, thoughts, words
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Live Peace, Speak Peace
“To live without speaking is better than to speak without living. For the former who lives rightly does good even by his silence but the latter does no good even when he speaks.” ~Abba Isidore of Pelusia
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Tagged Abba Isidore of Pelusia, bc, Beauty, freedom, inspiration, Life, nature, Peace, photograph, Quote, remember, speak, thoughts, words
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