I've Never Been a Man of Stone
So let me grow feeble and fragile, as the days unfold...
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Imagine...
ha
Funny... Occasionally I want to withdraw and retract from "the world" around me.
And I ALWAYS feel better when I don't.
(Of course, frame of mind and perspective helps. And being kind...)
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Underneath It All...
I. Love. This.
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How You Live Matters...
World Food Day: Cook Organic, Not the Planet
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Awe...
(Cloud of Tadpoles by Eiko Jones)
(Perfect Catch by Wayne Panepinto)
(Night of Lightning at Grand Canyon by Rolf Maeder)
(People at Prayer by Junaid Ahmed)
(Camping inside Hang Son Doong by Ryan Deboodt)
(Weightless by Dimitris Maroulakis)
(Best Shelter Ever by Arati Rao)
(Seagull by Junichi Saito)
(The Ice Caves by Andrew Inaba)
(Meteorite by Noel Kerns) If we're paying attention, our "homes" will be glowing with curiosity and admiration, gratitude and awe... And even as we age and wither, may we never lose that glow inside.
"There are more things in heaven and earth... than are dreamt of in your philosophy." ~ William Shakespeare
Yeah. What he said.
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Some Sunday Morning Worship (Or, "Bish? See this hand right here? Well, it's gonna slap Sunday clean out of you in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1...")
Diana Monkey, Omaha Zoo. by Joel Sartore
Sartore photographed this female Diana monkey (Cercopithecus diana) at the Omaha Zoo as part of his Photo Ark project, through which he is documenting thousands of rare species.
"Half of all the species on Earth could be headed irreversibly toward extinction by 2100. Not if I can help it," Sartore says. "That's the idea behind the Photo Ark: getting the public to look these creatures in the eye, then care enough to save them while there's still time."
Learn more about the Photo Ark and see more pictures from the project.
Courtesy of National Geographic's Photo of the Day.
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Gold Mind
“It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not.”
~ Jonathan Swift
(Image: "Downed" by J.C. Leyendecker)
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Nature; Still The Best Show on Earth...
And when I'm OUT IN IT, it's the closest I feel to whatever it's all about...
(Thank you for the inspiration yesterday, Melissa. Thank you.)
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These Paws Were Made For Stalking...
Is yous, talkin' to meow meow?
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"How Good Those People Are..." ("Those People" = Us)
Just in case you missed these...
It's reminded me to smile more. To be nicer... Kinder...
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The Countdown...
It's projected that African forest elephants will be extinct in 20 years...
Please sign this petition to crack down on elephant murders.
After all, if we're anything more than fellow citizens of the planet with them, than possibly stewards. But, certainly not owners...
Silence is compliance.
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Nature... Still The Best Show on Earth
Mantas Last Dance from Blue Sphere Media on Vimeo.
Watching that manta... And then watching her... And really contemplating the brilliance involved in evolution... In how we all evolved to fit in our environment, in our climate... Well... I can't wrap my gills around it.
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Above Everything, Be Kind...
I've often said that "Art makes the unbearable, bearable." And while that certainly helps, I've come to realize that it's kindness that truly does so... Kindness makes the unbearable, bearable. The world would be a pinball machine without it.
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In "The Force" Field (Where To Go During Storms...)
Out beyond ideas of wrong and right, there is a field.
I will meet you there.
~ Rumi
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Some Sunday Morning Worship
I. LOVE. This little guy...
So, "Charity Lynn" commented, "This. Was. SOOOO CUTE!! Why is there even 1 dislike on this video? I hope whoever disliked it feels like the worlds biggest jerk. Love this <3"
Charity... May I call you "Charity"? Okay. Cool. I have a feeling anyone who actually dislikes something like this does indeed feel like the world's biggest jerk. That's why they dislike it in the first place.
And that "<3" symbol always reminds me of balls. I know, I know, it's a sideways heart or something, but still.
It's a disagreeable thing to be whipped. ~ William Tecumseh Sherman
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Some Sunday Morning Worship...
I. LOVE. This silly guy...
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Fraidy Cats
Fear knocked at the door. Love answered...
And no one was there.
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Bound
"If you cannot make yourself what you would like to be, how can you expect to have another person exactly to your wishes? We want to see others perfect, yet our own faults go unattended." ~ Thomas a Kempis
Michelangelo, Unfinished Bound Slave (1519-36) Marble, height 208 cm Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence
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Careful... Careful...
"It is easy, terribly easy, to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit, is devil's work."
~ G.B. Shaw Candida
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