Generations of Love

"Perfect love sometimes does not come until grandchildren are born” - Old Welsh saying

surreal good

Plastic hedges for sale in New York City.


The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
Groucho Marx

Made for Loving

"We are made for loving. If we don’t love, we'll be like plants without water."

Archbishop Desmond Tutu

Character

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

--Malcolm Forbes

Knowledge

All men by nature desire knowledge.-- Aristotle


When I saw this little desk in the middle of toys I thought of how we are taught routines in school and possibly lose some of our ability to easily adapt, then we have to go out and get our street smarts little by little. How important those street smarts are.

Not long ago I heard that learning something new helps keep your brain from aging quickly, and can actually be part of that fountain of youth we are all eating our greens for. It doesn't work at all if you know a lot about US Presidents, and think "Hey, I'll learn something new--I'll study all of the first ladies." that would do nothing to make your brain wake up and be sharper. Or if you play piano and decide to take up the tuba. It has to be an area you've displayed no interest in, something to challenge your brain. I haven't decided what to choose yet, but I'm going to spend this winter learning some new things. I need all the help I can get. I don't know a thing about a whole lot of subjects, so I have a lot of choices. Maybe I'll finally learn the metric system.

Easygoing

One who understands much displays a greater simplicity of character than one who understands little.
-- Alexander Chase

Childhood

“Childhood is a short season.” ~Helen Hayes

Artist

All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

--Picasso

Communication Hands

Just about everyone makes hand gestures to get an idea across or without even thinking about it, much. Hands are so important when it comes to communication as well as in religious practice with beads, candles, and symbolic gestures. Hands can be beautiful or they can upset you, pointing at you in an unfriendly way.

The shaking fist, the language of the deaf, the slipping on of a ring, waving hello, saying come over here, making the sign of peace.

Now

When I took this picture, I thought that little spot where there is no shadow represents the Now. The past is behind the chain link and the future is down the road, so no point in dwelling in or worrying about them. .

Wise men have been talking about this forever it seems. No use predicting sadness or looking back in anger.

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present. ~Marcus Aurelius Antoninus


With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future.  I live now.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.  ~Carl Sandburg


I never think of the future.  It comes soon enough. ~Albert Einstein


The living moment is everything.  ~D.H. Lawrence


I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present,
which is what there is and all there is. 
~Alan Watts


Lime Wheel

Theme Thursday: Wheel.



Limerence :
noun
Psychology; the state of being infatuated or obsessed with another person.

Sky Watch Friday

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. --Helen Keller

"I cannot tell you any spiritual truth that deep within you don't know already.
All I can do is remind you of what you have forgotten"
--Tolle

The Green House

Someone told me that the English language is the only Latin Based language where we can say that's the greenhouse, that's the green house, or that's the Green house and the listener will know by our inflection if we are talking about a glass house, a house with green siding or a house where the Green family resides. I don't know if this is true or not,(if English is the only language where this occurs) Where inflection must be used to distinguish one meaning from another... but I found it interesting.



"I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up."
Tom Lehrer

Sky Watch Friday

People begin to gather for a concert under the sky.


(Click photo to enlarge)

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What's the Significance?

I hike a lot, and try to notice plants and birds and rocks and things, but this potato masher lying in the path way out in the middle of nowhere was a find. I have a friend, Mystical Mike, who would have stopped and meditated on the significance of the potato masher. He would have seen it as a sign (of something.)

I did briefly wonder what a potato masher was doing all by itself so far from home, but soon discovered as I rounded a bend that someone had thrown the entire contents of a typical kitchen into the path. It reminded me of this Thomas Edison quote: "To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk."

Friends Like Brothers

"Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life."

Thomas Jefferson

Steps

Some steps are not for getting anywhere anymore. Some steps are just for sitting on and watching the world go past. This is the same as stopping to smell the roses I guess.

This is for Kim's Theme Thursday.

Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

-Santayana

And I Still Don't Know

When I saw this shirt I thought of how Cynthesis said we're sometimes enigmas to ourselves.