ponderings

We discover what
works

by finding
out

what doesn't
work

those who
never

made a
mistke,

never made a
discovery

Samuel
Smiles

Failure is
success

we learn from
it

Malcolm
Forbes

Have a wonderful weekend to all!

Trying to get back to some kind of normality here ...

Great weekend to you all. Excuse my lack of posting and commenting.

see you all soon :o)

Thank you everyone.

Little one has made great improvements I am pleased to say.

Thank you all. Those far and near.

Lovely weekend Everyone!

For those that was interested in the work below ... it came from an original photograph that I took last weekend ... and then turned it to a pen & ink drawing ... and a one colour shot.

Have a wonderful weekend ... Bank Holiday Weekend!

Pondering thoughts

To the questions of your life

you are the answer

To the problems of your life

you are the solutions.

by Jo Coudert

“You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. The single relationship that is truly central and crucial in a life is the relationship to the self. Of all the people you will know in a lifetime, you are the only one you will never lose.”
santiz
Jo Coudert quote

ooooopa sorry folk!

Sorry folks facing some busy days ... trying to get round.
Everyone have a wonderful day :o)

Hide behind the mask

In those special times
Have I not been like a blade of grass moving and bending gently in the breeze?
In those times when my ego was being bruised I still tried to please
Did I not try to make acceptance for my imperfections
Was I not happy to follow all your directions?
Did I not close my eyes and hold my tongue?
So as not to express any judgement when they were doing me wrong
Did I not try to look the other way with unseen tears in my eyes?
When truly it was only the Spirit that could hear my silent cries
As others laughed and ignored my shadow on the wall
In those times did I not try to walk with my head high and tall?
Did I not try to ignore the whispering of my name a thousand fold?
How alone I felt as if I were standing outside in the cold
Weaving your web to hold me down
I smiled with a mask the frown of a clown
I hid myself beneath the cloak of the night so that you could not see
How I long to be loved and long to set myself free
In my realization my error was to focus on you and your actions
When I should have been more aware of my re-actions
I thank you all for the opportunity that you have given me
As I travel forward on the spiritual life journey.

Beautiful Mind!

The camera of my mind can encapsulate an image in time
This thing we call time, fragmented into years, months, and days
Is nothing more than a temporal clock ticking away in life
Yet, the mind has a memory that holds a life-time of images,
It can invoke the very feeling of happiness or sadness that one may have felt so long ago
This is the wonder of mind.

The God Theory



Quotes:

“I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish He didn't trust me so much.”
Mother Teresa of Calcutta quotes

“Whatever you hold in your mind will tend to occur in your life. If you continue to believe as you have always believed, you will continue to act as you have always acted. If you continue to act as you have always acted, you will continue to get what you have always gotten. If you want different results in your life or your work, all you have to do is change your mind.”
Similar Quotes.


“Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people”
Eleanor Roosevelt quotes


“I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.”
Vincent van Gogh quotes


“I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief”
Gerry Spence quotes

The Rain

Water is H2O, hydrogen two parts, oxygen one, but there is also a third thing, that makes water and nobody knows what that is.
D.H. LAWRENCE (1885-1930), Pansies, 1929




The man that travelled through time

THE LEAPING SALMON

KEEP TRYING YOU WILL SUCCEED!

A pondering thought

If you speak badly

of someone,

don't speak it,

but write it

in the sand

at the water's edge,

near the waves

Anonymous

Life is like a game of snakes and ladders

I have lived my life like a lottery
Tossing the dice on the ocean waves
Within the surge and swell of mockery

How wonderful it is to wake up and not know
Like a game of snakes and ladders
What life will bring you today, its your throw

What would life be if we knew our future?
Without trial and error, nor experiences
Bland, plain, no colour, nor magical conjure

Enjoy life it is a joy.

Have a wonderful weekend everyone.

Quotes

"God’s dice always have a lucky roll

"The world is the house of the strong. I shall not know until the end what I have lost or won in this place, in this vast gambling den where I have spent more than sixty years, dicebox in hand, shaking the dice."- Denis Diderot (1713–1784) (Elements of Physiology, “Conclusion

"The gold-digger in the ravines of the mountains is as much a gambler as his fellow in the saloons of San Francisco. What difference does it make whether you shake dirt or shake dice? If you win, society is the loser."- Henry David Thoreau

"I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world" - Albert Einstein ("Einstein, His Life and Times", Philipp Frank (1947))

"God does not play dice [with the universe" - Albert Einstein (Quoted by Banesh Hoffman in "Albert Einstein")

Focus

lay your focus
in what you value most
in that moment

place your sight
in what you believe in
do it with Love

always try to
do your best
God will do the rest





When walking in the afternoon sun
I came across an audience of flowers
Basking on the hillside
Sitting up in the stalls
The flowers laughed and giggled
As I sneaked by feeling like an intruder
I bowed at those sitting in the front seats
Face blushing from their glares.
Little spirits of nature

Sunset

In my silent stillness I gazed upon the sun setting inside my heart

And I knew that at last I could let this day descend into oblivion

A progression of events of discontent that had torn me apart

That had presented me lifeless and full of sadness

Who dared to attack my very beauty and challenge it to a duel?

Who dared to question the Universal rules of Love

I faced my perpetrators that chewed and gnawed at my emotions

As if they were thieving wolves, feasting on every morsel of my mind

I stood back for sometime and gazed into the recess of my soul

To suddenly become aware that the day was actually a process of learning

And although I had encountered discomforts up till my awareness

My beauty was not marred, nor scathe, but full of gratefulness

I had been given the chance to apply love, and forgivness to my day

And ultimately be at peace to catch the beautiful sun setting inside my heart.

Quotes:

“If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in eye and say, 'I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.'”
Ann Landers quotes

“Trouble brings experience, and experience brings wisdom

My favourite

“If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace”
Thomas Paine quotes

“Trouble is a part of your life and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you enough chance to love you enough.”
Similar Quotes

To the Poets

Bit behind with comments ... playing catch up with everything.Thank you everyone for paying a visit ... will get round to everyone gradually in the next few days.hugs to :
a special hug for you.




gautami tripathy
Margie
Polona
Barbara
Janice
Ann
Gel
Kai
Shammu
Liz
Mystic Rose
Angeldust
Floots
Quasar
DonPat
Andrew
Magiceye
.anyone I have missed please forgive me.
4:32 PM
Elizabeth tried to find your blog ... please post in my comments. thank you :o)

Dusted with Dawns Beauty

The awakening of dawn opens a new chapter
Sleeping ambition comes to its close
The sun rises on the horizon of hope
Life errupts like the spleandor of a volcano
Flowers fill the air with their sweet fragrance;
Opening their petals to be embraced by the sun
Clocks tick madly in the fissures of your mind
Flashes of past problems demanding attention.
Stop in your tracks, do not miss the beauty of now
For NOW waits for no soul to decide its fate
Let your eyes absorb the visions present of passing beauty
Be in the present, presents is a gift from God
Dawning dusts the day with hope, love and beauty




“Listen to the Exhortation of the Dawn! Look to this Day! For it is Life, the very Life of Life. In its brief course lie all the Verities and Realities of your Existence. The Bliss of Growth, The Glory of Action, The Splendor of Beauty; For Yesterday is but a Dream, And To-morrow is only a Vision; But To-day well lived makes Every Yesterday a Dream of Happiness, And every Tomorrow a Vision of Hope. Look well therefore to this Day! Such is the Salutation of the Dawn!”
Kalidasa quotes (Indian sanskrit poet and dramatist, 5th century ad


“The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.”
Jim Rohn quotes (American Speaker and Author

Have a wonderful weekend everyone! :o)

THOUGHTS

thoughts on my mind
pressing the door bell
waiting for an answer

no expectations
no frustrations
no complications

ticking of the clock
the moving hand
another year passes by



Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

Unknown Source
Thinking things has been done through the ages; knowing things remains to be done.

Unknown Source
To know the true reality of yourself, you must be aware not only of your conscious thoughts, but also of your unconscious prejudices, bias and habits.

The dead of midnight is the noon of thought. Author: Anna Letitia Barbauld

Thoughts have power; thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking. Author: Susan Taylor

I have no riches but my thoughts. Yet these are wealth enough for me. Author: Sara Teasdale

Spring is here and Summer is in the air!

The photographs were taken along the Cleveland Way, Yorkshire, between Runswick Bay and Port Mulgrave. For those that do not reside in the United Kingdom ... Yorkshire is situated on the east coast of the island. There are still many unspoilt areas for people who desire to walk.

I love sitting on the clifftops pondering ... watching cloud formations ... shadows being formed
Have you ever watched how graceful a seagul flies, so elegant.
This area is know for Black Jet (Whitby Jet) You can always find little fragments of it on the beach. Black Jet is used for making Jewelery.
Sit for awhile and gaze out to sea.












Vivaldi's Summer played by Nigel Kennedy.

Happy Easter Everyone!

Just like to say thank you very much everyone for your good wishes. Breaking off for approx 10 days. See you soon.


Quotes on Easter:

The resurrection gives my life meaning and direction and the opportunity to start over no matter what my circumstances. ~Robert Flatt

Easter spells out beauty, the rare beauty of new life. ~S.D.

GordonCelestial spirit that doth rollThe heart's sepulchral stone away,Be this our resurrection day,The singing Easter of the soul -O gentle Master of the Wise,Teach us to say: "I will arise."
~Richard Le Gallienne



We live and die; Christ died and lived! ~John Stott

On Easter Day the veil between time and eternity thins to gossamer. - Douglas Horton

Easter is not a passport to another world; it is a quality of perception for this one. - W.P. Lemon

Taking a break see you all after Easter.
Hope you all have a wonderful Easter.
hugs to everyone.