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Friday Abundance, Gratitude, and Bliss

Quote of the day: “To be alive──is Power.” ― Emily Dickinson,  The Complete Poems  This has been an ordinary week full of ordinary miracles—life! the Full Catastrophe!—feelings of joy, laughter, regret, anticipation, savoring, and sadness. Every feeling, every sensation is a miracle. Being alive! Is such a miracle! Each moment an opportunity to experience and learn! Linking with love to Liv Lane’s Little Bliss List.  My bliss list this week: Sunday morning, I went to Lyndale Peace Garden. Apple blossoms were fading, petals falling everywhere…so beautiful, so sad, so miraculous. Beauty is everywhere and beauty is fleeting. Savor it, breathe it Read more…

By Marilyn, ago

How often do you CHOOSE to see Beauty?

“Beauty is not a deadener but a quickener and it alerts and awakens our heart to what is true and good and unified. The experience of beauty is like a homecoming. When we feel and see and touch the beautiful we feel that we are at one with ourselves because in some subtle and secret way beauty meets the needs of the soul. John O’Donohue Beauty: The Invisible Miracle When our youngest daughter was three, we had her favorite playmate, Brian, over to our house to play one fine spring day. We had just moved to a new house and our Read more…

By Marilyn, ago

Seeing Beauty in the Fading Flowers

Quote of the day: ““Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.” ― Anne Frank As spring’s panoply of apple blossoms, tulips, and wildflowers begins to wither and fade, I feel a little sad. When I love something a lot, I want to hold onto it and make it last longer. I’m working on loving each unique moment of the different phases of life and appreciating the ebb and flow—appreciating everything— the fading flowers and the little deaths that occur each day as well as the new buds and fresh new flowers. So today, I’m savoring warm, Read more…

By Marilyn, ago

Tuesday Texture Play

Quote of the day: “The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.” —Carl Jung Yesterday I had some fun playing around with textures. I used Kim Klassen textures. I’ve created a trio of Gerbera Daisy photos with added textures. The steps I used to create this photo are: Duplicate background layer with blend mode of Soft Light at 100% Add a layer of kk_and ThenSome (one of my favorite Kim Klassen textures) with blend mode of Soft Light at 100% Read more…

By Marilyn, ago

Celebrate Life!

Quote of the day: “To be alive──is Power.” —Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems This morning I got up early and went to Lyndale Peace Garden in Minneapolis. What a wonderful place! I come back again and again to make photos here.  The park makes me feel like the poem below.   “Inebriate of air am I, And debauchee of dew, Reeling, through endless summer days, From inns of molten blue.”                 —Emily Dickinson   To be alive means being a part of the cycle of life and death. The two are inextricably intertwined. To me, celebrating Read more…

By Marilyn, ago