Weekly Photo Challenge: Fleeting

There are few moments when the sun, the trees, and the clouds line up just right…and when your hand is steady, and there are no other cars driving in your view. Those moments when you can capture something, and you know it is a fleeting moment…

Sunsets especially make me almost sad, to know that within minutes the light will be gone, and I will witness another death. No two moments are ever alike, or will ever be repeated…so this fragment of time is gone, forever…except in the eye of beholder.

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The Art of Kissing

Nice post on the art of kissing. I think the writer nailed it, perfectly.

The Art of Kissing.

A surreal lunch visitor

This little guy hopped off a magnolia flower onto my lap. All I saw was a glint of metallic green! Then I was scrambling to find him, because I had just gotten in my car after lunch and it was hot in there. Not to mention, there is no food or water in my car either.

Well, after poking around searching for him, he jumped onto my hand, and I very carefully opened the door and walked over to the planter nearest to my car. He didn’t want to leave! I had to coax him off my hand onto a nice, cool, green plant.

I dread killing any sort of insect these days, but I have a special reverence for spiders in particular. This little guy was no exception. Isn’t he gorgeous?

More pics: Metallic green jumping spider – Sassacus papenhoei

The Hunzas and their Health Secrets

Passu -Cathedral- peaks above Hunza Valley Pakistan August1985-P7260038 (Photo credit: erwinlux)

The health and longevity of these people is incredible…take a read. Clean, pure water and organic food, combined with plenty of activity. They also consider apricots a staple, and even ground the kernel of the seed for use as oil, lotion, etc.

The Hunzas and their Health Secrets ~ Wild Women Sisterhood.

If the Earth were only a few feet in diameter…

If the Earth
were only a few feet in diameter,
floating a few feet above a field somewhere,
people would come from everywhere to marvel
at it. People would walk around it marveling at its
big pools of water, its little pools and the water flowing
between. People would marvel at the bumps on it and the
holes in it. They would marvel at the very thin layer of gas
surrounding it and the water suspended in the gas. The people
would marvel at all the creatures walking around the surface of
the ball and at the creatures in the water. The people would
declare it as sacred because it was the only one, and they would
protect it so that it would not be hurt. The ball would be the
greatest wonder known, and people would come to pray to
it, to be healed, to gain knowledge, to know beauty and
to wonder how it could be. People would love it, and
defend it with their lives because they would
somehow know that their lives could be
nothing without it. If the Earth were
only a few feet in
diameter.

Joe Miller ~ Moab, Utah 1975

Look into the Mirror

“The man who runs from the truth becomes lost in the wilderness; run towards the truth and be cleansed by it. The man who can accept the blame is the man who shall forgot the pain…look into the mirror and see who you are…if you are at fault, apologize; for each time you accept the manifestations created by YOUR hands which you have projected onto another, you shall be rewarded with an enlightened mind and a lighter heart.”

- Lord Marduk, Channeled by Helen Demetriou

Original post: Look into the Mirror.

Broken Wings

~~~
she was the apple

of many an eye

a bright light

that always reached high

~~~

she took it all in

without a worry or a care

never knowing limits

she could never be scared

~~~

till one day she fell

under a very dark spell

and try as she might

she could no longer fight

~~~

her soul was bruised

and the world too heavy to bear

so she laid down her head

and breathed her last breath

~~~

-Aphrodite, April 2, 2013

For my niece, age 25, who died tonight

God does not require anyone to take up arms of His behalf

Reblogged from Jesus through John:

Humanity’s long and arduous journey, since the apparent but illusory separation from Reality occurred, is coming to an end. You have endured much suffering, anxiety, and fear as you wandered, often aimlessly, through the strange environment that you constructed in which to play your games — games that have, over the eons, brought you much confusion and despondency.

Reality is clear, bright, and uplifting, and you chose to depart from It into chaos and confusion.

Read more… 910 more words

There are some very significant points made in this post about judgement, the need to be right, and the ensuing conflicts. Allowing others to believe as they would...takes away the need for conflict. When we accept each other as unique and walking our own path, we have no need to fight for "God". Great post. Please do read. :) -A.

What is Freedom?

A very good article about what freedom is.

What is Freedom?

‘I thought it was a nuclear bomb exploding’: Photographer’s breathtaking pictures of Russian meteorite which he feared he would never live through | Mail Online

Some breathtaking shots of the meteor that exploded over Russia on Friday, February 15th. The photographer thought he was doomed, but kept on shooting!

See full story on Mail Online here.