This is a quote from one of my favorite books, “The Secret Life of Bees,” by Sue Monk Kidd.
Choose with Awareness
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Care for Yourself
When flying, they always say “place the oxygen mask over your own mouth and nose before assisting others”.
This is a reminder to always take care of yourself first and, if lost, reclaim your position in life.
Aren’t You Too?
I know I am. There is so much I still don’t know and, step by step, I will discovery more.
What Good Is a Window?
What good is a window
if there’s nothing to see
no season of fall
no drifting of leaves
What good is a window
if there’s only a wall.
What good is a window
if it’s sealed on all sides
if it always stays closed
by your heart or your pride
What good is a window
If you’re underexposed.
What good is a window
if it’s locked tight, secured
or covered with drapes
and your view is obscured
What good is a window
If there is no escape
What good is a window
if it’s not open wide
to smile at skies blue
to let fear subside
So,
What good is a window?
It let’s you climb through
(photo taken when I visited beautiful Tuscany)
Top Photo credit
Feeling Combustible?
You know those times when you feel you need an exit plan but you don’t have a strategy?
You don’t want to be there.
You feel trapped.
Your insides feel combustible.
You could swim in the moisture made from your palms.
Your toes tap dance inside your shoes but the music’s not jubilant.
Can you change the music?
Can you imagine swimming in water blue and calm?
Can you find the key to unlock the cage?
No?
Then make one.
No one and nothing can trap you.
We are pixilated and all the dots that make us who we are can float through any barrier and collect themselves on the other side.
Digitalized or not, you are a great painting of yourself.
You can find your way back.
Just ask Alice.
FYI: Though pixelated is the standard spelling of the word meaning rendered with visible pixels, there’s a good reason that spell check does not catch pixilated. Pixilated is an old, seldom-used Americanism dating from the middle of the 19th century and peaking (in this use) in the middle 20th century. It meant (1) crazed, bewildered, or whimsical, or (2) intoxicated.1
Pixilated derives from the noun pixie, denoting the mythical, mischievous creature.2 One who is pixilated is under the sway of a figurative pixie or behaving in a pixielike manner.
photo credit (ferret)
photo credit (man)
photo credit (woman)
photo credit (Alice) and pixilated by me.
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Still the Waters Calm
I Am Not Your Sculpture
Make it Personal
“It’s true that everything has its Personal Legend,
but one day that Personal Legend will be realized.
So each thing has to transform itself into something better,
and to acquire a new Personal Legend,
until someday,
the Soul of the World becomes one thing only.”
Page 150 in Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist, one of my favorite books.
daily post prompt: Legend
To Ask for Help
The inside of your mind is torn
you ache for someone’s guidance
yet thrusted hand keeps them away
retained, a thunderous silence
Problems stem from holding back
and keeping troubles bound
The tigers growl, the gators snap
the lions, they surround
Isn’t is a comfort, though
to feel a warming hand
rest softly on your shoulder, stilled,
a yearn without demand?
To ask for help, there’s nothing wrong
seek others for direction
in grief or pain or lover’s quarrel
or self-imposed rejection
Why hold fast those troubled woes?
Let others help unleash
the honks of monsters, a demons fear,
a sorrow, then released
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Nothing to Fear
Don’t be afraid
open the window
let in the air
Take a peek inside, see
hearts and ire
candles and daggers
roses and soot
monuments and ruins
a fortress and a tennament
a marauder and a Nobel
thunderstorms and clear skies
an anchor and a lifeboat
You are all of these
Open your window
let in the air
see you faults and graces,
your discord and harmony
Learn
Feel
Accept
And when you do
There is nothing to fear
on Armistice Day.
painting by CD-W
Weekly Photo Prompt: Peek
Carolyn Dennis-Willingham 