Here and Now...What's Happening?

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Come on guys, those of you who know Astrid...please send her tons of loving energy.
She could use some....

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ROFL

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=YQTxSbCMOlM

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Marilyn Manson cottage

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[Wind]

I just had to share this inspirational message...

The logical mind teaches something is not real until there is physical evidence, you cannot see oxygen but you breathe it at all times. You cannot see the wind but you can FEEL it and that is what I mean by moving into the HEART, to FEEL your way forward, to FEEL what the appropriate reaction is FOR YOU at any one moment.

[Robin]

Hello, my lovely friends!

Winter is indeed upon us. Though 'tis a rather harsh few months, let us rejoice in the beauty that it does bring us. Here are some passages from the journals of Henry David Thoreau about winter. Let us take the time to marvel at the beauty of a snowflake, and the cold chill a tree embraces to appreciate the abundance of rejoicing come Springtime:

To me, winter draws in the warmth of friends and family. Just as we reatreat in our hearts and souls to understand and appreciate our personal being, this is a time for the wildlife to do the same. Although it is a tough time for wildlife, think of it as a way for animals and plants to look inwards, understand themselves, battle their inner demons, and to develop a sense of oneness that will carry their souls to the next quandaries of a soul journey.

There is always some positivity to glean from any situation.

1. Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each. [ August 23, 1853]

2. Summer is gone with all its infinite wealth, and still nature is genial to man. Though he no longer bathes in the stream, or reclines on the bank, or plucks berries on the hills, still he beholds the same inaccessible beauty around him. [November 22, 1860]

3. The dry grasses are not dead for me. A beautiful form has as much life at one season as another. [November 11, 1850]

4. Nature now, like an athlete, begins to strip herself in earnest for her contest with her great antagonist Winter. In the bare trees and twigs what a display of muscle. [October 29, 1858]

5. Why do you flee so soon, sir, to the theaters, lecture-rooms, and museums of the city? If you will stay here awhile I will promise you strange sights. You shall walk on water; all these brooks and rivers and ponds shall be your highway. You shall see the whole earth covered a foot or more deep with purest white crystals . . . and all the trees and stubble glittering in icy armor. [October 18, 1859]

6. Is not January the hardest month to get through? When you have weathered that, you get into the gulfstream of winter, nearer the shores of spring. [February 2, 1854]

7. To us snow and cold seem a mere delaying of spring. How far we are from understanding the value of these things in the economy of Nature! [March 8, 1859]

8. Now, by 2 p.m., a regular snowstorm has commenced, fine flakes falling steadily, and rapidly whitening all the landscape. In half an hour the russet earth is painted white even to the horizon. Do we know of any other so silent and sudden a change? [November 28, 1858]

9. We are hunters pursing the summer on snowshoes and skates, all winter long. There is really but one season in our hearts. [December 6, 1856]

10. The sky appears broader now than it did. The day has opened its eyelids wider. The lengthening of the days, commenced a good while ago, is a kind of forerunner of spring. [Journal, February 19, 1852]

If you have the time, please read A Winter Walk by Henry David Thoreau.

Stay warm my dear friends...and peace to you all.

[Robin]

To me...the most beuatiful musical piece ever written. Enough to make a grown man cry...

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=CvFH_6DNRCY

Sigh...winter I love you.

[Guest]

Love to you Astrid

[Redstar Kachina]

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[Carmody]

Posted by PurpleLama (here)

Posted by Calz (here)



Care to tell us just where all your wisdom springs from???

Meditation. Lots of it.

[Wind]

Posted by SamwiseTheBrave (here)
To me...the most beuatiful musical piece ever written. Enough to make a grown man cry...

Some years ago my mother used to play that tune during the mornings. Sometimes I was sleeping in my bed with my dog and I woke up hearing it. Now when I think about it, I think that it was one of the best ways to wake up to this reality.

[Crystine]

A little girl watched her mom preparing the ham. Mom cut off a good portion of the bone end.she asked why. Mom said because my mom did. So the girl, being curious went to ask grandma. Grandma told her she always cut off the end of the bone, because that was the way she learned from her mother. The little girl heaved a sigh of frustration and went to talk to great grand mother. She asked her great grandmother about the bone. And why they always cut it off.

Well grandmother hesitated for a minute, then she laughed and said, " sweetie I used to cut the end of the ham off because we had a big family and a big family needed a big ham. It simply didn't fit in the pan.

[Eram]

What a beautiful metaphor to illustrate that we need to evaluate all our behaviors in order to come to sensible habits Christine Lori

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Posted by Christine Lori (here)
A little girl watched her mom preparing the ham. Mom cut off a good portion of the bone end.she asked why. Mom said because my mom did. So the girl, being curious went to ask grandma. Grandma told her she always cut off the end of the bone, because that was the way she learned from her mother. The little girl heaved a sigh of frustration and went to talk to great grand mother. She asked her great grandmother about the bone. And why they always cut it off.

Well grandmother hesitated for a minute, then she laughed and said, " sweetie I used to cut the end of the ham off because we had a big family and a big family needed a big ham. It simply didn't fit in the pan.

How weird. I've known this story for years, but not thought of it in ages. And on Monday a friend came over and we were talking about weird traditions and their origins, and I told her this same story.
You must have been reading my mind... Scary shyte, lol

[ulli]

Not sure if this fits here, but made me laugh. Any resemblance to real persons is coincidental...

[Violet]

Samm, your post reminded me of this one

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=JUTkZ63dHiY