Celebrating new life

 Another month begins today. May you have all your wishes come true, rabbit rabbit!

By Charlie Tefft

by Christiana Biaggge

Beginnings by Sally Strand

By Jade Beale photography

'Hope, II' (1907-08, oil, gold and platinum on canvas) Gustav Klimt

by Colleen Barry (American, born 1981)

Gustav Klimt

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Good news! I have been approved for an apartment in Colorado! Now I need to follow each step to move there. It may be the biggest challenge of my life. It sure feels like that at this place, standing at the bottom of the steps that need to be accomplished to attain my goal. Here's how I feel right now. The artist uses small pieces of paper for each stripe of color. I thought I'd saved it...

From FaceBook

When a tree isn't a tree

 

...it's a cell tower.

I may hate these strange looking things. But I do love having cellular communication available 24/7. When I moved here (2007) I couldn't get service for my phone in my bedroom. The mountains were not friendly for cell service. Now when my son calls while driving between his home and Durango, there's a known "dead spot." We just wait till he passes through that area. His newer car than mine has built-in wi-fi. I just have a speaker button on my phone.

This is just a small portion of the cemetery at Gashes Creek Baptist Church, which is on the way to my new primary doctor's office in Asheville. The tower is also on that road.

They have 1595 memorial records there (according to "Find a Grave"). But I don't know if all those people are buried on this hill. And I don't know how old the church is...trying to see if there's a quick answer to that. Not really.

The back cover of my recently purchased book "Traversal" by Maria Popova, editor of "The Marginalian" newsletter. I'm so very interested in seeing what and how she weaves thoughts from diverse literature into this tome of 570+ pages. I like especially that there will be some mentions of my recently revived interest in plate tectonics, i.e. continental drift theory. Here's a page of the bibliography. It will take a while before I get to the pages that are indexed which mention this synchronicity.

When I was about to get back in the car across from my local bookstore, I noticed these...and had to pause to capture their beauty.

I've noticed by the photos that we get this garish pinkish red.  They just don't look right to me.

I took this photo several weeks earlier near my home. Same problem. Having had my cataracts removed several years ago, I'm really aware of colors. In real life they may have the same hue, but the leave are just as bright, so the roses don't look so artificial as they seem to do here.

Choosing to have joy is not naively thinking everything will be easy. It is courageously believing that there is still hope, even when things get hard.

MORGAN HARPER NICHOLS

It's Saturday

 Muffin on her 12th birthday, and my 67th - she was born on my birthday so it was easy to remember! This was quite a few years ago...

Yep, I love cats! Prefer the in person cuddly purring kind but photos are good reminders.

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I don't play tennis, and didn't understand the joke, but the play on words is still funny.

Sharing with Sepia Saturday and Saturday's Critters!

You cannot buy the revolution.

You cannot make the revolution.

You can only be the revolution.

It is in your spirit or it is nowhere.

Ursula K. LeGuin, The Dispossessed

PS,  just saw this on FB

Springing flowers

 

This Venus Flytrap may have caught a less than real fly...but it's a new enjoyment of one of my daughters-in-law!

I love honeysuckle, though it can certainly take over a place. My favorite summertime thing to do with it was to pick a nice white flower (the yellows are older) and pull out the stamen from the bottom, and then lick the drop of nectar from it. Sorry bees, I would take maybe 4-5 drops.

A favorite caterpillar...that of the Monarch Butterfly.

Bleeding Hearts, I've never grown.

Sharing with Floral Friday Fotos

It may seem difficult at first, but everything is difficult at first. - Miyamoto Musashi

Wisdom from the net

 While I celebrate (from a distance) the birthday of my oldest son, Marty, here are some musings...

There is no lake in the distance, rather fog caught in a low place. Once the sun comes over the mountains, it will dissapate. 

And finally from Facebook:

As long as I’m alive, I will continue to try to understand more because the work of the heart is never done.

MUHAMMAD ALI -------------------- Marty can fix lots of things...here in the 90s one of my computers. I've been so lucky to have super skilled loving sons. Marty has helped me with everything imaginable. It's hard to believe he's going to be a grandfather this year!

Looking for the Tipping Point

"What we pay attention to grows, so I'm thinking  about how we grow what we are all imagining and creating into something large enough and solid enough that it becomes a tipping point." adrienne maree brown

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This is quoted quite early in the library book I'm reading. "All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis." edited by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson & Katharine K. Wilkinson. Published by One World, Random House, 2020.

I'm reading a digital version from Libby, the library's on-line free edition. It's full of wonderful organization, and focuses on female voices. But I can't cut and paste, as I just tried to with the quote from Ms. brown. So I will just absorb what I can.

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 Would this be part of a tipping point?

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But I also want to learn through reading this book, what exactly would the new world order look like beyond that tipping point? When climate crisis has either dumped our culture on its ears, or there are actually armies of people working to change the wrongs humanity is doing to our planet. 

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 Just wanted to recommend this video, which was available through Prime. Another way of looking at our dear blue planet.

“What is needed to launch our societies along the humanistic path is some sort of evolutionary compass. Some way of guiding our efforts so that they are in tune with, aligned with, the general evolutionary processes of which we are a part… So rather than seek to dominate the planet, the quest becomes one of dynamic harmonization, of evolutionary consonance, in short, of syntony. The evolutionary compass, then, would be one that points our way toward syntonious pathways for future creation.”

Alexander Laszlo

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Syntony: the state of being normally responsive to and in harmony with the environment

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“You are not IN the universe, you ARE the universe, an intrinsic part of it. Ultimately you are not a person, but a focal point where the universe is becoming conscious of itself. What an amazing miracle.” ~Eckhart Tolle