My Blog primarily consists of close-up nature photos (that I've taken locally) combined with original holistic-truth oriented prose and/or poetry involving mindfulness/awareness. I love nature and I love understanding the whole (not merely the parts and the details). I'm a retired teacher of the multiply handicapped.
I have a number of interesting hobbies, such as fossil collecting, sport-kite flying, 3D and 2D close-up photography, holography, and pets. Most of all, I am into holistic self-awareness, spontaneous insight, unconventional observation/direct perception, mindfulness, meditation, world peace, non-fragmentation, population control, vegetarianism, and green energy.
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Happy Thanksgiving, Tom.
Happy Thanksgiving, Marlene! 😊
Happy Thanksgiving with peace…
Happy Thanksgiving, Richard! 😊
That’s a wonderful quote Tom – may we all make it our mantra going forward. Happy Thanksgiving to you as well.
Thank you, and Happy Thanksgiving, Linda. 😊 The root meaning of the word “mantra” is to ponder beyond the limited self.
Happy Thanksgiving Tom! 🎊
Thank you, M.T., and same to you! 😊
I wonder what that echo might be…. I am so repulsed by these holidays – buy buy buy – stuff – ugh – it’s overwhelming – like an assault – I also don’t get this give thanks day – every day there is an opportunity for gratitude – I feed turkeys and fall in love with them all over again – hunting season for them is over and for others today is the last day except for poor bears…
I can’t imagine hunting bears. They are so intelligent and partially carnivorous… and a carnivore killing a carnivore seems very unnatural. I’m glad that i’m primarily vegetarian, though i do eat fish nowadays, due to cardiovascular problems that run in my family. And the Omega 3 in fish is a very essensial nutrient for the heart and the brain. Without it, people can go gaga.
Only grizzlies are are carnivores – a black bear’s diet consists of about 93 percent plant matter – ants and grubs make up the meat part except in the northeast where they consume fish… Grizzlies are more so…like you I eat fish primarily – some chicken based soups in the winter – no red meat at all – I too am mostly vegetarian and have been most of my life – you have fish as friends – does it bother you that you eat them or do you just say thank you like I do…
Every time fish is consummed, i thank the fish. I generally do not do such a thing with plants (though sometimes i do). Most fish in my aquariums will eat their young. But with enough natural plant cover, some young survive (such that i don’t need to buy fish for my aquariums, for the most part). Having to eat fish is rather ludicrous but it is what it is. Not eating it causes damage to the human organism. Bears are too high up the food chain to eat IMHO. I have a fossil brown bear skull (from the Pleistocene of France) and its brain case is huge.
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Hope you enjoyed your holiday! What an excellent quote. Marcus Aurelius is someone I wish I would have known. Seems like a very wise man.
Beautiful!