Too many of us take too many things for granted. Too many of us go through the day being unappreciative and indifferent. Many of us look at everything with jaded, run-of-the-mill eyes that stopped really looking years ago. Too many of us think that we are alive but, in reality, are not all that alive at all.
If you are truly enlightened, you do not crave or wish for enlightenment at all. Then each and every second is a majestic miracle that is far beyond what words can describe. Words, by the way, are so virtual, manmade, artificial, second-hand, fragmentary, and (in a big way) superficial. If one sees the world through a secondhand, absorbed series of words and learned mental images, one is not really seeing at all. Please go beyond these words and dive into the depths of life. Life is so very precious and beautiful… unless one has become secondhand and robot-like. And here is a little secret that i could whisper to the ear: The true beauty of life has no ending. If you think that it does, you were deceived and miseducated.
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.
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I am so grateful for the rest of nature that keeps me rooted to the present where I sm able to be with a bee, dog, damselfly, – just all of it. With worsening air quality – yesterday though beautiful by afternoon kept me indoors – I wonder why people don;t notice the metal and smoke that is obstructing our lungs….why?
Yes, Sara, we are nature and it should be a big part of us. But a lot of people are divorced from nature. An insensitive, distorted mind is easily divorced from nature. The people who vote for crooked politicians who endorse the fossil-fuel industry, saying that the greenhouse effect is a myth and that green energy is unnecessary, are sadly ignorant and malignant. People can’t turn their backs on nature and not experience serious consequences. Every day, these days, the deleterious weather makes headline news. We need to wake up and do better (for our children and for the planet).
Nature is like air to me. I need it; it nurtures my soul 🤗
Here’s a quote that I wrote about nature :
“Whenever you immerse yourself in the beauty of nature, you connect with your soul, and breathe light into the world for all to share.” ~ brightstardancing
Thank you for your wonderful compliment 🙏 I agree with your statement. Nature is part of us. Without the beauty and simplicity of nature to nurture our souls, part of the world within ourselves dwells in barrenness.
Tom, like you, I never take nature for granted. We were blessed to share Earth with other beings, flora and fauna – these days the latter two are the ones to gravitate towards and leave the humans behind with their dissention and lack of compassion toward one another. I do like “Mellow Yellow” – that is an interesting-looking plant and it complements the fuzzy bumblebee in this photo!
I’ve been familiar with your blog, Linda, for a good while now. And i have seen your deep and passionate closeness to nature. It’s such a shame that a lot of people don’t have that. They remain mostly indoors with televisions, radios, and other manmade, virtual pseudorealities. If the Native Americans of many years ago could somehow now see what is now going on, they would cry with sadness about it.
Tom, unfortunately, so many people are self-absorbed these days; they can’t see the goodness that is around them and, if only they would step outside, look up and around it would be better. There is still some flora and fauna to enjoy, but they’d better start paying attention to it because at the rate our weather is going, there will not be any outdoor enjoyment like we once took for granted. We sure were wrong doing that.
I saw a news article yesterday about how the birds are suffering with this wildfire smoke. Birds take two breaths of air to fill their lungs and having to intake double the amount of smoke is very harmful to them. Tomorrow through Friday was to be cooler, much less humid, no wildfire smoke … I thought to myself “finally, I’m going to get out and hope to see a fawn before they’re all grown, just to get out and about in nature.” We did not get the severe weather yesterday nor today that was called for, so I was happy about that and knew it would be dry on the trails. Sitting here about 20 minutes ago and we had a torrential burst of rain that lasted ten minutes. Good for the lawn, trees, bushes, flowers – muddy trails. So I will still get out but pick a place where it is an asphalt path only. I’ve not been out like usual, but when I’ve been out, it has not been the same experience as it once was. For you either, living on the edge of the woods.
I went to a bushy area by a pond in Ashkum to look for rocks to use in an aquarium for Hillstream Loaches. The thistle was super high and a big deer popped out of the thistle just a few feet from me. We both starred at each other for a while, and then it ran off. It was too overgrown with vegetation there and i was afraid of getting ticks, so i found rocks in another place down the road.
I am so grateful for the rest of nature that keeps me rooted to the present where I sm able to be with a bee, dog, damselfly, – just all of it. With worsening air quality – yesterday though beautiful by afternoon kept me indoors – I wonder why people don;t notice the metal and smoke that is obstructing our lungs….why?
Yes, Sara, we are nature and it should be a big part of us. But a lot of people are divorced from nature. An insensitive, distorted mind is easily divorced from nature. The people who vote for crooked politicians who endorse the fossil-fuel industry, saying that the greenhouse effect is a myth and that green energy is unnecessary, are sadly ignorant and malignant. People can’t turn their backs on nature and not experience serious consequences. Every day, these days, the deleterious weather makes headline news. We need to wake up and do better (for our children and for the planet).
Nature is like air to me. I need it; it nurtures my soul 🤗
Here’s a quote that I wrote about nature :
“Whenever you immerse yourself in the beauty of nature, you connect with your soul, and breathe light into the world for all to share.” ~ brightstardancing
Thank you for your quote. It is extremely intelligent. In reality, nature is a big part of one’s soul, and without it one is not connected to oneself.
Thank you for your wonderful compliment 🙏 I agree with your statement. Nature is part of us. Without the beauty and simplicity of nature to nurture our souls, part of the world within ourselves dwells in barrenness.
Tom, like you, I never take nature for granted. We were blessed to share Earth with other beings, flora and fauna – these days the latter two are the ones to gravitate towards and leave the humans behind with their dissention and lack of compassion toward one another. I do like “Mellow Yellow” – that is an interesting-looking plant and it complements the fuzzy bumblebee in this photo!
I’ve been familiar with your blog, Linda, for a good while now. And i have seen your deep and passionate closeness to nature. It’s such a shame that a lot of people don’t have that. They remain mostly indoors with televisions, radios, and other manmade, virtual pseudorealities. If the Native Americans of many years ago could somehow now see what is now going on, they would cry with sadness about it.
Tom, unfortunately, so many people are self-absorbed these days; they can’t see the goodness that is around them and, if only they would step outside, look up and around it would be better. There is still some flora and fauna to enjoy, but they’d better start paying attention to it because at the rate our weather is going, there will not be any outdoor enjoyment like we once took for granted. We sure were wrong doing that.
Living things (of the outdoors) are slipping away fast (year by year) in my area. And i live very rurally.
I saw a news article yesterday about how the birds are suffering with this wildfire smoke. Birds take two breaths of air to fill their lungs and having to intake double the amount of smoke is very harmful to them. Tomorrow through Friday was to be cooler, much less humid, no wildfire smoke … I thought to myself “finally, I’m going to get out and hope to see a fawn before they’re all grown, just to get out and about in nature.” We did not get the severe weather yesterday nor today that was called for, so I was happy about that and knew it would be dry on the trails. Sitting here about 20 minutes ago and we had a torrential burst of rain that lasted ten minutes. Good for the lawn, trees, bushes, flowers – muddy trails. So I will still get out but pick a place where it is an asphalt path only. I’ve not been out like usual, but when I’ve been out, it has not been the same experience as it once was. For you either, living on the edge of the woods.
I went to a bushy area by a pond in Ashkum to look for rocks to use in an aquarium for Hillstream Loaches. The thistle was super high and a big deer popped out of the thistle just a few feet from me. We both starred at each other for a while, and then it ran off. It was too overgrown with vegetation there and i was afraid of getting ticks, so i found rocks in another place down the road.
Gorgeous shot, Tom! And wise words. 🙂