Blog
-
Today’s Shot 500
Sweet Sunday
Do you have leftover cranberry sauce? Add some to pancake batter! My sauce also had chopped nuts in it. Bonus!
-
Today’s Shot 498
Wordless Wednesday
George and Martha Washington had their kitchen separate from their home.
~
Happy Thanksgiving! 🍁
-
Today’s Shot 484
Respite
May your soul find rest
In wood’s welcome embrace, cool
Sweet lavender calm
Lavender from the garden Have a beautiful weekend my friends 💟
-
Fight, Fight, Fight!
Shouts Donald Trump with upraised fist
I can’t say that I was ever a Trump supporter in the past… But I am now.
Photo by Fred Moon on Unsplash
-
Today’s Shot 209
Throwback Thursday
Floral Bouquets 💐 While we didn’t get out to the woods this weekend, grocery shopping proved to be a nice spot for some flower shots.
🌻 Cee’s Flower of the Day – FOTD🌻
“Does she realize she looks like a sunflower, ready to rain sunlight on all who look down upon her?”
– Simone Elkeles
🌻
How can I spread sunshine today?
First published on the 28th day of September, 2020.
-
Today’s Shot 164
Throwback Thursday
Growth
🦋 Cee’s Flower of the Day – FOTD 🦋
Growth is a forward momentum. Like a caterpillar, we morph into new stages and spaces and spreading our wings, we learn to fly for the first time. Then we learn to fly farther and higher. Growth takes risk. Yet, the caterpillar does not worry about the next phase. Perhaps ignorance is its bliss. For us however, sometimes it is in facing challenges and moving away from our comfort zone that we learn that one of the strengths of growth, is courage.
Can “knowing too much” hinder our growth? Can blind faith be more beneficial?
I accept risk, even when I am afraid.
I am proud of myself when I dare to risk.
Accepting risk as a part of life, empowers me.
First published on the 13 day of July, 2020
-
Today’s Shot 479
Happy Fourth of July!
Happy Independence Day and have a blessed week my Friends! 🇺🇸
-
Jeremiah’s Chorus Line
Throwback Thursday
Jeremiah’s Chorus Line
Largo
A throaty bass begins in accented whole notes – strong and steady.
[Here, an echo from the back of the choir]
Adagio
Then the lead baritone adds some spark, squeezing in a few, nicely-measured, half notes.
The bass is holding his own however.
Now, faster and faster, chirp in some eighths.
Allegretto
The parts become a little sketchy here, and the plot thickens in the swamp.
Enter, Dissonance
Tenors add some high staccato bursts!
The rest of the choir joins the melee.
Allegro!
Forget the rests. Drop the stops!
!Affrettando!
It’s sixteenth notes now jumping off the staff and bouncing around the score.
It’s a roar!
~
Then fading, we begin to see a break in the clamor.
A tempo
First published on the 29th day of June, 2020
-
Today’s Shot 476
Silent Sunday
My daughter’s drawing from Drafting Class 2008
Have a Blessed week ahead My Friends
-
Today’s Shot 473
Empathy vs Sympathy
Calla Lily Empathy is to feel with someone. It is about connection. How is this different from sympathy: Brene Brown 2:53
Cee’s Flower of the Day – FOTD
-
Today’s Shot 147
Flashback Friday
Garden Paths
Cee’s Flower of the Day – FOTD
First published on the 16th day of June, 2020
-
Today’s Shot 146
Throwback Thursday
Garden Paths
In Gratitude
School is ending soon. A year sounded like such a long time 12 months ago. Little did I know then, how long these months would be. But, here we are at the last week and one final test to go. I’m grateful for the force that helped keep me afloat and helped me keep going. It had to be divine because life didn’t deliver it on its own.
I’m beyond thankful that with school, COVID, work, blogging, a sick fur baby (who is much better now!), protests, a funeral, riots, driving cross- country, and group meditations ( I hope I never see this combination again) – that I am able to say that home has been a quiet haven and retreat these last few months.
I’m grateful for the garden paths of solace I have found along the way, in which I could let the noise of life and my mind just fade away – even if only for these few short moments given, and blissfully received, to capture them.
I’m grateful for friends that I can sit with or walk with in complete silence – where nature, quietness, and companionship have had the full opportunity to just soak into my soul, refilling what had become depleted and empty.
And I’m very grateful to everyone who has stopped by the blog to leave happy notes! Each of you is so appreciated!
🤗🤗🤗
Cee’s Flower of the Day – FOTD
First published on the 15th day of June, 2020.
-
Today’s Shot 470
Blurred
Long-Distance Medical Transport
A journey of a thousand miles, and ten thousand more, have blurred over time. Nine years between those lines and not a day was the same. Seven states, between one and four, the sun has yet to greet the shore. Nine and ten, driving in late, forget that date. Sleep is a juggling-act, and the road the only constant.
Then the picture starts to come into focus, almost, the travel dust begins to clear. I’ll be handing over the keys for a different kind of year.
Last day! Friday! 🚐
-
Today’s Shot 468
Food Friday
Ube
Ube, pronounced ooh-beh, is a purple yam from the Philippines. This Ube ice cream also has chunks of cheese in it and a cheese ribbon swirl that tastes like caramel. It is a delicious sweet and savory combination!
Merry Weekend my Friends!
-
Today’s Shot 142
Throwback Thursday
Unfurl
Buried gifts arise
Sparkling in the new day’s light
Spread your wings and fly
Cee’s Flower of the Day – FOTD
First published on the 8th day of June, 2020
Pilgrimage Studio 