There be Gators
Alligator – Georgia Swamp LandsTag: IPhone Photography
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Today’s Shot 85
Crystal Shards #5
Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee
How many ships
Upon the raging sea
Have seen the light
And sailed safely home to thee …
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“Lighthouses don’t go running all over the island looking for boats to save. They just stand there shinning.”
-Anne Lamott
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Today’s Shot 83 #Haibun
Peek-a-Boo! Love, Peanut
First mistake?
I was looking at Haibun examples.
Investigation yielded, what has become, my new word: perplextigation.
There are so many different ways of writing Haibun, which I’ve never written before. Some have short lines and others have paragraphs. It’s a bit confusing but I believe this is some form of it… or not even close!
To perplextigation!
Peek-a-Boo!
Snuggled, warm she peeks from the shelter of contentment, peace found in the timeworn cocoon of blanket and child. The most frayed of symbols offers endless moments of the assured, inner-state of wellbeing…
Amenity, soft
Hugs within gentle folds, soothed
Her weathered abode
Colleen’s 2020 Weekly #Tanka Tuesday #Poetry Challenge No. 168 #Synonyms Only
The two words selected by Ruth Scribbles are: Comfort and Worn
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Today’s Shot 82
Slow-Motion Crystal Shards Returning to their Original Liquid State
Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee
Face Masks
During this time, I have seen many people wearing masks. While this can be helpful – also remember that the best protection is for anyone who is currently unwell to wear them. And if you are wearing them while well to prevent germs, remember that germs may adhere to the outer surface of your mask 😷. If you take your mask off or touch it, you’ll need to wash / sanitize your hands!
Prevent and Protect! 🌟
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Today’s Shot 81
Frozen in Time
Water flows, always on the move.
Ever changing, what does it prove?
Then it stands still – for a moment in time,
Like a looking glass, we look and we find.
What has been flowing – is now still.
What was up – now pointing downhill.
Past echoes, future sight – drumming.
The sun is coming, the sun is coming…
Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee
Nekneeraj has chosen this photo by anouar olh on Pexels.com for our challenge this week at MindLoveMisery’s Managerie.
Challenge photo by anouar olh on Pexels.com
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Today’s Shot 78
Whispers
The wind whispering
Through the grasses and the leaves
Weaving, bending, dance
Breezy voices sing and sigh
Waving greetings at the sky …
Allium
Allium is the ancient Latin word for garlic, from the Celtic word all, meaning “hot or burning”. Its species name sativum means “cultivated” or “planted.” Spear plant or Gar-leac is the Anglo-Saxon word from which garlic is derived.
1665
The London College of Physicians recommended garlic to prevent plague.
Prevent and Protect 🌟
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Today’s Shot 77
Biking Tools
We came across these the other day on a biking trail. I had never seen this before, but it’s good to know where the tools are at, in case they are needed!
Vitamin C – A Powerful Antioxidant
In addition to improving cardiovascular health, improving cancer survival rates, and promoting longevity, vitamin C is a powerful antioxident that boosts immunity, helps to balance and maintain our immune system, and fights infections.
As written in “Life Extension Magazine“:
“…vitamin C increases the life span of immune cells and reduces infection-related cellular damage. This bolsters the immune system’s ability to fend off a broad range of infectious agents.
Interestingly, research has clearly demonstrated that during times of infection, concentrations of vitamin C are rapidly depleted in the blood and in white blood cells.
Scientists have found that supplementation with vitamin C improves several important parameters of immune function. Therefore, supplementing with vitamin C during infection may protect immune cells and strengthen their ability to fight infectious pathogens.”
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Today’s Shot 76
Solitary
Wellness Tip
As an addition to the posts, Hygiene and Prevention and Airport Safety, one more area of focus would be gas pumps. I wear gloves, but buttons and handles can also be easily wiped down with disinfectant wipes before use.
Prevent and Protect 🌟
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Soul Crafts
Dream Catcher
Dream Catcher
Making Sense of the Messy Middle
A friend recently taught me how to make a Dream Catcher and I finally finished it! At first, it looked like a ill-formed mess of nothingness – but then it grew to have shape and meaning. It’s kind of like life sometimes… how we can take what seems to be a mess, what looks like ashes, and keep working with it until we find the meaning and beauty.
Thank you Dory 😊
Dream Catcher
“The middle is messy, but it’s also where the magic happens.”
-Brene Brown
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Today’s Shot 75
Ray of Light
Sumter National Forest
At times, as I’ve aimed the camera, I think I know what I’ve captured… then looking later, I know I didn’t truly see at all. Not then.
Mantra Practice
Tidal force is what causes high and low tides. It is the side closest to the moon that pushes the inflows and draws the outflows with the moon’s gravitational pull. Just as, with each planet, there is an energetic effect. I have always been interested in how this affects us as people. More, I wondered if there were mantras for the planets 🪐 which help us navigate the energetic currents that tug at our own lives.
Mercury has been the talk of late, being in retrograde (appearing to move backwards). I find that working in Mercury’s energy (which has been associated with communications of all kinds) with my voice and words, has been interesting to me. It is intentional thought, throat chakra in action, words and sound – all combined – focused towards those very things: Mercury and communications. The idea is, that these types of mantras help to sooth or smooth-out the natural energies that are at play in our lives. It is helpful to know your birth chart if you’d like to pin-point a specific issue along with its planetary associations.
You can chant with mala beads 108 times. Or perhaps, set aside a certain amount of time and make it a part of your meditation practice.
Mercury Mantra / Budh
Note: as I heard it explained, the sound “Bood – Ha” is not the same as Buddha.
Om Budhaya Namaha
Om Bood-hah-yah Nahm-ah-ha
In his book, “Mantra, Sacred Words of Power”, Thomas Ashley-Farrand says, “Attention is energy. Intention qualifies attention.”
Whether you pray, dance, sing, drum, or chant mantras… what kind of attention is your intention qualifying?
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