Mighty
Throwback Thursday
First published on the 13th day of April, 2020.
Tag: Reflection
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Compassion
What is the Earliest Sign of Civilization?
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What might come to mind first is clay pottery, weapons, grinding stones, or fishhooks. Yet when the anthropologist, Margaret Mead, was asked by a student, “What is the earliest sign of civilization?” her answer was, “A healed femur.”
The longest bone in the body is the femur. It connects the hip to the knee, and takes many weeks to heal. In the animal world, if you break your leg, you die. You aren’t able to hunt, go to your water source, or protect yourself from danger. It is difficult so survive long enough for the injury to heal. In their world, where the code is: “survival of the fittest”, there aren’t healed femurs found.
A healed femur is a sign of care. Someone has set and bound the broken limb and stayed to tend, feed and nurture the wounded. They have been taken to a safe place to rest where they are protected.
The first sign of civilization, is care and compassion.
We are our highest selves when we are serving others.
“Helping someone else through difficulty is where civilization starts,” Margaret Mead said, “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can’t change the world; For, indeed, that’s all who ever have.”
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Throwback Thursday
First published on the 6th day of April, 2020.
Cover Photo by Wikimedia.org
Source: Forbes
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Today’s Shot 93
Throwback Thursday
Zen moment
I am always amazed at how the world can be in such a state of unrest… and yet I step outside, and the birds are blissfully unaware, continuing the full chorus line, not worried and unhurried.
They understand the deepest thing of all: the joy of simply being.
First published on the 30th day of March, 2020.
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Today’s Shot 117
Throwback Thursday
A Bugs Life
Great Smoky Mountains National Park – Tennessee
“It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.”
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
First published on the 2nd day of March, 2020
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Today’s Shot 376
Textured Tuesday
Spongy moss nestled
Small pebbles share sacred space
Earthy friendships merge
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Today’s Shot 35
Throwback Thursday – Winter Rose
First published on the 29th day of December, 2019
“If you write 1,000 words a day, you will have no trouble writing that book!” someone told me. It sounded good. But, what of a picture that speaks 1,000 words? That’s time efficient, right? One shot for 1,000 words. How many words have been written about the rose over time?
Stand tall in the sun.
Stand tall in the rain.
Despite frost and storm clouds,
Sing your refrain.
Just keep singing your refrain.
Cee’s Flower of the Day – FOTD
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Today’s Shot 31
Throwback Thursday
First Published on December 16th, 2019.
Some pilgrimages are not through wooded glades of soft, filtered light with the sound of a gently-flowing fountain in the background. Some are rugged and stark landscapes that may, at first, appear barren. We face many different kinds of terrain in our journeys throughout life. Some are zen, while others seem desolate – yet they teach lessons that we couldn’t learn anywhere else on earth. 🦂 And, some give us a view we’d have never seen through the trees.
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The scorpions scuttle and the eagle flies the big open sky today. A reminder that not all pilgrimages are beautiful in the same way.
Desert Roads
Nevada
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