| | Tuesday, November 22, 2005
Count Your Blessings Photo Blog-a-Long!
Welcome, Everyone! Please join Uncskainch and me
for the November photo blog-a-long! With the American
Thanksgiving, we are counting our blessings in photo form.
So put on your thinking caps, warm up those camera shutters, and
represent you blessings! Put you photos in your blog, and then
please leave a comment with Uncskainch and/or me, so we can hook you up
for visiting.
Below is/are the list/links to blog-a-long participants...please go
visit! below the list is my own (growing) blessing
count. I'm still thinking, so photos will come forth over the
next day or so....
Blessings to all!
Blessing Blog participants:
Daa_of_Night
Counting my blessings......
photo: The Redhouse Dancers performing the "Friendship Dance" with the audience at a performance in our town last week
Everyone.
I thank everyone for being here. The dear ones I love, and the
ones I yet do not know. The ones I will never know
personally. The people who give me inspiration, the people who
drive me crazy, the people who shake me up. The ones I don't
understand. You all shape me, I learn from all of you. I
learn about myself through your thoughts and actions. You
give me what I need exactly when I need it.
My people.
The dear, dear souls that I share intimate
contact with. My husband. My children. My dearest of dear
friends. The friends and family who share their comon ground, and
their unique selves. Thank you for your love! Thanks for
understanding, opening my eyes, befuzzling me, and making me
laugh. Thanks for wiring me into your lives, in the great network, through the many ways we met.
Coffee and the sunrise.
Let's get off the altruistic bandwagon for a
minute. I just love my morning coffee, with real cream (though I
most often use regular milk) and real maple syrup (really, it's good!)
and the sunrise. It's a ritual I look forward to every night
before going to bed, and is what gets me out in the cold, dark
mornings.
photo: a butterfly, probably in her last day of life, on the path of the trail we hiked today.
Opportunities and challenges
I am thankful for the opportunities that present themselves to
me, especially in the present time. Like the butterfly, they can
help me morph into myself in ways that I can't imagine
beforehand.
I also count the blessing of opportunity to live in a place in the
world where my personal choices are many. I am blessed with the
opportunity of my children learning at home in ways that fit
their timetables and learning styles, We are fortunate to learn
how they learn and provide them with what they need, and present them
with unique opportunities as well. We're all little butterflies
around here...
photo: a recent tie dye: A heart was stitched into the
shirt with needle and thread, then thread was pulled tight,
scrunching the heart pattern in the shirt. It was then dyed, and
the pattern then painted in with blue dye.
Love!!!!!
Yay for love!!! For the earthly and divine love.
photo: a barrel at a peach festival August, 2004
Health
I've been paying better attention to it lately, and I believe it is paying off...
photo: tiny rosebud in a rose garden, taken last summer
Yay for compassion and forgiveness!
photo: the sun setting in the smoke plume of a nearby forest fire, last summer
The Divine, in all ways people see it
That which makes everything possible..... God as seen in
all traditions or individual belief.... available to each and every one
of us. (the way I see it, that is)
All of you in Xanga Blogland!
You all are great!!! I highly value your companionship
here in cyberspace! Your ideas and talents inspire me in my own
real life, as do your words. You are a funny, imaginative,
supportive, loving bunch of people!!! Thank you for looking
at my photos and offering the kindest of compliments and
encouragement. Thank you for not calling me all-out weird when I
try out new ideas or techniques or hobbies out on you! Thanks for
making up a great forum for becoming more myself as I get there.
Soooo...pull up a chair, and let's have a berry chocolate chip, creamed
shortcake! Pass the coffee, or the tea, or the wine all
around. Here's a toast to you! Cheers!!!
And have a very Blessed Thanksgiving!!!!
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I hope you have a great Thanksgiving. I want to do something for the blog a long, but the only thing I can think of is my children, home and stuff. I wanted it to be original, I guess. Will post sometime in the next few days! Very busy!!
