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Adventures in Apertures | WPC: Focus
“Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?” ~ Leonardo da Vinci “Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all...
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Inside the Thorns | Weekly Photo Challenge: Inside
When life gives you thorns … “Lift your hands toward the holy place, and praise the Lord.” Psalms 134:2 When life gives you thorns … “One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that...
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Beyond the Imagined | Horizon
“Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step. Only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.” ~ Dag Hammarskjold “Water has an endless horizon; there...
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What a Community of a Few Can Do | WPC: Community
Day One. We arrive in Guatemala. Hungry, Tired, Wet. Fifteen people. Nine days. That’s all we had. So few of us, so much to do. “How can we make a difference in nine days?” An oft-repeated murmur:...
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Happy Birthday, USA. It’s Time to Shine!
“Fireworks had for her a direct and magical appeal. Their attraction was more complex than that of any other form of art. They had pattern and sequence, colour and sound, brilliance and mobility; they...
View ArticleMake Your Master Piece
“If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the...
View ArticleBeauty Secret
“Do you love me because I’m beautiful or am I beautiful because you love me?” ~ Cinderalla
View Article“Do It Again”
“…it might be true that the sun rises regularly because God never gets tired of rising. His routine might be due, not to a lifelessness, but to a rush of life. The thing I mean can be seen, for...
View ArticleWeekly Photo Challenge: Create | Portraits of Success
Children have an insatiable desire to create, to dream. What better way to adorn a front porch than with these beautiful child drawings? Don’t children provide a continual delight with constant...
View ArticleCenterPeace
“Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.” ~ Corrie ten Boom “Can all your worries add a single moment to your life? … Look at the lilies of the field and how they...
View ArticleAre You Spent … or Well-Spent? ~ Thoreau
“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.” ~ Henry David Thoreau “Too many people today know the price of everything and the value of nothing.” ~ Ann Landers
View ArticleToday | WPC Habit
7:15 PM. It’s the day job and a moment in time—a break. Day’s end nears. Check email. Today Today? Not much time left TODAY. Camera? Just a phone. Oh well, I’ll probably skip this one … today. Then, a...
View ArticleWeekly Photo Challenge: Purple | Ten-Thousand Plus One
“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” ~ Thomas A. Edison
View ArticleA Tale of Agony {Or Whatever Happened to Winning?}
I’m not sure when it happened, but some time during the last thirty years our culture forgot how to celebrate success. We forgot how to be proud of achievement and became more concerned about the...
View ArticleProcrastination—Today’s Latest Cure
‘Twas a lazy Sunday afternoon and the great doze had settled in. Ahhh … perfect. Time to cozy into the chair and succumb to restful dreams. Flip footrest up … yawn. As I sauntered into luscious sleep a...
View ArticleDefining Moments | Weekly Photo Challenge: Lost in the Details
“Wherever you are, be all there.” ~ Jim Elliot The Weekly Photo Challenge theme is “Lost in the Details”. And what a challenge it is. Don’t we get utterly lost in the details of life? Opportunities...
View ArticleNature’s Usual Pose | Weekly Photo Challenge: Up
“Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.” ~ Henry Van Dyke “It’s easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at...
View ArticleClose, Closer | WPC One Shot, Two Ways
“Life consists of a myriad of details that can cloud your vision. To gain a balanced perspective one must overlook some of the minutiae. Details, while very important, are not everything. You can stand...
View ArticleJoy in Weathered Space
November 2011 “There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you’d better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you’ll never understand what it’s saying.” ―...
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