Impossible Life

"Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead."  Louisa May Alcott.  (These are our sunflowers in the garden last year, they were supposed to be small.)

Fear......


Illuminate...
“I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary, how well I know. It has no decency, respects no law or convention, shows no mercy. It goes for your weakest spot, which it finds with unnerving ease. It begins in your mind, always ... so you must fight hard to express it. You must fight hard to SHINE THE LIGHT of words upon it. Because if you don't, if your fear becomes a wordless darkness that you avoid, perhaps even manage to forget, you open yourself to further attacks of fear because you never truly fought the opponent who defeated you.”  Yann Martel, Life of Pi  (It looks like a good movie from this book, have you seen it?)

We are all born innocent

 

Innocence

These are the lambs that were just born here a few weeks ago.  They run to the fence to greet us because our truck looks like the farmers who feeds them.  The little lambs are so playful.

 

This week is "i" at ABC meme so a few "i" words are mixed in.

 

 

 

My Impossible Life
"The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible."  Arthur C. Clarke (This is the hummer
who sits on my deck rope and grooms)

 

A perfect tiny itch.....the inaudible movement....

 

If you click on the pictures they get much larger and look better. All the photos are taken on Vancouver Island.

 Imitation is easy.... 

"By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest."  Confucius 
hmmmm, does the experience to learn wisdom always need to be
bitter,  .....please can some wisdom come with fun....love fun!

 

This is a photo above of the indigenous peoples of my area on a healing canoe journey, a few years ago they landed on the beach I lived nearby.  
 

Some cultures teach the importance of courage and sing and dance about it. It takes courage to survive....cheerfully without becoming sad or bitter.

Courage....

"The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty and Truth." Albert Einstein
 

 

This above is the same beach where I used to live and the mountain is Mount Baker in Washington State, USA.
 

 

Infinity at China Beach, B.C. above.......it feels like you are on the edge of infinity there.....it is very isolated and impressive. Incomparable and immutable. It is easy to imagine what it would have been like years ago as it is the same from time immemorial.

 

A walk in the rain the other day produced some kelp on the beach at Island View Beach and our first midday low tide.  We have had a lot of rain so I put a plastic cover over the camera and got a few shots.

 “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” Confucius

 

 Immerge from within or Immerge to within.....

“Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.”   Confucius

(These re the pussy willows that are at my duck pond, they are starting to come out, yay!!!)

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
Confucius  (This is a stump covered with icy frost out at Goldstream Park, soon
another small tree will grow from within it and it will rise high above the forest again if
we protect it.)

 

Inventors.....

"We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities." Ralph Waldo Emerson
This photo below is also from the same beach where I used to live, it was near a sailing club.

 

Personal Note:  I am sailing on a voyage of some kind of discovery

 

As you can see I am still going through some kind of writer's block where I seem to just put in quotes and pictures. I feel it is incomplete and incompetent of me. This always passes in time.  Hope you all have a great week and look forward to seeing your posts

It is "i" week at ABC meme so a variety of "I" words today and a few
birdies for my birdy memes.

Thank you to these memes for allowing bloggers to share their story.  I may not remember to enter them all but I still list them for others and as this is the quick way for me to do it.

The Bird D'pot
Our World Tuesday
Sweet Shot Tuesday
Tuesday Tweets
ABC Wednesday
Nature Notes Wednesday
Outdoors Wednesday
Wild Bird Wednesday

 I list all the memes for the week now as I can only spend a short time on the computer.  To continue reading posts you must click older post below or see the index at the top or the side or pick a popular post or label from the sidebar.