Cartwheeling through Life: August 2013

New Job ABCs

Another new beginning...

Back home

Celebrating by baking and nesting

Departmental Assistant

English and...

Focus

History and Political Science

Ice cream (Ben and Jerry's Coffee, Coffee BuzzBuzzBuzz)

Joyner Joy

Ken's posts helped me build this one

Media Services taught me a great deal

Now it's time for something New

Overlap can be Ok... for a little bit

Peace of mind

Quick cart wheel done Friday pm with Christine and Liz looking on

Religious and Ethical Studies and Sociology

Support roles Suit me

Transition Time, again. Thank you everyone for all of YOUR support, love and prayers

"An enthusiastic heart finds opportunities everywhere."

T is for Tracy - Happy Birthday to you!! Feb 20, 2017 redo

"Aesthetically pleasing" :) as my kid would say

Cartwheels and Crazy

Dancing through life!

Everything seems to Exploding in NC right now...

Forsythia blooming already in NC

Gorgeous day to be thinking about my niece on her birthday

Happy birthday to you, Tracy!

I think this picture was taken...

June 200 at the Fantastic Umbrella Factory

"'Kay's Early Hope' (early blooming Chinese redbud), a JC Raulston Arboretum introduction, honoring the late Kay Yow, women's basketball coach at NCSU."

https://www.facebook.com/jcraulstonarboretum/photos/a.328534326152.190654.233232226152/10154923530381153/?type=3&theater

"Loving, Knowing, Doing" Aug 29 Essay by Sarah BanBreathnach

"Michelle's Message "Found this rock at the beach today, thought of you Tracy Law!"

Napatree and Watch Hill pictures are the best. You look SO happy :)

One of my favorite pictures of my beautiful niece

Pretty Pinks as the cherry trees all start popping at once

Quite the surprise tucked in with the grasses at the Arboretum

Relaxing lunch, breathing in the fresh air and sunshine
Sunrise on Tracy's birthday, Feb 20, 2017

is for Tracy!!

Unbelievably kind, sweet, loving, and beautiful, inside and out.
Violet Mae's Auntie

Watch Hill with her Dad, my brother Ken :)

Back to School - Aug 26, 2013

Align and Shine

Back to School

Cary High School

Drop backbend, with two friends

Everyone ready for...

First day of school?

Ganesh: remover of obstacles

Heart centered courage

Inner peace

Jyotish (Vedic) Horoscope
Ken blissing out on a slack line

Love
Moon is waning

Open

Prakasha-Vimarsha combining the powers of the emanating light of consciousness and self-reflection

Quietly...

Ridding ourselves of what binds us

Senior year

This is it

Understanding

Virasana - hero pose

Windshield wiper pose: Vāyu-kavaca-śuddhīkṛtāsana

eXcited about whatever comes neXt

Yoga

Zodiac

A Walk With Me --- by Gwen Frostic

Birds come and build their nests...

Created anew... calmness in the clouds...

defy description...

Etch wondrous designs on others...

Fresh bed of moss carpets the woods...

Harmony...

Immaculate earth with color

Jewelweed glistens in the sunshine

Kingfishers...majestic wings filling the air

Law of the universe

Mystery

Nothing is new... nothing is old

Osiers -- milkweed -- trees --- each with its own hour of creation

Pattern of constant change...prismatic dragonflies darting back and forth

Quiet ripples washing gently on the shore

Rhythmical.. beauty...always...

Stillness... Simplicity... Striped stones

Tranquility

Understood

Valerie's "Fallgust"

Wild Wings

eXtreme slowness...eXquisite winged nuts of the birch

Yet - life goes on unchanged --

Zen

Walking Dead Weekend

An apocalypse of identity

"Cherokee Rose"

"Days Gone By"

Epidemic of apocalyptic proportions

Farm
"Guts"
Human social behavior at its finest?

"I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire, which will fit your individual needs no better than it did mine or my father's before me, I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you may forget it for a moment now and then and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it." William Faulkner, as quoted by Dale Horvath on Walking Dead, Season 1 Epside 4
Jeffery DeMunn played Dale and he was awesome and not afraid to say what he thought
K

"Lead Me Home"

Music is pretty good
"No man is good enough for your little girl, until one is." ~ Herschel Season 2
Otis
"Pain doesn't go away, you just make room for it."
Q
R
"Save the Last One"
"Tell it to the Frogs"
U
"Vatos"

Zombies everywhere

Sunday, August 25, 2013

Many years ago, I taught Sunday School at Unity Renaissance Church in Chesapeake, VA. One activity we did involved moving around the room and filling words that describe each person, one for each letter of the alphabet. The penmanship, mine and the kids, brought back the emotions from this beautiful exercise.

Awesome

Brave

Cool

Delightful

Excellent

Friendly

Great

Helpful

Incredible

Joy

Kind

Loving

Marvelous

Nice

Open

Pleasant

Quick

Reliable

Sensational

Truth-filled

Unique

Vivacious

Weird

xciting

Youthful

Zanius

(I'm pretty sure this one has something to do with the word "zany" :)

P is for Passion

A human being is a part of the whole, called by us the “Universe,” a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest—a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.

Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. Nobody is able to achieve this completely, but the striving for such achievement is in itself a part of the liberation, and a foundation for inner security. ~ Albert Einstein

Billy Collins' Litany recited by 3 year old
Cut and paste so that I don't lose the things that grab my attention in the early morning hour of my day
"Delicate negotiation between the clear and the mysterious"
Elegiac : expressing sorrow often for something now past
Fierce and Firmly
Grounded in the everyday

Inspired by Dr. G's share of this video

Jacques Crickillon - Belgian poet/professor
Keep smiling :)
Litany begins:"You are the bread and the knife/ The crystal goblet and the wine..." ~ Jacques Crickillon
"My Misty Morning"

Nine Horses: Poems by Billy Collins

Passion for Life

The path in your life,
may never be straight.
Contain bumps and curves,
where many are great.

Your personal experiences,
have shaped who you are.
Embrace your mistakes,
and each unique scar.

There's always new things,
in life we may learn.
With every page,
and chapter we turn.

There's just one simple,
but very important rule.
Your passion for life,
should be used as your fuel.

by anitapoems.com

roots by Mandy at attualmente

"At night I dream that you and I are two plants that grew together, roots entwined,
and that you know the earth and the rain like my mouth, since we are made of earth and rain."

- Pablo Neruda

Unwind

Very interesting

Week

eXpress yourself as only you can

time....

Anytime is the right time

Bed time

Coffee time

Day time

Everytime

Find time, "Find Me" Boyce Avenue

Go time

Hang time

Kairos

Lunchtime

My time

Noontime

Overtime

Peace time

Quiet time

Right time

Sometime

Thyme

Unlimited time

Valuable time

Worry time? no Way!

eXcellent timing

YouTube video

Zzzzzz

Monday, August 19, 2013

“Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life — is the source from which self-respect springs.” ~ Joan
Didion

Enough said

Freshman: Meredith College Class of 2017 have now arrived! :)

Going to be a busy year...

I am overdue on letting and I know it

Jennifer was Just a tad busy today ;)

Knot terminology I'd forgotten about: "flemished" thank you Valerie

Library Orientation for incoming Freshman
Magical and Magnificent
Nothing like it

Oak Bluffs, Martha's Vineyard
Peace of mind...
"Quite floor"? I wish!

Sailing into the Mystic

Torrential rains

Underway

"We were born before the wind / Also younger than the sun..."

eXceptional

Years

Zooming by, and ahead

I is for Introvert

Click here to check out: Exceptional Living

DebMunroeStudio at Etsy

FABULOUS idea: Dear Photograph

Great idea that I am going to do some where someday....
High school sports was a turning point for me

I love my Introvert daughter very much

Jackie used to be an introvert. I know! But it is true...
Kyrgyz culture - see "Y" below
Large families can allow one to disappear if they so choose
Makes for difficult holiday/"big family" celebration for my daughter
Now I do understand
Only children have to limit
People interaction for their own sanity
Quiet time is crucial
Restorative yoga
Sun came out again - yay! pool?