Choices

" The only thing you sometimes have control over is perspective. You don't have control over your situation. But you have a choice about how you view it." (Cris Pine)

Good Morning!

   "I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything.So if I´m going to learn, I must do it by listening." (Larry King)

Listening to the God

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"In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you." (Deepak Chopra)

Rebuilding

"When one has finished building the house, he suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something  that he really needed to know, in the worst way, before one began." (F. Nietzsche)

I've been Thinking...

"Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things." (Ray Bradbury) 

dunes of Maspalomas

Camouflage

"Talking much about oneself may be a way of hiding oneself." (Friedrich Nietzsche)

A Happy Good Bye

   "Respect yourself to walk away from anything that no longer serves you, grows you, or makes you happy."

   So this is the time to say goodbye. But not to you, to the Past! So many good and maybe not so good things happened then... I've lost some friends (where they real friends then?), who couldn't accept or understand my blogging experiments and I've lost some BLOGGER FELLOW ... I renewed forgotten friendships and made the new ones... But the most important, I made a peace with myself.  :)

   It was a moment in my life, when everything suddenly became surreal. Like in a stopped movie, I've found myself between meaningless routines frozen and paralyzed from the scary and uncertain future. Everything was just a big black yelling emptiness mixed with only one question - "But what about my family?!?"... It's like dealing for years with some chronic disease wasn't enough. Weird, how only one visit to the doctor can change all your life...  "Health is not everything, but without it everything is nothing..."

   That's how everything became Black. The color of not having a color, but very important one.

   "Without black, no color has any depth. But if you mix black with everything, suddenly there's shadow - no, not just shadow, but fullness. You've got to be willing to mix black into your palette if you want to create something that is real." (Amy Grant)

   In some amazing way THE LIGHT passed by... It touched me like a miracle, like a hope, like a dream , like a promise, like a LIFE.  For many hours and days, half blind (surgery complications) and in pain I was browsing the pages of unbelievable beauty, repeating to myself that everything is going to be ok. And I will see more beauty which is all around in this world. THANK YOU, LORETA!!! In a  mysterious way, you've saved my soul and my life!

  So this is how my blog was born. Day after day convincing myself, that life is worth to live. That beauty is everywhere, even in this exotic, but very strange to me place. The journey wasn't easy; depending on the day my moods where jumping up and down. Sometimes I needed to force myself with all my powers to do it. Just do it. Day by day. Post by post. Step by step.

   And here I am. Happy and healed. Of course my soul got a bit stained after such experiences, but if I can forgive myself for not being so perfect, maybe you could do it too! At least I made some virtual friends and a few lucky shots. The beautiful power of creativity marked me, and I feel like there is no way back to the life without it, in any shape, idea or form...

   Today I've decided to change it, my blog. I have more life outside the computer screen now, so it will be less posting, and maybe different (or maybe not) style. We'll see. Can't promise anything yet!

   Thank you for your time with me, and for the things I've learned from all of you!

   P.S. Today is my happy birthday :))

 

The Life

"Living is being born slowly."  (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

Bleeding...

"The tongue like a sharp knife... Kills without drawing blood."     (Buddha) 

Moral of Morality

This is the question:

Is it good to smile indifferently with your heart cold?

Or is it right to swear from all your heart?

Guess both can hurt sometimes someone...

There is no right or wrong in a such case,

So why it should bother you then?..

Is that an answer?

Beautiful Stranger

"Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you're really strangers."   (Mary Tyler Moore)

Sun and Rain

"God didn't promise days without pain, laughter without sorrow, sun without rain.
 But He did promise strenght for the day, comfort for the tears, and light for the way."

Hearty Talk

"If you talk to a man  in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart."  (Nelson Mandela)

for Clytie

Climbing

In the mountains, like in the life, there are always some shadows and so is the sun. Depending on your inner call or the time, you might seek some light or you might need a shade. There is a time to climb up, but also you need to get down. Sometimes a handful of dry grass can save you and seemingly stable stone can move under your feet. You might get tired on the half of the road, willing for some change, but staying there forever is not an option - only up or down...

But there is no rush.

Hidden Truth

Not very long time ago I red THIS. I can't tell you if I totally agree or dissagree with an article, as I am not a photographer but a simple blogger. That's why technically wrong photos seem emotionally right to me. And vice versa :) Reflecting glimpses of my personal  experiences visually became a nice routine,   substituting the need of writing a paper diary. Even so I managed to  make some  Friends I've never seen. :) The problem is I am not sure anymore  where this  internet experience leads me to. Pleasing the masses and being "nice" to everybody never was my thing, and let's face it, is impossible. ( If you still don't get it I am talking about commenting on  blog  "great shot", "beautiful", "nice", etc. with a hope that some will tell you the same thing back).  So I really start thinking about turning off the comments, leaving as an option the "reactions". Woud it make any difference to you?  Did you ever feel "overpraised"? Let me know what you think ;)

Sandy Revelation

"The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn on the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden."   (Unknown)

Calima - a sandy smog

Quiet

"The quieter you become the more you can hear".

Little Observation

"The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself."  (Bertrand Russell)