The New Hopes

   Standing on the line between the past and the future... Some things decayed, some just starting to spring up. Growing and blooming, exposing the roots and naked branches, creating shades and shapes, drying out and stretching upward... But being. Always being here. Such a nice forest of different bloggers and friends!!! Lets hope that all Gods and the Mother Nature will be generous. To You, to me, to all and everyone. Happy New Year!

Thoughts

   "All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again." (Goethe)

Almost about the Weather

"Never cut a tree down in a wintertime. Never make a negative decision in a low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come." (Robert H. Schuller)

Still Hiding

Yes, it takes some time to brush up my feathers and get dry... 

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)

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.

The Finest Flowers

Only those, who've never seen a bloom in a desert will continue worshiping  roses. Yes, the have thorns, so do cacti.  The tenderness of buds, the softness of petals, the beauty that astonish. And besides that, the perseverance and  the patience...

Smile

"Smile and others will smile back. Smile to show how transparent, how candid you are. Smile if you have nothing to say. Most of all, do not hide the fact you have nothing to say nor your total indifference to others. Let  this emptiness, this profound indifference shine out spontaneously in your smile." (Jean Baudrillard)

Life's Holes

"I have little patience with scientists who take a board of wood, look for its thinnest part, and drill a great number of holes where drilling is easy." (Albert Einstein)

Waiting and waiting...

"Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass I can appreciate persistence."  (Hal Borland)

This place haven't seen a decent rain since last February...

One Step at the Time

"Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step."  (Lao Tzu)

Happy Monday!

"The beginning is the most important part of the work."   (Plato) 

Forward

"There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still."  (Franklin D. Roosevelt)

Keep Going

"Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going."  (Sam Levenson) 

Just Do It!

I am not very happy. Neither I am unhappy. The adopting and adjusting takes some time. The green is changed by grey. The fresh replaced by hot. The rain is dried by the sun. The dark evenings indoors rearranged into night's softness in my terrace. But I can do it! Slowly, step by step,  day after day, thread after thread... The palms didn't grow up in a one day either...

Ask the Wind...

"Energy is the ability, when a physical system has to do work on other physical systems."  So, forget the coffee. Maybe it re-feels your emptyness, but gives no abilities. Vitamins? They keep the motor working properly, but I bet you won't get any necessary skils. What to do then? Maybe look at aeolics and move yourself. Slowly and persistently. Purely and naturally. Be patient and stop when is necesary. The Wind of Change never fails. 

"The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have." (Norman Vincent Peale) 

Summer's Laughter

           "Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it!"       (Russel Baker)

They don't give up

My back yard is full of the bushes. Bushes with personality, I would say. I start to suspect that they are some enchanted human beings, trying to brake witches' curse. They don't give up so easy, actually they never give up... They BLOOM!.. All the year round. Bathed by the storm, fried by the sun, trimmed by me - they bloom. Day and night. Constantly and persistently... I wish I would be enchanted by the same witch...