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Category: Photography
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From dark ground skyward, Latent beauty emerging, Ruled by warmth and light.
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Unassuming bits, industriously woven. A haven for our heart. When society promotes always having more and better things, it can cause a person to lose sight of the things that truly make a person valuable. Kindness, honesty, compassion, respect, courage…these should be the building materials of a life. Wealth, prestige, and power may give the…
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Perfect in my mind, No need for improvement. I stand corrected.
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Light against darkness, hardship highlights joy, And hope burgeons from the mire. Life is full of both happiness and hardships that we must experience. While we might wish we could forgo the hardships, they are a necessary part of life. Hardships can teach us much about ourselves, as well as ensure that we fully appreciate…
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Independent, so painful to need help, but asking begets growth. As Americans, we are taught that independence is a good thing, something to be valued and admired. Some of us may be a bit too independent, trying to do everything on our own and not wanting to ask for help. We might think that needing…
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Energy flowing, A gradual blossoming from youth thru maturity. Like this flower, our path through life develops more blossoms as we progress. While the first blooms are indeed beautiful, how much more so is the full flower that has been given time to fully develop. True, a few petals may be missing or a…
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A fleeting blossom, Unconcerned about Fate’s Wheel, Direct and lovely. How often the worries of life madly spin us around. Jobs, money, status, all of these things preoccupy us to the point where it becomes difficult to see clearly. An entire world exists outside of our modern worries, a world of peace, beauty and tranquility.…
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Wooden walkway leads, Spanning our distant selves, Pathway to self-truth. We all have transition points in our lives. We transition from childhood to adulthood, from single to married, from career to career, our lives are filled with transitions. While each transition comes with its own stress, and some transitions are painful, each transition is such…
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Blessings in your life, Visible but often missed. Learning to notice. How many times have we heard the phase, “count your blessings”? Or we should write a “gratitude journal”, to remind ourselves of all the things we have in our lives that we are to be grateful for. Does it occasionally seem that we are…
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Frustrations fade as eyes grow soft, vision expands, Tranquility dawns. How wonderful is that moment when you first feel tranquility stealing over you. That fleeting moment when the jaw relaxes, the shoulders drop and the eyes soften. It seems that those moments are so rare and precious in our busy lives that often times we…