If you notice you're angry or complaining, back away a bit, physically or mentally or emotionally, and see how big the problem really is, from a different perspective.
photo by Sandra Dodd
Abundance
Friday, May 25, 2018
When to whine
If you notice you're angry or complaining, back away a bit, physically or mentally or emotionally, and see how big the problem really is, from a different perspective.
photo by Sandra Dodd
Abundance
Thursday, May 24, 2018
Peace is all about choices
If you want to live peacefully make the most peaceful choices. Peace is all about choices. Choose to breathe consciously. Choose understanding over ignorance. Choose to make choices. Choose awareness over oblivion. And make choices based on the principles you live by.
(Thanks to Heather Newman for quoting me, May 22, 2011.)
photo by Sylvia Woodman
Wednesday, May 23, 2018
Nature and construction
Nature, culture, ancient engineering, curiosity, a moment of still wonder...
People love bridges. Think back to bridges from your childhood, the oldest bridges you've seen, the simplest, the most elegant.
Think of memories, or images, of people and of bridges. Beauty and wondrous crossings, over water, over canyons, over little streams and ditches. I think this must be one of the most iconic motifs in human history.
photo by Annie Regan
Tuesday, May 22, 2018
Shame free
I didn’t expect unschooling to create a shameless life, but one day I said to Holly, joking, “Aren’t you ashamed?”
She didn’t know what “ashamed” meant. She was twelve; maybe thirteen already.
People used to say “you should be ashamed” lots, to and around me, when I was young. And I was, I just hadn’t found the reason for it yet. Shame is like an indwelling virus that surfaces when we’re weak, in those who caught it.
I didn’t know people could grow up without having a wad of shame inside them, waiting to surface.
SandraDodd.com/unexpected
photo by Gail Higgins
She didn’t know what “ashamed” meant. She was twelve; maybe thirteen already.
People used to say “you should be ashamed” lots, to and around me, when I was young. And I was, I just hadn’t found the reason for it yet. Shame is like an indwelling virus that surfaces when we’re weak, in those who caught it.
I didn’t know people could grow up without having a wad of shame inside them, waiting to surface.
photo by Gail Higgins
Monday, May 21, 2018
Quiet focus
 | Moments of quiet focus, and photo evidence of those, are both a bit magical. |
photo by Ester Siroky
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Sunday, May 20, 2018
Saturday, May 19, 2018
Gail Higgins photos
Another collection!?
I'm getting well, but have two unexpected separate house guests, from two different unexpected situations.
(A couple have Gail-Higgins quotes and photos by others.)
photo by Gail Higgins
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