Love and Light: Keeping it Real...

Friday, 8 June 2012

Keeping it Real...

Keeping it Real with the lovely

Monica over at Ink and Chai

Every Friday

Monica invites her readers to

"Share your own ups-downs, lows-highs, hits-misses, dark-light,
peaks-valleys, plus-minuses,
as we keep the blogosphere real."

The Ebb:

~balancing work and family
~no quite enough sleep
~the constant rain
~the 16 year old who took her own life
and the sister who has to say good bye...
carrying that sister since the news
came my way
I have stood at that door
but failure became my friend
not so for my sister
my heart aches for her

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~my son who I stood at that door with
graduates tomorrow
it's been a long road
and we are finally here
~the joy of seeing my sons confidence bloom as he is head hunted by an Art Institute
~more ink
~little boy stories
~mamma raccoon with three babies in our ravine
~warm sunny breaks

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Love and Light

Link up here at Ink and Chai

9 comments:

Unknown9 June 2012 at 01:26
oh that's so so sad about that 16-yr-old. leaves everyone feeling so helpless too.

wow, new ink, with an owl!!!, and a graduated son!
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foxysue9 June 2012 at 04:59
Those of us who feel deeply, feel they are never enough, my heart goes out to you.

When the sunshine comes out in the form of a son who fills our heart this is the reward for loving deeply. x
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nyssa9 June 2012 at 06:03
My heart broke for the mother of the girl. so much pain. I'm so glad you didn't have to cross the threshold of that same door and that failure was indeed your friend. LOVE the tat. WOW WOW.. love. ( I'm going next week for something myself.)and so many congrats to you and your son. graduating and being sought after for a gift. how mindblowing is that?? happy beyond words for the happy parts of your week, holding you and your friend for the horribly painfilled parts xoxo
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Kmarie9 June 2012 at 10:23
This is such a mixture of all the emotions. I am always amazed at what you live through in a week. Love that tat too - it suits you.
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POTMA'S ON A MISSION9 June 2012 at 13:34
Ya baby - keeping it real!
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Baby By The Sea9 June 2012 at 14:49
Mama raccoon - quite a site. My heart now aches for that family. I am sending healing thoughts. Happy graduation and many smiles sent your direction.
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Gail10 June 2012 at 03:47
Head hunted by an art institute!!!!!!!!!! How fabulous!!!! Loving the ink!! LOVING the ink!!!! Sooooooo tempted.
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Gail10 June 2012 at 03:52
P.S. The 16 year old..... well that just breaks my heart. Prayers for the family and friends. How devastating.
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janae10 June 2012 at 15:56
I want to see the full tattoo - that picture is a tease! - it looks amazing!
...
I am fascinated by the rise and fall - never ceases to amaze me - hope it never will.
<3
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quotes that resonate...

"The world will know and understand me someday. but if that day does not arrive, it does not greatly matter. I shall have opened the way for other women." ~George Sands

"I have a new command for you. As I have loved you, so you must love others. "~Jesus

"You don't have a soul. You are a Soul...you have a heart." ~C.S. Lewis

"Humankind has not woven the web of Life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. all things are bound together. all things connected." ~Chief Seattle, 1854

If ever there comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known."~ Matthew Arnold

“Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it.
Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many.
Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books.
Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.
Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations.
But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.”~ Buddha

"The world will be saved by the Western woman....Some people will call me a feminist...but we need more effort to promote basic human values-human compassion, human affection. And in that respect, females have more sensitivity for others' pain and suffering." ~Dalai Lama

"All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another." ~Anatole France

Out beyond ideas of wrong-doing and right-doing, there is a feild. I'll meet you there. ~Rumi

"Those who seem to know more truth than you simply reflect the part of you that has forgotten. They are your touchstones to remember." ~Alan Cohen

"We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another;unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, resent, and the future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations." ~Anais Nin

"Process is more important than outcome. when the outcome drives the process we will only ever go to where we've already been. If process drives outcome we may not know where we're going, but we will know we want to be there." ~ Bruce Mau

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Friday, 8 June 2012

Keeping it Real...

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