Love and Light: Music Monday...

Monday, 4 November 2013

Music Monday...

Learning to Be All that is within me:

elating

frightening

over flowing

lonely

blessed

breaking down

building up

heart breaking

heart bursting

nothing

eveything

painful

healing...

This past weekend I hosted my first art show

of my intuitive photography

You lovelies get to preview a lot of my captures here

But this was my "coming out" night.

I could not ask for anything better.

On so many levels

it was perfect.

I felt it took Courage

to put myself out there like that.

As much as there is some truth to that,

looking back I can see

I made it way more a "deal"

then need be....

But

I had to break through

my own walls

to find that out.

(this is a captured image of a very unique world class surfer checking out his next surf... thats courage)

Courage

Courage to move past

your conditioning

Courage to step out

and Be

Courage to Break Free

from the mold not made for you

Courage to Speak

when ears are closed

Courage to remain still

in the eye of the storm

Courage to raise a lantern

in dark times

Courage to give when there

is nothing left

Courage to love

and be loved

Courage to take a stand

when others don't

Courage to love yourself

unconditionally

Courage to Live Free

~Catherine Beerda-Basso

This week my lovelies

Live in Courage

and find out

you did not need it as much as you thought.

Love and Light

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13 comments:

foxysue4 November 2013 at 05:14
I'm floating on your words and images just so beautiful, both!
I needed the encouragement today...
Yes sometimes we do make things bigger in our minds, I was the same when I hosted a Yoga & Art retreat...
Have been part of exhibitions in the past but not solo, I don't feel daunted by this and should get on with it myself, you've inspired me.

Hugs x
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prairiegirl4 November 2013 at 05:44
It WAS a big deal. You took that first leap to show the world your passion for photography. Your STORIES. The nervous excitement is all part of it. And look at the outcome! Ta da!
If only to have been there to see your smile through those auburny curls.
And that image of the surfer checking out the waves. You took that? Where was it taken? 'A picture tells a story, don't it' (thank you, Rod Stewart) ;)
Happy coming out & congrats!
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nyssa4 November 2013 at 07:34
all of it ♥ it's so true.."Live in Courage and find out
you did not need it as much as you thought." such truth! xoxo
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Gail4 November 2013 at 23:27
A gift for words and photography!
I am overdue a letter to you! (it will happen) xx
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Arlana5 November 2013 at 18:23
Some things that seem like they should be easy, just aren't. When I read your words about Courage I realize that yes, it takes courage to do things like be ourselves, to live free, to love. Thanks for sharing these beautiful words with us. P.S. I loved your art show!!!
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Shirley Anne5 November 2013 at 19:27
Such wise insights Catherine.....love the photos.

I admire your courage and progress

Big warm hug
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My Earth Walk Journey6 November 2013 at 20:57
Thank you so much for this post, and your inspiring courage and amazing work. You remind me to walk with courage.
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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

Love and Light

Monday, 4 November 2013

Music Monday...

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