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** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only **  Thank you Wanbli Ska, for this beautiful gift of poetry! Welcome! I share with you here, some lessons through life, and from some old wise ones. Even children and animals have been my teachers. These experiences that we go through in life are meant to teach us something. To help us grow spiritually. Be grateful for them... give thanks, for they are all needed. ~SummerLyn |
** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success. ~ Louisa May Alcott (Little Women) A beautiful day today!...as the title says in Lakota..'a good day'! I think I will utilize it well by going for a long ride, perhaps up to Deadwood(that's it there in the photograph). I don't want to gamble(don't have the money to do that sort of thing), but just walk up and down the streets...perhaps take the trolley around, and maybe up to Boothill where Wild Bill, Calamity Jane and all them outlaws are buried. In other words...enjoy my moments in this day! I wish I'd win the Lottery or something, but they say you have to be in it, to win it! Don't have the money for that either, so guessing I will not win that. Saving all my pennies here, and knowing that my membership will be coming to an end here in April, I won't be renewing it for just that reason...need to save money here. I'm contemplating what to do next in my life. Life is good though! At least that is what I keep telling myself...I've said it so much to myself that I actually am believing it. Can't really complain because despite the struggles we all experience in life at one time or another, there are so many blessings. I think I will focus on that in this day! Enjoy your moments there! Find joy and allow peace to enter your heart no matter what comes at you. It's not easy, but you can do it. I have faith in you!   My 'Gift' Of Song For You This Day~ Who remembers this song?! I just love this song!  [Embed For Use By Upgraded+] |
** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** A persons a person no matter how small! ~ Dr.Suess   Dr. Suess!!! Yes...it's his birthday today...I think I will make myself some Green Eggs and Ham in his honor! HA!My 'Gift' For You Today~ I remember reading Green Eggs and Ham to my children when they were younger! I always loved this story... |
** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** Yes,there are two paths you can go by, but in the long run, there's still time to change the road you're on. ~ Led Zeppelin (Stairway to Heaven) Back in the old days when a hunter would go out, they would follow a trail...on that trail perhaps they'd find a footprint...perhaps going further they'd find some tracks...maybe those tracks would lead to many more. Sometimes those tracks would cross each other....some going one way...others going another. It was making the right choice of which way to go that would lead to the success of that hunt. I think life is like this with us today, in that we need to make the right choices and chose the right path to ensure a happy and peace~filled life. My 'Gift' Of Song For You This Day~ Looking forward to Pow-Wow coming around again. Thought to share a fun song with you here. [Embed For Use By Upgraded+] |
** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business. ~ Mahatma Gandhi I like this Gandhi guy! He's got alot of wisdom, in my opinion. I never really looked at anyone as my 'enemy', but I know through the grapevine that people have considered me theirs. I don't know why...I suppose it's a matter of perception. What do you think? Sure there have been people I have disagreed with...there are people that my 'spirit' just has not grown attached to and quietly has whispered 'stay away from'. Did you ever meet someone, and upon first meeting, you don't know what it is but you just don't care for them...there is just something about them that you don't like. Some have said it is because of a past life. I don't know...I have just always followed my 'spirit', for everytime I didn't listen within, I would always be sorry for it. The way I was taught...when someone does not like you, perhaps has said or done some bad things against you...you don't look at them as your enemy...you don't treat them in a bad way in return. Instead, you pray for them. When you run across them...you smile at them...if you see they need help in some way, you stop and help them regardless of how they may look or feel about you. This is my thought this day! Enjoy your moments there! I've been asked to go to the movies this afternoon, so I think I am going to take the invitation. My 'Gift' Of Song For You This Day~ [Embed For Use By Upgraded+] |
** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** Knowledge exists potentially in the human soul like the seed in the soil; by learning the potential becomes actual. ~Imam Al-Ghazali Who would have ever thought that Einstein, laying asleep in his bed would wake up one morning, and without any scientific reasoning, nor proof come to arrive at E=MC2. This, just from an idea...that seed that grew to become a reality. His vision became his idea, thus bringing it to reality. An entire Lemon tree was originally contained in a tiny seed. This Sunflower in this photograph I took, grew from a seed to a stem and budded into this. How amazing is that?! You'd be surprised what can come from a seed. Sometimes, however, things don't come out as we had hoped or anticipated. They can be/or turn sour. What if Einstein would have failed in what he originally planted? The Italian writer, Og Mandino said that "every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson. on how to improve your performance the next time." Just a thought out of a million I thought to share with you today! Wishing you peace in your moments there! My 'Gift' Of Song For You This Day~ [Embed For Use By Upgraded+] |
** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability. ~ Oscar Wilde Not much happening today! I am home on such a beautiful day. I really should be out and about, but need to wait for a carpenter to make his appearance. The deer seem happy and healthy. The family keeps growing and although I have some neighbors who are complaining about me feeding them...I continue to feed them regardless. They really aren't hurting anyone or anything, and I just think some people will always find something to complain about. Life is good otherwise! I thought to share today a commercial that I just find hilarious...at least in my mind it is! I actually enjoy watching commercials more than a television show these days. Do you have a favorite commercial? Wishing you all Joy in your day there! My 'Gift' Of Commercial Television For You This Day~ [Embed For Use By Upgraded+] |
** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. ~ Mahatma Gandhi Well...I think I'm going to touch on something that might be somewhat sticky. A friend asked if I would place answers to questions out here...I sort of am not quite sure what questions she is speaking of...does she mean replies to comments on my blog site, or does she mean answers to questions that come into my mailbox here?! When I hear from her again, I must get that answer. So, until I get that answer, I thought that I would share a few here..... A question came into my email that goes, "Summer, why are the Indian people so angry still? This all happened in the past what the whites did to them." My answer to that is this...No matter how you may look at death and your ancestors gone on, it is my belief and the belief of the Elders, that our ancestors live on through us. No matter what race you are, it can not be denied, and so you carry that anger for them. The key is 'forgiveness'. The question that comes to my mind, however, is can we forgive what most people feel, is unforgivable? Personally, it's hard but if Jesus' life taught us anything, it is about 'love and forgiveness.' Now I know that is a Christian example, but he surely was a good example, and I can't think of a better example than that. Can you? Another question that came to my email goes, "are you a christian, spiritual or what? My answer...Can I not be both, Christian and Spiritual? I mean, I do believe that Jesus the Christ was the greatest prophet that walked this earth, so I guess that makes me somewhat Christian even if Jesus himself did not start Christianity. He was a Jew. He proclaimed himself to be a Jew. Christianity came later, but if I got it right, Christianity was founded on his beliefs, so if believing he was a great prophet, and believing in what he taught makes me a Christian, than okay...label me that too! I believe we derive from the same Tree and that we should love one another. Just a note here...*The Creator did not make religions, people did. Then a question recently..."why don't you go to church? you won't be accepted into the gates of heaven if you don't. My answer to that was actually answered in a blog entry, but as a thought added from a conversation I had just yesterday with my dear friend Sammy. He said it quite well, in that, if we hold "Compassion" in our heart, then why is it necessary to go to some building called a 'church' to pray? Btw...if anyone has any reason why, please let me know, as this is still an ongoing conversation through email and between my friend and I over the phone when we get to talk. My 'Gift' Of Song For You This Day~ [Embed For Use By Upgraded+] |
** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** People say, ‘What is the sense of our small effort?’ They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time. A pebble cast into a pond causes ripples that spread in all directions. Each one of our thoughts, words and deeds is like that. No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There’s too much work to do. As I was reading the morning news online this morning, I found this article on AOL, and thought to place it out because I just know someone in these so called United States will find something wrong with the idea that female students at this school are getting shown 'special' treatment than the boys at this school. I am sure it will be going against someones rights!  Yet, I personally feel it's a beautiful thing happening and more schools should incorporate this in theirs.http://www.aolnews.com/nation/article/arizona-teacher-adds-etiquette-to-lessons/... And well...this article reminded me also, of a night not too far back, whereby we held a ceremony. I asked about someone who was in ICU and who was on life support. I can not speak the souls name that has since passed, but we all felt his loss and still do. In this ceremony, I asked about this soul and it was told that he actually had crossed and fought to come back several times, but something here was keeping him. Without going into detail, I asked if there was anyway that he could be spared and stay. It was asked of me if I would be willing to Sun Dance for this man's life? The thought in my mind was, "Geez...what are we talking about here? My life is a SunDance!" You see, for me life is a ceremony. And it is how we do perform(or do) that ceremony, good or bad that will determine how our lives will go. This is my thought. If we throw bad medicine on another(wish them bad things to happen, for example), then it is we will get it back what we have given out. If we treat another with disrespect, then we are doing a bad ceremony. Remember also, that whatever you throw out there, not only had an affect on you, but others also. I call it a 'ripple affect', like throwing a stone into a pond...BTW, How's your ceremony going? Just 'food for thought' this day! Wishing you peace in your moments! My 'Gift' Of Song For You This Day~ [Embed For Use By Upgraded+] |
** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. ~ Albert Camus Flurries flying here and there on this cloudy and dreary afternoon. I have decided to get some closet cleaning done! A good day for that, and reading if you ask me! And well...don't you just miss the summer? Heck, I'd even take the spring or fall right now. Which brings to mind a poem I read yesterday that I thought worth sharing here. It's by another WDC author here, minemcb. The title of the poem is Summer's Gone. I truly enjoyed it and thought you might too!
Hope the weather is better there for you. I'm not crying about these snow flurries. We can use as much moisture as possible! My 'Gift' Of Song For You This Day~ [Embed For Use By Upgraded+] |
** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** I thought today to share something that I truly enjoyed reading. It was written by Hermann Hesse. I always thought he was a brilliant poet and philosopher. This excerpt from Hesse, sort of reminds me of this photograph(above) I took when I was visiting Gettysburg of this lone Magnolia! It reminds me also, of the seeds we plant each day...whether it be in the heart and mind of a child...that of a reader, or even friend. For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves. And even more I revere them when they stand alone. They are like lonely persons. Not like hermits who have stolen away out of some weakness, but like great, solitary men, like Beethoven and Nietzsche. In their highest boughs the world rustles, their roots rest in infinity; but they do not lose themselves there, they struggle with all the force of their lives for one thing only: to fulfil themselves according to their own laws, to build up their own form, to represent themselves. Nothing is holier, nothing is more exemplary than a beautiful, strong tree. When a tree is cut down and reveals its naked death-wound to the sun, one can read its whole history in the luminous, inscribed disk of its trunk: in the rings of its years, its scars, all the struggle, all the suffering, all the sickness, all the happiness and prosperity stand truly written, the narrow years and the luxurious years, the attacks withstood, the storms endured. And every young farmboy knows that the hardest and noblest wood has the narrowest rings, that high on the mountains and in continuing danger the most indestructible, the strongest, the ideal trees grow. Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach, undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life. A tree says: A kernel is hidden in me, a spark, a thought, I am life from eternal life. The attempt and the risk that the eternal mother took with me is unique, unique the form and veins of my skin, unique the smallest play of leaves in my branches and the smallest scar on my bark. I was made to form and reveal the eternal in my smallest special detail. A tree says: My strength is trust. I know nothing about my fathers, I know nothing about the thousand children that every year spring out of me. I live out the secret of my seed to the very end, and I care for nothing else. I trust that God is in me. I trust that my labor is holy. Out of this trust I live. When we are stricken and cannot bear our lives any longer, then a tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me! Life is not easy, life is not difficult. Those are childish thoughts. Let God speak within you, and your thoughts will grow silent. You are anxious because your path leads away from mother and home. But every step and every day lead you back again to the mother. Home is neither here nor there. Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all. A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening. If one listens to them silently for a long time, this longing reveals its kernel, its meaning. It is not so much a matter of escaping from one's suffering, though it may seem to be so. It is a longing for home, for a memory of the mother, for new metaphors for life. It leads home. Every path leads homeward, every step is birth, every step is death, every grave is mother. So the tree rustles in the evening, when we stand uneasy before our own childish thoughts: Trees have long thoughts, long-breathing and restful, just as they have longer lives than ours. They are wiser than we are, as long as we do not listen to them. But when we have learned how to listen to trees, then the brevity and the quickness and the childlike hastiness of our thoughts achieve an incomparable joy. Whoever has learned how to listen to trees no longer wants to be a tree. He wants to be nothing except what he is. That is home. That is happiness. My 'Gift' Of Song For You This Day~ [Embed For Use By Upgraded+] |
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