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August 8, 2016
Mandalas Formed From Foraged Wood and River Stones
What is a Mandala? Sacred Geography, used often for mystical purposes. Take a look at these natural mandalas fashioned out of foraged wood and river stones – so lovely! Thank you, Matt W. Moore for your fine work, and Alk3, for sharing….
Graphic designer Matt W. Moore has always been attracted to the infinite possibilities of mandalas, spending a great deal of time producing graphically-oriented grids on both canvases on walls.
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August 7, 2016
When the violin can forgive the past, it starts singing…
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“Read to me, Pia,” Salome begged, handing her the dog-eared journal that sat on her bedside table. Pia knew Salome had copied Sufi poetry into it, odes translated by Coleman Barks, an American poet. Mouth saturated with sweetness, Pia began to read the mystic Hafiz’s love-soaked verse out loud.
When the violin can forgive the past
It starts singing.
When the violin can stop worrying about the future
You will become such a drunk laughing nuisance
That God will then lean down and start combing you into his hair.
When the violin can forgive every wound caused by Others
The heart starts singing.
The poem stirred Pia profoundly—under the guise of her surface cool, the tumultuous events of her own life had conspired to turn her into a neurotic worrier. These days only grass seemed to erase her primal fear, only grass seemed to draw out her infinite capacity to love and be loved. Unlike the tools with which Uncle Hari had gifted her, tools that removed the muck from the human lens in order to realize one’s true nature, grass was an instant antidote to the antics of her monkey mind; one major reason addicts become addicts, Pia was now convinced, was because their threshold for the hammers and blows of life was lower than most.
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Greetings from Arunachala, Shiva in the form of a hill, who challenges us to fight our own darkness so we can realize our awesome divine potential!
August 6, 2016
Fiction sets the record straight…David Baldacci QUOTES FOR WRITERS (and people who like quotes)
This quote struck a fine note with me! Life can be brutal and reduce some of us to helpless tears because most often we do not see what happens to those who break the laws of humanity (via all forms of violence). According to the eastern view, the hammer of karma settles every villain’s hash at some point or another…however it’s reassuring to see evil being punished – which is why, although my novels certainly portray the dark side, I make sure that my villains are tackled by the fierce gods of karmic justice…
Fiction is sort of a way to set the record straight, and let people at least believe that justice can be achieved and the right outcomes can occur.David Baldacci
Salome was sturdily built and dark complected with a moon face, masses of curly hair and eyes permanently glazed…
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Salome was sturdily built and dark complected with a moon face, masses of curly hair and eyes permanently glazed by the effects of either Mandrax, grass, hash or uppers, like Dexedrine or speed, which she consumed to keep her going all night when she claimed she wrote her best poetry. She informed Pia that most Indians shied away from her because of her licentious lifestyle, adding with a shameless giggle that she was currently playing around with three guys: Salim was her Muslim industrialist boyfriend, Raghav the elder brother of a girlfriend who’d recently graduated, and Mark was her own first cousin; that Mark was married and expecting his first child did not appear to disturb Salome’s conscience in the least.
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Cee’s B&W: Older than 50 Years
Three ancient stone monuments in Cornwall….what have they seen? God alone knows! And the poetry is stark and beautiful too…thank you, Story Teller’s Abode….I love stories and enjoy spinning them too!
Proudly
they stand,
ancient stones
steeped in mystery,
weathered
and windblown
on the lonely roadside,
sheltering
stories of times
long past.
Name
carved in stone,
black feathers bathed
in blood,
warrior
fallen in battle,
legend
unforgotten.
Crawling
on hands and knees,
scrabbling and
squeezing,
hoping
and praying
that aches and pains
are drawn away
by weathered stone
during undignified
rebirth.
This post is for Cee’s Black and White challenge. This week’s theme is older than 50 years. The pictures I’ve chosen to share are of three ancient stone monuments in Cornwall. These are all definitely older than 50 years!
The first picture is the Lanyon Quoit, the most well known of the Cornish quoits due to its position beside the road between Madron and Morvah. It dates back to the Neolithic, though its exact age is unknown. It sits at the northern end of a long barrow, though whether it was ever actually covered in earth is…
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August 5, 2016
Agnes’ buck teeth flashed in a grateful smile…
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“Everything will work out fine, Agnes,” Pia assured the frazzled housekeeper, although she was not certain about that. “They don’t call Anokhi the Rajkumari for nothing,” she added soothingly. “Soon she’ll twist her husband around her little finger and he won’t be able to refuse her anything.”
Agnes’ buck teeth flashed in a grateful smile. “Bloody ‘ell, child!” she said, grabbing Pia’s shoulders. “God only knows what would have happened if you hadn’t gotten that horrible chap off my girl!” She grimaced. “Know where I was when all that madness was happening? With our priest, begging him to talk to that damned fellow about his drinking and whatnot!” She’d gazed at Pia, tears welling up in her tired eyes. “I keep tellin’ Stella you saved her life, child, but she just marches off in a snit. If my John was alive, he’d have set her right in a jiffy.”
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Are you a Highly Sensitive Person? I am!
Are you hypersensitive? Do family and friends think you’re overreacting? Well, if you want to know more about being this way, read this reassuring post. As for me, I am hyper sensitive, and being so has both plagued me as well as been my greatest ally in the inward journey. Providing they learn to channel their energy productively, hyper-sensitives can do amazing things – creatively, spiritually, and, because their hearts are wide open, help those who also suffer – why? Because often there is no boundary between self and other. Thank you for this great post, Janni Styles!
Years ago a friend called to tell me he read about me in the pages of a popular psychology magazine. I had no idea what he meant until he said this: “I know what you are now, you are a Highly Sensitive Person.”
No more was I judged by him for being such an empath. No more did he see my tears welling up over someone else’s bad news as silly or emotional. No more did he think me overly sensitive for feeling hurt if people were rude or unkind to me. “What do you care?” he used to ask me. Or, repeating what my mom said to me many times over the years, “You need to toughen up!” But no more.
“I just didn’t know how different HSP’s are from the rest of us,” he said. Being a doctor also probably contributed to his lack of understanding, I believe…
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August 4, 2016
Rotten Reviews and Terrible Trolls
Modern writers live very different lives from our predecessors…we have to wear so many hats it ain’t funny, oh no no no…here Jo Robinson deals with a couple of important aspects of the job – bad reviews and trolls, ugh. All I know is that one must glean whether there is any merit in either one, and then simply shut the door. Thank you for a great post, Jo Robinson!
You will get bad reviews. It’s inevitable, I promise you. Take comfort in the fact that it’s a rite of passage all writers go through. Every – single – one of them, and after the first one has you on the floor, bawling your eyes out, and inexplicably trying to chew your own foot off for a while, they’re not so hard to deal with. Some are pretty funny, and some are just to be ignored. There are people out there who delight in trashing books, and sometimes the authors of books too, for reasons unknown to most decent humans. Sometimes it’s jealousy, and sometimes it’s just because they’re mean. Sometimes also these one star stabs to the soul are perfectly legitimate in their author’s hearts and minds, because they really didn’t enjoy what you wrote for reasons that do or don’t make sense to you. Whatever the reasons are…
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Photos of Extremely Unusual Mushrooms and Other Fungi
Simply psychedelic and mind-blowing…Australian photographer Steve Axford ventures into forested areas near his home in New South Wales to photograph the unusual forms of fungi, slime molds, and lichens he finds growing there. The permutations in color, shape, and size found in each specimen are a testament to the radical diversity of living creatures found in just a small area. Don’t miss this amazing post, and thank you for sharing, Alk3r!
Australian photographer Steve Axford who ventures into forested areas near his home in New South Wales to photograph the unusual forms of fungi, slime molds, and lichens he finds growing there.
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“Finish her?” Pia echoed in alarm, as the image of that old sadhu flashed across her mind.
Day 19 of a 30-day viewing of
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“What did he say?” Pia asked curiously.
Madira blew her nose with a tissue. “Basically that it’s a ghastly idea for Anokhi to marry this chap. Actually said it could finish her—can you believe that, Pia? Anant burst out laughing when I told him…he has absolutely no faith in these chaps, thinks they’re all rogues and charlatans.”
“Finish her?” Pia echoed in alarm, as the image of that old sadhu flashed across her mind. “That’s a strong word! Did he explain what he meant? Perhaps he saw them divorcing?”
Madira shook her head in frustration. “All he said was that this marriage would trigger a terrible karma. It’s based on wrong ideals, he said, and I should stop her at all costs. Fellow hasn’t a clue how stubborn our airhead can be.” She mopped furiously at her eyes, smearing her kajal. “You’re the only one Anokhi might listen to, sweetheart,” she said, clutching at Pia’s arm. “Please do put some sense into her head. She won’t listen to me and Anant’s gone over to the dark side himself.”
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