Misty Musings
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trees shrouded in mist
mystery calls from the veil
a time of wonder
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Misty Musings
Others can only take from you . . .
“Others can only take from you,
what you give them…
and it should only be
smiles hugs and love!”
~ Melanie Moushigian Koulouris
Text & image source: Harmony https://web.facebook.com/Harmony-578149188866564/
Changes to WP Reader!
I had to search to find this. Are you aware of the changes to the WP Reader? They are compressing and chopping posts in the Reader to accomplish what they call “streamlining” so the viewer can scan more posts more quickly while seeing less of your content in their reader. What WP is doing is giving your post much less than half the room it used to have in the reader.
They are also now inserting blogs they recommend in your Reader. So they are taking up the room they are saving by compressing your posts in the Reader with blogs you are not following and they are promoting.
This seems manipulative and non-transparent on WordPress’s part and not in the best interest of bloggers!
A PLEA FOR ALL
News
“I think those are very wrong who say that schoolboys should be encouraged
to read the newspapers.
Nearly all that a boy reads there in his teens will be known
before he is twenty to have been false in emphasis and interpretation,
if not in fact as well, and most of it will have lost all importance.
Most of what he remembers he will therefore have to unlearn;
and he will probably have acquired an incurable taste for vulgarity and sensationalism
and the fatal habit of fluttering from paragraph to paragraph to learn
how an actress has been divorced in California, a train derailed in France,
and quadruplets born in New Zealand.”
C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy
(C.S.Lewis busy at his desk / The New York C.S.Lewis Society)
Had I not known that Mr. Lewis had penned these observational words in 1955,
I would have thought they were but a…
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Life is a process of sowing and reaping!
“People love to tell how life is unfair, unjust and inequitable.
Here is the real story. Life is a process of sowing and reaping!
A focused, consistent, positively motivated and disciplined character
is essential to making your life story have a happy ending.
Till your mental soil with determination.
Fertilize your emotional soil with positive words.
And plant the seed of your heart’s desire with your disciplined efforts.”
~ Iyanla Vanzant
Photo & text credit: https://web.facebook.com/DrIyanlaVanzant/
1319. We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for something else. ~Elie Wiesel
One wants to believe that there’s one relationship
in life that’s beyond betrayal. A relationship that’s beyond
that kind of hurt. And there isn’t.
~Edited quote by Caleb Carr
There is a brokenness
out of which comes the unbroken,
a shatteredness
out of which blooms the unshatterable.
There is a sorrow
beyond all grief which leads to joy
and a fragility
out of whose depths emerges strength.
There is a hollow space
too vast for words
through which we pass with each loss,
out of whose darkness
we are sanctioned into being.
There is a cry deeper than all sound
whose serrated edges cut the heart
as we break open to the place inside
which is unbreakable and whole,
while learning to sing.
~Rashani Réa
An ex-student of mine posted a letter on Facebook today in which she asked us all to remember that for a variety of reasons not everyone will have or is having a wonderful Christmas time. And so today, I’ve given thought to things that break and shatter us at times. No one is exempt from sorrow and grief in this world. And though we must and should allow ourselves time to “hold” onto and weep over the “dark nights of our souls,” it seems to me that we also have to leave each and every heartbreak at some point in time in the past and then seek and use the “lessons” that the gouging of the soul has shed light upon.
The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit. ~Psalm 34:18 ✝
**Images via the Internet; collage at top created by Natalie
The Christmas Tree #poetry by Dorinda Duclos of Night Owl Poetry — Caroline Clemens
Magical, mystical, this Christmas tree Decorated lovingly, for all to see Standing in the flurries of winter’s cold Garland surrounds it, around it, behold This beautiful season, adorning the land Colorfully elegant, vibrant and grand ©2016 Dorinda Duclos All Rights Reserved Photo via Pixabay via The Christmas Tree ~ #poetry of #Christmas — Dorinda Duclos – […]
via The Christmas Tree #poetry by Dorinda Duclos of Night Owl Poetry — Caroline Clemens
Poetry is a life-cherishing force.
Oh my but how I love Mary Oliver’s poetry! 🙂
“Poetry is a life-cherishing force.
For poems are not words, after all,
but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost,
something as necessary as bread
in the pockets of the hungry.”
~ Mary Oliver
Artist~Phatpuppy Art
Text & image source: Moonlight Serenade https://web.facebook.com/Moonlight-Serenade-228504310532112/
Sacred Touches 