Category Archives: Thought

Please Say, “Thank You”

This morning when I saw  a “Gratefulness Challenge” on Facebook, I thought, “What a good antidote to all of the disturbing news we have been getting on TV .”  With be-headings of journalists abroad, arrests of journalists in this country, suicides of prominent figures, and so on, it is good to take stock of what is good.DSC04003 Here is the front of an American Greetings card which shows gratitude put into words for a specific  person.  “Thank you” is trans-formative for both the giver and the recipient of the thanks, truly.  This sentiment is embodied in the butterflies surrounding the bouquet.

Every transaction between individuals could have a thank you attached by each to the other.   None of us have any entitlement to anything, and so we have to be thankful.

 

 

 

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Checking on Balance

12422416221542450468Esoteric_Taijitu.svg.hi This Eastern symbol can be interpreted as balance.  As one of the four four boundless qualities to be cultivated within  an individual, according to Buddhism, it is equanimity.

There are so very many ways in which to consider balance, for example, within an individual, the impact of genetics and environment.  Other balance-able diads include good and evil, right and wrong, war and peace, slow and fast, small and large,  too much and too little,  the two sides of a see-saw, and so on.

Of course, more than two things can also be balanced, such as the three points on a plane which determine a triangle, and four points in space which determine a four triangular faced solid, a center of gravity of which can be imagined.

When we want to balance more things,  it is more difficult to  visualize, and then we can consider that we are in multiple dimensional space.

 

 

July 31, 2014 Is the 50th Anniversary Of Regena Larrabee Seehausen’s Death

DSC03500 Regena Larrabee Seehausen, looking out over the sea from an island in the Bahamas in early 1964, a few months before her passing. She left behind a shaken up family, a book of poems (1964), and unique trails of memories in the hearts of each who knew her. The above photograph is so reflective of the words below:

Scan Recreated, Thought 31JUL2014 50 yrs Quote