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Last year this climbing rose had grown on the wall up as far as the house guttering so it was severely cut back. The reward this summer is like a small waterfall of beautiful pink with a typical fragrance reminiscent of peaches.
HFF
Octubre rosa/pink October
Many thanks for visits.
When you can't look
On the bright side
And are falling apart
I will stay with you in he dark
And speak softly to your heart
Until your eyes re-adjust to the light
Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom. Rumi
Ses pensées
vertigineux essaim de neige
tourbillonnent jusqu'au martyre
Christine Givry, Graines en dormance
I took this picture before Skoo went missing. But I just want you to know how much I appreciate your compassion, your tolerance of my distress, your calm words and your wisdom.
I have so many lovely friends and I know they are there for me too, but this time, you've been my lifeline.
Pets are family. And I don't know how to say goodbye to Skoodles, or what life is supposed to look like, without him. But thank you for holding my hand, while I try to figure it all out.
Rosa 'Compassion' from last year's archive. I was also using the MCEX 11 & 16 extension tubes to get the Fuji 80mm macro lens even closer :-
This was the first rose that I planted over 30 years ago in my new small garden. I love the old-fashioned petal distribution and its scent is heavenly :-)
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In the lands of the universe
there is no place where
She does not manifest Herself
Compassion wondrous as a great cloud,
Pouring spiritual rain like nectar,
Quenching the flames of distress!
—from the Lotus Sutra
"..,The problems we face today, violent conflicts, destruction of nature, poverty, hunger, and so on, are human created problems which can be resolved through human effort, understanding, and a development of a sense of brotherhood and sisterhood. We need to cultivate a universal responsibility for one another and the planet we share.." - His Holiness, the Dali Lama - Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, 1989.
"Do to others as you would have them do to you." - Jesus (ca. 5 BCE—33 CE) in the Gospels, Luke 6:31; Luke 10:27 (affirming of Moses); Matthew 7:12 .
Compassion needs to walk with wisdom. Although you have a good intention, you may do wrong and harm others. ~ Sheng Yan
慈悲要有智慧同行，缺少智慧的慈悲，很可能自害害人。~聖嚴
With heartfelt and genuine thanks for your kind visit. Have a wonderful and beautiful day, be well, keep your eyes open, appreciate the beauty surrounding you, enjoy creating, stay safe and laugh often! ❤️❤️❤️.
almost ready for boxing:) (please be patient with me!;)- new retrobot avatar (female) and an additional broken bot buddy to carry around.
picture taken at Grollwerk, The Great Fissure
A GLASS OF MILK
One day, a poor boy who was selling goods from door to door to pay his way through school, found he had only one thin dime left, and he was hungry.
He decided he would ask for a meal at the next house. However, he lost his nerve when a lovely young woman opened the door.
Instead of a meal he asked for a drink of water! . She thought he looked hungry so brought him a large glass of milk. He drank it so slowly, and then asked, 'How much do I owe you?'
'You don't owe me anything,' she replied. 'Mother has taught us never to accept pay for a kindness.'
He said .. 'Then I thank you from my heart.'
As Howard Kelly left that house, he not only felt stronger physically, but his faith in God and man was strong also. He had been ready to give up and quit.
Many years later that same young woman became critically ill. The local doctors were baffled They finally sent her to the big city, where they called in specialists to study her rare disease.
Dr. Howard Kelly was called in for the consultation. When he heard the name of the town she came from, a strange light filled his eyes.
Immediately he rose and went down the hall of the hospital to her room.
Dressed in his doctor's gown he went in to see her. He recognized her at once.
He went back to the consultation room determined to do his best to save her life. From that day he gave special attention to her case.
After a long struggle, the battle was won.
Dr. Kelly requested the business office to pass the final bill to him for approval. He looked at it, then wrote something on the edge and the bill was sent to her room. She feared to open it, for she was sure it would take the rest of her life to pay for it all. Finally she looked, and something caught her attention on the side of the bill. She read these words ...
'Paid in full with one glass of milk'
(Signed) Dr. Howard Kelly.
Tears of joy flooded her eyes as her happy heart prayed: 'Thank You,
God, that Your love has spread broad through human hearts and hands.'
There's a saying which goes something like this:
Bread cast on the waters comes back to you. ( Ecclesiastes 11:1 -- " Cast your bread on the surface of the waters, for you will find it after many days.")
The good deed you do today may benefit you or someone you love at the least expected time. If you never see the deed again at least you will have made the world a better place - And, after all, isn't that what life is all about?
This story was emailed to me by my sister in Messiah Kim.
YHVH bless you, my sis!
July 23, 2008
The art of offering steadiness in a world that shakes.
Image imagined in MidJourney AI and finished with Topaz Studio and Lightroom Classic.
“Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.” ~ Frederick Buechner
Tonight I took a walk to the National Cathedral for some much needed spiritual reflection. When I got there, I found that I had made it just in time for the beginning of the Florence Nightingale Centennial Commemorative Global Service Celebrating Nurses. The service was held to honor her legacy and that of all of the nurses and healthcare workers who followed in her footsteps.
The service today reminded me of the importance of compassion and dedication. And so I thank all of our nurses and healthcare workers who look after us in our times of need.
Nikon D3200, 10/14
Photoshop CS4
Photos and textures are my own
This vision was created with the aid of my muse (my wife).
Wikipedia tells me:
“Traditionally, prayer flags are used to promote peace, compassion, strength, and wisdom. The flags do not carry prayers to gods, which is a common misconception; rather, the Tibetans believe the prayers and mantras will be blown by the wind to spread the good will and compassion into all pervading space. Therefore, prayer flags are thought to bring benefit to all.”
I really like the sound of that. I’m happy we finally put ours out.
This backpack and ball near the desk on the Shamim side of The Compassion Experience are a reminder of the little boy from Honduras we sponsor.
We receive letters from his mother and she is thankful and lets us know that he is able to learn about God at the center he attends and is doing well in school because of the sponsorship.
I used a 50mm prime inside the trailer for the tour while listening to the story Compassion International tells. The space was fairly tight for the scene and the light was low. I’m so glad I have images from this experience and our Worship Pastor introduced our church to Compassion International.
The Compassion Experience
Compassion International
I think we all have a grasp on how to give love, but we're not so clear on how to be loved.
What a complex subject, no? How to complete the circuitry of love? It is not enough to give love; you need to learn how to receive it.
I love you. These scant words are some of the most powerful ever crafted. Just three words, three simple monosyllables carry enough force in their utterance to change your life, fire your passion, calm your fears, and strengthen your heart. It only takes one word, sometimes none at all, to inflict pain, to destroy. But to enliven, to fulfill – these are the words you need.
It’s easy to give love in any of its flavors – strength, submission, sharing, support – but to accept it, to believe in it, to be in it, there’s the witches’ brew. Two people can be in love and yet be painfully torn apart by the dark matter of relationships which seems to amplify the contrasts between them. In time, those contrasts calcify and henceforth every conflict is another hard-toothed grinding on the relationship, slowly wearing down the partners, indifferently cutting away at the bonds of their affection. Like a cancer, it metastasizes as it grows and poisons the healthy connections between you, so that soon there is no sane, safe refuge in your love. Eventually, but not fatalistically, the lovers fall away or flee from each other.
I love you.
It builds and affirms. It gives comfort in uncomfortable silences. It’s a knowing hand that says ‘I am here. I am with you.’
Giving love – the will to intimately connect – the I love you part – is powerful medicine, and is innocently assumed to be soul of a strong relationship, but giving love must be married to accepting love. If everyone speaks and no one listens, there is no conversation, only cacophony. Accepting love is harder for many of us. Since childhood, we’ve known that attention is a precusor to affection, which we crave. We are programmed by feedback that certain behaviors return certain results. If the affection is not forth coming, we revert to the first need: attention. We lash out, we manipulate, and we hurt because it works. Eventually someone will stop you, no? Benign at first, it too grows as we do. It becomes more sophisticated, less blunt, and more surgical. We learn to incorporate distrust into our decisions.
As a young mind begins to peer in on itself, it questions the lack of affection and usually arrives at the naive conclusion that it is lacking, unworthy of affection.
We’ve all walked with strident optimism into those early relationships, nervous and excited at the possibilities, untouched by hurt, only to return shortly later bruised and bewildered. Your hide thickens though, and in many cases becomes a wall of stone.
To some, myself certainly included, a relationship in love can devolve into a game theory; how to maximize affection with the least vulnerability. Boundaries and barriers are established and manned, tests of initiation and validity are undertaken. Scales and scanners are brought out to gauge the other, to evaluate how much vulnerability should be risked in this venture.
But this is the path of diminishing returns and broken hearts. Avoid it, friend. Pull up your sleeves and dive into the tall grass. You will not know the fulfilling, regenerative strength of love until you can accept it as well as give it.
But to accept and embrace the love of another, you must first accept and embrace yourself, complete with flaws and failures.
Only you can open this door, so your lover may join you.
dedicated to my wife, Lee. Semper.
I decided to go for a pint and went into a local pub near my home. The elderly lady came over to the table next to mine and looked a little lost, but the lady came over to sit with her.
I noticed that the lady listening had an expression on her face that spoke volumes. Caring and listening.
"Compassion arises / from the condition that / all elements are at the right place."
monoprint, 2 phases, 16x23 cm, Drager Meurtant 2017
Today I put an image of Durga, goddess of Fierce Compassion on my door as a Protective Deity. It is posted here on flickr by Dipkander Nandi who took it in Chandbali, India.:
Wikipedia - Durga has been a warrior goddess, and she is depicted to express her martial skills. Her iconography typically resonates with these attributes, where she rides a lion or a tiger,[1] has between eight and eighteen hands, each holding a weapon to destroy and create.[48][49] She is often shown in the midst of her war with Mahishasura, the buffalo demon, at the time she victoriously kills the demonic force. Her icon shows her in action, yet her face is calm and serene.[50][51] In Hindu arts, this tranquil attribute of Durga's face is traditionally derived from the belief that she is protective and violent not because of her hatred, egotism or getting pleasure in violence, but because she acts out of necessity, for the love of the good, for liberation of those who depend on her, and a mark of the beginning of soul's journey to creative freedom.
(This is my 500th image to make it into Explore. Thank you, everyone, especially Dipkander Nandi, whose photo of goddess Durga I printed and put on my door)