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Soak up the sun
Affirm life’s magic
Be graceful in the wind
Stand tall after a storm
Feel refreshed after it rains
Grow strong without notice
Be prepared for each season
Provide shelter to strangers
Hang tough through a cold spell
Emerge renewed at the first signs of spring
Stay deeply rooted while reaching for the sky
Be still long enough to
hear your own leaves rustling.
["Think Like a Tree" by Karen Shrag]
a walk into a thin place for Andrew
my textures & photoshop
www.youtube.com/watch?v=va1oiojnGrA
.... Oui, tout est à faire jaillir de la lumière pour étendre la liberté, la liberté de tous. Nous sommes au matin de l'aventure fabuleuse, avec nos outils de préhistoire, nos goûts de caverne, nos vieux démons.
Nous manquent la fraîcheur des sources, le renouveau des fleuves, la fraternité des oiseaux. Nous manque le plus simple que nous avons relégué aux oubliettes. Il est encore temps d'aller aux fontaines, il est encore temps d'ouvrir nos portes, de trancher les secondes comme un fruit puis de les offrir en partage, d'affirmer la terre comme notre seule patrie.
Nous avons négligé le simple pour l'insignifiant, nous avons choisi l'or qui tâche les mains au lieu de l'amour qui est sans prix.
Nous avons choisi la haine, la rancœur, l'amertume et nous ne sommes plus que de maigres feux éteints dans la lande.
Oui, je vois des incendies, des désastres partout et quelques pauvres gens qui osent encore, osent encore dire Non mais l'on n'entend même plus leurs voix perdues dans notre nuit commune.
J. VERNET - Marcher est ma plus belle façon de vivre (extrait)
♫♪ youtu.be/4L9tXzdm39w ♪♫
"Femmes du Monde" - Joelle Mellioret
"Je suis une Sorcière !
Je suis Une avec la Terre, l'Univers, et le Divin !
Que ce jour ne connaisse ni la Peur, ni le Conflit;
Que seuls la Joie et l'Amour m'accompagnent ici;
Des Bénédictions que je donnais et recevais
Dans mes paroles et dans mes actes, je marche en Paix"
Affirmation quotidienne de la sorcière - Ann Moura
- texture de Lenabem avec mes remerciements : www.flickr.com/photos/lenabem-anna/50061804852/in/photoli...
- sorcière de faestock- sur deviant art
- boule de lumière trouvée sur le net
Affirmer sa solitude revient à aborder sa peur, surtout la peur de mourir, et à mesurer sa propre puissance.
Jacqueline Kelen
Je pense à l'arbre qui pense à moi, oui, je l'affirme.
De son immense tronc, large comme un fleuve, il recueille tout ce qui s'offre à lui.
En premier lieu les vents, les oiseaux, les neiges, les pluies, les visages assombris d'indifférence.
j'entends la musique des choses qu'il reçoit, toutes merveilles dispersées dans l'univers. Il les accueille, branches ouvertes, les serre contre lui, les soigne, les guérit, en prend soin.
Sinon, comment expliquer que les oiseaux aillent sans terreur trouver un abri dans ses feuillages.
Il écoute les enfants qui chahutent sous lui. Il écoute l'ombre du soir qui vient.
Il plaint j'en suis sûr, ceux qui ont tout perdu en l'espace d'un instant. Il prie pour celui qui s'en va, qui n'a aucun nom dans l'Histoire.
J. Vernet - Marcher est ma plus belle façon de vivre
@ Black Bayou Lake
un vendredi 13 mai 2022
I believe in karma what you give is what you get returned
I believe you cant appreciate real love until youve been burned
I believe the grass is no more greener on the other side
I believe you dont know what youve got until you say goodbye
~Savage Garden
France, Région Rhône-Alpes, Isère, Isle Crémieu, Hières-sur-Amby, Brotel
La Maison forte de Brotel, au sommet d'un éperon rocheux dominant le Val d'Amby fut la dernière demeure d'Edouard Herriot.
La silhouette de Brotel surgit au détour des méandres du Val d'Amby, au sommet d'un escarpement rocheux.
C'est dans ce paysage admirable qu'Edouard Herriot choisit de passer la fin de sa vie.
L'histoire de cette demeure commence en 1247, lorsque la famille Laure prête hommage pour la seigneurie de Brotel. Cet édifice affirme sa vocation défensive par le choix d'un site d'éperon dominant la seule voie d'accès au château.
Remanié au XVIe siècle, il se compose d'un logis précédé à l'Est, où la protection naturelle des falaises est absente, d'une terrasse à deux niveaux. L'accès à la cour est protégé par deux portes fortifiées.
Brotel 38118 Saint-Baudille-de-la-Tour
Pour éviter des arbres en premiers plans (qui heureusement ont fini par être moins voyants en entrant dans l'ombre) cette photo a été prise à flan de falaise, au bord d'un un rocher qui a visiblement glissé selon une faille verticale de son emplacement initial, ce qui le met en quasi surplomb d'une centaine de mètres par rapport à la vallée qu'on devine plus bas.
Hum... assez impressionnant... et limite "sage" de ma part...
Je déconseille de chercher à prendre cette même photo de l'endroit précis où j'étais... surtout si on a le vertige, le pied qui tremble, ou la tête qui tourne... ou encore si on est superstitieux... peur des tremblements de terre, ou si on a une famille à charge...
Ou alors, il faudrait s'encorder...
au milieu des vignes, toujours droit dans ses bottes, et vous affirme qu'il n'a jamais, au grand jamais, bu ne serait-ce qu'un verre de vin. Et pourtant, c'est un beau terroir.
Hi again everyone. I've decided to take a small break from flickr because I have some things to attend to before we start our trek through central Australia in September.
I'd particularly like to say thanks for all of your support and comments. No doubt I will do the occasional upload during this break but I won't be here on flickr anywhere near as much as I have been in the past. I'll be back online properly in September and I hope you'll come along and join me on our journey to Uluru, Alice Springs and Central Australia.
Just so nobody is worried by my absence, I'd just like to say that everything is going good for me at the moment and that is a big part of why I'm so short on time. Those of you who have been around for a long time know what I'm talking about and I'd particularly like to say a big THANK YOU to all of you who have been there to support me in the past. Your love and kindness has been a HUGE part of my getting better and I'd like to dedicate this photo and this song by Savage Garden particularly to you!
Who would have thought I would find such inspiration from the friends that I've found on flickr? I'm constantly amazed at all of my contacts' and regulars' talent, ability, empathy and kindness. You guys are an affirmation of everything that is wonderful about photography and flickr!
Genesis 2:17 King James Version (KJV)
17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
I will be your Father,and you will be my sons and daughters, say the Lord Almighty..
2 Corinthians 6:18
AFFIRMATION
May an Angel’s love surround you
Each and every day
May an Angel’s breath keep you warm
And tempt you to stay
May an Angel’s wings protect you always
When your life becomes difficult and hard
When the light seems increasingly dark
And you need help to find your way
May an Angel’s love surround you
Each and every day
*****
Blessings to you all,
Shelley.
Thank you to each and every one of you who has supported and shared your lives and thoughts with me this year.
I cannot thank you enough, as you have kept a light burning for me as well in difficult times.
Even semi-human Angels need love to know they are needed...
I write often of spiritual love, but some days we need to feel real tangible love.
I seek ways out of the darkness, and I hope you will continue to fly with me into the New Year.
Forgive my lateness in replying to comments and faves from my last batch of work, I will get to you...life is demanding and even Angels have to sleep....sometimes..haha!
Angels drive cars and have to get them fixed and sort out dodgy freezers right before Xmas. Angels have family and they sometimes need your surety.
But Angels also have friends on Flickr who have supported them and commented, faved and viewed with astounding generosity.
Thank you, thank you, with all my heart.
*****
This image is a detail from a stained glass window in St. Mary's, Eastbourne, East Sussex, UK.
Angels like it here a lot.
If you would like to see more of my work have a look at my website at:
affirmation:
i have no body
i have no mind
i have no spirit
i am just the breath of God
the breath of life
breath of life
breath of God
in spanish
afirmación:
no tengo cuerpo, no tengo mente, no tengo espíritu
soy solo el aliento de Dios, aliento de vida
aliento de Dios, aliento de vida
my favorite affirmation given by my yoga teacher; yogi bhajan
AN AFFIRMATION OF SELFLESS LOYALTY
My fearless heart
Of diamond clarity
Where expression and thought
Are proof of your bravery, justice and swiftness
That cut through ignorance and malcontent
To reveal the pristine awareness of being
Where the freedom of the mind
Is like the sweet chorus of the birds
*****
Sometimes the reinforcement of gracious qualities and love can be a good thing.
So I decided to start an Album on Flickr doing just that.
I like to take shots of the things I have collected over the years that are sharing their presence with me in my home.
Some of my Grail shots have this quality, but often the poem ends up being longer than an affirmation, to me they end up more like a prayer. You can see the Album that contains those works in my Flickr account as well.
But in a sense this is the same principle, as the things I have collected over the years often have a sacred presence or meaning, so I thought I would start to share them here.
On rainy days or when I am not in a writing mood, it is good to still keep working, using the camera in this way, and it is not only enjoyable, it is an opportunity to appreciate these wonderful sacred items and sculptures all over again, and listen to what they have to say.
This Garuda is a modern piece, but the history, energy and protective instinct is the same as from his first incarnation.
This shot is from where he resides, in my glass cabinet, where I keep many other precious things..
"Everything comes out in blues music: joy , pain , struggle . Blues is affirmation with absolute elegance"
Wynton Marsalis
EVERY DAY
You can leave me in the light
And not worry about finding me
You must surely know
That I will always seek you out
When you feel your sanity
Might be in doubt
When your heart feels sore
And you can’t take anymore
When you hide in dark corners
Shunning the current conversation
All so trite and full of spite
Come and find me
Where you left me
Just look for the light
Because that is me calling you
Every moment of the day
From the light
Look it’s alright
From the light
I love you
From the light
Day and night
*****
Thank you to my Friends and Followers,
an Affirmation for Every Day.
Dear friends and followers, and those who have viewed and faved recently on my last batch of work. I have been thinking of you all and wanting to get back to you before now.
The past few days I have been unwell however, but recovering now.
So this was just a little offering to keep you all going until I can cast my eyes over your lovely work and thank you all for supporting me.
Grail Keepers do not forget their friends. Grail Keepers are people who do not forget and have loyalty as their middle name.
Behind the scenes I have been working, thinking. Seems to me we need beauty and decency back in this world. We need the sort of values that anybody, regardless of who or what they are, or what faith they follow, can have.
A Grail Keeper in my mind is someone who will help in this way, even if its only in small ways, it all adds up to something bigger.
Martin Luther King was a Grail Keeper. John Lennon was a Grail Keeper. Mother Teresa was a Grail Keeper. Alexei Navalny was a Grail Keeper. There are so many, the list could go on.
These are courageous well known examples. But there are also Grail Keepers who work diligently in their own communities. There are Grail Keepers who perform small acts of kindness every day.
I want to start to expand on this idea, and the work I do I hope will bring some light into this dark uncertain world of ours. It doesn’t have to be this way, and Grail Keepers even if its only in a simple, small way, need to find their courage and continue to hold up a light.
This work is from Glynde Church, in Sussex in the UK. I take my Grails out into the area I know and have lived in all my life. With them I seek to find a connection to the spiritual world that will heal and enlighten.
Short of having you there with me, the least I can do is share my work in images and words.
And as always, if you would like to see more of my work, have a look at my website at:
March 13th, 2024. Dear Friends...I am still catching up...if I haven't got to you yet, I will.
Meanwhile...The Grail is obsessing me again, when does it not you might ask. Fair point. I really think there is going to be more written as I think upon it. I mean, I have thought about it pretty much all my life, but I think it has a poignant relevance now. I can see some Blogs might get written in the future, especially on the Grail Keeper theme. Modern Grail Keepers are also our future.
Think of any? Might be somebody in your local community.
Like the Post Master in mine, who helped me sort out the right postage to get my new Driving License there and back safely. He got it in the right envelopes and everything for me.
My notes are expanding. But then so is love for the Grail.
All my love everybody, Shell x
Excerpt from aht.ca/who-we-are/our-history/:
Anishnawbe Health Toronto (AHT) is a vision of the late Elder, Joe Sylvester.
Initial efforts began with a diabetes research project, which realized that a more comprehensive approach to health care was needed by the Aboriginal community.
In response, Anishnawbe Health Resources was incorporated in 1984. One of its objectives stated, “To recover, record and promote Traditional Aboriginal practices where possible and appropriate.”
In 1989, having successfully secured resources from the Ministry of Health, Anishnawbe Health Toronto became recognized and funded as a community health centre.
Since then, AHT has and continues to grow to meet the needs of the community it serves. As a fully accredited community health centre, AHT offers access to health care practitioners from many disciplines including Traditional Healers, Elders and Medicine People. Ancient ceremonies and traditions, intrinsic to our health care model are available. Our work with the homeless has evolved from early directions of crisis intervention to our current efforts of working with those who seek to escape homelessness. Training programs offer community members the opportunity to learn and grow in a culture-based setting.
Today, AHT not only promotes Traditional Aboriginal practices but has affirmed and placed them at its core. Its model of health care is based on Traditional practices and approaches and is reflected in the design of its programs and services.
Affirmation solennelle d'attester l'engagement et la sincérité d'une promesse.
A solemn affirmation attesting to the commitment and sincerity of a promise.
of a coldness to the touch with the fingers
of hurting and healing simultaneously
in the familiarity of a warm heart
Kaya Project ft.Randolph Matthews ~ Playful New World
I may not be the pretty skinny girl who has her picture gawked at, but I am me. I am a human being, and I am happy with myself. I have curves, and I don't wear a size 2. Call me what you want, I know I truly am.
I believe the sun should never set upon an argument
I believe we place our happiness in other people's hands
I believe that junk food tastes so good because it's bad for you
I believe your parents did the best job they knew how to do
I believe that beauty magazines promote low self esteem
I believe I'm loved when I'm completely by myself alone
I believe in Karma what you give is what you get returned
I believe you can't appreciate real love 'til you've been burned
I believe the grass is no more greener on the other side
I believe you don't know what you've got until you say goodbye
I believe you can't control or choose your sexuality
I believe that trust is more important than monogamy
I believe your most attractive features are your heart and soul
I believe that family is worth more than money or gold
I believe the struggle for financial freedom is unfair
I believe the only ones who disagree are millionaires
I believe in Karma what you give is what you get returned
I believe you can't appreciate real love 'til you've been burned
I believe the grass is no more greener on the other side
I believe you don't know what you've got until you say goodbye
I believe forgiveness is the key to your own happiness
I believe that wedded bliss negates the need to be undressed
I believe that God does not endorse tv evangelists
I believe in love surviving death into eternity
I believe in Karma what you give is what you get returned
I believe you can't appreciate real love 'til you've been burned
I believe the grass is no more greener on the other side
I believe you don't know what you've got until you say goodbye
Until you say goodbye
-Savage Garden "Affirmation"
Le calvaire monumental : Le grand calvaire de Guimiliau fut réalisé par au moins deux artistes, entre les années 1581 et 1588. Une gravure pourrait indiquer le nom de l’un d’entre eux, sans que cela puisse être affirmé. Toutefois, le traitement des sculptures permet de distinguer deux styles différents. Pour les remarquer, il suffit d’observer les regards des personnages traités de manière réaliste dans un cas et de manière totalement figurée dans l’autre.
I didn’t become who I am alone.
The people I’ve let close - the rare few - have shaped my architecture. Some challenged me and forced me to grow sharper; some offered quiet stability and taught me how to rest without vanishing; some widened the inner horizon I didn’t know could hold so much light.
And others, in their own ways, taught me refinement through fracture; not because they intended harm - though sometimes they did - but because not everyone is capable of seeing someone clearly, even when standing right in front of them. Every bond - tender, volatile, brief, or breathtaking - has become part of my design.
I still believe in beauty, not as decoration, but as something constructed with intention, protected with discernment, and chosen again and again in spite of everything that may try to dismantle it.
“Both the grand and the intimate aspects of nature can be revealed in the expressive photograph. Both can stir enduring affirmations and discoveries, and can surely help the spectator in his search for identification with the vast world of natural beauty and wonder surrounding him.” - Ansel Adams
You are amazing! Yes - You :-).
I just love this video by the Duirwaigh team.
uk.youtube.com/watch?v=f4CG18FPCj0
"When inspiration knocks - open the door."
~~Le long des quais, l’identité maritime s’affirme : criée, chantiers de constructions navales, pontons accueillant des bateaux de toute nature y compris des voiliers de course le temps d’un départ de transat.
~~Ce port, peu profond, abrita toutefois jusqu'à 600 chaloupes pendant la saison de la sardine et, par la suite, les thoniers vinrent s'y ajouter. Des maisons bourgeoises sont édifiées le long des quais hors de la « Ville close ». Cette dernière devient, en cette période, un quartier populaire abritant matelots et sardinières. La Station de biologie marine de Concarneau est fondée par Victor Coste en 1859. Il s'agit de la plus ancienne station marine du monde.
~~À partir de 1851, les premières conserveries, remplaçant progressivement les fritures et les presses à sardines, apparaissent. Elles sont spécialisées dans la sardine et le thon. Elles feront la fortune de quelques négociants et permettront une élévation du niveau de vie de la population.
~~ En 1877, la ville compte 20 usines dont l'usine Béziers et en 1900 30 usines employant 2 000 ouvrières (qui portent la coiffe penn sardin) sur une population de 7 000 habitants. ~~À partir de 1902, la disparition des grands bancs de sardines plonge Concarneau dans la misère.
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La ficaire fait le printemps
Cette affirmation rappelle un proverbe à propos d’un autre symbole du printemps, l’hirondelle (sous-entendu l’hirondelle rustique, l’espèce qui niche au plus près des hommes dans les fermes et arrive dès les premiers jours d’avril). Effectivement, il existe un lien avec cet oiseau via le nom anglais de la ficaire : lesser celandine ; lesser de nouveau pour « petite » mais celandine dérive du vieux français célidoine, la chélidoine. On recroise aussi cette dernière dans un autre nom ancien de la ficaire : Chelidonium minus, la petite chélidoine. Or, chélidoine dérive lui-même de chelidôn, l’hirondelle, que l’on retrouve dans le surnom d’herbe à l’hirondelle (swallow-wort en anglais). Cette association remonte à Dioscoride, le célèbre botaniste grec de l’Antiquité, qui déclarait que la chélidoine fleurissait à l’arrivée des hirondelles et mourrait quand elles partaient ; là-dessus est venu se greffer une légende : les hirondelles récoltaient des feuilles de chélidoine pour frotter les yeux collés de leurs oisillons et leur rendre la vue (on retombe sur les propriétés médicinales ophtalmiques !). Par déformation, ce nom a donné au Moyen-âge « coeli donum », don du ciel d’autant que l’hirondelle représente un oiseau céleste (qui reste en l’air) et est associé au soleil et au ciel. Ainsi, ficaire et chélidoine se trouvent à jamais unies pour saluer l’arrivée du printemps !
Plusieurs des surnoms de la ficaire renvoient à sa couleur jaune d’or brillante dont jauneau ou pot au beurre. Ce dernier nom, outre l’allusion directe à la couleur jaune, rappelle une pratique connue des enfants d’autrefois à la campagne (j’en fais partie !!) : on place une fleur de ficaire (ou de renoncule : voir paragraphe suivant) sous le menton d’un(e) ami(e) et on lui demande « Aimes-tu le beurre ? » et la réponse s’écrit immédiatement sur le menton sous la forme d’un halo jaune doré projeté par la fleur magique ! Cette capacité de réfléchir un faisceau de lumière jaune intrigue depuis longtemps les biologistes et le mécanisme physique commence seulement à être pleinement compris (1) : il implique la structure cellulaire de l’épiderme des pétales. La lumière traverse la couche superficielle épidermique transparente chargée de pigment tandis qu’une coloration diffuse jaunâtre provient de la dispersion de la lumière par une couche sous-jacente chargée de grains d’amidon. Une mince couche d’air qui sépare ces deux couches explique la réflexion orientée du faisceau lumineux. L’ensemble donne cette apparence si brillante, intense qui doit certainement jouer un rôle dans l’attraction des insectes pollinisateurs (voir ci-dessous). Cette illumination dégage de la chaleur et fait de ces fleurs en sous-bois des sites chauffés pour les visiteurs et donc plus attractifs.
~~Le long des quais, l’identité maritime s’affirme : criée, chantiers de constructions navales, pontons accueillant des bateaux de toute nature y compris des voiliers de course le temps d’un départ de transat.
~~Ce port, peu profond, abrita toutefois jusqu'à 600 chaloupes pendant la saison de la sardine et, par la suite, les thoniers vinrent s'y ajouter. Des maisons bourgeoises sont édifiées le long des quais hors de la « Ville close ». Cette dernière devient, en cette période, un quartier populaire abritant matelots et sardinières. La Station de biologie marine de Concarneau est fondée par Victor Coste en 1859. Il s'agit de la plus ancienne station marine du monde.
~~À partir de 1851, les premières conserveries, remplaçant progressivement les fritures et les presses à sardines, apparaissent. Elles sont spécialisées dans la sardine et le thon. Elles feront la fortune de quelques négociants et permettront une élévation du niveau de vie de la population.
~~ En 1877, la ville compte 20 usines dont l'usine Béziers et en 1900 30 usines employant 2 000 ouvrières (qui portent la coiffe penn sardin) sur une population de 7 000 habitants. ~~À partir de 1902, la disparition des grands bancs de sardines plonge Concarneau dans la misère.