Creatively Thinking

  Featured image:   Fences I learned a long time ago that I need to live with integrity and my integrity should be guided by my principles. While the word integrity is loaded down with many philosophical discussions and debate, I find it suits me so I describe myself that way. I found this definition of the work integrity: Integrity is the practice of being honest and showing a consistent and uncompromising adherence to strong moral and ethical principles and values. In ethics, integrity is regarded as the honesty and truthfulness or accuracy of one's actions. Wikipedia Recently, in the local newspaper John Bates in his column ended with this quote and I thought I would share it with you in case you don’t get the paper or may have missed it. “Every human has four endowments – self-awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom… The power to choose, to respond, to change.” Stephen Covey.

  Featured image:   Balance My sense of the real, the nature of things, is the same as my sense of the natural.  And my sense of the natural is linked to my sense of our/my spirit and soul, beauty.  That is the beauty within us that shines throughout our spirit and our soul.

  Featured image:   Orange Finch Soft cheep cheep cheep Of the finch Their chorus Their melody Ever so sweet

  Featured image:   Your Mind Sings: Listen The mind that is stretched to a new idea never returns to its original dimension.    Oliver Wendell Holmes

  Featured image:   Winter River The air is very thin in winter. Moisture frozen to pines and maples. Cool ice colors cover, white greens and brown. Where not so long ago trees were covered with warm color. A single coppery brown oak leaf shivers in the breeze. Winter has a different kind of stillness. Sitting quietly in winter.

  Featured image:   Heading Home Do I miss you when you are gone? Do I rejoice when you return? Your place, your special place Your place on this earth Your place on this earth.

  Featured image:   Just Saying I Love You When he looks at me his gaze holds such wonder he tells me I am beautiful as he holds my face cupped in his hands. I say …. I love you so.