Monday, February 6, 2023

Integrity


 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.

Thursday, February 2, 2023

Our Soul's Reality


 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.

Wednesday, February 1, 2023

Ever So Sweet


 Featured image: Orange Finch


Soft cheep cheep cheep
Of the finch
Their chorus
Their melody
Ever so sweet

Tuesday, January 31, 2023

The Mind


 Featured image: Your Mind Sings: Listen

The mind that is stretched to a new idea never returns to its original dimension.  Oliver Wendell Holmes

Monday, January 30, 2023


 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.

Thursday, January 26, 2023

Your Place


 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.

Wednesday, January 25, 2023

When He Looks At Me


 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.