Experiment - Send Out Some Light To The World! Shift the Energy...

a reply to: Gordi The Drummer

That picture is so gorgeous, it almost doesn't look real!

Would you mind sharing where that is?

We are planning trips to Europe (though primarily Great Britain) in the coming years, and I would like to add the location in your photo to 'our list'..

How is one to live a moral and compassionate existence
when one is fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in life,
when one finds darkness not only in one’s culture but within oneself?

If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult,
it must be when one grasps the irony in its unfolding
and accepts responsibility for a life lived in the midst of such paradox.


One must live in the middle of contradiction,
because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse.
There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions.
You continue to live them out,

making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light.


― Barry López
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“Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all.”

― Emily Dickinson
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Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

-- Desmond Tutu
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AB your words ring strong and true.

Your strength is not in cohesion but in compassion. In respecting the unique individual.
I thought of this image reading your two last posts, thinking, how as you, we could all aspire to become a "Light House" to others.
You are truly inspiring.

a reply to: WalkInSilence

You are a lighthouse, and we all call to each other across the dark and storm with what light we have.

Some may give us only shadow or let us crash on the treacherous rocks of their own pain, but even that can be a gift in the end, if we can see it.

Thank you for being a light on this thread, WIS!!

Did you read my Lighthouse poem? If not, you are amazingly in time with what I was saying!!

Lighthouse

Loved the pic. Thank you so much for all your kind words. We see what we are.

❤

a reply to: WalkInSilence

That image reminded me of this lovely song from the original "Pete's Dragon"..

"Candle on the Water"

originally posted by: AboveBoard
You are a lighthouse, and we all call to each other across the dark and storm with what light we have.
Did you read my Lighthouse poem? If not, you are amazingly in time with what I was saying!!
❤

Thank you for the compliment AB, and so true we are a light for each other, no matter how little we think we may give.

No Hun I didn't see that, sorry, but it does show that synchronicity is present. I think when we act in sync, we have reached a miniscule level of compassion, touching infinity. Just a thought. No hard science just my heart speaking
Hugs all around.

originally posted by: lostgirl
"Candle on the Water"

Awww that was so pretty Lost.
On endless days at sea I wish I had, had the song to listen to. So gentle but strong.
Hugs

I love this thread and the people in here! So much love and compassion and unity.

originally posted by: lostgirl
a reply to: Gordi The Drummer

That picture is so gorgeous, it almost doesn't look real!

Would you mind sharing where that is?

We are planning trips to Europe (though primarily Great Britain) in the coming years, and I would like to add the location in your photo to 'our list'..

Hi lg!
That pic was taken on the forest trails around Loch an Eilein, on the Rothiemurchus Estate near Aviemore in the Highlands of Scotland.
LINK to more info and pics
LINK to more info

I have LOADS more photos from my (several) trips there! (It's only 3 hours from where I live.)
G

Edit to add a couple of my pics:

Nice S&F, thanks for this..we need more of it.
I have to go to work now but will be back to try, and read all the posts

a reply to: Gordi The Drummer

Gordi, love the pics!!!!!

a reply to: Gordi The Drummer

Awwww, what great pictures - and such a lovely family!!!

Thank you so much for all the information - I have put my husband to work researching for the itinerary!!

That whole area is so beautiful, I'm really looking forward to seeing it - actually, I'm excited to be going back to the Highlands altogether...

...we were there in 2015, and I loved it so much! On that trip we stayed just outside of Fort William and did day trips all around the area - Loch Ness at Fort Augustus, Eileen Donan Castle, Glenfinnan, Glencoe - we went to a lot of the sites used in the "Harry Potter" movies..

...unfortunately, I have just now been informed (by the aforementioned husband) that I had got the travel planning mixed up, and the Scotland trip isn't until 2019, as next year's trip is Norway...rats..

Oh well, more time to plan and anticipate

a reply to: lostgirl

haha! It'll give you more time to anticipate & plan! (...and to ask your Scottish pals on here for wee hidden gems to discover! hint hint!! LOL) In saying that... you have already visited some really nice ones.

G

May the Light find you
In all the dark places
In all the time of wanting
In the curvature of sorrow
The clenched fist
The begging hand
The shattering
The breaking
The crushing
The taking

May the Light find you always
As I send it soaring out
From my heart to your heart
In the depths of shadowed Night

I am ground in God's mortar
Mixed with tears of holy water
And reformed like clay upon the spinning of time's wheel

I am remade hollow with desire
And transformed by molten fire
To be filled again with Life and made open and made real

Your words are raindrops upon a thirsty soul, Dear One.
Waves of recognition coming in with the tide.

A howl, a cry of gratitude I bring forth.

Thank you AB.

OMG AB, some beautiful prose there! Thank you my friend! Hugs!

A dear friend of ours is in need of prayers.

I am not at liberty to say who.
But does it matter, if one of us suffer we are all at a loss.
So this is where I go AB when I feel we are at the end of the rope.
Let us tie some knots on that rope and reel her in.