Mantra
May you be safe and free from suffering
May you be happy and as healthy as it is possible to be
May you have ease of being
(Mark Williams)
Photo: colour and fragrance from my spring garden
#Gardening #Gratitude #Life #Flowers #MentalHealth #Hope #Motivation
Connectedness
"One is constantly reminded of the infinite lavishness and fertility of Nature — inexhaustible abundance amid what seems enormous waste (Muir)".
Spring has arrived in my humble garden. Hopeful, life-affirming abundance in a wasteful world.
I am grateful for
- colour
- nature's wealth
- rejuvenation
@IanThistlethwaite #3GoodThings #Nature #MentalHealth #Life #NaturePhotography #Gardening
Healing
"The painful paradox is that our attachment to other people, our mutual dependence, is the source of all true humanity and all true joy, but it is also the source of all true suffering" - Marie Dyer.
I believe that it is not time that heals. Maybe, as Rosen suggests, it is doing things that helps us heal.
Photo: early morning walk to the pier is healing.
#Healing #Life #Gratitude #MentalHealth #Books #Sea #Nature #Photography
How come the most intellectual creature to ever walk Earth is destroying its only home? - Jane Goodall
LEFT- my pickings on a beach walk around 1970 on the South African Wild Coast. The white one is a Paper Nautili, very rare today.
The smallish brown one is a Cowrie shell. It is as shiny today, 53 years later, as it was then.
RIGHT- my pickings on a beach walk last week 😕
WHAT ARE WE DOING?
#Earth #Environment #Today #ClimateChange #Nature #Sea #Change #Greed #Politics #Pollution
The human touch
A few life-changing realisations I have come to recently:
- Showing up while those we love are still around counts. After they have gone, not so much.
- Doing practical things to help out, without being asked, counts.
- Gently letting those we love go, when the time comes, counts.
That... is love.
To everyone who misses someone who is no longer in this world, take heart:
For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun?
And what is it to cease breathing, but to free the breath from its restless tides, that it may rise and expand and seek God unencumbered.
And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb.
When the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance (Gibran).
Metamorphosis
From a scrawny, unwanted, abandoned kitty to the good life. Basking in the autumn light of changing seasons.
The ever-caring staff and volunteers at animal shelters do amazing work, not only for animals themselves, but for those of us who are blessed to have them in our lives.
“There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.” – Albert Schweitzer
#CatsOfMastodon #Caturday #AdoptDontShop #Gratitude #MentalHealth
(Another) new day
Life is short, break the rules. Forgive quickly, kiss slowly. Love truly, laugh uncontrollably, and never regret anything that makes you smile
(Mark Twain)
Photo: Sunrise over the bay where I live
Showcasing the kind of anti-busyness attitude needed for meaningful rest. Best therapy 🐾
#Caturday #CatsOfMastodon #MentalHealth #Gratitude #AdoptDontShop #Joy
Sometimes it's the moment, more than the place, that counts. Today was such a moment.
Watch "Monty Don Visits Babylonstoren's Garden, South Africa" on YouTube https://youtu.be/p8HjvLyiY5g
