Contemplating.

Contemplating.
Wayzata, Minnesota

Saturday, March 9, 2024

Running Like Dogs and other Critters


Welcome to

 SATURDAY'S CRITTERS

 and City Daily Photo posting.




Dash (short for Dashiell) is always ready to run, and sniff and investigate!


Dash gaze fixed, intently with his eyes wide open waiting to hear,

 "Who wants to go outside!"










How about that run? Catch a ball? Throw the stick?  




Waiting for our humans.


"Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create."

Roy T. Bennett




A cat's purr is the sound of love.


"My way of learning is to heave a wild and unpredictable monkey-wrench into the machinery."

Dashiell Hammett




 

"Art can blow us out of our pigeonhole. In deafness it may shout or scream, in blindness it may arrest our attention, in numbness it may shake up our mind. If we don't sense anything at all and take everything for granted, art can kick us in the ass, give a conscience and make us aware."

Erik Pevernagie




Animal love best thing ever.


"When our thoughts are unsettled and our inner world is in a muddle, we may sharpen our wits and try to recognize the invisible edges of our fractured stance. If we seek to figure out, what our life story is all about, we may be able to put the missing pieces in place and identify what is driving us, what we are actually up to and why we are running like mad dogs, sometimes."

Erik Pevernagie






"By freeze-framing the image of our lifestyle, by stopping our mental clock at times and letting time flow, 'psycological' time can replace 'chronological' time and our human condition can be called into question. This opens the door to a new challenge and a new future."





"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."

Anais Nin




Every dog's motto - aka- always keep alert.


"Run when you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must, never give up."


Take good care and enjoy your weekend and remember it's time to spring forward again. 


Saturday, March 2, 2024

Elevate Yourself and Critters

 Good morning to all and welcome to another post for

 SATURDAY'S CRITTERS 


and I'm also posting to City Daily Photo


 



Elevate yourself to higher levels!

and embrace the change and enjoy life!


"The sky is not my limit I am." 

T.F. Hodge



"Day by day begin to stand out. Be a difference maker. Fitting in with the crowd is robbing you of your destiny."

Hiral Nagda



"Day by day elevate yourself to a breathtaking level by working on your passions."

Hiral Nagda 



"Elevate your inside game. A negative attitude is below the horizon, a place for lonesome hearts."

T. F. Hodge 


The Photos below are from the Northfield Arts Guild and their series ELEVATE Raising Kids in the Arts show currently running at The Guild and ends on March 9th. Come be inspired at Northfield student's artwork.





"You may never know how even a little kind gesture from your end can create a massive impact on someone's life."

Hiral Nagda











"The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life." 

Willam Morris





Remember this-

"The things you are passionate about are the real reason for your existence on this planet."

Hiral Nagda


Thank you so much for stopping in to share time with me and for your comments. Take good care and enjoy your weekend.




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Thursday, February 29, 2024

Window Reflections is our March Theme

Our March theme

 for City Daily Photo is,

Window Reflections

I crave window reflections and search for them in every walk I take. Seriously. 

Our eyes are the window to our soul.

and why not Celebrate the Unknown?

Those little things waiting to be seen. 




"Set wide the window. Let me drink the day."

 Edith Wharton


 Can you catch my reflection in several of these photos?




I spy myself here can you see me too?




Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.


 "May you live everyday of your life."

Jonathan Swift


The shipwreck of my thoughts is, not having any.

So, begin each day not by vision alone but with a positive thought.
(And if you're super lucky you can share the morning air with your dog or dogs.)

"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom."
Aristotle
 




Same place different view in the photo above and the one below.

There are so many sides to who we are depending on who you're with and sometimes it's about who we reveal and who we keep hidden inside.




"The difference between who you are and who you want to be,

 is what you do."

Bill Phillips



There's so much more to a window than looking inside like the view of the outside it offers as well.









A little of inside the window along with reflection playing in this photo.





"The biggest window in the world is your mind, and the capacity of your mind depends on how much of your window is curtained and how much is not curtained. The brightest mind is of course the mind that has no curtains!"

Mehmet Murat ildan




 

"Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it."
Mahatma Gandhi



Thanks for stopping in and leaving me a comment.


Take good care of you!

Sunday, February 25, 2024

New Ways


Welcome to my Sunday post for


SATURDAY'S CRITTERS


and I'm also posting to Daily City Photo


Looking at new ways to do old things.



 

I shall leap from this corner to the other counter, and I shall do this without fail, for I have mastered jumping!

 



My youngest son and my daughter showing us their super-strengths!

"Don't let mental blocks control you. Set yourself free. Confront your fear and turn the mental blocks into building blocks."

Dr. Roopleen




So put on your sunglasses and head outdoors and forget your woes!

"Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever. That surrender, even the smallest act of giving up, stays with me. So, when I feel like quitting, I ask myself, which would I rather live with?"

Lance Armstrong




"We're so busy watching out for what's ahead of us that we don't take time to enjoy where we are!"

Bill Watterson




"Anyone who imagines they can work alone winds up surrounded by nothing but rivals, without companions. The fact is no one ascends alone."

Lance Armstrong



"Make every negative into a positive," as my mother says. Nothing goes to waste, you put it all to use, the old wounds and long-ago slights become the stuff of competitive energy."

Lance Armstrong





"Being humble means recognizing that we not on earth to see how important we can become, but to see how much difference we can make in the lives of others."

Gordon B. Hinckley




"That's why animals are so soft and huggy."
Bill Watterson 







"When the owl sings, the night is silent. (Quand le hibou chante, La nuit est silence)
Charles de Leusse 

Thanks for your visits and your comments

 and enjoy our new week ahead

 and take good care of YOU.



Sunday, February 11, 2024

Artful Thoughts and Critters

 Good morning, everyone and welcome to another 

SATURDAY'S CRITTERS 

post and I'm posting to City Daily Photo too.




Excuse me human I'll take this you won't be needing it. 


"I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death."

Robert Fulghum




"Why not run with your wildest of imaginations of what could be?"


"Every person passing through this life will unknowingly leave something and take something away. Most of this "something" cannot be seen or heard or numbered or scientifically detected or counted. It's what we leave in the minds of other people and what they leave in ours. Memory. The census doesn't count it. Nothing counts without it."
Robert Fulghum







Art brings joy and smiles to our life!





"Peace is not something you wish for, it is something you make, something you are, something you do, and something you give away."

Robert Fulghum





The biggest adventure you can ever take
 is to live the life of your dreams.








We must take adventures to truly know where we belong.






Adventure is worthwhile!

Keep moving.

Keep doing.




One must play as often as possible!

"Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw some and paint some and sing and dance and play and work every day some."
Robert Fulghum




"It doesn't matter what you say you believe; it only matters what you do."
Robert Fulghum


"It's the spirit here that counts. The time may be long, the vehicle may be strange or unexpected, but if the dream is held close to the heart, and imagination is applied to what there is close at hand, 
everything is still possible.
Robert Fulghum

I met Robert Fulghum once years ago at a writer's convention, he had a very interesting character, and I bought a couple of his books. These quotes above are from the book below.

All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten Quotes by Robert Fulghum (goodreads.com)


Thanks for stopping by.

Enjoy the weekend and take good care of you.