Quiet

Finished "Walden" again . I love this book . It helps keep me center . I know it has it's faults but what it gives me negates them. I believe strongly in firm goals and goal settings .These are better set with a quiet center. An unbalanced center would seem to me to set chaotic goals.This is the first day of the rest of my life---YEA !!!!!!

Flowers within flower

                 
                                I love this photo . The purple bloom is less than a half inch across.

precious

Child of  God

The best lesson I ever got from oa was this. Are you ready? Whatever you see in someone else is in you .If you see preciousness it is in you or it would just go right over your head. You would not recognize it. So one day 20 years ago my grandson was lying on the floor too new even to turn over by himself .I was looking at him and I saw innocence and purity. this light went off in my head. I just saw innocence and purity so it must be in me or I could not have recognized it. I have claimed that ever since .I now have a switch in my head that goes :if I see someone and think she so sweet- the switch says : I'm sweet .I love the word precious. I'm precious - you are precious and my grandkids and yours become the key to understanding how wondrous we are. Neat ,huh ? Love to you precious wondrous little child of God!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Small wild flower I saw this morning less than a half an inch.

Naked soul-Kazantzakis.

Copied this from "Zorba Te Greek" . I thought it was so beautiful. I love all of Kazantzakis books.

Purity

“Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

    

Zorba

I' m reading " Zorba " which I have read several times over the years . Many years ago I read identifying with the younger narrator of the story . This time I'm closer to Zorba's age and identify with him . Interesting to read same book from a very different perspective . It is kind of like my grieving for my Dad who was killed in WWll
in his twenties. I used to grieve for him as a loss of a Dad . He is frozen in time and now I look back and grieve for him as I would a child from dying so young and all he missed. Strange strange strange ! Read Zorba if you haven't-great! Also another book I love is " Life of Pi" -The movie cannot possible capture this wonderful tale !