Laine's Blog, Thinking Out Loud

Evening Clouds

 

 

St. Augustine's Lighthouse

dwarfed by the rolling clouds

of a summer's evening.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Not exactly a Haiku, but close! St. Augustine, Matanzas River and lighthouse.

 

Up or Down?

 

Looking up or down?

You...

...today,

looking up or down?

 

(That's the short version of today's post. Here is the long one.)

 

If you're feeling good today, happy and cheerful, be sure to share that

somehow, because you never know how much a heartfelt smile might mean to

someone, how just a smile can save a life.

 

If you're not feeling happy or cheerful, breathe that in

and try to connect to other people who aren't feeling happy,

who are probably trying to figure out why, and how to "fix"

or get rid of it somehow.

If you sit with the feeling and trust that it will pass,

(and you know it will),

at the end of that you will be softer, because you made the

friendship with yourself stronger.

Instead of rejecting that part of yourself, you have

embraced it and your shadow grows smaller

and your heart grows bigger.

 

So, up or down,

It's still you there,

and you're fine,

right where you are.

 

 

 

( I am borrowing from the archives of Laine's Blog. This post is from the first month of my blog, October, 2011, and it speaks for me today.)

(This week will be a walk down memory lane for Laine's blog. Hope that you enjoy it.)

 

The Missing Piece

 

 

St. Augustine Lighthouse

Fishing In The Storm

 

 

When the fish are running in seaside towns,

the word spreads quickly.

 

Some years ago, a close encounter with Hurricane Floyd,

stirred up the surf and the fish and our restless spirits on Cape Cod.

 

Here's hoping that all of our friends in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania,

are safe and warm after their collision with Hurricane Sandy.

 

 

 

Herring Cove Beach, Provincetown, Massachusetts.

 

 

Bounty

 

The H. M. S. Bounty glides into St. Augustine harbor and dwarfs the bayfront.

In order for her to get through the Bridge of Lions, her spars were set near vertical as she waited for high water.

 

A beautiful sight she is!

 

 

 

One More Day in Iceland - Reykjavik

 

The largest Church in Iceland provides a spectacular view of Reykjavik.

 

Leif Erikson stands in front and can once again boast that he was there first.

 

Takk fyrir, Iseland!

 

Thanks also to Brooks Walker, world renowned photographer, for a wonderful private tour of Iceland, peppered with interesting Historical and political anecdotes.

 

The Lighthouse Stairs

 

 

Looking up or down?

You...

...today,

looking up or down?

 

(That's the short version of today's post. Here is the long one.)

 

If you're feeling good today, happy and cheerful, be sure to share that

somehow, because you never know how much a heartfelt smile might mean to

someone, how just a smile can save a life.

 

If you're not feeling happy or cheerful, breathe that in

and try to connect to other people who aren't feeling happy,

who are probably trying to figure out why, and how to "fix"

or get rid of it somehow.

If you sit with the feeling and trust that it will pass,

(and you know it will),

at the end of that you will be softer, because you made the

friendship with yourself stronger.

Instead of rejecting that part of yourself, you have

embraced it and your shadow grows smaller

and your heart grows bigger.

 

So, up or down,

It's still you there,

and you're fine,

right where you are.