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Dedication

9/16/2024

Are you dedicated to examining your life and making adjustments and improvements regularly so that things fit together better, so that things work more effectively, more efficiently? Have you thought about your life as having gone through cycles? Seven year or ten year cycles perhaps. What's wroking for you these days? I recently read that everyone goes through a "life review" at age 70. It's interesting that that is where seven and ten intersect.
Writing prompt: Can you dedicate yourself to cultivating a new good habit for five minutes a day? What happened after one week?
Writing prompt: Will you continue?

#writingprompt #wordprompt #dedication #dedicated #lifecycle #review #whateverworks #pictureprompt #Palak #dronemovie #devotion

Screenshot from Palak's Youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/@eyecon82 Stowe Vermont video
I love his beautiful videos. Palak left this world in Nov 2016

Beauty

9/15/2024

Something I wrote about a few days ago was the 'Melville Pattern,' https://www.literaryfolliesgildedstrumpet.com/literaryfollies-blog/passion Silvia Hartmann has made the observation that when you examine something very closely, using all of your senses, you can cultivate and appreciate and a love for that object. We can add that something can become beautiful as you spend more time with it also. This can have long reaching implications in your life.
Writing prompt: Find beauty where you haven't found it before. An unexpected beauty.
Writing prompt: Combine an observation of beauty with something else. How does this expand you concept of beauty? Or did nothing change?

#writingprompt #wordprompt #beauty #unexpectedbeauty #observation #closeup #appreciate

Trust

9/14/2024

I keep coming back to this image of animals trusting us with their whole beings, even as they endure terrible existences because of us. I am thinking of animals raised for food, but treated as though they are not sentient beings that have feelings and feel pain, but instead are treated as though they simply exist to be an item on our plates. I believe you eat their pain and suffering, as well as the chemicals their bodies create as they live dismal lives.
This is one of the biggest betrayals of trust in our lives today.
Make a difference where you can. Look for that Humane Certified label. https://certifiedhumane.org/
Great story about the founder of Certified Humane Farming: https://certifiedhumane.org/adele-douglass-jolley-story/
Where to buy certified humane products: https://certifiedhumane.org/whos-certified-2/
Writing prompt: How does it feel when you discover a new way to help others? Have you felt that way recently?
Writing prompt: What will you do today that will inspire others to do good? Do you trust your instincts enough, or not enough, or too much?

#writingprompt #wordprompt #trust #worth #humane #kindness #certifiedhumane #somethinggood

Divine Will #4 The Will To Harmonize

9/13/2024

Contacting the Will to Harmonize
Use the process that follows to contact the Will to Harmonize, taking another step on your path of spiritual growth.

Relax your body, and breathe in a relaxed way.
Prepare to receive the Will to Harmonize by asking: Am I willing to release limitation? Am I ready to live a beautiful life, in harmony with all beings? Am I willing to let go of the battles and struggle, and to find peace and an end to conflict in my life? Am I ready to strengthen, recognize, and act upon my intuition?
If you feel ready, call upon and blend with your soul, feeling its loving presence.
Using your imagination, sense the souls of others who are connecting with the Great Ones transmitting Divine Will. If you would like, join with the group call to the Great One who transmits the Will to Harmonize. Joining with others at the soul level, who are also calling upon Divine Will, can assist you in receiving more of the full spectrum of the energy that is sent in response to your call for it.
The Great Life who embodies the Will to Harmonize always responds to your call, and does so now.
A ray of light, like a beam of sunlight, is sent to you. Receive the energy of the Will to Harmonize into your heart center, an energy center located around the area of your physical heart. This awakens your ability to stay balanced and centered in your heart, aligned with your soul and the higher realms of light, beyond the pull of the opposing forces.
Allow the energy of the Will to Harmonize to touch and transform you. Invite it into your life, and open to receive all the gifts of consciousness it has for you.
Feel the love and harmony that is available to you as you link with the Will to Harmonize. Practice calling upon and experiencing the energy of the Will to Harmonize often. Call upon this Great One and receive Its transmission of harmony and love into your heart center any time you want to feel more harmonious, be in harmony with another person, your soul, if you are in a conflict you want to resolve; to draw in music, color, sound; or to bring beauty to anything and to any area of your life you choose.

You have begun your journey of transforming your consciousness with the Will to Harmonize. It is the quality of Divine Will that guides the soul of humanity right now - harmony through conflict and the creation of beauty through merging the inner life with the outer life. What follows are ways to call upon this great force to bring more beauty, harmony, balance, and unity into your life.

#DivineWill #TheWillToHarmonize #Harmony #Intuition

Satisfaction

9/12/2024

It's interesting how we use ratings for things. It is useful for a purchase and for things we know little about, for more information. We shouldn't disregard the importance of instinct, the gut feelings that guide us too. We have the outer, and then our inner data. Finding satisfaction and using it as a springing off point for higher and greater peaks today might be a fun experiment. I like being a satisfied customer, satisfied with a purchase or interaction, but there is something beyond that. Something a little more unknown, behind, beneath, beyond. Much to be discovered there.
Writing prompt: Can more observation and noticing increase your appreciation and your satisfaction of things in your daily life?
Writing prompt: Any interesting results to record from trying 'The Melville Pattern?' https://winwenger.com/resources/cps-techniques/the-melville-pattern/

#writingprompt #wordprompt #satisfaction #tomsawyer #huckleberryfinn #happinessscale #improvements #discover #MelvillePattern #shades #findyourway #feelings #data

Passion

9/11/2024

My passions are easy to name: art, writing, nature, animals. There are probably scads more attached to those main ones. Here's an interesting exercise called The Melville Pattern which may help you spot more hidden passions:
https://winwenger.com/resources/cps-techniques/the-melville-pattern/
Step 1: Describe any object in excruciating detail — and I mean in excruciating detail.
Step 2: Now, begin to muse what the object and all the object’s details remind you of.
Step 3: Begin to describe in detail what the object (and all its detailed aspects) is not and does not remind you of. Why do this exercise? Because the things you closely examine, you come to appreciate more, discover more about and feel more passion for.
Writing prompt: What do you feel most passionate about right now? Does thinking about it give you a little lift? Can you energize yourself this way more often?
Writing prompt: What old passions are you ready to release, to let go of? Or will you keep all your passions, just in case?

#writingprompt #wordprompt #passion #energy #story #art #compassion #BallerinaMondays #Melvillepattern #winwenger #silviahartmann

Justice

9/10/2024

Does the thought of justice elicit a strong response in you? How often have you wished for revenge to right a wrong, or maybe you've wished for a Marvel hero to come to the rescue. Sometimes it's hard to believe that justice is coming when it feels far off. Do we need to have faith in justice?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Justice
Writing prompt: From this Wikipedia page, choose one of these figures of justice to write about. Which are your favorite depictions of justice?
Writing prompt: justice is often paired with prudence. How do you see the relation between these two?

Allegory of Prudence on the tomb of Francis II, Duke of Brittany

#writingprompt #wordprompt #justice #prudence #scalesofjustice #balance #punishment #reward #rightandwrong

Grace

9/9/2024

Pondering grace.. Where has grace shown up in your life? What is something you recognized? Are there people that you know who exemplify grace and what has been that effect on you? Here is a beautiful watercolor by Eleanor Fortesque-Brickdale. This nun looks graceful as she tends to the plants. Could you write this nun's story?
Writing prompt: think of grace as a noun and write a vignette around it.
Writing prompt: think of grace as a verb and write a vignette around that.

#writingprompt #wordprompt #grace #dignity #yourgrace #grace #pilgrimage #self #soul #womenartists #EleanorFortesqueBrickdale #nun

Curiosity

9/8/2024

What makes you the most curious? Have you discovered new worlds that stemmed from your curiosity? Why is curiosity a good thing? I'm curious!
Gutenberg link: Books about Imaginary places -- Juvenile fiction (sorted by popularity)
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/4873
Writing prompt: Go on an explore today. Journey to a place you've never been before. Record your observations.
Writing prompt: How are you changed when you go in a completely different and unexpected direction?

#writingprompt #wordprompt #pictureprompt #curioserandcuriouser #curiosity #AliceinWonderland #wonder #discover

Balance

9/7/2024

Balance is one of those things that can catch you off guard - when things are out of balance. When you've been pushing too hard in one direction and all of a sudden you discover that you are out of balance. You need a break, activity in another direction, to focus elsewhere to bring things back into balance. Sometimes blessed insights come after a night's sleep. I've spoken before about nature being the best example we have - because nature always strives for balance.
Writing prompt: Explore an area of your life where you haven't given much thought to balance before now.
Writing prompt: Will changes to this area to bring about more balance be a good thing?

#writingprompt #wordprompt #pictureprompt #balance #invisible #flow #nature #life

This photo was taken at a forest preserve near where an old house stood. The house is gone but flagstones and walkways remain. Even a cement birdbath. The flagstones and paths feel very solid and it is a very peaceful spot despite traffic being nearby.