Oct 12
I’m super good at tomorrow.
I have tons of motivation for making new beginnings; all kinds of ideas and plans and inspirations.
For tomorrow.
I’m not so good at today.
Today I’m gonna sit here juuust a little bit longer.
Today I’m too tired, too busy, too hungry, too overwhelmed.
Today I don’t have the right shoes on.
Mostly, today I just don’t have the right attitude.
But don’t worry; I’ll adjust my attitude tomorrow.
♠
Sep 14
You never know what you’ll see if you look around every once in a while. You might even see something like this:
Actually, I can’t take credit for spotting that little guy. Or girl – I’m not sure how you check gender on a caterpillar.
My friend’s son found a bunch of these ugly ducklings of the butterfly world when we were on our way out of a little botanical garden in Georgia, They were just hanging out on a lemon tree; they really like citrus trees.
I had just seen a post on Facebook about caterpillars that look like snakes; there are a ton of them, and some really truly look like snakes! These so-ugly-they’re-cute caterpillars will metamorphose into Giant Swallowtail Butterflies! But in the larval stage like this, though they reminded me of the snakey ones, they are generally said to look like bird poop.
How’s that for camouflage?
But wait, there’s more!
When you touch it, it rears its tiny head back and sticks out an organ called an osmeterium, which looks like a forked tongue. It also releases a puff of scent that smells like something rotten.
What do you think?
Have you ever seen anything like that before?
What kinds of nifty things have you come across?
Aug 9
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Once you begin to open yourself to love, you will learn to see it everywhere, creating a peace, a freedom, and a truth that will shift your entire experience.
– Billy Ward
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Jul 21
I once asked a boyfriend, “What are you thinking right this minute?”
We were driving somewhere, I don’t remember where, and my mind was flitting from this topic to that, just all over the place. Nothing important in there at all. And suddenly I wondered what had been in his mind right at that exact moment when I was thinking about whatever it was I was thinking about.
Was it something big? Was it some little nothing? Had he been thinking “it’s almost time to get the oil changed,” or “there’s a bird,” or “what are we going to eat for dinner,” or… It could be anything!
I turned to him with a huge smile and asked, “What are you thinking right this minute?” I was girl-excited; I wanted to know(!).
“Nothing.”
What?
“You must have been thinking something.” I mean, there’s no way his mind was completely blank, right?
And so I clarified my question: “I just want to know what was going through your mind right at that minute. No matter how little it was.”
“Nothing!” He was quite adamant. And annoyed. His mind was, apparently, a complete blank.
I persisted in a persistent manner to inform him that there was no way his mind was a complete blank.
“There’s no way your mind was a complete blank. You had to be thinking something. Even if it was something tiny and inconsequential, like, I don’t know…like…’those trees are really green.’ “
“I wasn’t thinking anything at all.” He could persist too. “I’m not trying to hide anything from you, I swear! I wasn’t thinking anything!”
And so I gave up.
“You don’t have to tell me; I was just being curious.”
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how to start a fight out of nothing at all.
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Is it really possible for your mind to be completely blank for long stretches like that?
Or is it just a guy thing?
Have you ever started a fight out of thin air?
What are you thinking right this minute?
😉 ♥
I'm a writer and photographer, sometime poet and philosopher, who is figuring out who she was meant to be.
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