that is my son's eye-- we took w/ the telephoto lens -- ever since he was born -- the light shines through his eyes and the green turns golden.-- I used to love to hold him as an infant and watch the sun play on his eyes
Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons! ************ "Joy is what happens when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are." **************
"A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world." --Paul Dudley White
************ "Now if you are going to win any battle you have to do one thing. You have to make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do. The body will always give up. It is always tired in the morning, noon, and night. But the body is never tired if the mind is not tired." - George S. Patton, U.S. Army General, 1912 Olympian
I am often asked to describe the experience of raising a child with a disability - to try to help people who have not shared that unique experience to understand it, to imagine how it would feel. It’s like this… When you’re going to have a baby, it’s like planning a fabulous vacation trip - to Italy. You buy a bunch of guide books and make your wonderful plans. The coliseum. The Michelangelo David. The gondolas in Venice. You may learn some handy phrases in Italian. It’s all very exciting. After months of eager anticipation, the day finally arrives. You pack your bags and off you go. Several hours later, the plane lands. The stewardess comes in and says, “Welcome To Holland”. “Holland?!?” you say, “What do you mean “Holland”??? I signed up for Italy! I’m supposed to be in Italy. All my life I’ve dreamed of going to Italy” But there’s been a change in the flight plan. They’ve landed in Holland and there you must stay. The important thing is that they haven’t taken you to a horrible, disgusting, filthy place, full of pestilence, famine and disease. It’s just a different place. So you must go and buy new guide books. And you must learn a whole new language. And you will meet a whole new group of people you would never have met. It’s just a different place. It’s slower-paced than Italy, less flashy than Italy. But after you’ve been there for a while and you catch your breath, you look around…and you begin to notice that Holland has windmills…Holland has tulips. Holland even has Rembrandts. But everyone you know is busy coming and going from Italy…and they’re all bragging about what a wonderful time they had there. And for the rest of your life, you will say “Yes that’s where I was supposed to go. That’s what I had planned”. And the pain of that will never, ever, ever, ever go away…because the loss of that dream is a very significant loss. But…if you spend your life mourning the fact that you didn’t get to Italy, you may never be free to enjoy the very special, the very lovely things…about Holland.
43 comments:
Can you tell I got a new lens for my birthday?
cool shots!
happy WW
wonderful macro and telephoto shots! :)
belated happy birthday!
I can predict you'll be having loads of fun with your birthday present!! :P
What cool pics. That side view of the eyeball is crazy. How in the world did you take that shot?? Happy WW and thanks for stopping by:)
Wow. What a shot. You amaze me.
Great optical illusion! Happy belated birthday - cool present! I haven't made a bundt in years!
that is my son's eye-- we took w/ the telephoto lens -- ever since he was born -- the light shines through his eyes and the green turns golden.-- I used to love to hold him as an infant and watch the sun play on his eyes
What a beautiful eye picture ! so special !
Oooo pretty! I could gaze at the moon for hours...and have :) Thanks for dropping by!
Eerily beautiful!
I love the moon, sigh!
Now THAT is a cool shot!
Very neat!
This is one of the most original pictures I've seen for WW! Just great. I must copy it! :-)
Happy WW!
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I love this picture!! You really amaze me with some of the pictures on your site.
Loved this shot so unique.
Happy WW!
poor choice of words on my part - the optical illusion was that the eye looks like the moon with them next to each other like that.
That is aweosme!!
great shot!!
upon seeing the first photo, i'm totally speechless, wordless!
Happy WW!
The first photo's awesome! I want to try that myself. :)
Very clever shot - I love it.
Cool pics!love the close up shot of ur eye :)
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happy WW!
wow so nice! this is the best photo i've seen so far!
happy ww!
hope to see u in mine:
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Two very cool shots! Happy WW and thanks so much for stopping by!
COOL shots
Please check out mine Thanks
Don't photography items make for great birthday gifts! Cool pictures!
cool!! :D
(Happy Belated Birthday.. must be fun! With the lens and all!!)
Happy WW too
Great pictures and thanks for visiting me and my WW.
Wow that's a little scary. Whose eye?
Those were neat shots.
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Love that eye shot. It is very cool. :-)
Great photos, very interesting.
That is so awesome!! Happy WW!
Beautiful shots!
Trippy, fantastic shots! That new lens must be tons of fun.
Happy WW.
How unusual, marcia! A new lens so you can take macro shots? Fantastic!
Oh meant to say Happy Birthday! :D
great shots... looks like the moon's color is reflected in the eye!
Have a terrific week and check out my WW post if you get a chance:
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Wow, that is such a cool, creative shot!
Wow that is cool!!! Good WW to you :D
Wonderful photos, Marcia :)
Wow that is amazing I love the glow in his eye. Beautiful!
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