That's a beautiful shot. I love the delicate shade. Thanks for your comment on my daisy and mentioning ruby Tuesday. I will have to do that in the future as I like the idea. I have others of those daisies I could use too.
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.
21 comments:
The sun can be a gentle presence! Perhaps that is why morning is so wonderful to me.
Raised to greet the sun. Nice photo. Have you ever noticed how flowers will turn 180 degrees to stay with the sun?
That's a beautiful shot. I love the delicate shade. Thanks for your comment on my daisy and mentioning ruby Tuesday. I will have to do that in the future as I like the idea. I have others of those daisies I could use too.
Awww so pretty!
Beautiful. I love the way the sun makes the petals translucent
I love the sunshine almost glowing through the blossom, it is lovely! Happy tuesday
translucent beauty! i can almost feel the summer morning peaking here!
Pretty flower...Happy WW!
What a beautiful shot! I like it...
It's a buttercup, right? Very pretty!
Nice shot. Happy WW! :)
Beautiful shot, beautiful caption!
Wow, great photo. I needs me a new camera!
Mine is up too:
http://www.houndrat.com/2008/07/29/wordless-wednesdaylet-sleeping-dogs-er-babies-lie/
Beautiful photo of the flower
Splendid shot! The morning and afternoon sunshine are really the perfect lighting.
Happy WW!
I love this gentle little flower, sitting all by itself. Well done.
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Pretty pink flower! Bark! If it was in my run I'd try not to step on it or do anything else on it that dogs do in their runs. Arf, arf, arf.
what a beautiful flower! very nice! mine's up too at this link!see yah there!
Very pretty! Thanks for visting my blog! Nice to meet you!
wonderful!!
Mine is up!!
http://www.inthespiritofdance.com/2008/07/wordless-wednesday-no-4-editted.html
Happy WW!!
Very beautiful this kiss !
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