“When we focus on our gratitude,
April 12, 2015
the tide of disappointment goes out and the tide of love rushes in.” — Kristin Armstrong * * * Photo by Mary O’Connor © 2015
Category: sky
“Like water which can clearly mirror the sky and the trees
April 1, 2015
only so long as its surface is undisturbed, the mind can only reflect the true image of the Self when it is tranquil and wholly relaxed.” — Indra Devi * * * Photo by Mary O’Connor © 2014
“Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet…” — Ann Landers
March 30, 2015
“Brilliance is neither a fashion or a style, a trend or an ambience! It’s an awakening of our luminous ingenuity.” — Jasmina Siderovski * * * Evening boat cruise reflections on the New River, Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Photo by Capt. Lauralee Conklin
Wall of Sky
January 12, 2015
Sometimes I sit with my back pressed against a wall of sky, until the winds shift and the clouds pass by. * * * Poem, Wall of Sky by Mary O’Connor, originally published in Dreams of a Wingless Child © 2007 Wheatmark, Tuscon, Ariz. © 2007. Photo, Charles W. Morgan whaling ship docked in New London, CT, by Jan … More Wall of Sky
“That pleasure which is at once the most pure,
January 8, 2015
the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.” – Edgar Allan Poe * * * Photo by Mary O’Connor © 2014
“Stand still…
January 5, 2015
“and silently watch the world go by – and it will.” — Unknown Finding joy is an ongoing journey. Discover more about the steps along the way in my book, Life Is Full of Sweet Spots. * * * Photo credit: Jan Logozzo
“When scattered clouds are resting
January 1, 2015
on the bosoms of hills, it seems as if one might climb into the heavenly region, earth being so intermixed with sky, and gradually transformed into it.” — Nathaniel Hawthorne It was very dark; but in the murky sky there were masses of cloud which shone with a lurid light, like monstrous heaps of copper that … More “When scattered clouds are resting
Glory
December 22, 2014
lies in the attempt to reach one’s goal and not in reaching it. — Mahatma Gandhi * * * St. Patrick’s Cathedral spires framed by 5th Avenue Manhattan skyline. Photo by Mary O’Connor © 2014
“There’s a sunrise and a sunset
December 18, 2014
every single day, and they’re absolutely free. Don’t miss so many of them.” — Jo Walton * * * Photo credit: Mary O’Connor © 2014
“Creativity is the Blue Heron within us
October 30, 2014
waiting to fly; through her imagination, all things become possible.” — Nadia Janice Brown * * * Photo by Mary O’Connor © 2014
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