HELIOS

Wishing you all a happy Spring Equinox

Sat, 20 Mar 2010 19:03:21 GMT

Dark : Light
B A L A N C E
Another cycle begins.

"One by one - tiny green shoots break the ground around my
feet - quickly spiralling upward - toward the encompassing light."
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Doing What You've Always Done

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 10:48:26 GMT

"If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten" - Anthony Robbins

If you really think about this quote, you will realise how deeply profound this simple statement is . . .

if we do what we always do -
we will get what we've always got!

That's wonderful if what we've got is good and makes us content and happy, it is a really great blueprint for keeping the good things in your life going well - just keep doing what you are doing, it's working!

But if there are areas in our lives we recognise as not working as well as they could, then perhaps we have to recognise the truth of that statement and move out of our habitual way of doing certain things.

If we want different results, we have to try doing things a little differently and be prepared to face the sometimes scary and uncomfortable feelings that come from stepping outside of our comfort zone.

I see it as steering a car, if we constantly bump the curb, then just by making little adjustments on the steering wheel we can correct our course. If we have always wanted to see what the scenery is like over there, then we have to indicate and make a turn, or we will continue on the same road.

What a powerful realisation that is! Once you are conscious of the fact that you have a choice and that it is YOU steering the car, you just have to decide - now, where do I want to go.

"You cannot surpass the current paradigm from within the current paradigm. You must discover a greater paradigm and expand into it."
- Alan Cohen

image & words - sb
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Red brown earth, newly ploughed.

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 19:18:51 GMT

Driving through the country roads
I see fields and fields of newly ploughed earth - rich dark and fertile - I feel the spring time energy - the thrusting potential of a another new cycle of creation about to begin. . .

EARTH
Red brown earth, newly ploughed,
fertile and ready for growth.
Touches my Taurus moon.
Calls for my naked body.
Rolls me in its rich soil.
I feel the season.
Springtime energy
infuses me
patient,
as the sunwarmed life
springs forth.
Singing to me,
of days to come.
Dreaming
of the harvest.

Image and words Susannah Bec.

There are beautiful and wild forces within us. - St Francis of Assisi

Huge Sweeping Golden Beams

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:53:09 GMT

We work with the stuff of the soul by means of the things of life.- Thomas Moore

Today the Sun shone, huge sweeping golden beams - filling my room and leaving no space for me inside. I put on my shoes and stepped outside, just in time to join Spring as she arrived in my garden.

In the garden the door is always open into the holy.- May Sarton

photos taken today in my garden.
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Thought For Today

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:36:08 GMT

"Let the mind be enlarged to the grandeur of the mysteries, and not the mysteries contracted to the narrowness of the mind." - Francis Bacon

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One photo and the memory it contained. . .

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:04:02 GMT

I was just going through some old photo files stored on my hard disk when I came across this photo, as soon as I saw it a flood of memories came back and I was there again...

"In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." - John Muir

We had walked across the meadow behind the old cottage we used to live in and climbed over the five bar gate that led into the wood; As soon as I put my foot down I could feel the spongy ground thick with pine needles and I breathed in the wonderful damp cool smell.

We knew these woods well and loved to go off the beaten paths and make our way though the thick curling ferns. The slanted dappled light dancing through the canopy made the place seem magical.

In these quiet hidden inner places of the woodland we would often come face to face with its creatures, coming out of the dark green into a passage of sunlight to see a deer standing stately and silent, bathed in the almost luminous light.

It was strange that no matter how many times we explored, we always found new areas that we were sure we had never seen before.

On one of these forays we stumbled out of the damp green interior into a clearing and there lit by a ray of sunlight, radiant amongst the blankets of dark green pines was the tree in the picture.

It almost took my breath away!

I walked over and stood in front of it and made Joe laugh when I said that it looked like something special was happening and that maybe it was having a birthday. :-)

I stood for a moment just taking in the wonderful sight and enjoying the moment of sunshine, then remembering my camera, I retrieved it from my deep pockets and took the photo before we headed back into the shade of the canopy and made our way home.

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Sunday . . . at my computer

Sun, 7 Mar 2010 18:16:41 GMT

. . . The view from my window when sitting at my desk.

"The little things? The little moments? They aren't little." - John Zabat-Zinn

The Doves have spent a few days now hanging out on the fence enjoying the sunshine, and then flying over to the bird table for some seed, then back to sunbathing and courting! I watch as they gently groom one another, then I tactfully avert my eyes as they mate!- regularly! ;-)

It is wonderful to have my computer right in front of this window, as it feels like I am part of what is going on out there. . . the changing light, the hundreds of birds that visit the bird table and hanging feeders throughout the day.

I know that as I watch, before long all the trees will have their leaves and the bush to the right in the bottom photo will be dripping with huge lilac blooms that I will be able to smell through the open window.

It is wonderful to watch the sun go down, it sets just behind the red heart in the window, and in the morning to watch the pink light of sunrise bathe those trees in a gentle golden light.

I think this is a great place to have my computer!

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The Joy of Things

Thu, 4 Mar 2010 23:16:30 GMT

"Joy is not in things, it is in us." - Richard Wagner

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"Stretch out your hand and take the worlds wide gift of Joy and Beauty."
- Corinne Roosevelt Robinson

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"Oh the wild joys of living! The leaping from rock to rock the cool silver shock of the plunge in a pools living waters." - Robert Browning

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"The gloom of the world is but a shadow. Behind it, yet within reach, is joy. There is a radiance and glory in the darkness, could we but see, and to see, we have only to look. I beseech you to look." - Fra Giovanni

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"Joy is everywhere; it is in the earths green covering of grass:
in the blue serenity of the sky: in the reckless exuberance of spring:
in the severe abstinence of grey winter: in the living flesh that animates our bodily frame: in the perfect poise of the human figure, noble and upright: in living, in the exercise of all our powers: in the acquisition of knowledge
. . . Joy is there everywhere. - Rabindranath Tagore

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Painting:Joy-sb
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Doorways . . . a reminder

Wed, 3 Mar 2010 17:43:53 GMT

"The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live."
- Flora Whittemore

"Life is the sum of all your choices." - Albert Camus

(This lovely old door belongs to a house in our village.)

Welcoming March

Tue, 2 Mar 2010 11:25:53 GMT

March made such a glorious entrance yesterday, decked with blue sky, white fluffy clouds and bird song. A beautiful day, just drenched in sunshine. It was as welcome as water to a thirsty soul.

"The longer I live, the more my mind dwells upon the beauty and the wonder of the world." - John Burroughs

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