My seventh wonder is moonlight, especially from the full moon.
It gives light to fish by.
It inspires myths of moon godesses.
It is something to capture in photography.
What do you think about moonlight?
(c) June Perkins
Wonder a day 7: Moonlight
Category Archives: Creativity
Wonder a Day 4: Sunset
Walking at sunset is a wonder when you live a short drive away or closer to sunsets over warm tropical beach sand.
Sunset is a wonder when the backdrop consists of islands, ocean, and playgrounds looking out to sea.
Walks at sunset bring back memories of childhood friends and singing songs as we hike on school camp.
Photographs of sunsets astound, attract and reach out from cyberspace to real space and real space to cyberspace.
I have enjoyed sunsets as backdrops these holidays to finding out about crocodile nests, celebrating 22 years of marriage and exploring with my kids in the early evening cooling down.
Where is your favourite sunset?
What makes it so special to you?
(c) June Perkins, all rights reserved.
Wonder a Day 1: Archery Dream
- Archery (c) June Perkins
I’ve decided that each month I will set myself a blog challenge. My readers are welcome to join in and post their links under posts.
January 2012 blog challenge: a photo a day (from January 4th) and something to wonder about a day.
I wonder why do people take up certain activities?
Archery has proven attractive for my daughter because of computer role play games where she says “I always chose to be an archer.” It’s early days to see how long lived this will be but she had a huge smile on her face when her Dad bought her a real life beginner’s archery set.
Her passion is newfound, but the next question is what makes an interest become more than a hobby and become a life long passion?
I will watch the young archer in my family and see how she goes, but also look up archery clubs and so on for her. Nothing like being encouraged is there!
You are welcome to post a link to your own post on your favourite hobby.
What was your favourite hobby as a child ?
Did you stick with it?
Will you take it up again?
(c) June Perkins, all rights reserved.
Follow the Road to your Dreams
I love those inspiring affirmations people share on facebook and in beautifully made art cards.
They mean much more to me than arbitrary zodiac readings.
They are popular amongst many of my friends to post on, share or like. They seem less artificial than some status statements.
Perhaps in passing them on we know someone will read something they need to make their life just a little easier to understand.
Thanks to Noetic Alchemy and to Positive Inspirational Quotes for the joy you bring to so many.
Here is my little offering to dreamers everywhere.
(c) June Perkins, all rights reserved.
Happiness
Where do you find the happiness buzz? Where do you find words and images to express this?
I ask myself this when I am having days that seem challenging.
I know that there are people both worse off and better off. Nothing is gained by comparisons of guilt, privilege or pity. Riches come and go, poverty could crush someone and yet some people will always find happiness regardless of what life does to them.
What makes you happy might not make me happy and vis versa but still to think and write of the happiness we feel is to alter the dynamic of all the writing and reality of misery in our world.
I acknowledge, sadness, grief, misery and all those things that come to all of us at some stage but happiness – I welcome! Happiness and joy make so much more possible. Yet my happiness should not be someone else’s misery!
Sorrow for anyone without happiness motivates me to seek something to make them happier. Although we all know people who are bottomless pits of sadness and negativity and for them we have a big challenge to find a salve to their sores. This is where creativity can play an integral role.
So for my top list of happiness:
1) Doing something caring for others – that will make a difference in their lives.
2) Finding news words and music for a song
3) Seeing the positive in every situation and learning virtues from it to enact in life
4) Remembering that a deeper purpose motivates – for me we are all put here to know and love God, the great spirit and this means seeing beyond ourselves but also working on true knowledge of our selves
5) Being with my family and close friends and doing fun and constructive things together that help change ourselves and the world
6) Listening to inspiring songs and watching inspiring movies
7) Gardening and weeding and thinking about this as a metaphor for life
8) Writing, blogging and creating collages – just anything creative and imaginative with words, images, and now video.
9) Listening to interesting stories
10) Having a vision that leads to a plan and action…
What does happiness look like for you?
(c) June Perkins, word and Image
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