Turning Over A New Leaf

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by Viktoria Vidali on May 20, 2013

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Dear Readers,

Nearly four years ago I launched Images For Renewal and today, close to 500 posts later, it is time to turn over a new leaf: to substitute regular weekly and monthly submissions for spontaneous ones.
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I Pray To The Birds

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by Viktoria Vidali on May 17, 2013

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I pray to the birds because they remind me of what I love rather than what I fear. And at the end of my prayers, they teach me how to listen. ~ Terry Tempest Williams

[Image: Egret, Lake Cachuma CA.]

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A Mystery To Be Experienced

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by Viktoria Vidali on May 10, 2013

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Life is not a problem to be solved, nor a question to be answered. Life is a mystery to be experienced. ~ Alan Watts

[Watching the opening of a bottlebrush flower is another glorious mystery to be experienced!]

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The Brightest Roses

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by Viktoria Vidali on May 6, 2013

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The air was fragrant with a thousand trodden aromatic herbs, with fields of lavender, and with the brightest roses blushing in tufts all over the meadows …  continue reading …

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Fear Not

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by Viktoria Vidali on May 3, 2013

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Fear not for the future, weep not for the past. ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), English Poet

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A Bright Future

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by Viktoria Vidali on April 26, 2013

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I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority. ~ E.B. White

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Hands Full Of Flowers

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by Viktoria Vidali on April 22, 2013

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The spring came suddenly, bursting upon the world as a child bursts into a room, with a laugh and a shout and hands full of flowers. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow continue reading …

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Take Time To Laugh

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by Viktoria Vidali on April 19, 2013

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Take time to laugh – it is the music of the soul. ~ From an old English prayer

[Image courtesy of Creative Commons, Susan NYC, Flickr.]

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A Smooth Sea

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by Viktoria Vidali on April 12, 2013

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A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner. ~ English proverb

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Be The Thing You See

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by Viktoria Vidali on April 8, 2013

in General,Monthly Image Post,Poetry

To look at any thing,
If you would know that thing,
You must look at it long:
To look at this green and say,
“I have seen spring in these
Woods,” will not do – you must
Be the thing you see:
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