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Location, Location, Location
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OwlSA Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
Posts 9347Durban, South Africa 
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LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION 20 March 2011 Many say I must live in a wonderful part of the world and they are right but so do they. Some of them just haven’t noticed yet. Owl |
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EmmaRose Senior Member
since 2011-03-02
Posts 1376Midwest |
Yes, thanks for the reminder. There is beauty everywhere, even in the bowels of Hell I would imagine if you want to truly seek the Light.  |
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OwlSA Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
Posts 9347Durban, South Africa |
Thanks, Emma. Smiles. Owl |
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Margherita Member Seraphic
since 2003-02-08
Posts 22236Eternity |
May this be true for all humans. Nobody lacks the beauty of Mother Earth's home, I agree ... but some lack the joy of living in freedom and having enough to exist. I do always appreciate your deep awareness, dear Diana. I do love my location too Love, Margherita |
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JerryPat2 Member Laureate
since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975South Louisiana |
Beautiful is as beautiful does. If we don't have beautiful thoughts about ourselves and our surroundings nowhere will be attractive. ~ Look hard behind you and you'll be able to maneuver around the pitfalls ahead of you. ~ |
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dreamgal Member
since 2011-03-17
Posts 442 |
Absolutely joy can be found anywhere if you look for it. *smiles* |
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OwlSA Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
Posts 9347Durban, South Africa |
Thank you, Margherita for your compassionate reply. I do agree with you up to a point about “but some lack the joy of living in freedom and having enough to exist.”, but I can also guarantee that if you were one of those people, you WOULD find the joy you do in your surroundings and your life – your spirit would demand it – and there are many who humble me in a position as you describe, who DO find it. That is the secret – or at least one very important one – of true, deep, unshakable happiness – to find it amidst sadness and devastation – it is easy to find it when life is easy, but it is a treasure when life is hard – like the Japanese man on TV recently with regard to the earthquake, tsunami and explosions at the nuclear plants, who said that he had lost his family, friends, employees, home and possessions, but not his spirit. I didn’t see him myself – I only heard a TV presenter on our Morning Live program being in awe of him, but I hope I will never forget it, to my dying moment. Thank you, Jerry. You are SO right! It is not easy to do sometimes, but oh, what rewards there are for the effort, when one does! Thank you dreamgal. Yes, you are right – perhaps that is why I am always wanting to have more time to do more things and to do the ones I do better – I am too busy “looking” for joy – and finding it - but, to be honest (stupid phrase that for multiple reasons!), I wouldn’t want it any other way – I can live with wishing for 96 hour days that I know I am never going to get – unless I go to Alison’s Alaska in the northern hemisphere’s summer! Owl |
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easy1 Senior Member
since 2010-05-22
Posts 1209Southeastern USA |
Like Byron's Prisoner, "I learned to love despair." Of course, that doesn't mean I am not yet hopeful for better... |
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OwlSA Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
Posts 9347Durban, South Africa |
Thank you, easy1 for your response and your perspective. Smiles. Owl |
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Margherita Member Seraphic
since 2003-02-08
Posts 22236Eternity |
Dear Diana, it is no doubt as you say. Always a pleasure to interact with you, my bright and generous friend. Love, Margherita ps when we go out, my hubby always points out the negative things he sees and I immediately try to counterbalance showing him the beauty that is always present ... today I took a lovely picture with my cellphone in one of the most seriously polluted streets of Rome: Spring is exploding in the little park that is located between two streets of constant traffic with all the consequences you can imagine ... but the little daisy flowers greet me and the day with their splendid little white/yellow heads. Will share the picture with you. |
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OwlSA Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
Posts 9347Durban, South Africa |
My dear Margherita-Daisy friend, I too adore daisies for their own beauty and happiness, for their connection with you and for their connection with my darling Daisy-doggie in Heaven. Thank you, for going to share the photo with me. I am not sure whether it is in this thread (as I could only see your reply when I clicked on Print as it hasn't updated on the screen yet, not even when I pressed the Refresh key - and photos don't show in "Print") or whether you will email it to me. I love your spirit and I just know that is one of the many reasons your husband married you - he needed your refreshing positivism to counterbalance the vinegar of negativism - and I am so glad that you can do that for him. Thank you for your lovely chatty response. I love learning more about the life and thoughts of my friends. Owl |
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Earth Angel Member Empyrean
since 2002-08-27
Posts 40215Realms of Light |
As the author Erma Bombeck would say, "The Grass is Greener Over the Septic Tank"! Ain't that the truth! We might as well appreciate what we have and where we live for all isn't as it might appear to be elsewhere! Think happy! Be happy! Love you, my dear Diana! Linda xo |
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Earth Angel Member Empyrean
since 2002-08-27
Posts 40215Realms of Light |
As the author Erma Bombeck would say, "The Grass is Greener Over the Septic Tank"! Ain't that the truth! We might as well appreciate what we have and where we live for all isn't as it might appear to be elsewhere! Think happy! Be happy! Love you, my dear Diana! Linda xo |
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secondhanddreampoet Member Ascendant
since 2006-11-07
Posts 6394a 'Universalist' ! |
anywhere ... no matter the nature of 'time;' 'place;' and 'circumstance' ... one can attune to the vastness of a moment in brief reflective pause, respite, and joy (as with a passing cloud on a sun-baked afternoon) and "mono no aware" (the magnificent poignancy of the infinitesimally smallest and most transient of things) |
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secondhanddreampoet Member Ascendant
since 2006-11-07
Posts 6394a 'Universalist' ! |
revisiting this 'write' to add something ... learn from the sky openness, from the earth change and renewal, from a rock stillness ... how to do nothing and just 'be' |
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katahdin Senior Member
since 2010-07-01
Posts 1196ME. In the Shadow of the Mt. |
OH you are sooo right! Reminds me of the saying - The grass is not always greener on the other side. (or something like that) Kat >^..^< |
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OwlSA Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
Posts 9347Durban, South Africa |
Thank you, Linda. I love that – “The Grass is Greener Over the Septic Tank!” I have, in a book called “Inspiration” in an “Ideals” series, which I got many years ago, the following poem, the essence of which I have never forgotten: Seek Ye A stranger came upon a town Inquired if folk were friendly there, An old man asked this in turn, “What kind are they from whence you fare?” The stranger growled, “Unjust and bad, For all my woes they are to blame.” The sage remarked, with meaning tone, “You’ll find these folk are much the same.” Another stranger fared that way, Inquired if folk were friendly there, The old man asked him in turn, “What kind are they from whence you fare?” The stranger smiled, “Most kind and good, The sage replied with kindly tone, ‘You’ll find these folk good neighbours too.” Ethel P Travis Thank you, Bruce. You are right. The hardest part I find is to do nothing and just ‘be.’ About the only place I can manage that is at Flicka’s grave communing with him and Tigger and Daisy. Thank you, Kat. I love your name and your kitty icon and your kitty signature. Owl |
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