“Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die,
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.”
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Back in 2012, I participated in a WordPress Photo Challenge that asked what inspires me to blog. Here is my response. I am still inspired by all these things: caring for family (now it’s my mother who is in hospice with lung cancer), Nature (it still demands my maturity every day, especially with climate change dangers tangibly around me), grieving my husband’s death and caring for our children (which prompted me to move to Oregon to be near them), compassion for Life and our common suffering (spiritual lessons of positive and negative space inspire me every day), and education (there is always so much to learn).
Today, in response to Tina’s challenge for the Lens-Artists this week, I revisit these inspirations.
Caregiving
“The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy.”
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Nature
“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”
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My children
“If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.”
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Compassion for Life
“It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.”
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Education
“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
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