Small Reflections: HF#79 - Reflecting on eleven & a half months ...

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Friday, October 10, 2008

HF#79 - Reflecting on eleven & a half months ...

Make Time for Small Reflections
SkyWatch#15/HF#80 is at Sacred Ruminations.

According to the
countdown widget I will be
celebrating my ...

Hard to imagine
I've been blogging DAILY here
(plus 3 to 4 times

weekly at Sacred
Ruminations) ... and have learned
a great deal about

many things. Review-
ing my early posts on both
blogs, I wish that I

had taken 'screen shots'
of the way things started out
to compare with the

way things look today.
Visual changes obscure
just how 'plain' both blogs

started out ... and my
lack of knowledge concerning
this 'virtual' world.

I am grateful to
each & every one of you
who assisted me

along this journey ...
and the visitors who leave
comments & who 'lurk'

thus I offer this
seasonal 'Thank You' found at
Photobucket!

Graphic source: LarkH @ Photobucket

Small Reflections ... Smile Back

For others participating in Haiku Friday this week go to A Mommy Story.
Click forSkyWatch/Haiku Friday at Sacred Ruminations.

(To see my previous Haikus, click on the Haiku Friday label below this post or in the sidebar under About Me where you'll find a 'directory' of my Haikus on both blogs).

In case you missed it (and if time permits today), see also Whimsical Wednesday for a few other 'activities' and associated 'original' awards.

Thought for Today
"A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties." Harry Truman

20 comments:

Ivanhoe said...: Ooooh, cannot wait to celebrate with you in twelve days :o)
Have a wonderful weekend!; October 10, 2008 at 7:36 AM
Joy Des Jardins said...: It sure is hard to imagine when you first started out Virginia. You are en entirely different site now. I can hardly believe it. What you have done in such a year is truly amazing. I celebrate with you sweetie....you are a dynamo! And....thank you so much for the many sweet gestures and awards you have sent my way over these 11 1/2 months....I so appreciate your thoughtfulness and all your help too. Hugs, Joy; October 10, 2008 at 7:51 AM
Joyce said...: Good Morning, Storyteller,
I certainly enjoyed the Truman quote contrasting pessimism and optimism!

The autumn thank you graphic is lovely also.

Hope you have a great day today. :); October 10, 2008 at 8:07 AM
NicciN said...: How exciting to be reaching your blogging anniversary. It has been fun to follow your journey.

I love your thought today. I am really seeing now how in any situation I can make choices that will make it better or choices that will make it worse.; October 10, 2008 at 8:25 AM
Maude Lynn said...: Happy (early) Anniversary!; October 10, 2008 at 11:03 AM
Anonymous said...: Congrats on your upcoming bloggy anniversary!; October 10, 2008 at 11:05 AM
Jenn in Holland said...: Well, happy almost blogoversary! It's a wonderful world, isn't it?; October 10, 2008 at 11:22 AM
Anonymous said...: I am so impressed with all you have done these last months! Congrats, happy Friday and have a wonderful weekend.; October 10, 2008 at 11:38 AM
Akelamalu said...: Blogversaries creep up on you don't they? I can't remember if you found me or I found you but I'm glad we found each other's blogs! :); October 10, 2008 at 11:43 AM
Linda said...: Happy early Blogversary!!! I'm so glad we have met out here in our virtual world.; October 10, 2008 at 1:36 PM
Martha said...: Happy almost blogoversary! :-); October 10, 2008 at 4:26 PM
Patsy said...: My blogavesary is in 9 days. It will be one year for me too. My circle of friends has grown and the topics I blog about are a little different --- but not much else has changed. Evolution for me is coming much more slowly. :); October 10, 2008 at 4:29 PM
Grandy said...: Happy Friday Storyteller! I'll be looking forward to your blogversary! ;); October 10, 2008 at 8:28 PM
Momisodes said...: Wow! Less than 2 weeks away :) It's amazing how quickly time has gone by this year.; October 10, 2008 at 9:26 PM
Unknown said...: That would have been a good idea now wouldn't have it. I wish I had screenshots too. I do have some/most of my old headers. . .:); October 10, 2008 at 10:53 PM
Roan said...: Only 11 more days. Woo Hoo! I know about the changes. My first blog started out plain, and I finally learned how to fancy it up a bit. BJ; October 11, 2008 at 6:21 AM
Mary said...: Storyteller,

I enjoyed the Truman quote. Life is what we make it.

Looking forward to the blogiversary. I celebrated mine not long ago.

Have a great weekend, my friend.
Blessings,
Mary; October 11, 2008 at 8:49 AM
kitten said...: Great post and just in case I'm unable to be online, Happy Blog anniversary! I hit # 500 post today.; October 11, 2008 at 2:03 PM
Anonymous said...: wow. :O advanced happy anniversary. :) i just started blogging under 2 months ago.; October 13, 2008 at 6:08 AM
maryt/theteach said...: storyteller, Happy Blogoversary! I'll be back to celebrate on the day! :); October 13, 2008 at 8:23 AM

Currently ...

... I'm thankful to have encountered the 'Food Court Flash Mob Hallelujah Chorus to share here at Small Reflections. I've also shared a Beautiful Meditative Video and a delightful Random Act of Culture (that happened at Macy's) at Sacred Ruminations ... just because.

I'm also grateful that I've created a personalized 1st edition 'Labyrinth Journal' for my friend Susan. I've written a second version that I plan to publish & share with others very soon.

My sister & her husband arrived in town on Wednesday, November 17th and will be around for a few months ... so that's pretty 'kewl' too!

Remember ... you can find me sharing at Giraffe Journal and Labyrinth Journal when you don't see anything from me posted here.

Hope all's well with you and yours!
Hugs and blessings,
Virginia

FYI - My previous Gratitude Lists can be found at Happily Retired Gal, at WordPress. It is my intention to keep this 'Daily Gratitude List' in my sidebar indefinitely because I believe it makes sense to focus on what's right in our lives regularly. Click for:
2010 Lists - July, June, May, April, March, February, January
2009 Lists - December, November, October, September, August, July June, May, April, March, February, January
2008 Lists - December, November

More About Me

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How I Became a Blogger

Evolution of my blogs
Late in October of 2007, I started playfully exploring possibilities here and at SacredRuminations ... the site where I joined Carla's Sacred Life Project. I published daily on both sites initially, but in mid-January of 2008 I gave myself permission to cut myself some slack & rethink things. Since committing to Blog 365 at Small Reflections, I've continued to publish daily here, but I'm thinking about alternating days and/or experimenting a bit with a variety of possibilities in an attempt to balance my online activities with my "real life" ... without giving "short shrift" to either blog. Therefore, it's all a work in progress, and I hope you'll bear with me.

In October of 2008, I celebrated my 1st Blogoversary here at Small Reflections on the 22nd & at Sacred Ruminations on the 23rd.

I completed Blog 365 in 2008 with a total of 378 posts here at Sacred Ruminations, 234 at Sacred Ruminations, 20 at BlogRolls, Bling & Blurbs, and 30 at Happily Retired Gal for a grand total of 662 ... all in 366 days!

In 2009, my sister & her husband returned to So Cal for 4 months and I had less time to blog. Even though they're on the road again, I'm finding it challenging to recapture a daily blogging habit. Click for more specifics about this.

In October of 2009 I celebrated my 2nd Blogoversary here at Small Reflections & at Sacred Ruminations and in November of 2009 I celebrated my 1st Blogoversary at Happily Retired Gal. Little did I know what would follow when I entered this 'virtual' world.

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My Blog Blasts for Peace:
Sacred Ruminations- The Strength of Gentleness
Small Reflections-A Revolution of Music
Blog Rolls & Bling - What if? (a Colorful Alternative to Bombs)
and last June:
Thirteen Thoughts on the Topic of Peace
Peace in Every Step

My Peace Globes are below
Clicking on them will take you to the related 'Bl0g Blast' post also.
"It's not so much that we're afraid of change or so in love with the old ways, but it's that place in between that we fear .... It's like being between trapezes. It's Linus when his blanket is in the dryer. There's nothing to hold on to." Marilyn Ferguson

Food for Thought

(or reminders for myself)

"it takes courage to become who you really are." e.e. cummings

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes." Marcel Proust

"How you handle the situation IS the situation." Stephen Covey

"When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you." Lao-Tzu

"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook." William James

"At mid-life more than any other time, we have renewed opportunity to create health by expressing our creativity fully." Dr. Christiane Northrup

"It is never too late to be who you might have been." George Eliot

"Things are only impossible until they're not." Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation

"Go forth into the busy world and love it. Interest yourself in its life, mingle kindly with its joys and sorrows." Ralph Waldo Emerson

More thoughts

"We have been so eager to give our children what we didn't have in life, we have neglected to give them what we did." Anyonmous

"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. ... You must do the thing which you think you cannot do." Eleanor Roosevelt

"There are events in life that cannot be explained or changed. I acknowledge them, feel them, and I release the rage, guilt, loss, anger, and grief." Dr. Christiane Northrup

"Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win." Bernadette Devlin

"The first and the simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind is curiosity." Edmund Burke

"In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us." Virginia Woolf

"The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and their unlimited imagination." James Michener

"If you think you can, or think you can't -- you're right." Henry Ford

More Thoughts ...

"I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing that I wanted to do." Georgia O'Keefe

"You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true." Richard Bach

"Telling stories causes others to remember what they have always known." Anonymous

"Character is the bridge between our beliefs and our behavior. Character is the glue of personality, the connective tissue that makes a person whole, integrated, a person of integrity." Joan Konner, journalist

"What you choose not to look at in life, rules your life." Lynn Andrews

"Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit." Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"When a woman changes her life for the better, her entire family (whether or not she has children) generally benefits. She sets the tone. The well-being of the family and of society itself depends upon women becoming and remaining healthy. So we owe it to ourselves to put ourselves first and take the time we need to heal." Dr. Christiane Northrup

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