Small Reflections: Ruby Tuesday and Heads or Tails

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Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Ruby Tuesday and Heads or Tails

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This week's prompt is: HEADS - "Feet or Feat"

These fellows have 'happy feet'
and the 'Ruby slippers' are on the feet in
the Ruby Tuesday logo below.

Red flowers from my yard & neighborhood

Click to embiggen for better viewing
and for others participating in Ruby Tuesday and
Heads or Tails this week.

I'll be watching the Inauguration
How about you?

Thought for Today
"The purpose of life is not to be happy - but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all." Leo Rosten

21 comments:

Hootin Anni said...: I have the same button but decided to not use it on my blog. I'm happy to see someone use it tho...it's an historical day today. And I'll be glued to the TV.

Happy HoT Tuesday. I went with "FEAT". Come on over if you can find time.

Love the macro ruby photos!!!!; January 20, 2009 at 4:00 AM
Linnea said...: Your macro shots are beautiful. You have such pretty flowers around you! Love the deep ruby colors. Our spring semester starts today, so I've got to go to work and I'll be teaching during the swearing in ceremony, but I'll catch the recaps when I get home. Hi from happy California!; January 20, 2009 at 6:10 AM
Michelle said...: I'll be watching the inauguration too. Such exciting times for our country. I never thought I'd live to see the day that our country came together to elect an African American. I think it's just awesome. Regardless of his color I think he will we a wonderful president and bring some well needed change to our country. Thanks for stopping by and have a great week.; January 20, 2009 at 6:16 AM
Joyce said...: Good Morning, Virginia,
Happy Inauguration Day! What a momentous day it is, and what a challenging path lies before our new president. This is one time I wished I had a television. I'll have to get my news online.; January 20, 2009 at 7:44 AM
lucy said...: love all of the rubiness - especially the slippers :-) i'm with joyce this a.m. wishing i had television for a few hours and trying to figure out how to watch the inauguration live on line!!; January 20, 2009 at 7:59 AM
Maude Lynn said...: I'll be watching!

Gorgeous flowers!; January 20, 2009 at 8:03 AM
Unknown said...: Red is stunning in flowers! You know me and pansies. :); January 20, 2009 at 9:40 AM
Anonymous said...: Oh yes, I was watching :)

Lovely red ruby flowers...and the - hibiscus was my favourite in Bermuda, thank you for the lovely memory!

Happy RT,
Bella:); January 20, 2009 at 10:09 AM
Ivanhoe said...: I cannot believe you have flowers in full bloom and I'm under a foot of snow. That's it. I'm moving west :o); January 20, 2009 at 10:36 AM
NoBS said...: Stalking about during inaugural lunch break...

I love that little animation!; January 20, 2009 at 11:35 AM
Tumblewords: said...: Good post!; January 20, 2009 at 11:42 AM
Barb said...: Those two guys dance better than I do.

Beautiful flowers. You must have a green thumb!

Yessss... I've been watching the Inauguration proceedings. I just now took a break while they're having lunch to come check out the HoTs. (the TV is on behind me, though.); January 20, 2009 at 11:51 AM
Misty DawnS said...: Sometimes I'd like to just click my heels together and go home for a visit ;-); January 20, 2009 at 1:07 PM
Debbie@Like a Rose said...: Beautiful flowers, and I've always wanted those ruby slippers that could just take me away somewhere...

I finally posted my 100 things list from your blog a while back!; January 20, 2009 at 4:09 PM
akawest said...: Such pretty red flowers.

I decided that I would record the inauguration, to share with my husband tonight.

I emailed him the plan. He had already watched it in his office. My daughter watched it at school.

Oh, well, I will be watching it after the fact, alone. Still, rather exciting.; January 20, 2009 at 4:20 PM
Dianne said...: I've been watching all day - so many wonderful moments!

love your flowers; January 20, 2009 at 5:10 PM
Mojo said...: Brilliant reds! Nice shooting.; January 20, 2009 at 5:35 PM
Anonymous said...: Love those flowers and how you tied the memes together. :); January 20, 2009 at 6:15 PM
Carletta said...: Gorgeous macro reds!; January 20, 2009 at 6:40 PM
Baba said...: Thanks for sharing your beautiful flowers with us.. I love when my hibiscus bloom in the summer..

I have been watching all of the activity all day..the dance at the ball tonight was great...they will be one tired couple tonight...

Have a good day tomorrow.. hugs,
Baba; January 20, 2009 at 7:02 PM
Karen said...: Mark had the day off (he works on Pennsylvania Avenue--in fact, the point where Obama first got out to walk a bit in the parade? He was directly in front of Mark's building!), so after a nice breakfast, we pretty much parked ourselves in front of the tv. Nathan said that they watched it at school, too.

So inspiring!; January 21, 2009 at 6:30 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

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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
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"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

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Ruby Tuesday and Heads or Tails

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