LOL Prettygreeneyes .... Thanks for joining us. That's inspiring about your walking. I do much prefer winter myself. Best of luck with the puppy training.
Today I got rid of my stuff we do not need to help lighten the load when we move in the coming months. After that I got a bit creative in photoshop and later came across an interesting Peom to match it. I was really taken back that the poem was written over two hundred years ago!
If may show:
The World with Us by
L_Plate_Dave, on Flickr
The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers;—
Little we see in Nature that is ours;
We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!
This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon;
The winds that will be howling at all hours,
And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers;
For this, for everything, we are out of tune;
It moves us not. Great God! I’d rather be
A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn;
So might I, standing on this pleasant lea,
Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;
Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea;
Or hear old Triton blow his wreathèd horn.
By William Wordsworth
I like photography and you can see that at my flikr account there, but I am really having fun with pictures and words of late. I'd really like to learn more about Poetry, but struggle with taking things in. I've also got to polish up on my photo shop skills, but it's all coming in to place. Today's effort has really helped me get more of a grasp on many things that have been spinning in my head for some time. I realize the poem may be conflicting for some beliefs and also appear somewhat depressive ... but its not. If anything It helps one to see the conflict that many of us struggle with ... especially finding balance. For me Disconnecting is not such a bad thing and often misunderstood when I raise the subject. I believe this picture shows my context well. Again, my friend when we go camping struggles very much when he has no cellphone or internet signal. I can really see the tension in him begin to grow. I like how the girl is practicing there some much needed mediation free from distraction, whilst yet surrounded by a world that yearns to be plugged in.
It's hard for me to explain and I don't want to go on any longer then I always do ... The picture is busy, but so too are most people more than they like to admit.
So that's if for me today. I found and interesting Poet I'm now reading about and feel kind of pleased that people way back then also felt like me.
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Hope others had a good day to, if not ... feel free to share that too.