Month: December 2017

An iceberg with an opening to the sea

Uncomplicated thoughts: An opening

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There is one…hope will lead the way. PamelaWLucas 12/31/17

“There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.” Leonard Cohen

Inspirational photo by Pixabay

bending winter branches covered with snow

Cinquain: Winter trees

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coldest
icy branches
giving into the cold
bending under the winters weight
white trees

Cinquain by PamelaWLucas 12/29/17

Inspirational photo by Pixabay

a left hand open to receive

Uncomplicated thoughts: Give the give

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Give the give…and forget about the receipt.

Look into the moment…and be sure you are there.

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Stained glass window of an angel

Uncomplicated thoughts: Fra Giovanni’s Christmas Eve letter to a friend 1513

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A portion of this meaningful letter:

“I salute you. I am your friend, and my love for you goes deep. There is nothing I can give you which you have not. But there is much, very much, that, while I cannot give it, you can take. No heaven can come to us unless our hearts find rest in it today. Take heaven! No peace lies in the future which is not hidden in this present little instant. Take peace! The gloom of the world is but a shadow. Behind it, yet within our reach, is joy. There is radiance and glory in darkness, could we but see. And to see, we have only to look. I beseech you to look! Life is so generous a giver. But we, judging its gifts by their covering, cast them away as ugly or heavy or hard. Remove the covering, and you will find beneath it a living splendor, woven of love by wisdom, with power. Welcome it, grasp it, and you touch the angel’s hand that brings it to you.” Fra Giovanni Giocondo

Wikipedia: Giovanni Giocondo, Order of Friars Minor, (c. 1433 – 1515) was an Italian friar, architect, antiquary, archaeologist, and classical scholar.

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a small single pinecone growing naturally on its pine

Uncomplicated Thoughts: Merry Christmas feeling all year

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Brodie the Golden retriever with his Christmas Tree
Brodie the Golden retriever with his Christmas Tree

Lyrics of “Christmas Feeling”…golden wishes for you and yours…Merry Christmas!

I love that Christmas feeling
It does my heart so much good
Strangers I meet all seem like friends
And the world’s just a neighborhood

So here’s to the joy of Christmas
Here’s to the ones I hold dear
May you have that Merry Christmas feeling
All through a happy New Year

Photo of Golden Brodie taken by PamelaWLucas

Inspirational photo by Pixabay

 

 

Chipmunk peaking through the opening of a toad house in winter

Cinquain: Chip takes the space

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toad home
gone for winter
Enters fluffy chipmunk
Creates a snug and cozy space
perfect

Cinquain by PamelaWLucas 12/22/17

Inspirational photo by Tara McLaughlin

Toady it’s cold outside and where did you go?

Capitol Christmas Tree 1913

History Nuggets: Woodrow Wilson Firsts and a Christmas Tree?

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Lots of firsts for President Woodrow Wilson (No. 28)… first buried in the nation’s capital…  first President to have a PhD…the first to attend a World Series, first to want a national Christmas tree… and the first to travel overseas during his time in office. His legacy includes tariff reform, income tax, currency and credit reform, regulation of business, and better working conditions for the working masses. He left behind a legacy of domestic reforms, a revised and stabilized central government and broadly admired foreign policy.  We thank you 28…

Source for this nugget 

Christmas tree at the Capitol from 1913 in the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Online Catalog.