Comments on: Picture to Ponder – Peeling Away the Layers http://www.photographyandtransformation.com/picture-to-ponder-peeling-away-the-layers/2008/08/06 Seeing Your World Through New Eyes Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:45:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Morgine http://www.photographyandtransformation.com/picture-to-ponder-peeling-away-the-layers/2008/08/06/comment-page-1#comment-50 Morgine Fri, 08 Aug 2008 21:45:00 +0000 http://www.photographyandtransformation.com/picture-to-ponder-peeling-away-the-layers/2008/08/06#comment-50 I jump right in too many times without making an Intention. Then I get lost in the chaos and do not always do my best! My new Intention, I am learning “with practice,” is to set an INTENTION with everything I do! Like with reading for instance. “Why” am I reading a book? …for pleasure, because I want to find out some information, learn something new, study something, remember things? When I state ahead of time, what my Intention is, then I am much more likely to get what I want from the time I spend! Same with cooking. I want to prepare my meal with love and put love into the food. That is certainly going to change the way I prepare the food and how it affects others! Today I begin my reminding myself to take a couple Deep Breaths to ground myself and remember to ask. I am still in the kindergarten stage, however, I am expecting to be a master in a month or so! Today I will have to catch up with my veggie photos. I was shopping yesterday and forgot to take my camera along!! So outside I will go!! THANKS for the inspiration!! Love, Morgine I jump right in too many times without making an Intention. Then I get lost in the chaos and do not always do my best! My new Intention, I am learning “with practice,” is to set an INTENTION with everything I do! Like with reading for instance. “Why” am I reading a book? …for pleasure, because I want to find out some information, learn something new,
study something, remember things? When I state ahead of time, what my Intention is, then I am much more likely to get what I want from the time I spend! Same with cooking. I want to prepare my meal with love and put love into the food. That is certainly going to change the way I prepare the food and how it affects others! Today I begin my reminding myself to take a couple Deep Breaths to ground myself and remember to ask. I am still in the kindergarten stage, however, I am expecting to be a master in a month or so!

Today I will have to catch up with my veggie photos. I was shopping yesterday and forgot to take my camera along!! So outside I will go!! THANKS for the inspiration!!

Love, Morgine

]]> By: Sheila Finkelstein http://www.photographyandtransformation.com/picture-to-ponder-peeling-away-the-layers/2008/08/06/comment-page-1#comment-48 Sheila Finkelstein Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:24:34 +0000 http://www.photographyandtransformation.com/picture-to-ponder-peeling-away-the-layers/2008/08/06#comment-48 Thanks for the acknowledgment, Nancy and Lauren. Yes, Nancy, that’s a great observation when looking at the vegetables and what they can teach use. They just sit and wait and allow whatever is going to happen, happen. And, adding to that when some recipients are ready to receive,the vegetables provide plenty of nourishment and life. Amazing, for me, what I started in my own life with the onion game. And I’m having fun. See today’s brief post on Play - http://www.photographyandtransformation.com/humor-in-onion-peel-layer-4-veggies-day-5/2008/08/08 Have fun. Thanks for the acknowledgment, Nancy and Lauren.

Yes, Nancy, that’s a great observation when looking at the vegetables and what they can teach use. They just sit and wait and allow whatever is going to happen, happen.

And, adding to that when some recipients are ready to receive,the vegetables provide plenty of nourishment and life.

Amazing, for me, what I started in my own life with the onion game. And I’m having fun. See today’s brief post on Play – http://www.photographyandtransformation.com/humor-in-onion-peel-layer-4-veggies-day-5/2008/08/08

Have fun.

]]> By: Lauren Strouse http://www.photographyandtransformation.com/picture-to-ponder-peeling-away-the-layers/2008/08/06/comment-page-1#comment-46 Lauren Strouse Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:56:37 +0000 http://www.photographyandtransformation.com/picture-to-ponder-peeling-away-the-layers/2008/08/06#comment-46 Thank you Sheila. I always look forward to Picture to Ponder - it has been a source of inspiration over the years - guess it is years isn't it? Time does seem to pass swiftly the older we get. I enjoy collecting quotes - have a stack of them on card stock I rotate and post by my computer at work. I also have a small notebook full at home and several books of quotations focused on different themes. Little tid bits to think about, plus sometimes they are useful when I am writing. Thank you Sheila. I always look forward to Picture to Ponder – it has been a source of inspiration over the years – guess it is years isn’t it? Time does seem to pass swiftly the older we get. I enjoy collecting quotes – have a stack of them on card stock I rotate and post by my computer at work. I also have a small notebook full at home and several books of quotations focused on different themes. Little tid bits to think about, plus sometimes they are useful when I am writing.

]]> By: Nancy Dault http://www.photographyandtransformation.com/picture-to-ponder-peeling-away-the-layers/2008/08/06/comment-page-1#comment-45 Nancy Dault Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:54:08 +0000 http://www.photographyandtransformation.com/picture-to-ponder-peeling-away-the-layers/2008/08/06#comment-45 Your Pictures to Ponder seem to pop into my email at just the right time. I had just had a most frustrating exchange with a coworker, and seeing these cute little vegetables just made me feel good again. Vegetables never give me grief! It's interesting that you ask us to consider whether we jump into things. This is exactly the point I was trying to make to the coworker. He criticized my work, telling me it was not complete, when I thought I had painstakingly done all I was asked to do. I was expecting a "Thanks for getting it done well ahead of schedule" rather than a "do it all over!" So, I guess this is an issue I need to look at more closely. Obviously, others don't think I'm as careful as I think I am. What did I miss? What can the vegetables teach me? They just rest; sit; wait. They allow whatever is going to happen to happen. They don't react. They don't fight. And that's peaceful. Nancy D Your Pictures to Ponder seem to pop into my email at just the right time. I had just had a most frustrating exchange with a coworker, and seeing these cute little vegetables just made me feel good again. Vegetables never give me grief!

It’s interesting that you ask us to consider whether we jump into things. This is exactly the point I was trying to make to the coworker. He criticized my work, telling me it was not complete, when I thought I had painstakingly done all I was asked to do. I was expecting a “Thanks for getting it done well ahead of schedule” rather than a “do it all over!”

So, I guess this is an issue I need to look at more closely. Obviously, others don’t think I’m as careful as I think I am. What did I miss? What can the vegetables teach me?

They just rest; sit; wait. They allow whatever is going to happen to happen. They don’t react. They don’t fight.

And that’s peaceful.

Nancy D

]]> By: Sheila Finkelstein http://www.photographyandtransformation.com/picture-to-ponder-peeling-away-the-layers/2008/08/06/comment-page-1#comment-44 Sheila Finkelstein Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:56:24 +0000 http://www.photographyandtransformation.com/picture-to-ponder-peeling-away-the-layers/2008/08/06#comment-44 What a great and fitting quote for what I'm about, Lauren. I'll look at using that somewhere along the line in my marketing pieces. Thank you so much for posting it and for going through all these posts. You've certainly been a valued friend, via being a Picture to Ponder subscriber and commenter for so many years, and for who I've learned that you are. Isn't the Internet great for making new friendships? With great appreciation, Sheila What a great and fitting quote for what I’m about, Lauren. I’ll look at using that somewhere along the line in my marketing pieces. Thank you so much for posting it and for going through all these posts.

You’ve certainly been a valued friend, via being a Picture to Ponder subscriber and commenter for so many years, and for who I’ve learned that you are. Isn’t the Internet great for making new friendships?

With great appreciation, Sheila

]]> By: Lauren Strouse http://www.photographyandtransformation.com/picture-to-ponder-peeling-away-the-layers/2008/08/06/comment-page-1#comment-43 Lauren Strouse Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:48:45 +0000 http://www.photographyandtransformation.com/picture-to-ponder-peeling-away-the-layers/2008/08/06#comment-43 Sheila, After reading the blog all the way to the photo of the tiled wall I was reminded of a quote I have become fond of - "The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes." Marcel Proust One of the pleasures I receive from cooking and gardening is the opportunity to enjoy the beauty of simple things we often take for granted. Thank you for encouraging each of us to do just that. Lauren Sheila,
After reading the blog all the way to the photo of the tiled wall I was reminded of a quote I have become fond of -
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” Marcel Proust
One of the pleasures I receive from cooking and gardening is the opportunity to enjoy the beauty of simple things we often take for granted.
Thank you for encouraging each of us to do just that.
Lauren

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