Tuesday's Inspiration

"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."
_____ Krishnamurti

Tatting and Inspiration

I know it has been awhile since there has been pictures of tatting but here is a doily that I just finished. The pattern is called Mom's Pink Doily and was designed by Nancy Tracy. The pattern can be found here. This doily is made with Oren Bayan size perle 12 colour #865. The doily still needs to be blocked.



And here is today's inspiration.
"It is not length of life, but depth of life."
_____ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Weekend Inspiration

"The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself."
_____ Henry Miller

Thursday's Inspiration

"Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live."
_____ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Wednesday's Inspiration

"The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we may have grown at a given moment. And if this is a correct view of freedom, our chief energy must be concentrated on achieving reform from within.
_____ Gandhi

Tuesday's Inspiration

"The greater part of our happiness and misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances."
_____ Martha Washington

Monday's Message

"The voyage of discovery is not in seeing new landscapes but in having new eyes.
_____ Marcel Proust

Weekend Inspiration

These planters are at the front of the Parks and Recreation office in Brantford.

"For it is by giving that one receives; it is by self-forgetting that one finds; it is by forgiving that one is forgiven; it is by dying that one awakens to eternal life."
_____ St. Frances of Assisi




"The only devils in the world are those running in our own hearts. That is where the battle should be fought."
_____ Gandhi

Thursday's Inspiration

"When you do a thing, do it with the whole self. One thing at a time. Now I sit here and I eat. For me nothing exists in the world except this food, this table. I eat with the whole attention. So you must do- in everything."
_____ George J. Gurdjieff

Wednesday's Inspiration

I just love this hand sculpture that is at our Glenhyrst Art Gallery grounds. The sculpture is made out of different thicknesses of re-bar.

"How wonderful it is that nobody needs to wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."
_____ Anne Frank

Tuesday's Inspiration

"God exists in eternity. The only point where eternity meets time is in the present. The present is the only time there is."
_____ Marianne Williamson

Monday's Message

"Consider life and death equal, and the intellect is not afraid; consider change as sameness, and clarity is not obscured."
_____ Lao-Tzu

Weekend Inspiration

Carpet Bed done by Gregg.

"It is proper to doubt. Do not be led by Holy Scriptures, or by mere logic or inference, or by appearances, or by the authority of religious leaders. But when you realize something is unwholesome and bad for you, give it up. And when you realize that something is wholesome and good for you, do it."
_____ Buddha

Friday's Inspiration

"We have long forgotten that activities can be simple and precise. Every act of our lives can contain simplicity and precision and thus can have tremendous beauty and dignity."
_____ Chogyam Trungpa

Thursday's Inspiration

"Those who have strong passions are never able to perceive the way. It is like stirring up clear water with your hands; you may come wishing to find a reflection of your face, but you'll never see clearly in disturbed waters. A mind troubled and vexed with passions is never able to see the way.
_____ Sutra of Forty-Two Chapters

Wednesday's Inspiration

Wave Petunia Bonsai Tree 2010

"Delight in meditation and solitude. Compose yourself, be happy. You are a seeker."
_____ The Dhammapada

Tuesday's Inspiration

"Worldly ups and downs should be treated as lightly as clouds gathering and breaking up."
_____ Anonymous

Monday's Message

Picture of the Grand River that flows through Brantford.

Sometimes the qoutes that are on my calender make no sense to me. Unfortunately today is one of those day's.

"Events and hopes seldom agree. Who can step back does not worry. We blossom and fade like flowers, gather and part like clouds. Worldly thoughts I forgot long ago, relaxing all day on a peak."
____ Stonehouse

Weekend Inspiration

"If you fail to achieve freedom in this life, when do you expect to achieve it?"
_____ Wu-hsin

Friday's Inspiration

"The only wisdom we can hope to acquire is the wisdom of humility: Humility is endless."
_____ T. S. Eliot


"Zen opens a man's eyes to the greatest mystery as it is daily and hourly performed; it enlarges the heart to embrace eternity of time and infinity of space in its every palpitation; it makes us live in the world as if walking in the garden of Eden."
_____ D. T. Suzuki

Wednesday's Inspiration

"When you are guided by compassion and loving-kindness,
you are able to look deeply into the heart of reality and see the truth."
_____ Thich Nhat Hanh

Tuesday's Inspiration

"Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better."
_____ Albert Einstein

Monday's Message

"We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny."
_____ Martin Luther King, Jr.

Friday's Inspiration

Sorry I missed yesterday but here are two today to make up for it.

"When we act out of our negativity, the effect is like carving it into stone. The imprint remains for a long, long time."
_____ Genpo Merzel

"We can sense the ever-changing waves around us, and breathe and relax. We can rest in the eternal present, the still point. We can learn that no matter what happens, we are home."
____ Jack Kornfield

Thursday's Inspiration

"Develop a mind that is vast like the water, where experiences both pleasant and unpleasant can appear and disappear without conflict, struggle, or harm. Rest in a mind like vast water."
_____ Buddha

Post Number 300

WOW. This is post 300. I find it amazing that my blog has gone on this long. When I started it my thinking was I might do a post twice a month and when I saw other blogs and saw they had 25,000 visitors I never thought it would happen with mine. I would like to thank everbody for there support and so far I have had over 25,000 visits.

"He who has no faith in himself can never have faith in God."_____ Vivekananda

Tuesday's Inspiration

"....I have nothing to report, my friends.
If you want to find the meaning,
stop chasing after so many things."
_____ Ryokan

Monday's Message

"Like a child in a beautiful park with his eyes shut tight, there's no need to imagine trees, flowers, deer, birds and sky; we merely need to open our eyes and realize what is already here, who we already are- as soon as we stop pretending we're small or unholy."
_____ Bo Lozoff

Weekend Inspiration

For the next little while the pictures that I will be using on my blog will be pictures of some of the beautiful flower beds in my town of Brantford, Ontario, Canada. Hope you enjoy.


"Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always."
_____ Rainer Maria Rilke

Friday's Inspiration

Here are a couple more pictures from Niagara Falls. One that impressed me the most was the picture of the hanging planter. These must have been at least 4 feet across.

"As you walk and eat and travel, be where you are. Otherwise you will miss most of your life."
_____ Buddha

Tuesday's Tatting

I am starting to progress a little faster with the doily I am working on and am now at the point where I only have one more row to do. I don't know where the time goes each day but it seems I just wake up and then it is time for bed. Oh well, better than being bored.


Here is today's inspiration.

"To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders."
_____ Lao-Tzu

Tuesday's Inspiration

These are more pictures of the gardens and flowers that we saw on the weekend. I did not get a chance to tat yesterday so you will have to wait till tomorrow for some tatting pictures.






"Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom at all, because the mind is never new, fresh, innocent."
_____ Krishnamurti

Monday's Message and Niagara Falls

Happy Monday everyone. This weekend my daughter Shannon, Gregg and I went to Niagara Falls. For those who are not familiar with this place, it is one of the wonders of the world. It is an amazing place to visit and will definitely hold your interest. Part of the city which sits on the border with Canada and the United States is a real tourist town with streets packed with souvenir shops, restaurants, attractions, casino, and hundreds of hotels and is the Honeymoon capital of North America.
The other part is natures wonder of one of the worlds largest waterfalls highlighted with beautiful gardens gracing the pathways.
There are the American falls.

Then there are the Canadian Falls.

Here are some of the gardens.



More pictures and some tatting tomorrow.

"Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell, and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough."
_____ William Saroyan