One year on

Yes, it is a year since I started this blog with the following:

Earth is but a raindrop in the sea of heaven.

How does that make you view your own dealings upon this earth?

It went under the title, ‘Perspectives’.

All raises a lot of questions that I might want to stand outside myself and ask. Like:

Why start a blog?
What did you hope to achieve?
What, if anything, has it achieved?

Well, I could go on but I’m sure we can all make them up for ourselves. Does anyone have any answers?

But the real question is how much of the year have I remembered just how small this world is in the whole scheme of things and how much have I let my own petty obsessions obscure the view of the raindrop as well as the surrounding sea?

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Damned by faint praise

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Childhood influence

As a child I was taught
To keep my dreams small
To stay in the background
Not to walk tall.

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Tulip – beauty of creation

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The joy, the wonder, the beauty of creation
Taking time
To gaze into the heart of a flower
Is a prayer in itself.

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Dream big

From an English perspective
At least, from my little corner of England
It seems an American concept
People
Left here
Went there
To dream big
Do big dreams need big spaces?

But the concept is far older
A prophet in ancient Israel
Told the people to enlarge their tents
Set their sights high
Expect great things.

Do we limit our scope
Refuse to hope
When keeping within
Safe confines?

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Wisdom

I just loved this post:

Slowly, Slowly Wisdom Gathers

Imagine laying in the sun and absorbing wisdom the way a leave absorbs sunshine. Mind or soul processing it like chlorophyll and producing all this energy and growth. Wonderful!

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Joy of freesias

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Scent hit me before I saw them
The sight a joy to behold
Resurrection, restoration
Lost treasure
New pleasure
Life from shrivelled corms
Old friends renewed.
I grew the first from seed
Many years ago
Season followed season
Of tantalising leaves.
Eventually some flowers
Lots of lovely flowers
Then drought and greenfly
Intervened
Few shrunken bits remained
Once again I planted
The remnants that I had
And now I am rewarded

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