March 22, 2016
In my most secret spirit, In my most secret spirit, grew a whirling and a wandering fire. ~ W.B.Yeats
March 21, 2016
I often muse on the road or path that our lives follow for the road and the path such perfect metaphors for the trajectory of our life. Where we go in our life, what we do, the detours we take, these are all aspects of traveling through our lives to get somewhere, or to just be, to just be in the moment and savor the journey.
Today, I remind myself that as I travel the road of life, I am grateful for the varied terrain, the gentle slopes, the tough hills, the steep canyons, the winding roads and the clear path ahead that have all been a part of my life. The journey was never meant to be easy. (more…)
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March 18, 2016
Sometimes we block ourselves off, we put up walls and close gates to keep others out of our lives. These are all defense mechanisms we devise to protect ourselves from hurt and pain. It is not even that we do these things consciously most of the time. Typically it is a habit, hard-formed that we find so hard to break. Even those of us with an open heart can still harbor fears, that we wear like battle scars. The walls, the locked gates, these are shields. We’ve done battle, we’ve had a our hearts handed to us time and time again when all we’ve wanted is love. Today, I re-mind myself that it is okay to open the gate and let love in.
Namaste… Pamela
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March 17, 2016
I believe in the power of Now. I believe that to be in the moment is potent form of surrender to the Universe in which I allow myself to be open to receive everything that is happening as it is meant to be. I am not here to change the course, I am here to be led by the divine intervention of the Universe.
This is not to say that I do not have a choice in where I want to go in my life and how I get there. This is meant to say that I surrender to the moment, and accept that there are some things in life that I can not change.
And so it is, that I will be in the Now today. I set my intent on the things I desire to change and make happen in my life and I surrender the outcome to the moment.
Today, I affirm that I will focus on the moment and not the past or the future. Today, I affirm that I will go with the flow and lovingly accept each experience life brings me. In this way I am free to experience with joy and an open heart, all that comes my way. In this way, I let my intent become manifest in my surrender to the Now. And so it is… Intent makes manifest.
Namaste… Pamela
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March 15, 2016
Ansel Adams was an only child, born to old parents in San Francisco on February 20, 1902. He was the only child of businessman Charles Hitchcock Adams and Olive Bray, and the grandson of a timber baron. Adams’ family home was in located in the coastal Golden Gate area of San Francisco. It was there that Adams developed an early appreciation for nature.
He was a shy child, possibly dyslexic, and subsequently he did not do well in school. He was ultimately home schooled, which led to solitary time spent walking along the still undeveloped and wild coastline. At twelve years old Ansel Adams learned piano on his own, and went on to pursue piano as his career. However, in 1916 Adams first visited Yosemite, which changed his passion from piano to photography. It was there in Yosemite that he would take up the camera, a Kodak No. 1 Box Brownie, which was a gift from his parents. Ansel Adams would ultimately spend quite a bit of time yearly at Yosemite, until he passed away on April 22, 1984.
Adams joined the Sierra Club in 1919 and subsequently spent the next “four summers in Yosemite Valley, as “keeper” of the club’s LeConte Memorial Lodge.”[1] This would prove to be quite opportune for Adams, as he became friends with many of the leaders of the Sierra Club and became involved with the early conservation movement. It was here at Yosemite that Adams would also meet his wife, Virginia Best. Adams involvement with the Sierra Club was pivotal to his early career as a photographer, with publication of his both his writings and photographs in their 1922 Bulletin and then a “his first one man exhibition in 1928 at the club’s San Francisco headquarters.”[2] Adams began to see the potential to make a modest living as a photographer through his continued involvement with the Sierra Club. (more…)
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March 11, 2016
We are all walking a fine line sometimes on a narrow path, with bridges to cross and hills to climb. Our struggle is to meet that path with anticipation that it will lead us in the right direction.
But, wait… What if that path leads us astray?
What if we read the signs wrong and we traveled down the road, and found ourselves lost?
There are no sureties in life. There is only moving forward on the narrow path and trusting it will lead us in the right direction.
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