31 july blue full moon in Aquarius ...

by Kate Ross
It seems that it is so easy for most of us to get caught up in our daily lives that we often feel we can push aside issues or decisions because it seems like there will always be more time—more chances.
This moon we are being asked to stop, look around and to see the bigger picture.
this blue moon is showing us exactly what we are afraid of losing the most, and it’s challenging us to make the big moves necessary now.
As amazing as this moon will be, and necessary—it’s going to be one that challenges us on every single level. In the build up to this lunar event we may have been feeling restless, or have had an excess of nervous energy. Our pulses may have been racing, and it may have been harder for us to relax or fall asleep at night.
... I must say that issues have got stirred up again - the issues where there are fundamental differences - which is conveniently burried - gets dredged up and i have to look at them realistically ... 

Neat...

All of which are a challenge for me ... !!

A nice tribute to a lion killed for a trophy by a not nice type of human being. Many like him roam the world.

An Irish Cottage

Be Present

Nice ... from Frodo ...

(my input)
Now in the esoterics we learn that human beings
are not the same, are not equal, etc. ....
I'd say there has to be equal access to the basics
of life on Earth ... food, water, living space and
opportunities to grow and develop for each and
every type of human being....
Human beings not being the same and therefore
not deserving equal treatment is nonsense. This
rubbish situation of some humans being  slaves
while others sit on the top of the pile (of human
beings) and pick at their bones is not demonstrative
of developed beings at all !! This disparity has to stop!

Interesting way to serve it to us .... !!!

and also everything seems possible in cartoons and movies and
media generally but when we pause to observe what we have
achieved we fall terribly short ... why? ... because we have lived
our lives by the standards set on tv - until we have lost sense of
reality and what is realistic until we turn the headlight back unto
ourselves and see that we have not achieved anything that we
have been led (subliminally) by the media to believe is the
benchmark of human achievement or just plain living. It would
seem that we are the living dead in more ways than one....

How life like ...

by Frans Peter Verheyan ...






though this seems too perfect yet it has a certain quality, a nuance ...


Daniel Ridgeway Knight (1839- 1924)




Mark Petit



 

Mountains I have seen ...

 
Mt Fishtail, Pokhara, Nepal

 
Mt Everest, Nepal, saw by plane, Buddha Air ,,,,

 
 

 

Personal Boundaries

What can protect you from toxic people, keep painful memories in their place, keep you safe and strong, and help you manage your feelings? 
The hallmark of a healthy boundary is strong but flexible.

 

As adults, one of the best things we can do for ourselves is understand boundaries, and work on building them for ourselves.

Here are The Four Types of Essential Boundaries:

• Physical Boundary: This boundary is the easiest to visualize and understand, and has been the most studied. Research indicates that the average American requires about two feet of personal space in front, and 18” behind them to be comfortable. Jerry Seinfeld made this boundary funny when he featured the “close talker” on his show. But actually the physical boundary is more than just space. It can be violated by people whose touch is unwelcome, or by someone who feels physically threatening to you. Your boundary tells you when to set limits and when to protect yourself, by making you feel uncomfortable.
• External Boundary: This boundary must be strong but flexible. It serves as a filter that protects you from insults and injuries that come from the outside. When you receive criticism at work; when your spouse tells you she’s angry at you; when a driver calls you an obscene name, or when your sister calls you “selfish,” this boundary kicks in. It talks you through what the other person said or did to you, and helps you sort out what’s real feedback that you should take seriously, and what you should reject.
• Internal Boundary: This is the boundary which protects you (and others) from yourself. It serves as a filter between your feelings, and what you do with them. This boundary helps you sort through your intense anger, hurt and pain, and decide whether, and how, to express it.
• Temporal Boundary: We all carry our past experiences within us. And we can often tend to dwell on them in a way that is not helpful. On top of that, old feelings often attach themselves to current experiences, and emerge when we least expect them. This is why people blow up over burnt toast, for example. It’s also easy to give the future too much power over us. Spending too much time thinking about, imagining, worrying about, or dreading the future can cause anxiety and prevent us from living in the moment. Your temporal boundary senses when you’re going too far back or forward, and pulls you back.
  
  
  Six Step Boundary Building Exercise
  1. Close your eyes, and count to ten in your head, while breathing deeply and calmly.
  2. Imagine yourself surrounded by a circle. You are in the exact center, surrounded by the exact amount of space that you feel most comfortable with.
  3. Turn the circle into a visible wall. That wall can be made out of anything you like: clear or opaque plastic, bricks, smooth cement or something else. It can be anything you want, as long as it’s strong.
  4. Although the wall is strong, you and only you have the power to flex it when you want. You can remove a brick or soften the plastic to allow things inside the wall or out of the wall whenever you need to. You hold all the power. You are safe.
  5. Stay inside the wall for a minute. Enjoy the feeling of being in control of your world.
  6. Repeat this exercise once-a-day.  
  
  
  Eventually your boundary will operate naturally. But in the beginning, you will have to consciously use it. It helps, especially in the beginning, to try to anticipate situations in which you will need, and can practice using, your boundary.
  
  

 

Aren't we all connected - somehow ~

 
5 day-old baby seal stuck in mud, rescued by cows in England.
The rescue ‘mission’ took place in RSPB Frampton Marsh, a natural
reserve in Lincolnshire, England. A local bird watcher, Ian Ellis,
noticed a herd of about 30 cows surrounding something near a muddy
puddle.
“When he looked through his telescope he saw that they were 
surrounding a tiny seal pup [stuck in] a creek,” said a Facebook
post from Natureland Seal Sanctuary, an animal attraction center in
Lincolnshire, which later took the baby animal in. The seal’s mother
was nowhere to be seen, according to Ellis.