Eindoodle's blog

What is a birthday? Years and years of knowledge? A new year to make a change?

I'm not exactly sure... a combination of so many wonderful memories.. a celebration of a new beginning.

Happy Birthday, Spouse! I love you and I wish you eternal life. I can't reach 99 without you.

I Took A Walk... Found Equanimity

After walking what felt for hours, I begin to think of when you strip life down to its bare necessities, it starts to reveal glimpses of its true nature -- very much like rubbing the dust off of a stone exposes its ever-present sparkle. 

Every few minutes an airplane woud fly over my path.  Once reaching it's destination I thought, would it be greeted with a smile, a shake, a hug?

The path for me is clear. I wake up and follow the signs (quite literally). I know exactly where I’m going. There are no conflicts. No real decisions to be made.    All of a sudden everything seems simple. 

Once the mind accepts whatever situation it comes across with an unwavering steadfastness and equanimity, everything is in the flow. Majority of the thoughts now revolve around the three basic needs: food, shelter, and enough warm clothing. 

 

On exploring and inspecting the three basic needs, another need arises.  While I’m constantly receiving -- from the air that fills my lungs to the food that satisfies my tummy to the sun that warms my body -- there is also a natural impulse to complete the circle and start giving.  That's the fourth basic need: to give.

Obstacles Dont Have To Stop Us

For the next few months, I’m making a conscious commitment to step back, live more consciously, fully, and take a closer look at the larger canvas of life.

I am ready to fill my time with some of my favorite things I like to do -   Reflect, do a little Photography, Meditation, Learn about other cultures, Religions, take some Dance Lessons, and spend some time Volunteering.

To live fully, one needs to constantly challenge their own ideas and beliefs about themselves and the world around them, and to live with greater clarity.  

 

The Road Not Taken

 

The Road Not Taken - Robert Frost

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

Angel Martinez... absolutely beautiful

 

Dormant

There is a period in my life that the life I so wanted and enjoyed 

was paused. It all slowed down.  There was a fog of sorts and I 

could not escape it.  I was afraid for such a long time that I would

never feel the passion and love I felt for photography again.  Yes - photography.

It's the "in" thing nowadays.  The thing to do.  

I simply did it because I loved it.  I absolutely loved it.  I took photos of people, 

animals... things.

The first photos that I can remember I enjoyed were merely snapshots 

of my beloved cat. (1993)