Stay Calm and Carry on

Sometimes I wish that I could go into a time machine right now and just look at my self and say, ‘Calm down. Things are gonna be fine. Things are gonna be all great. Just relax.’ Tristan Wilds

Chaos runs amok in my life and the lives of my friends these days.  Surgery, work, construction, sickness, death, language practice, social commitments, and just life in general.  It’s always easy after the fact to remember that these things come and these things go.  In the heat of the moment though.. not so easy.  Sometimes I’m just chugging along and “BAM” there it goes again.  When I finally calm down.. I realize it was never that bad.. or even if it was, it’s over and life is good again and I feel silly for taking it all so personally.  That’s one reason I’m so happy to have some visual reminders of the calm that exists in my life no matter how chaotic my mental state can sometimes be. I hope you enjoy the visuals that I have been exposed to recently.  Sunsets, sunrises and grandkids first day of school!

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm. Publilius Syrus

“How you can sit there, calmly eating muffins when we are in this horrible trouble, I can’t make out. You seem to me to be perfectly heartless.”

“Well, I can’t eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them.”

“I say it’s perfectly heartless your eating muffins at all, under the circumstances.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

Where’s my Backpack,  Leya, WoollyMuses,Roaming Urban Gypsy, Ladyleemanila, Oh, the Places We See . . ., Netdancer’s Musings, Jaspa’s Journal,WordsVisual,  A Day In The Life, ceenphotography.com, Ouch!! My back hurts!!,Mama Cormier,Figments of a DuTchess, Travelrat’s Travels, Out an’ About, Une photo, un poème,  Musin’ With Susan, The New 3 Rs: Retire, Recharge, Reconnect,

 

Two days on, One day off – Accra, Ghana

I was lucky to have an opportunity to participate in a very quick trip to Accra, Ghana for work with a short half day to tour a few markets.  It was interesting to compare Accra to Lagos in the area of food, style, art and living.  So much was familiar with just enough differences to make it quite interesting.  I’m hoping to be able to go back and see some of the people and places outside of the city.  I hope you enjoy.

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. Marcel Proust

I don’t like landscapes. I like cities. Lots of cities. I like buildings. I like streets. Dario Argento

Posts I liked

Landscapes; Mostly Monochrome Whitby ; stenoodie; From Hiding to Blogging The Sunrise on Early Spring at Minnesota; Doublewhirler New Zealand’s Landscape; Mittened Hands Winter Desert; Offbeat and Quirky by Henri Bauhaus; Alpine Village – Through the Lens ; ….on pets and prisoners; Cee’s Photography; Steve Says… The Kelpies: Never Look A Mythical Water Horse In The Mouth Unless You Are Taking A Photo… ; Inherently Adventurous Halfway ; de Wets Wild Landscape ; {mary’s chaoticwhitespace}; Landscape – Cinematography; Somewhere In Between – Life Confusions;  Jackobo’s Photoblog Mirror Waters; Reflections for my Soul; scillagrace; the15thday the landscape of my youth; Lost in Translation; la parole a été donnée à l´homme pour cacher sa pensée landscape; HX Report; THE ICONOPHILE The detail is in the devil

Nature and People and Places

Just a few photos from my recent travels that I felt aligned with Sally D’s  Challenge from January 2016.  I hope you enjoy.

 

Other  Nature, People, Places Posts I enjoyed

Naturebitch; Sustainability; Patchwork ; Roamingurbangypsy; Piecesofstarlight; Poetry; Naomi; Plants; Still-life; Butterflies; Nowathome

So tell me what you want what you really really want..

“For in some ways the world was like a shopping centre, and he himself was a doubtful customer, often ineffectual, being talked into buying things he didn’t want, things indeed which nobody in their right mind would want to buy.”
― Margaret Mahy, The Catalogue of the Universe

You can completely engage yourself every weekend by visiting bazaar’s from every country.  So far I have been to the Syrian, Nigerian and French Bazaar.  They share many of the same items from many of the same venders, but each has their own very, very special take on food and set up.

Spring – – -Flowers, rainbows, clouds, mud, hikes, people, picnics

Phoneography challenge via Lens and Pens by Sally.

For more spring flowers

• Nature Challenge
• Nature Yellow
• The loch
• Colour in the clouds
• Blog Again
• The Deep blue
• Photography