I hope you’re having a beautiful day. ♡
Here’s another light-filled ¤ Gem ¤
Photo “Under the Sky” by Niki Flow. Poem “Effort Equals Change” by Johnny O
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Gems 3.62
I hope you’re having a beautiful day. ♡
Here’s another light-filled ¤ Gem ¤
Poem “The Wow In Now” by Johnny O. Photo “Verdant” by Niki Flow.
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Gems 3.61
I hope you’re having a beautiful day. ♡
Here’s another light-filled ¤ Gem ¤
Photo by Niki Flow. Poem “Cause and Effect” by John Olander.
About John Olander
Nicole Huguenin and John Olander, Denver CO
John Olander, known to his friends as “Johnny O” is “a self-employed change-maker” currently living in Denver Colorado. He has been “on a camping trip” for over ten years and understands life on the streets better than most. Yet this hardship has not made John bitter, only better. Nearly every day when he is not engaged in a search for food or shelter, John is helping others on the street.
Thanks so much again Johnny O for submitting today’s beautiful and wise poem.
With deep thanks and lots of love,
☼ A “Giftivism” Initiative ☼
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serving and connecting
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Gems 3.55
I hope you’re having a beautiful day. ♡
Here’s another light-filled ¤ Gem ¤
Photo by M. Nota, FreeImages.com
About Alfred Brendel:
Alfred Brendel’s place among the greatest musicians of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries is assured. Renowned for his masterly interpretations of the works of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms and Liszt, he is one of the indisputable authorities in musical life today and one of the very few living pianists whose name alone guaranteed a sell-out anywhere in the world he chooses to play.
from AlfredBrendel.com
Journey Notes
Special thanks to Ann C. for today’s quote. The theme for June will be “silence,” “listening,” “stillness,” and “sacred space.” If you have a favorite quote about any or all of those, please let us know!
Your Creativity
As always, we would love to feature your creative visions. If you would like to contribute photos, art work, short poems/stories, quotes, time, etc., please see our “About Us” page for details. When we show each other what we find beautiful, we get a glimpse into each others’ hearts.
May you find joy every day of your journey through life,
♡. under1000skies
☼ A “Giftivism” Initiative ☼
We are photographers,
writers, artists & advocates
serving and connecting
homeless creatives.
Gems 3.54
I hope you’re having a beautiful day. ♡
Here’s another light-filled ¤ Gem ¤
Photo by PicMonkey
Journey Notes
The theme for June will be “silence,” “listening,” “stillness,” and “sacred space.” If you have a favorite quote about any or all of those, please let us know!
Your Creativity
As always, we would love to feature your creative visions. If you would like to contribute photos, art work, short poems/stories, quotes, time, etc., please see our “About Us” page for details. When we show each other what we find beautiful, we get a glimpse into each others’ hearts.
May you find joy every day of your journey through life,
☼ A “Giftivism” Initiative ☼ We are photographers,
writers, artists & advocates
serving and connecting
homeless creatives.
Spotlight Saturday 1.0 | under1000skies
I hope you’re having a beautiful day. ♡
Today we are happy and excited to tell you about the start of something new:
¤ Spotlight Saturday ¤
"Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all." Emily Dickinson
SHOWER-UP NASHVILLE
The spotlight today is on ShowerUp Nashville, a beautiful service started by Paul Anthony Schmitz. I got a chance to talk to Paul this morning and his excitement and love just pours through his words. I’ve been following his feed on Instagram for a few months, and I have been so inspired by all the great work ShowerUp is doing!
Gems 3.50
I hope you’re having a beautiful day. ♡
Here’s another light-filled ¤ Gem ¤
Journey Notes
Special thanks to Mike Downs for contributing today’s photo. The theme for June will be “silence,” “listening,” “stillness,” and “sacred space.” If you have a favorite quote about any or all of those, please let us know!
Your Creativity
As always, we would love to feature your creative visions. If you would like to contribute photos, art work, short poems/stories, quotes, time, etc., please see our “About Us” page for details. When we show each other what we find beautiful, we get a glimpse into each others’ hearts. ♥.
May you find joy every day of your journey through life,
☼ A “Giftivism” Initiative ☼ We are photographers,
writers, artists & advocates
serving and connecting
homeless creatives.
Gems 3.48
I hope you’re having a beautiful day. ♡
Here’s another light-filled ¤ Gem ¤
Photo “Diana’s Flowers” by Niki Flow
Journey Notes
The theme for the month of May is “fear” and “love.” The theme for June will be “silence,” “listening,” “stillness,” and “sacred space.” If you have a favorite quote about any or all of those,, please let us know!
Your Creativity
As always, we would love to feature your creative visions. When we show each other what we find beautiful, we get a glimpse into each others’ hearts. ♥.
May you find joy every day of your journey through life.
♡. under1000skies
☼ A “Giftivism” Initiative ☼
We are photographers,
writers, artists & advocates
serving and connecting
homeless creatives.
Gems 3.45
I hope you’re having a beautiful day. ♡
Here’s another light-filled ¤ Gem
Image from FreeImages.com. Graphic created with PicMonkey by Niki Flow
“The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.” -Oprah Winfrey
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Gems 3.37
I hope you’re having a beautiful day. ♡
Here’s another light-filled ¤ Gem ¤
I found three of the quotes in this series about love and fear among seven others on this site: 10 Quotes about Love and Fear.
Quote 1 is by Marianne Williamson, a woman who has inspired me and millions of others over the years. If you don’t know who she is, she’s got a nifty site and a newsletter you can sign up for here: Marianne.com
Quote 2 is by Oprah Winfrey, another inspiring and amazing woman. Her site is Oprah.com — it’s a bit hard to load on slower computers because it contains a lot of footage from her TV show, but well worth the wait. My favorite video series is “Super Soul Sunday.”
The third quote is from the New Testament book “1 John.” I wanted to credit the exact author of that letter, but I learned today reading after this interesting article that the authorship of 1 John has never been determined. Experts aren’t even sure that the author of the letters 2 John and 3 John (known as “The Elder”) is the same author as the first. Since the Bible is one of my favorite books of study, I found this fascinating.
The last quote is actually two quotes by C.S. Lewis, author of Chronicles of Narnia, The Screwtape Letters, Letters to Malcolm, The Problem of Pain and many others. His romance with American Joy Davidman became the basis of beautiful book by Brian Selby which became an equally beautiful movie starring Anthony Hopkins and Debra Winger, Shadowlands. Since i didn’t find a quote by Lewis that contained both words in this month’s theme (“love” and “fear”) I combined one of each. One of my favorite quotes by C.S. Lewis is something he said to Joy one day in Shadowlands, not long after he discovered she was sick:
“Pain is the price we will pay – then – for the love we have — now. That’s’ the deal.”
We make this deal every time we love.
Niki Flow
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