“Just as a grain of sand does not rule over an entire beach, humans do not rule or control nature.”

~ Michael Sturman ~

Aurora at the Beach in Urunga playing in the Sand.

Neither does a blood cell yell out I am man,  although it is an integral part it is not the whole.

Images @ Eminpee Fotography

When people participate in ceremony, they enter a sacred space; everything outside of that space fades in importance. Time takes on a different dimension. Emotions flow more freely, the bodies of participants become filled with the energy of life and this energy reaches out and blesses the creation around them.

~ Sun Bear, Medicine Man ~

On the Beach connecting with the Spirit

Fire and rhythm take me to a place that is special.

Images @ Eminpee Fotography

"In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet."

~  Albert Schweitzer ~

 

This quotes explains the simplicity of taking the time during each procedure of what ever it is you are doing.  It tells us why we should take our time and not rush.  In taking time you get to experience things more fully.  Rushing to get to somewhere or the next step is not living.  Breathe, relax and take your time and enjoy it.  It is your time and it is yours to use as you desire.

Chronos (Ancient Greek: Χρόνος, "time," also transliterated as Khronos or Latinized as Chronus) is the personification of Time in pre-Socratic philosophy and later literature.

Chronos was imagined as a god, serpentine in form, with three heads—those of a man, a bull, and a lion.^[c He and his consort, serpentine Ananke (Inevitability), circled the primal world egg in their coils and split it apart to form the ordered universe of earth, sea and sky.

Chronos was confused with, or perhaps consciously identified with, due to the similarity in name, the Titan Cronus already in antiquity,the identification becoming more widespread during the Renaissance, giving rise to the allegory of "Father Time" wielding the harvesting scythe.

He was depicted in Greco-Roman mosaics as a man turning the Zodiac Wheel.  Chronos, however, might also be contrasted with the deity Aion as Eternal Time(see aeon).

Chronos is usually portrayed through an old, wise man with a long, grey beard, such as "Father Time". Some of the current English words whose etymological root is khronos/chronos include chronology, chronometer, chronic, anachronism, and chronicle.

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Destiny decides who touches your life. Your heart decides who touches your soul.

A word of advice...  always let light of truth shine on all that you do.

 

Light, my light, the world-filling light, the eye-kissing light, heart-sweetening light! 
Ah, the light dances, my darling, at the center of my life;
the light strikes, my darling, the chords of my love; the sky opens,
the wind runs wild, laughter passes over the earth.

The butterflies spread their sails on the sea of light.
Lilies and jasmines surge up on the crest of the waves of light.
The light is shattered into gold on every cloud, my darling, and it scatters gems in profusion.
Mirth spreads from leaf to leaf, my darling, and gladness without measure.
The heaven's river has drowned its banks and the flood of joy is abroad.
~ Rabindranath Tagore ~A
Images @ Melonpopzdropz Flickr

Conflict cannot survive without your participation.

~ Wayne Dyer ~

 

If I continue to take myself out of their way of conflict then I cannot be apart of this.  It is all in their minds.  The entire thing is held only in the mind.

There is no separation between us and the planet,  the only place there is separation is in the mind once again.  It is the mind that will keep us separated from our most vital source.
Images @ Melopopzdropz Flickr

Its always ourselves we find in the sea...

I  have taken many lengthy walks along this beach with this fine friend.  Both of us adore the beach like it is our other best friend.   Plenty of time for gazing into nothingness and everything, discussing the woes of the world and how we would fix them if we could.

 

 “For whatever we lose
it’s always ourselves we find in the sea.”
“maggie and millie and molly and may”
 E.E. Cummings (American poet 1894-1962)

Images @ Melopopzdropz Flickr

One of the hardest decisions you'll ever face in life is choosing whether to walk away or try harder!

Sitting by the fire at the beach and watching the waves and hearing the rhythmic crashing that occurs with each wave as it rolls in to shore towards me, reminding me that this is life and it is very real.

My little life is so harsh and I have no idea what to do in my own strength in this situation.  I take the guidance of others in this matter very seriously.  I am unable to make great emotional decisions because I lack the emotional where with all this takes to understand family.  I just don't know how.

 Image by Mezza- Fire at the Beach July 2012 Full Moon

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

Leo Tolstoy

A warrior of Light

“The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what lies before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it!”
 ~ Thucydides ~

Those two warriors are friends of mine,
one of them patience
and one of them time
Time is on my side
and patience is a virtue
very true
Its what keeps me from falling through
Holds me up like a post without an office
Can I get used to this?  I feel such a novice
Patients is a good friend as I sit here and wait for this nightmare to end!
M Peters

Image by Mezza - Al at Valla

‎"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results."

See the sign is missing here in the pic ... I guess council keeps replacing it and it just keeps getting burned as fire wood on the cliff or taken home as a memento / after all who would not like a sign that said " HUNGRY HEAD".   So that is a tiny piece of insanity right there.  What makes them think they will get a different result each time they replace the sign?
Insanity..
Image by Mezza - Up top of the cliff at Hungry Head   N.S.W.   Australia

“Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.”

~ Dolores Ibarruri ~

My Portuguese National Camouflage Pants compliments of the Chan's

Go outside with bare feet on grass or dirt. Breathe in the fecundity of the Earth and feel your connection to this planet. Let the energy fill you. Ground out.  Take in the charge from the Earth.

Image by Mezza - My feet getting connected on the beach.

I'm very superstitious... I never shout at magpies, walk under ladders or put my shoes on the table. . . . Norman Cook

A magpie will only defend its nest within a ‘defense zone’. For pedestrians, this is usually an area within 100 meters of the nest but can be much larger for cyclists.
Almost all swoops on people are carried out by male magpies defending their eggs and chicks, which are in the nest for about six weeks from mid-August to the end of September.
Funny how Magpies are like people.
Image by Mezza ... Magpie at Hungry Head

“A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.” - Antoine De Saint-Exupery

With me everything I do starts with a thought.  Somehow I think we are all alike in this way.  We contemplate in our minds what we need to achieve.  One must see it there first before it can have a proper conception. I go to the beach looking for heart shaped rocks.  Today I found a heart shaped shadow. Can you find it in my image here?

Image by Mezza - Beach Rocks

The Smoke was incense

The smoke was offered back as incense to the supreme creator of this universe.  

Giving back the lesson from whence it came is a powerful experience.  In the beginning, there was a passion that was a hot as this fire.  

This passion was behind my creation.  

Experience

•  The apprehension of an object, thought, or emotion through the senses or mind.

•  Active participation in events or activities, leading to the accumulation of knowledge or skill.

•  An event or a series of events participated in or lived through.

•  The totality of such events in the past of an individual or group.

Burning the experience and giving it back to the source is an effective tool in freeing the spirit of the instance that it wasn't accepted at the time.  This is a gift!

Dreams do come true

“Don’t let anyone steal your dream. It’s your dream, not theirs.” ~Dan Zadra

When you dream I think you are in touch with creation at its core.  You no longer have control, the God part takes over.

Surreal stick dwellings at the Heads symbolic of a dream state

“We are limited, not by our abilities, but by our vision.”

Jonathan Swift quotes (Irish Author and Satirist of prose, 1667-1745)

The edge of Australia ...

OUR OUTBACK

So this is what we see when we wake up and look out the back door!  Most certainly worth photographing wouldn't you say?  Low tide is pictured here but this changes.   Fisherman regularly fish here for many and varied species!  I have caught many fish here myself and really I need to go again soon. It is just a wonderful place to be.

The KALANG and the BELLINGER River's head out east here to PACIFICA through what is called Bellinger Heads.  These days there is a purpose build walkway that is adjacent to the mouth of the river out to the beach.  This makes for a much easier passage by foot to the ocean.  

Image by Mezza - Dawn over the rivers August 2011

While there is breath there is Hope

Hope is amazing

YES it is and so I want to quote Mr Martin Luther King Jnr.because he say's it so well.

If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps life moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream.  

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Hope is all I have each day when I wake up from my sleep.  The word say's "we have faith hope and love".  

I must keep my dream alive each day!  

I must rekindle the same passion each day when my eyes open and I realise I am still here on this earth ... alive!  

While there is Breath there is HOPE is one of my favorite sayings that I use a lot in my everyday communication.

Image by MezzA - Dawn on the water at Urunga 2011

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

Don’t cry because it’s over.... Smile because it happened.

You know that you are in love when the hardest thing to do is say good-bye!!

This post is dedicated to Montana ... I knew this day would come, I knew I would never be ready really!  I tried to lighten up about it, just don't want to know about any of it! I am going to wait until someone else gets humble as I have done my time!  I am not perfect but I sure am honest ...  Sometimes that sort of honesty can be overwhelming to most!  Most do not like the truth!  Why?  Because the truth is painful at times.  Because something or someone is being true does not make it a pain free guarantee!

Love  Mumma

Image by MezzA -  Stones on the beach

ALL PURPOSES...

“Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose – A point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.”   

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

I walk this "walk" out to the beach often.  It gives me a small sense of purpose.  I love to see the ocean and so I purpose to get there! 

When the pain inside from my severely broken heart becomes all too much for me, I walk.  Sometimes I run.. but not often lately have I danced out there.  Not for a good while now.  I have staggered back in at night a few times in the dark.  I do not advise anyone to do this as it can get hectic.

The dancing doesn't come easy though when your sad and so I must purpose to do this also because my body needs me to take care of it.  It is my responsibility to do so.

I miss the happiness that the sunshine of a child's love entices with a smile and a hug.  

I miss them all ~ this is why it is hard to purpose.  I must force myself even if I think that I cannot do this.  I MUST TRY TO KEEP GOING... I have to because every day I ask God to help me burn this away like dross and with that in mind .. today could very well be that day!   Peace.. Love and Light.. YES may peace love and light be cast into the darkness of this situation..  Where there is light, darkness takes a hike!

Image by MezzA - Walking over Water

Not Conflagration

But extremely fired up..

May the empowering energy of the Fires of the Universe ever be a part of my being!

I was at least hoping to see glass made..but alas none. 

We went out to the beach and lit a fire in commemoration of the fire works I always took the kids along too.   Montana had to have ear muffs to keep the noise out. I wanted to have a party for our friend and so it was fitting to light a fire.   Tonight it was just us and the ocean.. it was nice.

Images by MezzA - Out at the Beach 31st July 2011

Seems the wind has Teeth..

 Seems the wind has teeth.......Cutting right through to the bone
Wish I stayed indoors!WINDOWGUY 

Sometimes life hurts and it is just best to go away to a safe place where reality cannot bite anymore until your previous wounds from battling with the world have healed.

Image by MezzA - Hungry Head 2011