highlighting the wooden tapestry held in our sight
giving wonder and glory to each piece of nature’s delight
May this day bring peace and harmony to all people everywhere in our world. We are ONE. Our diversity is our richness…may we honor this great gift in one another. May we find joy in all the colors of our humanity. May we live compassionately and with forgiveness towards one another. May we honor one another’s beliefs and together work for the common good for each and every one of us. May trust and respect grow among us and may we help each other when in need, always looking for the good, always lifting each other up towards the LIGHT.
Thank you to all of my WordPress writers and friends. Your presence in my life encourages me to go forward, despite my failings, and to seek another day! Sometimes I just want to give-up…and then I come back to this WordPress and I always find encouragement in your words and postings. WORDS do give HOPE. Thank you for your gentle presence and quiet in my life! Blessings to you all, in all the corners of the WORLD!
http://dnr.wi.gov/topic/WildlifeHabitat/documents/dove.pdf Another irony–In this article, the DNR writes: “…The mourning dove population in Wisconsin can sustain hunting without limiting the population”, and then further on in the same article writes: “…MORTALITY: “…The natural mortality rate for mourning doves is high; approximately 6 out of 10 birds do not survive from one year to the next. Research indicates that mourning dove mortality is caused by a variety of factors including predators, disease, accidents, hunting, and weather extremes. ”
St. Paul, Minn. — Wisconsin finally opened its mourning dove hunting season Monday, for the first time since 1918.The season was first approved two years ago by the state Natural Resources Board., But animal protection groups successfully sued to stop the hunt, and ended up delaying it for two years. An appeals court overturned that ruling earlier this year, allowing the hunting season to begin. That decision has also been appealed, but neither the Wisconsin Supreme Court nor Gov. Jim Doyle stepped in to delay the start of the 60-day hunt this fall. The Wisconsin Legislature took the mourning dove off the list of game species when it named the bird the state symbol of peace in 1971. That designation was made at the urging of animal rights activists.
MY REACTION:
I find it so ironic that we would hunt our state Symbol of Peace, as the Mourning Dove was so named in 1971. I have lived in this particular countryside subdivision since 1986 and it is now 2015. The change in law permitting the shooting of this bird took place in 2003. Prior to the hunting permission, I could hear the cooing of the doves each morning, from one end of the subdivision to the other–now–their song has disappeared! I feared the worst when the law was changed, and, unfortunately, the hunt has killed their song. Even though we have people in this subdivision, the gun’s voice could be heard …only the pop not the coo! Now we have a countryside devoid of the mourning dove and its song!
At the end of her particular posting, she posted the question, “So, what price are you paying for little things that keep you away from living?” That question is the impetus for what I have written in this particular posting.
So…what price are YOU
paying for little things
that keep you away from living?
Is it grief that you feel?
Is it familiarity with the broken reel?
Is it the judgment you fear?
Is it the control you hold near?
Is it the envy of others’ success?
Is it jealousy of someone’s best?
Is it fear of the unknown?
Is it you might stand alone?
Is it fear of losing love?
Is it because there is no shove?
Is it the exposure you do fear?
Is it the fear of no one near?
Is it fear of being alone?
Is it because there’s no to the phone?
Is it stepping out of your cocoon?
Is it once again, shooting for the moon?
“Adventurous Delight” Photo Credit: c. Jane H. Johann. August, 2015. Palmyra, countryside, WI
“Spiderwort Countryside”near Palmyra, WI Photo Credit: Jane. H. Johann, Aug., 2015.
sometimes you can hear
the grass drinking the rain in
quenching its long thirst
after a bitter long drought
again, vibrant with life’s hope
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a Japanese poem consisting of five lines, the first and third of which have five syllables and the other seven, making 31 syllables in all and giving a complete picture of an event or mood.
John Denver was a great artist, whose songs touched many lives. John was a human being, like all of us. He had his own demons to wrestle but when he sang, he remembered his true self, the gift he was and he gave his best to us all.
His words were from within him. Like all of us, he too had his heart broken and he broke hearts. We have all made mistakes. We have had our heart broken and we have broken hearts. Anyone who has truly lived, and is honest with oneself, will have regrets and mistakes. But we have to move on from the broken pieces, and pick ourselves up and move forward and give the best we have of ourselves to ourselves and to whomever can accept us. We have to let go of the shattered dreams, the mistakes we have made along the way, and live in the present, live in today –in the NOW.
I think that sometimes we allow the negativity of others towards us stop us from being our true selves. I think sometimes people are cruel to us and harsh — they remember our mistakes of yesterday and can never let them go. “Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle.”They cannot stop themselves from cutting us down and throwing us into the flames. And I know, I let those negative statements get to me, to the point I want to give up…because IF I am so evil, why should I be here? That is WHEN the remarks have really gotten to my core…and I am shaken…and I cannot take one more negative remark.
Yes, I am wrong often… I made mistakes and I make mistakes everyday! If people only knew how much I struggle with myself about what I did, and what I didn’t do and perhaps should have done, I think they would be amazed. Maybe if they knew, they would stop giving me a hard time. So, now I am saying it—but those people won’t be reading this.
It all becomes so overwhelming.
People can make seemingly innocent remarks, but the cut is there. It reminds me of the saying, “What we say to others is as important as how we say it.”
I know I am a very sensitive person and sometimes the words of others come at me with such force, I feel I am drowning and finally, I become like them, and return the frustration to escape. I just want to run far, far away and beg to be left alone. [Then I am alone, and I can’t stand it! I am a social being].
But I am more than my mistakes. I am more than all I have done wrong. I have done good too and I would never intentionally hurt someone. I know how painful it is.
I just wish people everywhere would realize that what a person said or did yesterday, does NOT mean that the person is the same today. People change. I have changed. IF we do not allow for change, we may as well just call it a day and then it is the end. I am not WHO I was yesterday and tomorrow again I will be different.
Hopefully, we constantly evolve and learn. We need to allow for change in one another. We must not pigeon-hole people. Some would say my next remark is way out in left field, but actually it is not. I am just thinking of people who commit felonies in our country. Many are “branded” at eighteen for the rest of their life! They will never have the job they want or could do, because no one will give them the opportunity. They do NOT allow for them to BE, because they once made a horrible mistake and were branded for life. Isn’t that crippling and wrong?
Most of us are not literally incarcerated, but in some respect we are. People hold grudges and imprison us with their attitude and words if we allow them. Seemingly very honest and upright people can make a person’s work situation hell, if they are in a position of power. Jealousy and envy are as real today as yesterday and alive and well in the work place. Church people can be this way too — “If you do not do this or that, you will be lost for all eternity!” For me, that is power and control and not allowing for the humanity of a person to be alive and think and make choices. When someone says, “You have been like this for most of your life, you will probably never be able to change”–WOW! I have no room for that kind of person in my life…that much I do know!
All of the criticism in our world could stop, if we just would give one another a chance to be human…be allowed to make mistakes…to correct them…and begin the next moment like it was our first!
The only way to do this, is to understand what love is and to live love and love others. As John says in his song, we cannot give up the dream…”Love is the only dream I know.”
Photo Credit: Jane H. Johann, c.August, 2015, Perennial Garden Backyard; Palmyra, WI.
Tall and stately
the gentle Queen
steps into the world
of dream
*
Steadfast
in her loyalty
Dignified
in her beauty
*
She walks forth
promising truth to all
but deep inside
the evil calls
*
The accolades
are never enough
More is needed
to satisfy the bluff
*
Satisfaction
slips through her hands
like the water
washed upon the sand
*
Meanwhile her subjects
One by one
Fall to their death
While she walks on
*
No rest for her
In a frenzied chase
Forever lost
Never to win the race
*
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It is true that sometimes I write from my personal experiences and sometimes I write from the personal experiences of others…and sometimes my imagination carries me to places, events and situations. I do read a great deal on the internet and in books and I do listen to many stories and situations. And I suppose there is always some hint of truth about my life that occurs in what I write. WE ARE ALL ONE. However, never assume that what I write is directly about me or about my life or my family or the people with whom I associate.
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Disclaimer Notice: This blog contains works of fiction/nonfiction. Names, characters, businesses,places, events and incident are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental, unless otherwise noted.
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