It doesn't have to be Perfect

what looks good

what's art 

beauty 

and ... 

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Those seconds in time
capture so much.

Story Time.

The last several years I've taken lots of pictures and although I didn't know much about what I was doing, most seem to turn out pretty good for a point & shoot person. 

I still don't know what
I'm doing and that's OK.

As time went on I tried adding words from my books to some of them and seeing it all come together is Fun and very rewarding for me - My Art.

So now when taking pictures I think more about the colors, positioning or whatever it is.

If I added words where would they go, would it look good here or there ...

Decisions we learn as we go along.

What's wonderful for me is when people at the various shows I go to ask if I'm a professional photographer. 

One time a lady took about an hour or more and went through all my photo's and commented on them, also saying her Mom was a Professional Photographer and what I was doing was really good,

She told me not to take  lessons(??)

Another thing that's wonderful for me is the noticing of life nature, gardens, water & the sky.



The awareness of the moment fills me
with contentment and gratitude.


Each one seems to become a gift from the season or location which mostly now are from our yard, garden neighborhood and province. 

I don't need or even want them to be perfect, just to be natural and beautiful as they are on their own that day. 

I've loved travelling and living in various places and enjoyed each for their differences and gifts in the landscape, birds, flowers, crops, people, opportunities and of course the Food.

It's all taught me to appreciate and enjoy wherever Home is at the time and to notice all that it offers. 

Home is, 

where the Heart is

& beauty is in the eyes of the beholder.

The photo's have also become another way

to send Gifts to You.

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What's your Art about?

Take care and Have a great week.

PS. In the past I'd sometimes send my Grandchildren a photo message when I sent a card to them.

I forgot one time - and that seemed more important to my granddaughter than the Birthday cheque.  You just never know ... 💚

I need to get this out of my Head!

I went to bed with a Song in my Head

and woke up with this instead.

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I guess it's normal.

We get a song, idea word or quote in our head and we can't get rid of it.

It repeats and repeats and repeats - how MANY times.

Love My Heart  leaf Tree

Last Friday when I was getting up I got the words, I'm off to bed with - in my head and it kept repeating with different endings.

So I started to write a few down to get it to go away but more came.

I hope you don't mind my sharing this with you today. 

I figured I'd better post it right away or else it will keep going round and round in my head and I'll keep looking at it.

I'm famous at spending hours changing things until it gets published.

Hopefully this will help.

Cabin fever must be getting to me.

It's silly but Silly is GOOD right Now,
and silly helps us lighten the load.

I guess I'm Off to Bed will be the title.

Here Goes

I'm off to Bed
with food in my belly and I've said good night to the telly

I'm off to Bed
to get my old favorite nightie on and cover up tightly

I'm off to Bed
with tired eyes that don't seem to see much anymore

I'm off to Bed
with sweet Lucy (dog) to cuddle cause she doesn't mind if I snore

I'm off to Bed
turning off the outer lights to let the inner ones softly glimmer 

I'm off to Bed
and hoping for once to make some sense of those crazy dreams 

I'm off to Bed
in badly need of sleep and hoping tomorrow I won't feel too crabby

I'm off to Bed
with a window open to hear the songbirds later performing

I'm off to Bed
and on the way I'll ask the stars for another Good good morning 

I'm off to Bed
One more time in hopes I will finally get these darn 4 words out of my head.

Lucy when she was a puppy.

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Hope this is gone now.

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This is from page 159, Moving Forward from the Heart.

Dona Anderson © 2015

WHAT

MOVING FORWARD FROM THE HEART

means to me

When I wrote Simply, One Breath At a Time I had the title right away, and with this book I only had a few ideas for the title until Moving Forward from the Heart came to me at the end, long after all the writing was done.

It was in one of those still, quiet times and it made perfect sense. 

Since completing this book, I can see now that I was unknowingly writing from my heart and soul, and my heart wanted to know more about compassion, hope, the ability to change, and forgiveness. 

My heart wanted to know more about how to heal, open, love and most of all how to move on and forward.

I’m always sharing things on my blog as I learn from life and time, and now I am also learning from all the meditations in this book.

They nudge me to let go of what I need to and remind me to live my life now, celebrate all that I am, have and can be.

They remind me to celebrate others and our beautiful earth. 

They give me strength and courage, and ask me to think, to see, explore and to share.

One of the meditations said it well;

it’s a Place for Messages.

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