HI, all! It’s The Sister!
I was also at Whitewater Falls yesterday While Barbara is an outstanding photographer, she leaves the videography to me.
Here is what I got. Enjoy the beauty — we did!
Tag Archives: nature
Nature as you never saw her.
Found this on Amazing Pictures’ facebook page, had to share! I’m a long time tree-hugger; some of these look like they’ll hug back!
Separation
In 1801, members of the small Baptist church in Danbury, Connecticut, wrote a letter to President Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) congratulating him on his recent election. At the time, Baptist’s were a minority religion. In New England the Congressional Church was prominent. Jefferson assured them that they had nothing to worry about. Their letter had expressed worries about being in the minority. They were afraid they would lose their rights and be forced to become Congregationalists.
A few months later, the President answered their letter. jefferson said,in effect, that the First Amendment to the Constitution had erected a “wall of separation” between church and state that meant Connecticut could not interfere with the Baptist’s religious freedom.
“Believing with you that religion is a matter with lies solely between Man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship. that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should ‘ make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,’ thus building a wall of separation between Church and State.
Jefferson’s metaphor of the wall between church and state became enormously influential, Although not part of the Constitution, Jefferson’s metaphorical wall has been recognized by the Supreme Court as a guiding concept in the relationship between church and state. It has been cited by many American political and religious leaders.
Jefferson’s letter remains a cornerstone, an influential interpretation of First Amendment cause and a cornerstone of religious liberty in the United States.
President Thomas Jefferson
Rainbow
On 9/11 in New York, NY, 14 years later. On NBC Nightly News last evening.
Nature Remembers.
Namaste,
Barbara
A new transliteration
I have found this new translation of the Lord’s Prayer. It was originally in Syriac Aramaic and now it is in English. It is felt that Syriac Aramaic is the closest to what Jesus spoke. Jesus would have spoken Hebrew or Aramaic. All translations are limited, but there has been an attempt to retain some of the Aramaic rhythms.
Syrian Aramaic
“Abwoon d’bashmaya
Nickaddash shmuokh
Teete malkootakh
Nehve zviyanuch ayekana of bashmaya off b’ar’ah
Havlan lakhma d’soonkannan
Washbooklan khowvine wakhtahine ayekana soff chinnan shuokin I’khaiyouine.
Wela tahlan linisyuna
Ela patssan men bisha
Metool d’lokhhe malkoota wakhaila weteshbookta l’olam aimeen.”
English Translation
“O Thou, the Breath, the Light of all.
Let the light create a heart-shrine within.
And you Counsel rule ’til Oneness guides all.
Your One Desire then acts with ours, as in all light
so in all forms.
Grant what we need, each day, in bread and insight.
Loose the cords of mistakes binding us, as we release the strands we hold of other’s faults.
Don’t let surface things delude us.
But keep us from unripe acts.
To you belongs the ruling mind.
the life that can act and do.
the song that beautifies all.
from age to age it renews.
In faith, I will to be true.” —–Amen
My meditation or prayer tonight is:
On The Silence and Stillness in Nature
Through the silence in nature
I attain thy divine peace.
O sublime nature
in they stillness let my heart rest.
Thou art patiently awaiting the moment
to manifest through the silence of sublime nature.
O nature sublime, speak to me through silence
for I am awaiting in silence, like you, the call of God.
O nature sublime,
Through the silence I hear thy cry.
My heart is tuned to the quietness
that the stillness of nature inspires.
O nature sublime, pregnant of divine spirit,
manifest as a prayer, which rises from my heart.
Speak, God, in silence,
this moment my heart is in tune with the stillness of thy nature.
Though the ever-moving life is my nature,
thou art my very being, O stillness.
Namaste, Barbara
Mother Earth is Giving Us a Wake-up Call
We are getting a wake-up call from Mother Earth. It is called climate change. The number of Polar bears is declining by forty percent. This was determined by a study linking the Polar bear population and climate change.
Why, you ask? Well, the answer is simple. Polar bears rely on ice to have access to the seals which are their main food source. They move from ice flow to ice flow. Ice is also used for resting and breeding. The problem is that the ice is melting. As ice melts, we must understand that it becomes more and more difficult to find ice.
So, realistically, the polar bears are finding less ice to feed from, to breed on and to rest on. This is why the polar bear population is declining rather rapidly. As of 2010, according to an article published in Ecological Applications, there are now only 900 polar bears. It is such a sad thing.
Polar Bear cubs need our help with climate change.
We have an urgent call to fix climate control. It is the main reason we are losing our polar bears. Close your eyes, now imagine a world without bears, without any of our wild animals. No bears, big cats, elephants, kangaroos, antelope, or rhinos. We are getting way to close to this being our reality. Now, we need to speak up and demand global action.
Now, on the other hand, we are making some success in slowing the decline of our tiger population. We have had success even where tiger habitats span national boundaries. India and Nepal have worked together with WWF, World Wildlife Fund, to increase the population of tigers. Their goal is to double the population by 2022.
They are using camera trap images to confirm that tigers use three forested wildlife corridors that provide vital links between protected areas across both sides of the international borders.
Bangladesh has hosted the Second Conference of the Global Tiger Recovery Program. They will do a population count in 2016. So this news is good but there is much to do. You could go overseas and help. You could join the WWF and donate money to save the wild animals. You could work within your own communities to improve climate change. Action is needed. Voices need to be raised to our elected officials here in America.
This world belongs to each and everyone of us. That includes you and I. It also includes our neighbors and our communities. And it includes the animals we share the planet with.
Wild Tigers at Play
Severe Weather
Today, my friends has been the kind of day we read about but don’t usually experience. We have had severe weather and my WiFi was out. It is on again. My phone died. My IPad updated and nothing was working. I will stop here. I am dedicating Jim Morrison’s song to my day because it is making it the day better already. I also received a book of prayers in the mail and that also helps. Tomorrow will be a bright new day and I have a drumming circle to attend in the afternoon. So I am sending all of you my best wishes and many blessings. Hugs, Barbara
