From the Heart
Can you smell these beauties,
Just by looking at this shot.
My room is full of their sweet scent,
the air in here is hot.
I love my weekly flowers,
they mean the world to me.
Thought I’d share them in a post,
so everyone can see.
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Yesterday I took a walk locally to try and catch what I could of the remaining flowers in my local park. I don’t have a garden, although I do have two window boxes and pots on the front steps. The window boxes I plant twice a year, summer flowers for my mum and a winter selection for my step father, he was Scottish so there has to be heather. Both of them loved their flowers, nature and wildlife so it’s fitting I plant for them. I’m on the first floor so I’m hopeful the frost won’t hit too early.
I love nature, you might have got an inkling of this from my blog, but this is new for me, well newish anyway. There was a time I hated looking at photos without someone in them, I couldn’t see the point, now I’m totally different, I try to reduce the traffic and that includes people. I thought I would share some of the photos I have taken lately on my phone as a tribute to Autumn. I’m going to have to hold some back of course for my daily posts 😉
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We are all at different stages of growth, age is certainly a consideration, but so are our experiences as we travel through life. Some of us will face many challenges, that will, if we learn the lessons from them, enhance our growth and development. Others, who may appear to have an easy life, might be much farther behind because they have not shared those same experiences. We cannot judge others by what they know or don’t know because we all receive individual lessons connected to our own journey, each of our spirits grows at the pace as it should.
~ Liza
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Give out the goodness and love you have stored inside of you, for what you give out is always replenished. You are an open channel and when you treat others with love and kindness, it creates more positivity in the world, which is of course your world.
~ Liza
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To learn how to love, you have to experience love. A love that’s unconditional and not given for any other reason than for love itself. Love does not make demands, love does not control, love is charitable, unquestionably true and full of goodness.
~ Liza
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Background, environment and upbringing all affect how we view the world. Irrespective of where you come from, stand out from the crowd, make up your own mind and speak you own truth.
~ Liza
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When we first plant a flower,
our wish is that it will grow.
With nurture and love in abundance,
it’s spirit should start to show.
Ensuring that all its emotions,
are balanced with care that we give.
Giving it room to maneuver,
to spread itself out as it lives.
But what of the one in the wild woods,
trapped in among the weeds.
Fighting for its very existence,
an accident of blowing seeds.
This child of the flower kingdom,
born into a life full of tests.
Smothered by those that surround it,
in soil that’s not really the best.
Come the end of the season,
when it’s time for the great flower show.
Which one will receive adoration,
the one loved or struggling to grow.
Nature is full of examples,
of tests that are lessons to me.
When I watch as that small flower struggles,
it’s not really all that I see.
Sometimes emotions come up that we don’t understand, emotions that have been buried for a long time spring to life. Accept and acknowledge these emotions and sit with them for a while, before letting them go.
~ Liza
There are so many layers that make us who we are, layers that cover the true self. Recognising and acknowledging these layers as we peal them away is the first step to our understanding.
~ Liza
As we transition into winter,
with harsher times in store.
We hold onto our memories,
of summer more and more.
As blossoms close for winter,
by falling on the ground.
We know with certain surety,
they’ll be coming back around.
For our life is a big circle,
the message here so clear.
Hold memories of your loved ones,
so very, very near.
For they are just around the corner,
only around the next bend.
We will see them on the other side,
as nothing really ever ends.
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