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I Wonder….

January 30, 2017 lizaaitken

I wonder what I’m searching for

within this, my time on earth.

Answers being just out of grasp,

maybe happiness and mirth.

But surely there’s more than that,

in those answers that I seek.

Some don’t know their searching,

you can hear it as they speak.

When I was young I didn’t know

I might be searching for clues.

In thinking that I was out of luck

when I suffered the blues.

As I became much older just I knew

that there had to be more.

But what that is and where it lies

I’m still not so totally sure .

I think that I’m a little bit nearer

but will I ever get there.

There really seams so much to find

with so little time to spare.

I wonder if I lived some more,

like another hundred years.

If I’d find those answers I seek

and life my would be clear.

Watching the News?

January 30, 2017January 30, 2017 lizaaitken

I wasn’t watching the news, now I am, I’m stuck between not wanting to absorb all the hate in the world and living in ignorance while others are suffering. Living in my own little world of rose petals might be good for my soul but it doesn’t give me the opportunity to care about the souls of others.

I get it, I’m going to bed depressed again because of the world we live in, but I can’t turn it off because I live here too. It’s no use pretending I’m going to sit in my own little zen garden all day while there are people out there suffering because by the time I open the garden gate it might be too late.

I have to be careful what I take in, I know the news is full of trash. I also know we all live in our own personal echo chambers dependant of what side we sit with but I won’t ignore it anymore. I talk about loving each other a lot in my writing, it’s something I live by and believe that love is the answer, so therefore I can’t shut myself off, after all where is the love in that?

Nature Lessons 156

January 29, 2017 lizaaitken

The tiny petals and buds might be unnoticeable on their own but stunning when they are seen in a group. Sometimes we are stronger as a group as together we can be seen.

~ Liza

Nature Lessons 155

January 28, 2017 lizaaitken

Interact with the world with everything you have so that you shine out. Let your colours glow brightly on the canvas of life.

~ Liza

Nature Lessons 153

January 25, 2017 lizaaitken

Sometimes we recognize ourselves in our friends and loved ones. We look at them and see ourselves. Sometimes in these people we see the bits of us we are missing and things we possess perhaps missing in them, we fill in each others gaps. These are the special people who help us feel complete.

~ Liza

Nature Lessons 152

January 24, 2017 lizaaitken

Life can be unpredictable at times, we find ourselves in places we never thought of, sometimes in quite alien surroundings. It may not always feel right but we are usually somewhere for a reason.

~ Liza

Nature Lessons 151

January 23, 2017 lizaaitken

It’s not necessarily what is ahead of that is important thing in life, but those that have been behind us willing us on. Life presents each of us with a number of challenges, we are blessed when we can say we have friends that stood beside us every step of the way.

~ Liza

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Nature Lessons 150

January 22, 2017 lizaaitken

Sometimes the future is difficult to see, we cannot see beyond the present moment. Perhaps that is because the present is teaching us something even if we cannot always grasp it. The future will become clearer to us when we understand today.

~ Liza

A Matter of Time

January 22, 2017 lizaaitken

If time actually exists, I would imagine it is a reminder of how far we have travelled, of what we have ahead and a reminder of this moment. It would seem there is a time for nature, seasons, tides and light in the universe that connects to our own understanding of time. Like the hands of a clock or face of a sundial, things moves in cycles. Perhaps to show transformation, rebirth and the continuation of things such as nature and energy. Maybe it’s just the connection we have with time in our busy lives that’s wrong? Maybe we should by listening to what time is telling us rather than constantly measuring and racing against it.

~ Liza

Nature Lessons 147

January 19, 2017 lizaaitken

When a flower opens it does so in truth, there is nothing hidden, the flower is awake. To live and work on a spiritual level in this world it requires us to do so in truth and openness. We should, in truth, ask ourselves how much of our own flowers are truly open.

~ Liza