For Unto Us a Child is Born.......

Merry Christmas

Happy Holidays

I do miss you all.  I do.

Editing photos take so long to do and I couldn't do both.

Wishing you so many blessings in the coming years.

The best of this past year

for me:

October 23, 2015

may I introduce

Camden

my

great-grandson

Love to all!

Sandra

Thinking of You Often

Hello my friends!

Wanted you all to know I do think about you.  And too, I do visit blogs sometimes.

My grandson Jonathan and his Dad fishing today in Grove City, Florida.  Ainger's Bay.  Red fish, the caught five.

We are in Taccoa, Georgia, until Tuesday.  Then on to Alabama, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, New Mexico, to El Paso, Texas.  Darrell's son retires from the Army, his ceremony is in September.

And here is my granddaughter and great grandson!

This has been a good year for me.  Health is better since the last stints were put in last September, in Pennsylvania.

I'm on Facebook if you want to friend me.

My photography and editing takes a lot of time and I enjoy it so much!  Sandra Noble Hagan is how I'm listed.

Take care of your selves.

May the best blessings always be yours.

Love you all!

💕 Happy Valentines Day Everyone!

Season of Ice.......

“I have news for you; the stag bells, winter snows, summer has gone.

Wind high and cold, the sun low, short its course, the sea running high.

Deep red the bracken, its shape is lost; the wild goose has raised its accustomed cry.

Cold has seized the birds’ wings; season of ice, this is my news.”

Irish, author unknown, 9th century.

(from A Celtic Miscellany, selected and translated by Kenneth Hurlstone Jackson.)

Season of Ice.....

Mother Earth, Isn't She Grand?! Blessed be the Healers of the Earth ~ Starhawk

Blessed be the Healers of the Earth~

“We give thanks for all those who are moved, in their lives, to heal and protect the earth, in small ways and large. Blessings on the composters, the gardeners, the breeders of worms and mushrooms, the soil builders, those who cleanse the waters and purify the air, all those who clean up the messes others have made.

“Blessings on those who defend trees and who plant trees, who guard the forests and who renew the forests. Blessings on those who heal the grasslands and renew the streams, on those who prevent erosion, who restore the salmon and the fisheries, who guard the healing herbs and who know the lore of the wild plants.

“Blessings on those who heal the cities and bring them alive again with excitement and creativity and love. Gratitude and blessings to all who stand against greed, who risk themselves, to those who have bled and been wounded, and to those who have given their lives in service of the earth.

“May all the healers of the earth find their own healing. May they be fueled by passionate love for the earth. May they know their fear but not be stopped by fear. May they feel their anger and yet not be ruled by rage. May they honor their grief but not be paralyzed by sorrow. May they transform fear, rage, and grief into compassion and the inspiration to act in service of what they love.

“May they find the help, the resources, the courage, the luck, the strength, the love, the health, the joy that they need to do the work. May they all be on the right place, at the right time, in the right way.

“May they bring alive a great awakening, open a listening ear to hear the earth’s voice, transform imbalance to balance, hate and greed to love. Blessed be the healers of the earth.”

~Starhawk from The Earth Path

Happy New Year 2015

And what have we here?  A New Year.  2015.  

2015 has a certain ring to it, doesn’t it.  Fifteen and good things all along the yet untraveled path.

Be excited for the gift of choice.  Choose the passion.  Work the life of your favorite things.  

Happy wonderful hope filled New Year.  Some things will change, some will not.

Weave your passions together it will be fun.

The Summer Day

Who made the world?
Who made the swan, and the black bear?
Who made the grasshopper?
This grasshopper, I mean-
the one who has flung herself out of the grass,
the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,
who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down-
who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes.
Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face.
Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away.
I don't know exactly what a prayer is.
I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down
into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass,
how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,
which is what I have been doing all day.
Tell me, what else should I have done?
Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon?
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?”

from New and Selected Poems, 1992
Beacon Press, Boston, MA

Copyright 1992 by Mary Oliver.

Are we, the ones we have been waiting for???

Are we the ones we have been waiting for? 

“There is a river flowing now very fast. It is so great and swift that there are those who will be afraid. They will try to hold on to the shore. They will feel they are being torn apart, and they will suffer greatly.

Know the river has its destination. The elders say we must let go of the shore, push off into the middle of the river, keep our eyes open, and our heads above the water. See who is in there with you and celebrate.

At this time in history, we are to take nothing personally. Least of all, ourselves. For the moment that we do, our spiritual growth and journey comes to a halt.

The time of the lone wolf is over. Gather yourselves!

Banish the word struggle from your attitude and your vocabulary.

All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration.

We are the ones we've been waiting for.”

—The Elders Oraibi

Arizona Hopi Nation

Our United States belonged mostly to the American Indians.

I often think of how horribly they were, and are treated, and feel shame.

They are mysterious.

Indian Paint Brush...red (google)

I think we are to gather up, remember the beginning earth, and be smart above turning back to the simple life.