Life

Rainy Day Musings . . . Illusions . . .

Rainy Day Musings . . . Illusions . . .

“The world is your exercise-book, the pages on which you do your sums.
It is not reality, although you can express reality there if you wish.  You are also free to write nonsense, or lies, or to tear the pages.”

Georgia Guidestones

Georgia Guidestones

Rule passion – faith – tradition – and all things with tempered reason

September 11 Memorial and Museum

September 11 Memorial and Museum

“No day shall erase you from the memory of time.”

Life Observation # 204 Frogs

Life Observation # 204 Frogs          

I haven’t posted any Life Observations in a long while, almost a year since adding the new blog, Traveling Life’s Highways, posting on that one while I was traveling last year.  During that time on the road I have some new thoughts and observations on life and the human condition so will try to start posting them again here and the https://travelinglifeshighways.com website.  I started posting these observations in 2006 on my Icewind’s Ramblings blog page and need to continue.

One day two frogs were hopping in and out of a watering hole and accidentally hopped in an extremely deep hole.  They tried to leap out, but to no avail, so they began to yell and croak until other frogs heard them and came to help.  The other frogs looked over into the hole and said the hole was too deep for them to help, but both frogs kept leaping up the sides of the hole.  The other frogs, leaning over the hole and waving their front legs, began to yell to the frogs to just give up and die and that there was no hope of them getting out of the hole, but both frogs kept leaping and trying to get out of the hole.  They leaped for hours and one of the frogs just gave up, he was so exhausted and died.

The other frog in the hole kept leaping, but the other frogs, leaning over the hole, kept yelling and waving their front legs for him to stop and give up, but the frog kept leaping trying to get out of the hole.  Finally the frog leaped so high that he was able to leap to the top of the hole and used his back legs to push himself up out of the hole.  The other frogs said even though we told you to give up, that there was no hope of you getting out of the hole, you kept leaping.  The frog that got out of the hole thanked the other frogs for egging him on - the other frogs didn't know that this frog was deaf.

Lesson: Sometimes you have to turn a "deaf ear" to what others tell you is impossible.

Ice

Chihuly at Biltmore - Chihuly Nights

Chihuly at Biltmore - Chihuly Nights

I want people to be overwhelmed with light and color

in a way they have never experienced. - Dale Chihuly

The Long Road Home

The Long Road Home

“What every one of us looks for, but damn few of us gets to see...is just what's over the far horizon.

 The trick is ... to know it when you see it, and an even bigger trick ... is to know what to do about it when you find it.” – From “Last of the Dogmen”

Another Day with Dale Chihuly – Magic & Light

Another Day with Dale Chihuly – Magic & Light

“Glass is the most magical of all materials.  It transmits light in a special way."
-Dale Chihuly

Oklahoma City – Revisited Part 2 - Twin Fountains RV Resort

Oklahoma City – Revisited Part 2 - Twin Fountains RV Resort

“We have been “Traveling Life’s Highways” (seeing America through the eyes of a veteran) over 23,000 miles around the United States and Canada.  For almost five months, we have stayed in over 100 RV resorts including: National Parks, KOA, Good Sam, and many mom and pop campgrounds.  Twin Fountains RV Resort is the best that we have found.”

Memorial Day 2018

Memorial Day 2018

“I asked for all things that I might enjoy life,
I was given life that I might enjoy all things.”