WHILE

[Photo Source: My photo, my camera, a rose in my yard]

(In a surreal maze, while the storm clouds gathered above, my senses were assailed with the sounds and fragrance of a beautiful morning. dht-OCT 2011)

WHILE –

Hope whispers in my Ears –

LOVE murmurs to my Heart –

Faith confounds my Spirit –

Reality confronts my Eyes –

Essence of Life bemuses my Nose –

Salty Tears clog my Throat!

[Dorothy Hazel Tarr - 2011]

The Dream – The Seed

[Photo Source: Google online images California wildflowers - GOD spilled his paints!]

(28 APR 2011 -- At times it is a burden to imagine so many wonderful 'things' and NEVER see them come true. The Dream - The Seed. dht-2011) 

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IF you think in terms of a year, plant a SEED;
IF in terms of ten years, plant TREES;
IF In terms of 100 years, TEACH the people."
[~ Confucius]

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SEEDS -- My maternal grandparents taught me how to tend things growing in the EARTH. This year (2011) I have planted FLOWERS (roses, sweet peas, calla lily, cannas, iris, african orchids, nasturtium, marigold, gladiola, coral bells, forget-me-nots, peter pans, daffodils) and a veggie garden (radish, green onion, green squash, yellow squash, tomato, bell pepper, cukes, jalapeno pepper).

TREES -- I have planted a tree at EVERY HOME I lived in (except for rentals). The Trees in my current home are California REDWOOD trees. (I planted 5 trees—AND there were FIVE already on the property---SO now I have 10 of these magnificent trees in my yard—LOVE'N IT!)

TEACH -- I have been a pupil and student most of my life, and LOVE to learn from others on just about everything and any topic! Anything is NEW when looked at from the different perspective, experience, and perception of others. IN ADDITION, I have been a TEACHER for all my life. I taught my parents how to take care of a new baby (I was their first child).  I taught my grandparents the joy of having a young child (age 4-6) again after raising their own six kids (my aunts and uncles). I taught my spouse what it was to have a wife, BUT NOT how to cherish and LOVE her (some things cannot be taught I found). I taught my daughter the joy of sewing her own clothes (I made almost all her clothes until she was about age 10). I taught in College as an Assistant Teacher to College Professors (Pre-Legal, Accounting, Business, English, Public Speaking, and History). I taught co-workers in the various jobs were the company offered on-the-job-training — many times my employer-company would send me to a class and then I would have to return back to work and teach the same thing to my co-workers on the job.

BUT, NONE of this amounts to a droplet-of-water-in-the-ocean!   Especially, when you compare what GOD (or whatever you want to call the FAITH LEADER) created and planted on this EARTH and the HEAVENS above and all that was made or taught to us by GOD's GRACE.

[Dorothy Hazel Tarr - 2011]

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SYMBIOSITY

[PHOTO SOURCE:  Courtesy of Stephan R Richardson Senior]
 

(6 Feb 2011 –

RECIPROCITY:

There is one word, which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's Life – reciprocity [~Confucius].   

SYMBIOSITY:  

A close relationship where each member Benefits.  [~dht -- My definition—my 'coined word']

And so, a few words paired with a photo courtesy of a friend.)

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Live in symbiosity,

for our reciprocity.

Life's shadow long,

beacons' light gone.

Frailty hinders resolves,

for problems dissolved.

In singular fashion,

destiny does beckon.

Share life's boom,

weather the gloom.

Hold fast to dreaming,

'til final parting. 

Sing loud the lyrics,

for mine own withers.

Fortune rewards the fault,

while drowns the Heart.

Love endurance bound,

by time and interval. 

Where's the mutual,

for our communal.

Grace be the twine,

forever the minds.

Where the rule,

forgiveness' fool.

[Dorothy Hazel Tarr]

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In this offering:

What do you notice about the words?  Their meaning?  Sentence structure?  Pairing of Sentences?  First word, middle, or last words of Sentences?  What words could be substituted?  What connection words added for clarity?  What meaning of your own would you assign to these words, phrases, sentences?

--------------- OR, Why didn't you just say so!  ---------------

The topic is Living together in harmony for each other's Benefit.

The joy in your life may be shadowed with the heavy burdens of yesterday and today, so that the light in your eyes is dimmed.

Your inner strength has been 'taxed' beyond your endurance; and it's so hard to focus and address issues of yesterday, those issues that have resolved themselves, but not to your Benefit.

Fate has a way of getting its own 'way', so why 'fight' the inevitable!

Share your joy with others; what goes-around-comes-around they say, so maybe others will share their joy with you and help you somehow to get through the difficult times in your life.

Don't give up the 'ship' too early; but, keep faith and hope as your close companions, until you at last are laid to rest beneath the flowers!

Put a smile on your face although your Heart is 'bleeding'.

Fate does not recognize the good-bad-or-ugly; those in the 'wrong' may be rewarded and Benefit from their actions-inactions, while you cry your eyes out over the injustice of it all!

The LOVE you hold in your Heart has to be contained, for it must respect the boundaries of time and frequency of contact or respect the limits set by the BELOVED.

Life is not always an equality of give-and-take.

By the grace of God, may we be always connected, if not in body (physical closeness), then hopefully in spirit (long distance or after death).

Where is it written that you have to keep 'turning the other cheek' and forgive transgressions repeatedly—does this make you the 'fool' for trying beyond Hope?

[Dorothy Hazel Tarr]