There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
–R. Buckminster Fuller
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Kaleidoscope #199
The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
–Wendell Berry
Below is the original photo used to create this image. This is an image from Pixabay.
Kaleidoscope #198
A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
–Gautama Buddha
Below is the original photo used to create this image. All I can say, is sometimes you have to look down to see a rainbow.. I caught this oil-slick rainbow at dusk after a rain just outside my office building with no special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my smart phone.
Kaleidoscope #197
Your dignity can be mocked, abused, compromised, toyed with, lowered and even badmouthed, but it can never be taken from you. You have the power today to reset your boundaries, restore your image, start fresh with renewed values and rebuild what has happened to you in the past.
–Shannon L. Alder
Below is the original photo used to create this image. It’s water flowing along the sidewalk into a storm drain. This was taken in 2016 on a bright fall afternoon, no special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my Kodak Share digital camera.
Kaleidoscope #196
It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.
–Anaïs Nin
Below is the original photo used to create this image. It’s my car’s engine, no special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my smart phone.
Kaleidoscope #195
We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise, we harden.
–Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Below is the original photo used to create this image. I found this container of pansies on a lunchtime walk around downtown Richmond, VA. No special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my Kodak Share digital camera. And it’s even a little blurry…
Kaleidoscope #194
People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.
–Audrey Hepburn
Below is the original photo used to create this image. It’s of the Benjamin Franklin Bridge in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, taken from my hotel window in December, 2017 while visiting family before Christmas. No special lighting or effects, just a snap from my smart phone.
Kaleidoscope #193
Renew, release, let go. Yesterday’s gone. There’s nothing you can do to bring it back. You can’t “should’ve” done something. You can only DO something. Renew yourself. Release that attachment. Today is a new day!
–Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Below is the original photo used to create this image. It’s a gorgeous sunset taken outside of Mesa, Arizona in November, 2008 at my grandparents’ 50th anniversary party. If you look closely, you can make out saguaro cacti. A simple snap from my Kodak Share camera.
Quote of the Day – You always pass failure…
You always pass failure on your way to success.
–Mickey Rooney
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Kaleidoscope #192
DeWitt: Loneliness leads to nothing good, only detachment. And sometimes the people who most need to reach out are the people least capable of it.
–Jane Espenson
Below is the original photo used to create this image. I found this blooming redbud on a lunchtime walk around the Richmond capital buildings. No special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my Kodak Share digital camera. I like how the background came out a little blurry…
D.M. Sessous: writer, artist & dreamer 