Felicity Wishes - Off Internet
I wish to be happy & continue to be true to myself.
Whats yours?
Would love to hear, post me your wish & remember it all year :-)
Sunday 30 December 2007
What's your wish for 2008?
Felicity Wishes - Off Internet
I wish to be happy & continue to be true to myself.
Whats yours?
Would love to hear, post me your wish & remember it all year :-)
New Year....
....the door opens. We walk forward. Ahead lay deep riches. Swathes of green fields, red poppies. A butterfly delicately lands on an open flower. Its paper wings, white and translucent. Beautiful for only a day. Our life is short in the scope of existence. Brush of an innocent wing and we are gone. To leave an indelible mark. To be remembered. Giving our gifts of uniqueness to the world; to those close. A gift of love. We flow into the crimson pulsating heart of our breathing world. Sea blue, forest green and snow white.
Juliette Llewellyn
30.12.07
Wishing family, friends & Shifting Space visitors a Blwyddyn Newydd Dda! Welsh for a Happy New Year! May peace come our way in 2008. Juliette XX
Review of Seachd: The Inaccessible Pinnacle
"When is a subtitled film not a foreign language film? When it’s the first Gaelic feature to be made specifically for the cinema. And Seachd does indeed look fantastic on the big screen – New Zealand only wishes it looked this good in Lord Of The Rings. Visiting his dying grandfather, Angus (Coll MacDonald) flashes back to his childhood, the death of his parents on a mountaineering trip and the old man’s endless store of rich, mythical folktales. These timeless stories of poisoned lovers, magical flowers and water-horses seem to come out of the misty landscapes of Scotland itself. As Angus makes discoveries, the film continually surprises us with the range of its imagination and a unique structure that owes more to our oral storytelling tradition than Hollywood scriptwriting sessions."
Daily Record (4 STARS)
Daily Record (4 STARS)
Thursday 27 December 2007
Prosperity Thoughts
You may know about a miracle that happened during the First World War on Christmas 1914. This miracle was a shining example of sanity in a mad and violent world. On this christmas slowly but surely all fighting steadily ceased along the front and a strange calm spread. Soon jovial voices called out from both sides requesting a temporary truce and then the sound of men singing carols and songs here and there rang out. In time the unthinkable happened, soldiers slowly emerged and gathered together in no-man's land laughing, joking and sharing gifts.
If such a miracle can happen on such a scale then imagine if such a thing can happen in your life. Today, wherever you experience conflict, disappointment, pain, suffering or upset, invite a miracle into your life. The real question is do you want it and are you willing to accept it.
Prosperity Bubbles - Steve Nobel
If such a miracle can happen on such a scale then imagine if such a thing can happen in your life. Today, wherever you experience conflict, disappointment, pain, suffering or upset, invite a miracle into your life. The real question is do you want it and are you willing to accept it.
Prosperity Bubbles - Steve Nobel
Sunday 23 December 2007
Nadolig Llawen! Or Happy Christmas!
Sam Rowley (United Kingdom)
Whooper repose
Nadolig Llawen!
Welsh: Happy Xmas! to all Shifting Space visitors. Thanks for coming here this year! Look forward to seeing you in 2008! Take care, Juliette XX
‘I’d spent a day at the London Wetland Centre taking photos of the wildfowl. None of my pictures were any good, but then I spotted a resting semi-captive whooper swan. The last rays of the winter sun lit up its feathers. I crouched down and focused on them. The swan opened its eyes and I took this shot just as it closed them again.’ The whooper swan in the UK is mainly a winter visitor from Iceland, roosting on protected areas of estuaries and wetlands. Drainage of wetland breeding sites, or large-scale habitat loss through hydropower schemes, may reduce their breeding range. Also climate change is improving opportunities for intensive farming in Iceland, which causes conflict between swans and agriculture.
Nikon Coolpix 8800; 1/138 sec at f5.8
Sam Rowley taken from Wildlife Photographer of The Year 2007
Saturday 22 December 2007
Friday 21 December 2007
Wednesday 19 December 2007
Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2007 Competition - images from...
Orsolya Haarberg (Hungary)
Ice, sea and snow sunset
‘Varanger Peninsula in Norway is the most dynamic place I know, where the tundra meets the ocean. When temperatures fall, in this case to -20°C, thick ice wraps around the sea. Here, the sea broke through the ice, just as a cloud of snow rolled in and the sun set, turning the sky from ice blue to deep plum.' Tundra is the name given to barren or treeless land in the Arctic region. It is a harsh environment, where primitive and well-adapted plants such as lichens and mosses grow. Some animals such as the ptarmigan and Arctic hare have also adapted to the low temperatures and drying winds, with thick insulating coats of feathers or fur.
Nikon D200 + Nikkor 18-70mm f3.5-4.5 G lens; 2.2 secs at f25
Robert Knight (United States of America)
Ice creation
‘The sea around South Georgia, off Antarctica, is full of icebergs, broken off from the huge glaciers down there. From our boat one day we saw a beautiful formation of cyan-blue pinnacles and ridges. The challenge was to capture something of the beauty and wildness of the scene, while waves buffeted the boat and spray covered me.’ Icebergs are made of freshwater, not saltwater, which is why they float. They began as falling snow thousands of years ago. At any one time there may be 300,000 icebergs in the Southern Ocean, swept along up to 40 kilometres a day by wind and ocean currents.
Canon EOS 1Ds Mark II + 70-200mm f2.8 IS lens; 1/800 sec at f13; ISO 200
Evan Graff (United States)
Skimmers on show
‘Black skimmers are one of my favourite birds, so when I was on Merritt Island in Florida, it was great to see a big flock resting, all facing the same way. I lay on the ground, and crawled towards them on my stomach. Their bills look big from the side, and I wanted to show how thin and delicate they are.’ Skimmers are the only birds where the lower mandible of the bill is longer than the upper one. Flying just above the water with beaks open, they use their lower mandible to trawl for fish. They are also the only birds to have slit-like vertical pupils, similar to a cat, which may protect their eyes from sunlight reflected off water and sand.
Nikon D200 + Sigma 50-500mm EX lens; 1/320 sec at f6.3; ISO 400; tripod
This is an amazing exhibition - well worth seeing! X
Sunday 16 December 2007
Attract the perfect relationship that you want...
In this insightful article, Ewan Nicholson explores how the power of intention supports you in finding the perfect relationship.
The issue of finding love, or even maintaining a perfect relationship, can be problematic and stressful, to say the least. With all the modern match-making methods of internet and speed dating, it should, in theory, be easier and easier to find a perfect relationship. Yet the truth is that for many of us, finding the perfect relationship is hard work, and with little return.
There seems to be a cycle: Being unhappy and single, driven by the desire to be in a perfect relationship with someone and the fear of being alone. This is then followed with being disheartened that the efforts have been fruitless or even hurtful. And then follows a period of disenchanted apathy, where the pursuit of love or even a perfect relationship is supplemented with eating chocolate and buckets of ice cream. After a while, unless we really enjoy indulging in feeling sorry for ourselves, we get back out there, and do the whole thing all over again in order to find our perfect relationship. We are trapped in the dilemma of not wanting to repeat the cycle, but not wanting to give up altogether. So what do we do? How do we attract the perfect relationship at the perfect time?
What we often fail to recognise in this process is how powerful our intention is to find our perfect relationship. Intention is the direct flow of what our heart wishes for. When we nourish an intention, we create a flow of feelings and energies, which contribute to this outcome or goal. In our society, we have become locked in linear time, so that we see our future as this very line and our new relationship as an event somewhere along that line, which we are constantly working towards to make it perfect. Yet like the carrot in front of the donkey, as close as it seems to be, we never really make it there. When you relax and nourish your intention, you are lining up with a way of manifestation as the universe creates. All you have to do is look at how life comes into being. Before a baby is born, it is nourished in the womb. At the right moment, the baby comes forth into its new life.
You probably think, ‘Hey - I have a heart feeling already about wanting a perfect relationship, which I nourish morning, noon and night. So why have I still not got the perfect relationship I want.’ We may not realise it, but often our intention is sabotaged by sub-conscious patterns. You have an intention to attract a stronger relationship, but underneath you may have a habit of feeling sorry for yourself. Then that habit may constantly work to undermine your desire for a close and perfect relationship. So part of the process of unlocking the power of your intention is also being aware of what blocks the flow of your intention. This takes time and a degree of insight and self-observation.
What to do to find this “perfect relationship”
So what you can do first and foremost is relax about attracting the perfect relationship. What I have found in the numerous readings I have done in helping people to find love is that anxiety, stress and depression, don’t exactly help in finding a good and perfect relationship. All the tension does is blur and water down the strength and power of your intention in finding the perfect relationship. If you practise just for five minutes a day visualising yourself in the perfect relationship, this contributes to you attracting someone more than anything, as what you are doing is nourishing a sense of what you want deep within your heart. You are then relaxing and letting the universe do the rest. This does not mean you become passive and wait for the love of your life to knock on your door and have this perfect relationship. Rather it means that you are generating a feeling, a light within, so that when you are out and about, flurrying through work, having a swim, or playing golf, your intention will be attracting the perfect person. When you tap into the power of your intention, when you are saying to yourself daily that you are the creator, you are not a being a victim, you are trusting in the timing of life. This doesn’t mean that you get what you want when you want it. Rather it means that what is right for you and what is right for someone else will happen in its own right time.
Ewan Nicholson is a renowned psychic clairvoyant and author, who has helped literally thousands of people with his amazing gifts and insight
The issue of finding love, or even maintaining a perfect relationship, can be problematic and stressful, to say the least. With all the modern match-making methods of internet and speed dating, it should, in theory, be easier and easier to find a perfect relationship. Yet the truth is that for many of us, finding the perfect relationship is hard work, and with little return.
There seems to be a cycle: Being unhappy and single, driven by the desire to be in a perfect relationship with someone and the fear of being alone. This is then followed with being disheartened that the efforts have been fruitless or even hurtful. And then follows a period of disenchanted apathy, where the pursuit of love or even a perfect relationship is supplemented with eating chocolate and buckets of ice cream. After a while, unless we really enjoy indulging in feeling sorry for ourselves, we get back out there, and do the whole thing all over again in order to find our perfect relationship. We are trapped in the dilemma of not wanting to repeat the cycle, but not wanting to give up altogether. So what do we do? How do we attract the perfect relationship at the perfect time?
What we often fail to recognise in this process is how powerful our intention is to find our perfect relationship. Intention is the direct flow of what our heart wishes for. When we nourish an intention, we create a flow of feelings and energies, which contribute to this outcome or goal. In our society, we have become locked in linear time, so that we see our future as this very line and our new relationship as an event somewhere along that line, which we are constantly working towards to make it perfect. Yet like the carrot in front of the donkey, as close as it seems to be, we never really make it there. When you relax and nourish your intention, you are lining up with a way of manifestation as the universe creates. All you have to do is look at how life comes into being. Before a baby is born, it is nourished in the womb. At the right moment, the baby comes forth into its new life.
You probably think, ‘Hey - I have a heart feeling already about wanting a perfect relationship, which I nourish morning, noon and night. So why have I still not got the perfect relationship I want.’ We may not realise it, but often our intention is sabotaged by sub-conscious patterns. You have an intention to attract a stronger relationship, but underneath you may have a habit of feeling sorry for yourself. Then that habit may constantly work to undermine your desire for a close and perfect relationship. So part of the process of unlocking the power of your intention is also being aware of what blocks the flow of your intention. This takes time and a degree of insight and self-observation.
What to do to find this “perfect relationship”
So what you can do first and foremost is relax about attracting the perfect relationship. What I have found in the numerous readings I have done in helping people to find love is that anxiety, stress and depression, don’t exactly help in finding a good and perfect relationship. All the tension does is blur and water down the strength and power of your intention in finding the perfect relationship. If you practise just for five minutes a day visualising yourself in the perfect relationship, this contributes to you attracting someone more than anything, as what you are doing is nourishing a sense of what you want deep within your heart. You are then relaxing and letting the universe do the rest. This does not mean you become passive and wait for the love of your life to knock on your door and have this perfect relationship. Rather it means that you are generating a feeling, a light within, so that when you are out and about, flurrying through work, having a swim, or playing golf, your intention will be attracting the perfect person. When you tap into the power of your intention, when you are saying to yourself daily that you are the creator, you are not a being a victim, you are trusting in the timing of life. This doesn’t mean that you get what you want when you want it. Rather it means that what is right for you and what is right for someone else will happen in its own right time.
Ewan Nicholson is a renowned psychic clairvoyant and author, who has helped literally thousands of people with his amazing gifts and insight
Friday 14 December 2007
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