Balance and Critters

Lately I've been lost for words, and so I posted this question on my Facebook page, "What helps you feel grounded when everything is loud?" Feel free to tell me what you do in my comments. I'm sharing what helps/guides/calls to me in this post. 

Welcome to 

SATURDAY'S CRITTERS 

and I'm posting to City Daily Photo

You guessed it, dogs are my go-to first and forever. 

"Dogs are our link to paradise.

 They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent."

Milan Kundera 

"The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants." 

Johnny Depp

My grand-daughter's dog, Athena isn't she sweet?

"To sit with a dog on a hillside (or in your living room) on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring, it was peace."

Milan Kundera

How about that four-letter-word, walk.

Some say sad some think perplexed. What do you see?

Hephaestus located at the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden

"Standing 12 feet tall, Hephaestus portrays the Greek god of fire, metalworkers, and other craftspeople. With the gentle features of its mask-like face and outstretched arm beckoning to the viewer, the figure appears both proud and derelict."

Paying attention to those things that surround me.

Turkeys? Just roaming about the city streets?

It does beg the question, why did the Turkey cross the street?

To catch up with his Turkey buddies.

Not one of them seemed to care that I was following along. Probably a bit sad that I didn't have food to offer, I'll know better next time. 

Just so you know, I spoke with some caring neighbors that leave food, protect and enjoy these feathered friends. They've been featured in many stories especially the famous ones, like Gregory Peck.

Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.

Just Add Joy

To tell you the truth I believe everything, 

and anything can bring joy, unless your heart is made of stone.

"Walks work for me. I enter some arena that is neither conscious or unconscious."

Mary Oliver

You never know what you'll encounter. 

Keep WALKING!

At the Huntsville Alabama Art Museum

 "Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life."

John Lubbock

Many things are the strange chances of the world.

What we do see depends mainly on what we look for. In the same field the farmer will notice the crop. the geologists the fossils, botanists the flowers, artists the coloring, sportsmen the cover for the game. Though we may all look at the same things, it does not all follow that we should see them."

John Lubbock

"We ought to follow exactly the opposite course with children to give them a wholesome variety of mental food, and endeavor to cultivate their tastes, rather than to fill their minds with dry facts. The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.

What does it matter if the pupil knows a little more or a little less? A boy/or girl who leaves school knowing much, by hating his lessons, will soon have forgotten almost all he ever learned, while another who had acquired a thirst for knowledge, even if he had learned little, would soon teach himself more than the first ever knew."

John Lubbock

Protecting what matters. It's what most of us do. 

"If we are ever in doubt what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish on the morrow that we had done."

John Lubbock

Walks and wandering about your familiar or new places

 are favorable to me, making me the captain along my trails.

The common eye sees only the outside of things, and judges by that, but the seeing eye pierces through and reads the heart and the soul, finding capacities which the outside didn't indicate or promise, and which the other kind couldn't detect.

Winter can have the perks that motivate you, even if at times you struggle with that idea. Keep moving. 

Walking with purpose,

 but more for enjoyment even in winter.

Dance like nobody's watching.

And live like its heaven on earth.

To dessert or not to dessert.

Common sense is not so common anymore.

Yesterday from within Wild Rumpus Bookstore in Linden Hills.

It's all a matter of perspective, and where you live or where you hang your hat.

When you change the way, you look at things, the things you look at change.

Try having new eyes, and not only new but open.

I first found Linden Hills in 1981 while working at Coldwell Banker.

Oh no, do you have a tummy ache? 

If you in fact have a tummy?

May your weekend be joyful and the week ahead as well. 

It's the joy that will save us.

Thank you for stopping by and gifting me with your comments.

Take good care of you and be safe.

My thoughts, keep roaming places that move you.