Tag: Trees
Nature’s Renewal Animal Sanctuary
Nature Is Where We Renew Our Souls
“In quietness and confidence shall be your strength.”
Isaiah 30:15
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A Golden Opportunity!!!
“You are a child of the Universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.”
Max Ehrmann
OK, so the joke about this cover photograph has to do with the beginning of sharing the original manuscript with friends and family, with the first draft completed September 2010. My good friend, Debbie Standard, arrived at Arrowhead Parable Christian Center with her first copy of the story in manuscript format and traded it in for the published book! You gotta love it!
My cousin, Michelle Michalek, arrived early for her copy of Chert’s story. The book signing had a tremendous outpouring of my extended family which warmed my heart and soul! So very thankful for their encouragement and support in this labor of love!
So here is the real “synchronicity” about the dress I am wearing. The top beaded neckline of the dress that I made is taken from a party dress of my Grandmother Marge’s. She was my first editor of the manuscript. As a word lady and Scrabble, Upwords and Crossword Wiz, she also had the married name from her first husband of Margaret Mitchell, the author at the time of “Gone With The Wind.” Her use of words has been a strong influence in the building of becoming an author in my life. Thank you, Grandma! Ya Ti Muc Muc Muc Lubiem!!!
As Aunt Kathy Stolarcyk walked in and saw me, she smiled ear to ear and asked me if that was Grandma Marge’s dress, as I told her it was the collar from her dress. The beaded dress is what Grandma Marge wore to Aunt Kathy and Uncle Mike’s wedding! I could feel wedding energy in the dress, and now know where exactly she had worn it!

As some of you have seen from a previous posting, I painted a hummingbird on the yellow dress of my Grandmother Marge’s and utilized all the beadwork from the hemline of that dress to frame the picture. Interestingly enough, my hummingbirds have been coming back around to the feeder this week and I am reminded of my beloved Grandmother Marge whose first anniversary is on the Blessed Mother’s Assumption. Ironically, my Grandmother Susie Marchell also passed on that sacred day as well, with Mom’s anniversary being Easter Sunday, so I have been very blessed with such spiritually strong, powerful and loving women figures in my life!
“The color PINK represents caring, compassion, unconditional love and understanding.”
“The color YELLOW symbolizes friendliness, warmth and honesty; displaying light, hope and encouragement.”
My cousin Michelle Stolarcyk arrived as we shared our stories about Grandpa Stolarcyk and his crazy wild pants that he would wear as well as Chert’s love of Battaglini Bread from my Uncle Joe and Aunt Carol’s bakery, where no dogs are allowed!
Now here is another “synchronicity” story about Becky Tinker, a previous co-worker with my Mom who happened to move across the street from me a few years ago! We have great fun together and always feel my Mom’ Joyous Spirit hovering around us when we go for our walks around the neighborhood! I offered Becky the manuscript, but she wanted to book instead!
Thank you to Craig Hall at Arrowhead Parable Christian Store, to all the people who came to visit and hear about Chert’s story and purchase a book for themselves or family and friends! I hope that Chert’s story warms their hearts and gives them some insight into the short and purposeful lives of angels in furry clothing!
“My Father’s Greatest Gift: Life Lessons from a Black English Labrador Retriever” is available online through Barnes and Noble, Amazon, etc., as well as my website:
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An Opalescent New Year!!!
“I accept that I hold the golden keys to my Heaven on Earth. I accept that I create my reality, by the power of my word. My word is good, my heart is pure. By the loving power of my pure word, I now recognize and accept my Higher Self as the Holy Spirit.”
The Sophia Code – Kaia Ra
“I accept that I hold the golden keys to my Heaven on Earth. I accept that I create my reality, by the power of my word. My word is good, my heart is pure. By the loving power of my pure word, I now recognize and accept my Higher Self as The Great Counselor.”
The Sophia Code – Kaia Ra
“I accept that I hold the golden keys to my Heaven on Earth. I accept that I create my reality, by the power of my word. My word is good, my heart is pure. By the loving power of my pure word, I now recognize and accept my Higher Self as The Peace that Passeth All Understanding.”
The Sophia Code – Kaia Ra
“I accept that I hold the golden keys to my Heaven on Earth. I accept that I create my reality, by the power of my word. My word is good, my heart is pure. By the loving power of my pure word, I now command my Higher Self to activate the crystalline divine qualities of Keycode 4 of the Sophia Code within me as the new operating system for my carbon-based DNA. By the power of my I am Presence, it is commanded that my heart spiral open to now flourish and blossom as The Rose.”
The Sophia Code – Kaia Ra
“By the power of my I Am Presence, it is commanded that my Higher Self anchor my commitment to live in alignment with fulfilling my destiny throughout my entire body and being now.”
The Sophia Code – Kaia Ra
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Lady_of_Medjugorje
“Therefore go and make disciples in all the nations.”
Matthew 28:19
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©Bible
©Blessed Mother Mary Statue, Medjugorje, Yugoslavia
Winter Wonderment!
“Purity”
“Dawn”
“Hillside”
“Jaco Kitty”
“Happy Dog”
“Relaxation”
“Picnic”
“Birds Eye View”
“Rejuvenation”
“Restful”
“Peaceful”
“Rainbow Orbs”
“Evergreen”
“Footprints”
“Acorn Collection”
“Expansive”
“Glimpses”
“Steely Sky”
“Amber Sky”
“Garnet Sky”
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On Lily’s Pond
A rejuvenating retreat with Lily, Bitsy, Cherish and Zelda!!!
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Bicycling Lewes-Rehoboth Trails
Regional Bicycle Loop Route
Junction and Breakwater Trail, Gordons Pond Trail, Cape Henlopen State Park
Lewes Beach – Rehoboth Beach, Delaware
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A Holistic Harvest on Keuka Lake!
“Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.”
John Muir
“No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty. Whether as seen carving the lines of the mountains with glaciers, or gathering matter into stars, or planning the movements of water, or gardening – still all is Beauty!”
John Muir
“Everything is flowing — going somewhere, animals and so-called lifeless rocks as well as water. Thus the snow flows fast or slow in grand beauty-making glaciers and avalanches; the air in majestic floods carrying minerals, plant leaves, seeds, spores, with streams of music and fragrance; water streams carrying rocks… While the stars go streaming through space pulsed on and on forever like blood…in Nature’s warm heart.”
John Muir
“One is constantly reminded of the infinite lavishness and fertility of Nature — inexhaustible abundance amid what seems enormous waste. And yet when we look into any of her operations that lie within reach of our minds, we learn that no particle of her material is wasted or worn out. It is eternally flowing from use to use, beauty to yet higher beauty; and we soon cease to lament waste and death, and rather rejoice and exult in the imperishable, unspendable wealth of the universe, and faithfully watch and wait the reappearance of everything that melts and fades and dies about us, feeling sure that its next appearance will be better and more beautiful than the last.”
John Muir
“How little note is taken of the deeds of Nature! What paper publishes her reports? …. Who publishes the sheet-music of the winds, or the written music of water written in river-lines? Who reports and works and ways of the clouds, those wondrous creations coming into being every day like freshly upheaved mountains? And what record is kept of Nature’s colors – – the clothes she wears – of her birds, her beasts – her live-stock?”
John Muir
“Nature is always lovely, invincible, glad, whatever is done and suffered by her creatures. All scars she heals, whether in rocks or water or sky or hearts.”
John Muir
“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.”
John Muir
“Amos the Bordeaux Mastiff descendant of Turner and Hooch (aka Beasely).”
Thank you Paul and Sharon Kayes!
http://www.bighousebordeaux.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turner_%26_Hooch
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©John Muir
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©Turner and Hooch
Special thanks to Paul and Sharon Kayes and meeting Amos the Bordeaux Mastiff!
A Retreat At Mt. St. Francis Hermitage
A Retreat At Mt. St. Francis Hermitage
A Rejuvenating Weekend
“Delicately we breathe in the crisp air and splendid colors washing over our souls in magical bliss.”
L.D. Marchell
“Oh to be as content as a cat; Meditative purring and soothing at that!”
L.D. Marchell
“The conscious pause, observing. The ripples flow in soft rhythms. Alignment.”
Lisa Ann Carucci Lash
“Stabbing, swirling, rapidly rushing; Carrying us ever swiftly to a new dimension. One must be open to allowing the seasons of life.”
L.D. Marchell
“When the Holy Spirit lays something in your heart, move without hesitation. You have no idea who may be depending on your immediate obedience.”
The Word For The Day
“So ever softly whispers ring; Across the timelines loved ones sing. Showering blessings bountiful store; Imagining these precious ones; Is what conscious awareness is for.”
Connie Andrea Marchell
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©Lisa Ann Carucci Lash
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Honorable mention to Philip and Tigger!
Wonderment at Watkins Glen State Park
“We know that God is everywhere; but certainly we feel His presence most when His works are on the grandest scale spread before us; and it is in the unclouded night-sky, where His worlds wheel their silent course, that we read clearest His infinitude, His omnipotence, His omnipresence.”
Charlotte Bronte
“I avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.”
Charlotte Bronte
“You know full well as I do the value of sisters’ affections: There is nothing like it in the world.”
Charlotte Bronte
“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
Charlotte Bronte
“Life is so constructed that an event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.”
Charlotte Bronte
“I believe in some blending of hope and sunshine sweetening the worst lots. I believe that this life is not all; neither the beginning nor the end. I believe while I tremble; I trust while I weep.”
Charlotte Bronte
“Better to be without logic than without feeling.”
Charlotte Bronte
“Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.”
Charlotte Bronte
“Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.”
Charlotte Bronte
“If you are cast in a different mold to the majority, it is no merit of yours; nature did it.”
Charlotte Bronte
“But this I know; the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master — something that at times strangely wills and works for itself. If the result be attractive, the World will praise you, who little deserve praise; if it be repulsive, the same World will blame you, who almost as little deserve blame.”
Charlotte Bronte
“To see and know the worst is to take from
fear her main advantage.”
Charlotte Bronte
“The writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master- something that at time strangely wills and works for itself.”
Charlotte Bronte
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“Novelists should never allow themselves to weary of the study of real life.”
Charlotte Bronte
“I would always rather be happy than dignified.”
Charlotte Bronte
“Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive!”
Charlotte Bronte
“I would always rather be happy than dignified.”
Charlotte Bronte
“Enjoy the blessings Heaven bestows, Assist his friends, forgive his foes; Trust God, and keep his statutes still, Upright and firm, through good and ill; Thankful for all that God has given, Fixing his firmest hopes on heaven; Knowing that earthly joys decay, But hoping through the darkest day.”
Charlotte Bronte
“Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one’s weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.” is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one’s weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.”
Charlotte Bronte
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©Charlotte Bronte
*Photograph of me taken by Lisa Lash
A Walk to Finch Hollow
“On a day such as today, may it live on forever in your heart.”
L.D. Marchell
“Precious are the moments that occur between the breath and warm the soul.”
L.D. Marchell
“Travel lightly, step softly, live within the wonderment of the present.”
L.D. Marchell
“Mosaic colors of light dancing upon the trees sing joyously in the breeze which hushes our thoughts to breathe.”
L.D. Marchell
“Are dogs the angels in furry clothing which know us better than we know ourselves – our best friend for now and always.”
L.D. Marchell
“I will lift up my eyes to the mountains; From where shall my help come? My help comes from the Lord who made heaven and earth.”
Psalm 121:2
“Only God can make a tree.”
Grandma Marge Stolarcyk
“Sing to the Lord a new song!”
Psalm 96
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Welcome to Chenango Valley State Park!
“When sparkles dance upon the water, our souls twinkle like stars in the evening sky.”
L.D. Marchell
“Nature’s infinite palette splashes vibrancy upon the autumn day.”
L.D. Marchell
“We are drawn back to Mother Gaia, connected with her compassion and ever-constant love for all; in our returning back, we become one united with her; calling us to love her as she has unconditionally given infinitely and ceaselessly to us.”
L.D. Marchell
The breath of life, passionate, rapturous, invigorating, revitalizing; Let us welcome God’s love with open arms.”
L.D. Marchell
“All roads lead home to where the heart is.”
L.D. Marchell
“Friendship is two spirits allowing each other to soar and fly.”
L.D. Marchell
“Take time to travel apart for the answers you seek are within.”
L.D. Marchell
“Faith is believing in things not yet seen but felt with the heart.”
Hebrews 11:1
“Walk ever softly, tenderly taking in the wonderment of the present.”
L.D. Marchell
“Wherever your heart is, there also is your home.”
L.D. Marchell
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