Let Them Be Little: PERSPECTIVE

April 22, 2011

PERSPECTIVE

on this Good Friday, a little beauty and perspective for Easter weekend.

I have wanted to share this photo for over a month. While on one of my morning walks (of healing and looking for beauty), I shot this perspective and fell in love with the outcome.

My desire to share my thoughts on this photo and what it means to me (and why I feel it is such a great lesson in perspective) has kept me waiting for time. But time has not been my friend, and it appears that, at least for right now, I am not finding enough of it!

So, I will just leave you with a couple of things:

The bottom photo is the true perspective (as taken from the camera and from my point of view). The tree in the background is reflected in a little stream. But how I love that tree in the top photo..., coming from a different perspective - doesn't it look like a fairytale tree?! A fairytale tree against a chimerical sky. I love, love, love it! Without looking at this picture from another perspective, the fairytale tree would have been missed.

(Also, do you see the 'M' created by the blossoming branches in the forefront?! Total bonus!)

We each see a situation, a place, a time, an experience, or even another person from our own perspective based on where we are standing (figuratively or literally); our viewpoint, what we have experienced, endured or enjoyed throughout our own lives.

Looking through the eyes of another perspective will lend us to a new and larger view. As we open our minds and hearts to others and their unique perspectives, we add to our own, creating a broader and more clear view.

Sometimes our conclusions will change as we look through the eyes of another and other times our conclusions will remain the same. But I believe - either way - we are enlightened and are led to become more receptive and compassionate as we understand another's viewpoint.

If you wish to see more in these photos, click on them to open and view them in a larger format. There is so much I see in these photos each time I look. Please tell me what YOU see in these photos! I would love to hear what your thoughts are as you view them from your unique perspective.

(Gotta get working on that talk...)

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Comments

I see a beautiful, elegant lady who sees the world in brightness and glory. Thank you for continuing to enrich life for so many.

I love you, this is wonderful.

Posted by: Jonathan | April 23, 2011 at 07:10 AM

LOVE the photos!! I Love them Sooooo Much! I'm glad Mom that you got this shot! Well Good Luck Mommy-On your talk! :)

Megaroo

Posted by: Megan | April 23, 2011 at 10:16 AM

I see pure beauty. Nature's gifts for a Father who loves us. What depth to those colors!

Posted by: Jill Shelley | April 25, 2011 at 03:16 PM

Both pictures are just so surreal! (What an eye you have for beauty, Aunt Mar.)

I love love the first picture-it seems like it's straight out of a fairy wonderland. And it's interesting because a part of me wants to clear the branches away and look deeper into the fairy background, the part I can't see so well. But then when I stop to look at those branches, they really do look beautiful, too!

And I really love the "true perspective picture." All the beauty and magic is still there in the second picture. In fact, that's where the beauty and magic originated. I see it as something like--we are all given so much in life, and the agency to do what we will with it. And if we take a step back and really take a look at the things we have (or situations we are in) we can find the beauty and magic hidden (or maybe not immediately seen) reality.

I guess it just really all depends on what you choose to focus on.

Love these pictures. (The top one is currently set as my desktop background. It replaced one of the ultrasound pictures. Which should say something about how much I like it.)

Posted by: Karen | April 28, 2011 at 09:42 PM