Celibate and Sane: Just One Photo Today

July 27, 2010

Just One Photo Today

Strangely enough, I've been quite busy, though it's hard to determine where all the time has gone. Probably one of the best consumers of time in the last day has been uploading my best photos to Wikipedia.org. I've made the photos freely available for people to use.

I know how frustrating it is when you want a photo of something and look on the internet, and they're all copyrighted. I can understand people wanting to keep photos to themselves if they make money from their photography, but why not share around the photos and we can have a have a fabulous resource on the internet? It seems such a shame to me that we aren't more giving in our society. Oh well, guess I'll just join the few who do share.

Anyway, I managed to snap about 50 photos today and got only ONE decent one. The birds were hiding in the trees, behind branches, twigs and leaves and flying away just before I snapped a photo. Here's
an Australasian Figbird (male):

Australasian Figbird (Male)

I did snap one of his mate, but unfortunately it didn't turn out anywhere near as well:

Australasian Figbird (female)

She seemed much shyer and hid well away in the tree. You can see here she's looking straight at me as if to say, "Go away! I hate having my photo taken!"

One of the other things I've been putting some time into has been my writing of the Mal-Larci, the Superhero Cat blog. I'm getting enough material here for a small book, and am now down to the final couple of chapters. I hope you can drop by and check it out.

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Personal Quotes from Vicki-S

"Occasionally I find my breakfast a little bitter, and sometimes it's difficult to chew and swallow; though at other times it's sweet, but it’s very satisfying and always sustains me. My most important meal of the day, is feasting on God’s Word and drinking up His presence."

I love me, because God loves me. It's not that God doesn't see my flaws, they are like blazing torches in His eyes, but rather that He sees past my imperfections and still loves me. And who am I to argue with the perfect God that I am worthwhile, that I am worthy of love, and that He accepts me and wants me to be His child, His beloved daughter? When I understood this, I began to accept and embrace His version and His vision of me, and not the world's.

"The silent treatment and sulking are simply two other weapons in the arsenal of the manipulator."

"Often people use the metaphor of a butterfly emerging from its cocoon to describe how we can grow from difficult experiences, but what they don't mention is the fact that at first we start off as an ugly caterpillar."

"We so often just get caught up in trying to just get through each day, that we forget to pause and be thankful for the fresh one that is presented anew and untouched each morning."

"Contrary to what we might think, forgiveness isn't so much about healing our relationship with that other person, but about healing our own broken heart."

"The purpose of school reunions is to show off how much you've achieved in life, to laugh at the once popular kids who've aged more quickly than you; and to wince at the guy who was a bully in school and who aptly became a policeman."

"I've found in many organisations where volunteers are needed, including the modern-day church, that 80% of its people sit back and let everyone else do most of the work, then there's the 10% who actually make the place run, and the remaining 10% just like to whinge about the 10% doing the work, especially about how they could do it better."

"When traced back to its source, every sin, every despicable act, and every war was motivated by someone's selfishness."

"I do not want to think of man, for that would distract me from God. But if I focus on God, I cannot help but think of my fellow man, and each day God keeps the scales balanced so that I have enough within me to do both."

"Overcoming depression isn’t about changing ones attitude, or just ‘getting on’ with things, it’s like removing one’s personal black shroud one thread at a time, with ones teeth.”