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Dear ,
This week I have been confronted with, then started noticing more, examples of my not "paying attention" and things I've missed out on as a result. A couple of weeks ago, I had the thought to write about the experience with purple tulips that died from my neglect. Then this week I suddenly realized I had missed the annual blooming of Wild Irises in Wakodahatchee Wetlands. The stories are below.
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Lastly, before you leave this page, I invite you to check out the information, near the end, on a new book, first-time ever, on OCD - Obsessive Compulsive Disorders - being launched May 11th.
And I invite those of you in business to look at the latest teleseries my friend Adela Rubio is introducing Monday, May 3rd, interviewing 30 top professionals on Conscious Marketing.
Today's Photos -
With tilted head, querying "What do you see?
Where will you be taking me?"
"Nestled in; comfy and cozy, safe
and protected before I emerge."
"Bright light; rhythmic petals, curve and dance,
reflecting many aspects of life."
Today's Photos' Stories -
I purchased the above tulips for my annual tulip photographing, acknowledging the APDA annual fundraiser walk for Parkinson's Research (see Vol 6 - Issue 13). I was really excited with both the richness of color of the tulips and the variety of stages they were in... the potential for so many great photos. I did one photos "session" and then, although they were on a table in my living room for my enjoyment, I TOTALLY forgot about watering them! A week after I purchased them they had wilted and were beyond resurrection.
Evidently I hadn't been paying much attention to them. On my living room table, they had even been in visible range any time I walked through that central location and were there for sidewise glances whenever I watched TV.
Then, last week, when I was organizing photos to share after the Events and Adventures Saturday photo walk I led, I came across the wild iris photographs I had taken at Wakodahatchee Wetlands last year. I glanced at the dates - February and March 2009 - and was aghast. I had TOTALLY missed them this year! Though I have not been walking at Wakodahatchee as much this year as in the past, I certainly had to have passed the Iris location there at least two or three times, and probably more, during this 2010 bloom period.
Granted there may have been fewer this year as a result of the unusual cold spell we had here in Florida, they were still there. This was confirmed by one of the participants in Saturday's workshop who lives near me and had seen them.
In both cases it will be a full year before I can resurrect the experiences, AND they will never be the same.
As an aside, for those who live in the tri-state, NJ/NY/PA, area and love irises, Presby Memorial Gardens in Montclair, NJ has a WONDERFUL collection. According to their website their irises will be in full bloom from May 15th to June 6th. It's a not-to-be-missed "show" for Iris lovers. Several years ago I did my photo/drawing process on several of the photos I took. See Iris Photo/Drawings.
Self-Reflecting Queries -
Given my "stories" above, the obvious queries for today include my invitation to look in to your life and see:
Are there places where you
"know" you are not paying attention? - Listening to your children, spouse, friends, strangers? Being human qualifies you for a "yes" answer here!
Now looking at one or more of those situations, can you identify a pattern of when those inattentive times might occur? You may make a request, assuming an answer; ask for a name and already be posing the next question, without fully paying attention to an answer.
How many times have you been driving someplace and suddenly look out and noticed you've "suddenly" gotten to your destination, or not? Placed your keys, mail, or important papers down someplace and then can't find them. There are a myriad of other situations, I'm sure, that you can uncover.
For me, I am setting a goal to be more cognizant of some of the patterns I might pick up on for myself, set the intention to be more mindful and assume that the "training" will put be in a future place where I won't miss the seeing the irises and
watering the plants. Perhaps, I'll end up putting some easy and fun, new structures in place.
I invite you to also start paying more attention, at least for the next few days, to your own inattentions.
As always, have fun with this and please post your comments on the blog.
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REMINDERS -
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April is Parkinson's Disease Awareness Month. In acknowledgment, this month I am donating all profits from my Tulip enhanced products (clocks, tiles, boxes, calendars, note cards and more) to the Walk-A-Thon fund - 100% of which goes to Research.
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