SkyWatch Friday - An Opening in the Sky - Quote - Emmet Gowin - Knowing

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Quote: “The picture is like a prayer, an offering, and hopefully an opening through which to seek what we don’t know, or already know and should take seriously.” ~ Emmet Gowin

Thinking Outside the Box - Sun Rays on Leaf - Quote - Pat Conroy - Experience

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Quote: "You do not learn how to write novels in a writing program. You learn how by leading an interesting life. Open yourself up to all experience. Let life pour through you the way light pours through leaves." ~ Pat Conroy

Thinking Outside the Box - Legs Silhouette in Front Loading Washing Machine

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Quote: "The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it." ~Thich Nhat Hanh

SkyWatch Friday - Circle of Light on Top of a Hill - Quote - Sharon Draper - Happiness

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Quotes: "Perfect happiness is a beautiful sunset, the giggle of a grandchild, the first snowfall. It's the little things that make happy moments, not the grand events. Joy comes in sips, not gulps."      ~ Sharon Draper

Thinking Outside the Box - Simplicity

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Quote: "Wisdom comes from the ability to be still. Just look and listen. No more is needed. Being still, looking, and listening activates the non-conceptual intelligence within you. Let stillness direct your words and actions." ~ Eckhart Tolle

SkyWatch Friday - Night Time - Quote - Haruki Murakami - One Stroke at a Time

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Quote: "The sky grew darker, painted blue on blue, one stroke at a time, into deeper and deeper shades of night." ~ Haruki Murakami

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SkyWatch Friday - Heart in the Sky - Quote - Thich Nhat Hanh - Attentive

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Quote: "The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it." ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

Thinking Outside the Box November Leaf, 2022 - Quote - Seeing

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Quote: “Then the trees, after their long silence, began to talk again, in yellow and red. And the days began to shrink under one's very eyes.” ~ Hope Mirrlees

SkyWatch Friday - A Different Silence in the Forest - Quote - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Celestial

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Quote: I hear the wind among the trees playing the celestial symphonies; I see the branches downward bent, Like keys of some great instrument. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Thinking Outside the Box - Fox in an Egg Shell - Quote - Eden Philpotts, A SHADOW PASSES - Magical Things

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Quote: "The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper." ~ Eden Philpotts, A SHADOW PASSES

SkyWatch Friday - Meditation at Dusk - Quote - Patti Smith - Joy

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Quote: “Take care of yourself, drink a lot of water and focus on your work. And don’t be afraid to feel joy. It’s OK—no, it’s essential to be happy in this troubled world.” ~ Patti Smith

Thinking Outside the Box - HAPPY HALLOWEEN - An Egg Looks Like A Pumpkin - Quote - Nikki Rowe - Becoming

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Quote: “It's ok to reinvent yourself as many times as it takes to live out your most authentic self.” ~ Nikki Rowe

SkyWatch Friday - Harvesting Cranberry Bog - Happy Halloween

Image 4309 Harvesting: Wm. D. Zawisowski Cranberry Bog, Stone Lake, Wisconsin - October, 2022.

Image 4313 Harvesting 2: Wm. D. Zawisowski Cranberry Bog, Stone Lake, Wisconsin - October, 2022.

Image 4382 Harvesting 3: Wm. D. Zawisowski Cranberry Bog, Stone Lake, Wisconsin - October, 2022.

Image 3850 Head in Wood Burning Stove, Trailways Inn, 16021 West County Road "K", Hayward, Wisconsin,54843. October, 2022.

Thinking Outside the Box - Onion Skins - Quote - Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart - Layers

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Quote: Believe in your heart that you're meant to live a life full of passion, purpose, magic and miracles.” ~ Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

SkyWatch Friday - Image 2641 - Shadows and Sunflower Field, Perlick Distillery, Sarona, Wisconsin, September, 2022.

Image 2641 - Shadows and Sunflower Field, Perlick Distillery, Sarona, Wisconsin, September, 2022.

Quote: “Everything that is, casts a shadow” ~ Neil Gaiman, American Gods

Thinking Outside the Box - Image 1673B Chicken and Egg - Quote - Louie Schwartzberg - Gratitude

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Quote: “Nature’s beauty is a gift that cultivates appreciation and gratitude.” ~ Louie Schwartzberg

Thinking Outside the Box - Image 2771B The Unexpected, 2022 - Thich Nhat Hanh - Miracles

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Quote: “People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child—our own two eyes. All is a miracle.” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh, The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation

Thinking Outside the Box - GPS Egg - Quote - Anthon St. Maarten, Divine Living: The Essential Guide To Your True Destiny - Inner Voice

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Quote: “Intuition goes before you, showing you the way. Emotion follows behind, to let you know when you go astray. Listen to your inner voice. It is the calling of your spiritual GPS system seeking to keep you on track towards your true destiny.” ~ Anthon St. Maarten, Divine Living: The Essential Guide To Your True Destiny

SkyWatch Friday - Hilltop and Tracks - Quote - Wayne Dyer - Awe and Wonder

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Quote: “To be more childlike, you don’t have to give up being an adult. The fully integrated person is capable of being both an adult and a child simultaneously. Recapture the childlike feelings of wide-eyed excitement, spontaneous appreciation, cutting loose, and being full of awe and wonder at this magnificent universe.” ~ Wayne Dyer

Thinking Outside the Box - Image 3214, Bird's Nest inside of Egg Shell - Quote - Catherine Pulsifer - Miracles

Image 3214 Bird's Nest inside Egg Shell, Stone Lake, Wisconsin, 2022.

Quotes: "Some people think great miracles no longer happen, they no longer believe, but if they believed, their eyes would be open to them as they happen everyday." ~ Catherine Pulsifer.

SkyWatch Friday - Trees Sun Rays and Smoke - Quote - Khalil Gibran, Sand and Foam

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Quote: “Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.” ~ Khalil Gibran, Sand and Foam

Thinking Outside the Box - Shadows in the Night - Quote - Sean Kernan - Cleansing

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Quote: “The process is in the elimination of conceptions and cleansing the mind, then in claiming the awareness and manifesting it in a work.” ~ Sean Kernan

SkyWatch Friday - Quote - Julia Margaret Cameron - Attention

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Quote: “The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.” ~ Julia Margaret Cameron

SkyWatch Friday - Pond - Quote - Mary Oliver - Imagination

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Quote: “So come to the pond, or the river of your imagination, or the harbor of your longing, and put your lips to the world. And live your life.” ~ Mary Oliver

Thinking Outside the Box - Egg Full of Cracks on a Paper Towel - September, 2022 - Quote - Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky - Seeing

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Quote: “Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.” ~ Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky

SkyWatch Friday - The Promise of Fall - Quote - Unknown - Let Things Go

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Quote: "Autumn shows how beautiful it is to let things go." ~ Unknown

Thinking Outside the Box - Layers Inside of an Egg Shell, August 28, 2022 - Quote - Albert Einstein - Joy

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Quote: "Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift." ~ Albert Einstein

SkyWatch Friday - Dusk Behind Out Building on Cranberry Bog, ©Wm. D. Zawistowski, Stone Lake, WI, 2022 - Kiff Holland - Mood

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Quote: “Color creates, enhances, changes, reveals and establishes the mood of the painting.” ~ Kiff Holland

Thinking Outside the Box - Reflections 822 - Quote - Philip Toshio Sudo - "Paying Attention"

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Quote: “When mind and action are separate, zen is lost. We keep the two in sync by paying attention.” ~ Philip Toshio Sudo

SkyWatch Friday - Storm Warning, Musky Bay, Lac Courte Oreilles, Stone Lake, Wisconsin - 2022 - Quote - Neil Armstrong - Mystery

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Quote: “Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.” ~ Neil Armstrong

Thinking Outside the Box - Egg - Blue Moon - Aristotle - Thoughts

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Quote: “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” ~ Aristotle

Thinking Outside the Box - Spiral Egg 8008 - Quote - Steven Covey - Adventure

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Quote: “Creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people’s lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.” ~ Steven Covey

SkyWatch Friday - Musky Bay Sunset, Lac Courte Oreilles, August - 2022- Quote - John Cleese - "Open Mode"

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Quote: “We all operate in two contrasting modes, which might be called open and closed. The open mode is more relaxed, more receptive, more exploratory, more democratic, more playful and more humorous. The closed mode is the tighter, more rigid, more hierarchical, more tunnel-visioned. Most people, unfortunately spend most of their time in the closed mode.” ~ John Cleese

Thinking Outside the Box - Potato Peel Shaped Like a Horse Shoe - Quote - Kakuzo Okakura - Flexibility

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Quote: “The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.” ~ Kakuzo Okakura

Thinking Outside the Box - Dryer Lint - Quote - Albert Einstein - Gift

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Quote: “Joy in looking and comprehending is nature’s most beautiful gift.” ~ Albert Einstein

Thinking Outside the Box - Ridgeview Reflection Image 0663B Ridgeview Reflections - Quote - Freeman Patterson - Seeing

My husband and I have been eating at this restaurant for many years. After I parked the car, I walked past a closed building with brown paper blocking the view of what is inside. Lo and behold I saw this reflection at the very top of the window. The paper had slipped down a wee bit. Now the view outside was inside. Do you see the dots and dashes? My husband is a ham radio operator. I noticed those right away. It could also be a helter skelter hem if one sews. LOL! Yes, it is a remarkable world.

Quote: “Seeing, in the finest and broadest sense, means using your senses, your intellect, and your emotions. It means encountering your subject matter with your whole being. It means looking beyond the labels of things and discovering the remarkable world around you.” ~ Freeman Patterson

SkyWatch Friday - X Marks the Spot - Quote - Julia Margaret Cameron

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Quote: “The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.” ~ Julia Margaret Cameron

Thinking Outside the Box - Image 0816B - Leaf - Quote - Benjamin Cardozo

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Quote: “Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.” ~ Benjamin Cardozo

SkyWatch Friday - Covid

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While getting gasoline at Sam's Club, I saw this automobile in the strip mall parking lot.