Thinking Outside the Box - Cutie Peels

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SkyWatch Friday - Frozen Lake and Evergreen Trees - Quote - Kevin Ansbro - Tears

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Quote: "The snow fell as softly as a poet's tears.” ~ Kevin Ansbro

Thinking Outside the Box - Reflections on Window - Quote - Carl Jung - Karma

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Quote: “It often seems as if there were an impersonal karma within a family, which passes on from parents to children. It has always seemed to me that I had to …complete, or perhaps continue, things which previous ages had left unfinished.” ~ Carl Jung

SkyWatch Friday - Snow, Sky, Person - Quote - Hans Christian Anderson - Ordinary Things

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Quote: “The whole world is a series of miracles, but we're so used to them we call then ordinary things.” ~ Hans Christian Andersen

Thinking Outside the Box - Trees, Circle, Shapes - Quote - Paolo Coelho - Paths

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Quote: "In a forest of a hundred thousand trees, no two leaves are alike. And no two journeys along the same path are alike." ~ Paolo Coelho

SkyWatch Friday - Fog, Bench, Trees - Quote - Om Malik - Silence

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Quote: "I like the muted sounds, the shroud of grey, and the silence that comes with fog." ~ Om Malik

Thinking Outside the Box - Circle and Leaf - Quote - Karen A. Baquiran - Choices

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Quote: “Your soul awakens your mind. Your mind makes your choices. Your choices manifest your life. Your life is your lesson. Your lessons create wisdom. Your wisdom enriches your soul.” ~ Karen A. Baquiran

SkyWatch Friday - Black Bear and U.S.A. Flag - Quote - Oliver Wendell Holmes - Thank You to All That Have Served

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Quote: “One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, one Nation, evermore!” ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

SkyWatch Friday - White Long Horn Steer - Quote - Hans Christian Andersen - Ordinary Things

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Quote: “The whole world is a series of miracles, but we're so used to them we call then ordinary things.” ~ Hans Christian Andersen

Thinking Outside the Box - Connection - Egg - Quote - Christina Rossetti - LET ME GO

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Quote: LET ME GO When I come to the end of the road And the sun has set for me I want no rites in a gloom filled room Why cry for a soul set free? Miss me a little, but not for long And not with your head bowed low Remember the love that once we shared Miss me, but let me go. For this is a journey we all must take And each must go alone. It's all part of the master plan A step on the road to home. When you are lonely and sick at heart Go to the friends we know. Laugh at all the things we used to do Miss me, but let me go. -Christina Rossetti-

I am away from my office for a month. Be back in October.

Thinking Outside the Box - Leaf - Quote - 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. ~ Nhat Hanh

SkyWatch Friday - Musky Bay, Lac Court Oreilles - Quote - Nicholas Sparks - Watch

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Quote: “It is life, I think, to watch the water. A man can learn so many things.” ~ Nicholas Sparks

Thinking Outside the Box - Dried Rose of Sharon Bud - Quote - Confucius

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Quote: “If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.” ~ Confucius

SkyWatch Friday - Almost Sundown - Quote - Amy Leigh Mercree - Create

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Quote: “Life is like a collage. Its individual pieces are arranged to create harmony. Appreciate the artwork of your life.” ~ Amy Leigh Mercree, Joyful Living: 101 Ways to Transform Your Spirit and Revitalize Your Life

Thinking Outside the Box - Image Open Here - Quote - Louise Hay - Lessons

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Quote: "Don't run from lessons; they are little packages of treasure that have been given to us. As we learn from them, our lives change for the better." ~ Louise Hay

SkyWatch Friday - As Far As I Can See 2025 - Quote - Daniel Keyes - Far Away

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Quote: “The world around me and my past seem far away and distorted, as if time and space were taffy being stretched and looped and twisted out of shape.” ~ Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

Thinking Outside the Box - Orange Peel with White Background - Quote - Frida Kahlo - Everything

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Quote: “Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away..” ~ Frida Kahlo

SkyWatch Friday - Clouds August 2025 - Quote - Joseph Campbell - Waiting

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Quote: "We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us" ~ Joseph Campbell

Thinking Outside the Box - Leaf - Quote - Agnes Martin

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Quote: "The main thing in making art often is letting go of your expectation and your idea." ~ Agnes Martin

SkyWatch Friday - Waiting - Quote - Anne Morrow Lindbergh - Gift From the Sea

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Quote: "The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea." ~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Thinking Outside the Box - Circle 2025 - Quote - Time

Quote: “Often it may seem that time has taken us very far from our origin. But if we take only a few more steps, we will round the corner and see a familiar place. And sometimes it may seem that in all our traveling we have returned to the place where we began. But although the view may be similar, it will never be identical; we should remember that there is no return.” ~ Naomi Alderman, Disobedience

SkyWatch Friday - Sunset and Words - Quote - Movie: ANNABELLE HOOPER OF THE GHOSTS OF NANTUCKET

Quote: "Never ignore the silent call of intrique." Heard while watching a movie: ANNABELLE HOOPER OF THE GHOSTS OF NANTUCKET

Thinking Outside the Box - Egg 7152025 - Quote - Edward de Bono - Creativity

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Quote: "Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way." ~ Edward de Bono

SkyWatch Friday - Sunset, Musky Bay - Quote - Carl Sagan - Imagination

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Quote: “Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.” ~ Carl Sagan

Thinking Outside the Box - Egg - Quote - Albert Einstein - Creativity

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Quote: "Creativity is seeing what everyone else has seen, and thinking what no one else has thought." ~ Albert Einstein

SkyWatch Friday - Clouds - Quote - Ansel Adams - Silence

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Quote: “When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.” ~ Ansel Adams

Thinking Outside the Box - Egg in Space with Shards of Egg Shell - Quote - Linda Naiman - Imagination

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Quote: "Developing our imagination, the language of the soul, allows Spirit to work through us as we answer our calling." ~ Linda Naiman, from Creativity and the Meaning of Work

SkyWatch Friday - - Quote - Julia Cameron - Unexpected Insights

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Quote: "Playfulness and delight can lead to unexpected insights." ~ Julia Cameron

Thinking Outside the Box - Quote - Jack Welch - Change

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Quote: "Change before you have to." ~ Jack Welch

Thinking Outside the Box - Quote - Theodore Roosevelt - Comparison

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Quote: “Comparison is the thief of joy.” ~ Theodore Roosevelt

SkyWatch Friday - Silos and Clouds - Quote - Apache Blessing

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Quote: Now you will feel no rain. For each of you will be shelter for the other. Now you will feel no cold. For each of you will be warmth for the other. Now there is no loneliness for you. Now there is no more loneliness. Now you are two persons, but there is one life before you. Go now to your dwelling place. To enter into the days of your togetherness. And may your days be good and long upon this earth. ~ Apache Blessing

Thinking Outside the Box - Magnolia Petal - Quote

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SkyWatch Friday - Sky - Quote - Anna White - Moments

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Quote: "Maybe it's not about having a beautiful day, but about finding beautiful moments. Maybe a whole day is just too much to ask. I could choose to believe that in every day, in all things, no matter how dark and ugly, there are shards of beauty if I look for them." ~ Anna White

Thinking Outside the Box - Leaf - Quote - Gilda Radner - Not Knowing

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Quote:Gilda Radner “I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious Ambiguity.” ~ Gilda Radner

SkyWatch Friday - Clouds 5302025B - Quote - Joseph Campbell - Joy

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Quote: "Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain." ~ Joseph Campbell

Thinking Outside the Box - Egg with Bits and Pieces, May 26, 2025 - Quote - Unknown - Memorial Day Thank you

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Quote: “Our flag does not fly because the wind moves it. It flies with the last breath of each soldier who died protecting it.” ~ Unknown

SkyWatch Friday - Sky May 23, 2025B - Quote - Amy Poehler - Always and Nevers

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Quote: "Limit your 'always' and your 'nevers.'" ~ Amy Poehler

Thinking Outside the Box - Egg Contemporary May, 2025 - Quote - Fran Kafka - Meditation

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SkyWatch Friday - Clouds May, 2025 - Quote - Brené Brown - Joy

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Quote: "Joy is not a constant. It comes to us in moments - often ordinary moments. Sometimes we miss out on the bursts of joy because we're too busy chasing down the extraordinary moments. Other times we're so afraid of the dark we don't dare let ourselves enjoy the light. A joyful life is not a floodlight of joy. That would eventually become unbearable. I believe a joyful life is made up of joyful moments gracefully strung together by trust, gratitude and inspiration." ~ Brené Brown

Thinking Outside the Box - Napkin with a Heart - Quote - Gertrude Stein - Communication

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Quote: "If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles." ~ Gertrude Stein

SkyWatch Friday - Forest Preserve, Oakton Community College - Quote - Leonardo da Vinci - Variety

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Quote: "To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one plant to be found which is exactly like another; and not only among the plants, but among the boughs, the leaves and the fruits, you will not find one which is exactly similar to another." ~ Leonardo da Vinci

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Quote: “Everything is connected. The wing of the corn beetle affects the direction of the wind, the way the sand drifts, the way the light reflects into the eye of man beholding his reality. All is part of totality, and in this totality man finds his hozro, his way of walking in harmony, with beauty all around him.” ~ Tony Hillerman, The Ghostway

SkyWatch Friday - Sky May 2, 2025, Illinois - Quote - Kevin L. Michel - Intentions

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Quote: “Our intentions act as the rudder of our ship, guiding us unerringly towards our chosen destination amidst the turbulent seas of life. Without intention, our actions are as aimless as the leaf adrift on the wind, susceptible to the faintest of gusts.” ~ Kevin L. Michel, The Power of the Present: A Stoic's Guide to Unyielding Focus