Pet of the week, Honey

Honey is this week's pet. Ginny and Dave are the happy owners of Honey. 

 

"She's a 9 year old Chihuahua Papillon mix that we adopted in September 2012. Eight and a half pounds of pure bossiness!!! She's so in tune to her surroundings and is in constant protect mode. As if.....    She dances, sings, and makes an "ugly face" upon request." Ginny

Photo courtesy of Brooke via Ginny 

Turkish tea

Turkish cookbook

Turkish Tea

Turkish Lentil Soup recipe

Turkish Cat

Here is a Turkish proverb, "There is no right way to do a wrong thing."

How is that going for you?

At the end of last year, I shared I would attempt a year of no television. How is that going for me? Well, for the first 21 days, it was going well.  Then, I began to slowly slip back into some all habits. A program here... one there... before long, the television was on for large portions of the day.

Now, I am back on track. 

The television has been silent all day. I had to remind myself to focus on doing other things. Read, clean, work, sort... 

I am fortunate to have several new gift subscriptions. Here is the short list of the newspapers/magazines; Economist, Wall Street Journal, and New York Magazine. I am grateful that I have several choices to substitute for sitting passively in front of the TV. This afternoon, I picked up the New York magazine and read Alex Baldwin's article, I Give Up.  If my sole source of news is from the television, I will have a poor substitute for the whole story. I hope you can access it online. You will see a more complete picture of Alex Baldwin. 

Another piece is about the photographer Graham Macindoe. He takes photo of his decent into addition.  The  article is My Addiction Through my Eyes: One photographer's self-portrait of the years he lost to heroin.  This piece is also brutally honest.

The world of fame, celebrity and addiction never provide lastly peace. To me, a reminder to pray. 

Black and white

"It is better to suffer for speaking truth than for not having spoken."

Unknown

Monday Musing

Humility ... 

The person behind the camera has arguably one of the most important roles when reporters do live reporting.  It is their role that allows the audience to become an eyewitness to breaking news.

It is through the lens of the camera that we enter places not always accessible to the public. We see every day history.   We can read about the news but it is the visual that allows us to have a front row seat.

In every workplace there are jobs and occupations that are not seen by the public yet hold great significance. I wonder, do we take them for  granted?  

“There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.”

Saint Augustine

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