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Thursday
Dec172009

« view 12 - love thursday: colours and auras »

Beautiful People *

I have a friend who reads people's auras.  He sees all sorts of colors like green & red & purple.  He says anyone can do it.  All it takes is forgetting everything you think you know & just looking.  I've tried it & even though I haven't seen any colors yet, everyone I meet looks so beautiful when I stop knowing everything, that it's pretty hard to go back to the old way.

 

 

 

* StoryPeople is a site my friend Tracey turned me on to, where you can sign up to have a "story of the day" sent directly to you via email.  The above passage was yesterday's story.

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Happy Love Thursday, everyone.  Please feel free to leave your stories or your links to images or words of love in the comments section, below.

And here's to looking for everyone's auras today.

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December views.  Incidently and related, BlogHer.com asked if they could republish my piece I wrote for view 06, "How I process my images," on their site.  Since I'm a Contributing Editor for BlogHer (and they offered to pay me to republish it), I happily agreed.  You can see it here.

 

Song: Her morning elegance by Oren Lavie.  Words can't describe how much I love this song.

Posted on DateThursday, December 17, 2009 at 12:00AM Comment20 Comments

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    Response: Love puts a bow on it
    at Woulda Coulda Shoulda on December 17, 2009
    I sometimes bitch and moan about things like teacher gifts, and it is primarily because I’m pretty good at bitching and moaning and not, in fact, because I hate teacher gifts. I actually sort of love doing teacher gifts. I like wrapping up multip...

Reader Comments (20)

Hi! I have never commented on your blog before, but after reading about the photo drive yesterday and this post today, I feel compelled. My love comment goes to you. I hope you realise you are the one spreading all this warm fuzzy feeling around the world. I'm trying to do the same in my corner of the world because recently I've come to terms with the fact that all the love and all the spreading comes from oneself and you just need to start doing in to start seeing it happen. So thanks to you. All my love.

December 17, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterHannah

Lovely photographs as always and thanks for Storypeople link.

I'm talking about puppy love over at my space today.

http://giftsofthejourney.wordpress.com/2009/12/17/where-oh-where-has-my-little-dog-gone/

December 17, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterElizabeth Harper

have not been by lately ...but sending some out today...
be love

happy love thursday all

December 17, 2009 | Unregistered Commenterelk

Interesting story about the auras. My sister can do that. She sees everything - people, music, words, ideas, feelings - as a color or mix of colors instead of as images in her head. It's fascinating. :)

Happy Love Thursday!

http://cantgetthere.wordpress.com/2009/12/17/love-has-horrible-penmanship/

December 17, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterKatie in MA

We learned about reading auras in Yoga Teacher training. It's a beautiful idea, but I just couldn't buy into it. Just when I'd think I was seeing something, my science Cindy would poke out and say "that's just the reflection of light, blah, blah, blah". I'm impressed by those who can see them. They say children are really good at this.

Happy Love Thursday!
http://www.elephantsoap.com/2009/12/17/love-thursday-3/

December 17, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterCindy

Lovely post today, I love how you framed the shots. I posted my Love Thursday post here
http://elzabelz.blogspot.com/2009/12/love-thursday-flying-with-love.html

December 17, 2009 | Unregistered Commenterelz

happy love thursday in this holiday season.

December 17, 2009 | Unregistered Commenterkath

I read your blog very frequently and I just have to tell you that I am inspired by the way you write and the way project yourself and the way you live... I appreciate all the love you spread. I just had to comment, as I don't do that often on a blog of someone I do not know. Thank you for the stories. Happy Holidays!
Stacey

December 17, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterStacey

I love this post. And, as always, I love the photos. Here's mine for this week: Happy Love Thursday!

December 17, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterWanda
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