Julanne's Village Jewels

                                                                                                  RED MAPLE PERPECTIVE I love  Autumn! The wonder of this beautiful Red Maple leaf! I also love plaid shirts,especially flannel (must be from my youth in Wyoming!) I have been looking for one with a small-ish plaid. I finally found one. When I look at the plaid design, my eye seems to go to the larger plaid. Looking closely, I can bring my vision 'down' and see a smaller plaid within the larger frame. PERSPECTIVE is after all PERCEIVING something differently, as in looking at something up close and then looking at the background. Notice that in the photo of the Red Maple. It's seeing something from a different point of view. It is an opening of the mind and the heart. I realize that I can create or see  a different PERSPECTIVE whenever I choose to. This is a huge eye-opener and heart opener as well and I achieved this 'technique' from implementing some of the teachings in

                                                                                  WOODS & STREAM MATTERS More and more I am NOTICING what really MATTERS to me. Like this photo of the woods with a sweet little stream running through it. It is one of my favorite things! I'm excited about discovering what  is important to me, what really MATTERS, not just to me but to the world at large.  There are so many areas and categories to choose from now days. I have to be careful sometimes not to get sucked into any seemingly  tempting DISTRACTIONS and allow my mind to wander into territory I really don't deem VALUABLE. Right now and for a while, the world has been in a turmoil and an UNCOMFORTABLE, even threatening state of affairs. I never used to PAY ATTENTION to current events, news and painful events until a couple years ago. Since the pandemic, I have woken up to what really does MATTER. How many lives and nature, property has been affected by those who have very different prio

  RE-THINKING Greetings everyone! It has been a while since I've written a blog due to several bumps along the road, one being hand surgery. It was rather daunting but I'm healing nicely and can do more activities now, namely writing. I have been able to spend quiet time reading, drawing, studying whatever I'm drawn to easily and thoughtfully. I realize that I can make a blessing out of any deviation or set back when I choose to. Fighting it only prolongs the process. I have recently joined a book group on line reading the book, THINK AGAIN by Adam Grant.  It is about just that, THINK AGAIN, helping us to open our minds (and our hearts) to another way of viewing things ! Especially ideas and beliefs we have long held to be 'true' and lasting.  I have never read such an inspiring book of this nature! It is written so well, suggesting LOOKING at a POSSIBILITY of some better, perhaps, easier way of addressing serious conflicts and situations in which we are all living