I haven’t had much time to upload any videos. I have so much footage from my butterfly garden that I would like to share. All day today, I was editing video for my brother’s dermatology site and stumbled upon this footage mixed in with his videos. I took some time to edit it because it was timely.
Tag: butterfly
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Dark Matter & Caterpillars
Today, I was going to write a post about an observation I had in my butterfly garden. After I took some pictures, I scribbled some notes on a sticky pad. Just as I was going to sit and write this evening, my puppy, Maya, had grabbed it from my desk. She chewed it up and now laid on my sofa in shambles.As I unraveled the paper, the ideas that came to my mind were more visible: cleaning the weeds, caterpillars are flexible, hanging upside down and another random note about some colorful rocks that I saw the other day.
My work life has been kind of like that sticky paper. It got torn apart and now with new ideas, I am attempting to unravel it. Yet, there are some missing pieces. I can’t see how the whole picture will play out.
As I was observing the lump of paper next to Maya, I saw a tweet from @chrisbrogan linking this site called Dark Matter Matters. I said to myself, “Forget about my sticky note.” As I was reading Chris Gram’s “About page”, I thought there could be a connection to my random thoughts and dark matter. (more…)
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A Whirlwind in 10 Days
Blanca Birthday with Family Life never ceases to amaze me. Since I have made a big emphasis on this blog to trust and let go in the midst of chaos, I am very conscious that I have to be walking this talk. A lot has happened since I announced the shedding of my realtor identity at the AWCS meeting 10 days ago. In a nutshell, I got offered two internet marketing consultant jobs, saved a turtle, got beautified with skin treatments, Farrah Faucett, EdMcMahon and Michael Jackson died, got a new puppy, celebrated my birthday for two days with my family and friends and got a referral commission I wasn’t expecting.
Because the sun is shining and beckoning me to absorb the rays of this beautiful day, I am going to go out and continue enjoying my weekend with my son. And hopefully this week , I can update you on details of some of my stories. The new addition to the family is Maya. She is a mix of Chihuahua and Alaskan Malanut. It is a very odd combination. I took one look at her eyes and fell in love with her. She is a gift from my friend, Larue, also my plumber for 15 years.
Also, another visible chryssalis is shaping it wings and will become a butterfly in about a week.
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Transformation Takes Time
Pipevine Swallowtail Butterfly In My Garden Today The other night I went to a party with one of my best friends. We have been friends from high school. She too has encountered a huge change in her career as a mortgage broker for over 20 years. She transitioned this year into insurance sales which has required a tremendous amount of studying. It is a sales job in a whole new field. She shared with me the stress the prior job loss caused and huge effort it has been to support her family. Even though she made a lot of money in the past and had to start from scratch again, she is dedicated, focused and confident that she will succeed. And I know she will.
I told her to take a break for a week to gather her energies up again because she was feeling a bit stressed. She hasn’t exercised in a while or gone out too much in nature to zen out lately. Her main focus has been studying to learn the new business. One of the ingredients in my de-stressing that I mentioned in my last post is being in nature. We are lucky to have beautiful sunshine and beaches here in Miami. I push myself to go there a lot when I get frazzled. Besides that, one of my greatest joys has been my butterfly garden. (more…)
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Tending the Garden
I haven’t tended to my garden much since my surgery in June because I couldn’t. I was able to observe it walking around with my crutches and walker while I recuperated. But I couldn’t take out all the weeds that were accumulating around my passion vine, which attracts butterflies or my bleeding heart vine which has a beautiful red flower.Today I took the plunge and while the vines were growing amazingly, the weeds were entangled in these vines. I had to tend to my garden because it seemed the garden was becoming a mess. The same goes with all our relationships. If we don’t tend to them, and disentangle the “weeds”, life suddenly becomes chaotic. As you tend and disentangle and clean out the debris and the bad weeds, the beauty and simplicity of the good vines shine freely, so the beauty of them can be appreciated.
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Its a Beautiful Day..New Life Abounds
I took this picture couple of months ago. I was crouching down taking a picture of the caterpillar against the sky when all of a sudden, this butterfly appeared and I snapped the picture. It was a magical moment for me. That is how life should be…full of many magical moments…why not?
Today feels like a refreshing day full of sunshine.
