Risk - Not Just a Board Game

"To laugh is to risk being a fool. To weep is to risk appearing sentimental.
To reach out to another is to risk involvement.
To express feelings is to risk exposing your true self.
To place your ideas, your dreams, before the crowd is to risk their loss.
To love is to risk not being loved in return.
To live is to risk dying. To hope is to risk despair.
To try is to risk failure.
The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing and is nothing.
They may avoid suffering and sorrow, but they simply cannot learn, feel, change, grow, love or live.
Risks must be taken because, the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
Only a person who risks is free."
- Leo Buscalia

What are you going to risk today?

I often find myself stuck.

In a rut. Non-moving.

Yet infinitely comfortable.

I don't risk anything.

I relax and let life pass all around me and some days this feels excellent.

I am safe. I am okay. I am fine.

Yet some days I silently rage against my own passivity.

Photo-A-Day - February 1-3

Here are my first few February 2012 Photo-A Day Snaps:



Feb 1st - "My View" every morning when I walk my dog, Willow. I love my neighbourhood, right by the ocean! And these past few days have been so crisp and cool but I just stop and soak in the warm beams of sunlight for as many moments as I can. 



5 Minute Friday - "Real"

My good friend over at "Blessed Motherhood" just linked to a great little writing challenege called "5 Minute Friday".

According to the challenge's origins over at "The Gypsy Mama" we should write for five minutes flat on Fridays. We write because we want to, not because we have to. We write for fun, for joy, for discovery. We just write without worrying if it’s just write or not.

Won’t you join us?

1. Write for 5 minutes flat – no editing, no over thinking, no backtracking.
2. Link back here and invite others to join in.
3. Please visit the person who linked up before you & encourage them.

Photo-A-Day Challenge! February 2012

A few blogs I follow are taking part in a
"Photo-A-Day Challenge"
for the entire year of 2012!
(Brittany at Love Stiched, Jessica at FatMumSlim)

I missed January, but I'm going to try and start the challenge tomorrow for February.

I'll post my weekly photos all at once and hopefully bust out of my boring-box and get creative.

If you want to play along Jessica will be hosting a linky party and I've joined up!

The least-kept secret of what I love best about winter - SNOW!

“The first fall of snow is not only an event,
it is a magical event”

Snow.

I love snow.

At the first flakes I see falling, I call my Mom and we gleefully look outside, sharing the joy of winter's gift we've waited for all season. I cannot hide my excitement, nor my happiness, when our Spring-like city is covered in white for a while.

I love to walk in the snow. I love the crunchy-squinchy sound it makes under my boots. I didn't like it when I was a child, it grated like nails on a chalkboard, but I've grown to miss it and now glad don my old boots and crunch away while I can.