Ese’ s Weekly Shoot&Quote Challenge – Happiness

My challenge is my passion – a photo you have taken and a quote, attributed to its author, and of course related to your image. Every week on Sunday I will post a new prompt. 

I want to thank my fellow bloggers who have already become a part of this challenge. Being constantly on the road last week I wasn’t able to post a new prompt but this week things are hopefully getting back to normal again.

Everyone’ s welcome to join! All you have to do is:

– create a post of your own with the title Ese’s Weekly Shoot & Quote Challenge – Happiness;
– include a link to this post also for others to find you.

Let your ideas flow and enjoy!  Ese

Prompt 18 – HAPPINESS

Do you know I don’t know how one can walk by a tree and not be happy at the sight of it? How can one talk to a man and not be happy in loving him! Oh, it’s only that I’m not able to express it…And what beautiful things there are at every step, that even the most hopeless man must feel to be beautiful! Look at a child! Look at God’s sunrise! Look at the grass, how it grows! Look at the eyes that gaze at you and love you! /F.Dostoyevsky/

Yes, there’s so much that makes us happy…

…either it is beauty all around…

…something heart has been longing for…

…or freedom and the whole wide world at our feet…

Do you know what makes you happy?

November 2nd

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piercing silence
raindrops on window pane
entrapped

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The Līgo Haibun Challenge – Battle Of Titans

The Līgo Haibun Challenge has invited us to think about our feelings on “Apathy” OR “Paradise” this week, and I am right on the path. About the first one.

I have felt it for quite some time – there, in the darkest corner of the room. Or in the puddles on the street. Between the supermarket shelves. Or under the bushes in the yard. Silent, lurking at me constantly and getting a touch closer. And a touch more. In an imperceptible way but still very assertively. Like a beast, thirsty for blood but waiting for the right time to jump.

No matter how much I try to move around or turn my back to it, to stare or pretend not to notice at all, its presence can’ t be avoided. Yet I make an effort to try to cause its starvation. I gathered around myself all the moments of warmth and light, held onto the touch of love, smiles, was embraced by memories but…it aways seems to find a way of feeding itself – a tiny tumble and is there to have a bite of the situation. Any questions or doubts raising in my mind were chewed by it, thoroughly. 

Though I had to give it credit about perfect timing – autumn, with so many fallen leaves to slip on and as many raindrops leaving grooves in one’ s soul. A time to hunt.

The battle of titans – my ego and stamina against its forces, neither of us ready to give up. Knowing there could be only one loser left behind. Me. Or Apathy.

battling myself
under the pouring rain
legend of the fall

The Līgo Haibun Challenge

Ese’s Weekly Shoot & Quote Challenge – Loneliness

My challenge is my passion – a photo you have taken and a quote, attributed to its author, and of course related to your image. Every week on Sunday I will post a new prompt.
And…I will be sending a few of you a free copy of my book, Butterfly Thy Name, each week, in due course – when it’s finished!

I want to thank my fellow bloggers who have already become a part of this challenge. Everyone’ s welcome to join! All you have to do is:
– create a post of your own with the title Ese’s Weekly Shoot & Quote Challenge – Loneliness;
– include a link to this post also for others to find you.

Let your ideas flow and enjoy!  Ese

Prompt 4 – LONELINESS

Language has created the word “loneliness” to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word “solitude” to express the glory of being alone. /P.Tillich/

I decided to go monochrome with this prompt – can’t wait to see where it will take you…