For the Lens-artists photo challenge this week the theme soft.
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Closing with two quotes. Both quotes have ideas that suggest a soft approach to coping with mistakes and improving.
Sometimes folks will dispense grace and love easily to other people – but when it comes to their own life – they can sometimes be firm or come down very hard on their choices and mistakes. Let’s remember that sometimes softness assuages much – – the old saying that “a soft answer turns away wrath” could apply to treatment of self. As we are assessing and problem solving after mistakes or setbacks – let’s lighten up and improve – and trust that “all things work together FOR good” even if they were not good at the time. Sometimes errors can lead to many great things, including being humble and teachable.
Thanks for your visit today.
Care to join in with the Lens-Artists?
- Amy of https://shareandconnect.wordpress.com/
- Patti of https://pilotfishblog.com/
- Ann-Christine (Leya) of https://lagottocattleya.wordpress.com/
- Tina of https://travelsandtrifles.wordpress.com/
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You’ll know that I like those first plants when you see one of my shots and I like the POV of the second. Having plants around can be very healthy as well as aesthetically pleasing and nice when you can’t be in nature. Your quotes remind me of a Thomas Edison quote: “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
janet
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good morning Janet
that edison quote was a great fit and reminds us of grit and perseverance on top of “failing forward” and all that!
i am excited to see your post and i was originally going with a good post for this theme – but had to use archive folders as i am trying the old “batching” photos with a new approach to blogging this year (so far so good)
be over soon
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Great quote, but the reality is that Edison hired teams of engineers who are the ones who did the vast majority of the work. Edison was a shrewd businessman but not much of an engineer.
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Thanks for pointing that out, Khurt (sorry, I don’t know how to get the umlaut in), but I think the sentiment conveyed by the quote remains true, even if the failures weren’t his alone.
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Wonderful images of natural softness, I love the sensation of stroking my hands through grasses like these! Fantastic quotes of mistakes and how true that it is not a matter of not making any, that is impossible, rather how one uses the gift of learning from them! Terrific post, Yvette!
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annika – the way you write that really connected the physical sensation of softness and i think i was more on the visual – so thanks for that!
and you also made a good point – what human will ever not make some sort of mistake – sometimes there are different levels of mistakes – and we can learn – 🌱🌿☀️😊
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🤗❤️
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Loved your message this week Yvette – agree wholeheartedly. And your tray is lovely
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Hi Tina – thanks and do not really use the tray – but sometimes a gift has all that extra warmth to it – have a good day
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Very wise words!
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Hi YC – cheers to wisdom and for learning 🙂
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I love this series for softness. The air plant is beautifully captured.
Thank you for sharing the insipiring words, Yvette.
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my pleasure amy – and hope you had a nice weekend
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Love those tasseled grasses! Plants seem to lend themselves well to this challenge 🙂 🙂
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hi jo! i agree with you about the plants and this challenge and so many folks have shared similar but diverse plants
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Air plants! And the quotes are so very true. Love them.
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😊🌿🌱🙏
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The soft grasses are lovely I have got the same air plant as you! love the way you photographed it!
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hi aletta – do you spritz your air plant weekly?
i only had that air plant for a day or two and gave it away! but still ha e the tray even tho it sits unused!
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Hi Yvette, I don’t spritz mine at all. It sits on my kitchen counter and I think it gets enough moisture. It is growing well.
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Those quotes are very similar in meaning, aren’t they? I think they must have been written by people who make mistakes. 🤣
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hahaha
your humor beams through again.
and i think making mistakes can be a layered topic and it connects to making corrections and also understanding what was behind the mistakes – some are more serious and some might be related to character flaws
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Yes. So many kinds of mistakes to make. I think I’ve tried them all. 🤣
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Excellent photos and quotes. Not being faultless is my specialty. 🙂
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haha
cheers to being human and not a machine
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I like those “touchable” grasses Yvette. That was thoughtful of your student to give you that beautiful wood tray. I like air plants too. I had one years ago that looked like the one on the tray.
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hi linda! the tray really caught me off guard and it was a heart thing – just to be thought of and hope to never take it for granted
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It was very thoughtful and something that you can keep the rest of your life.
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A beautiful post Yvette and I love the message.
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I enjoyed reading your thoughts and quotes about making mistakes, learning from them and not being so hard on yourself. So true and thought provoking… Thank you!
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