Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Entrance to Dromana Primary School, Mornington Peninsula
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One Single Impresion prompt #35~ Gift
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The gift of knowledge
Priceless savings for the mind
Always in the black
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The gift of wisdom
Priceless savings for the soul
Always in the white
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Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Dromana church in the rear vision mirror
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THE MEANING OF AUTUMN
AUTUMN is the bridesmaid of Summer and the flowergirl of Winter
AUTUMN whispers the tones of yesterday in a minor key
AUTUMN is an introspective season, when stray thoughts of the mind dive into the mystique of the soul
- Gemma Wiseman
AUSTRALIA ~ The Antipodes
I love a sunburnt country / A land of sweeping plains / Of ragged mountain ranges / Of droughts and flooding rains / I love her far horizons / I love her jewel-sea / Her beauty and her terror / The wide brown land for me / ~ Dorothea Mackellar (1885-1968)
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Black and White Gifts
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- A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken. ~James Dent
- Autumn is an introspective season when stray thoughts of the mind dive into the mystique of the soul - Gemma Wiseman
- Autumn is the bridesmaid of Summer and the flowergirl of Winter ~ Gemma Wiseman
- Autumn whispers the tones of yesterday in a minor key ~ Gemma Wiseman
- Love is born / With a dark and troubled face, / When hope is dead / And in the most unlikely place; / Love is born, / Love is always born. - Michael Leunig's Christmas Song Cycle "Southern Star"
- Spring paints the stars of heaven in Earth colours ~ Gemma Wiseman
- Summer sizzles with a sibilant hush / Broken by dreams of / Clinking ice ~ Gemma Wiseman
- The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul. - G.K. Chesterton
- Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all. - Stanley Horowitz
- Winter is the fire, simmering lonely in the soul ~ Gemma Wiseman
- Winter is the shadow, the etching of the seasons in the mist ~ Gemma Wiseman
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15 comments:
Good morning on this fine Sunday morning. :)
Great gifts!
A Great Photo with great poem!
Thank you for the insights on gifts.
Knowledge and Wisdom are indeed wonderful gifts, Gemma! Unfortunately, there are many who do not realize that having Knowledge does not necessarily mean you also have Wisdom.
I like the way you put this - and there's a lot of truth in it.
I was really intrigued by these, especially the way you assigned the colors. Perhaps it represents the earthly and the elevated?
Extraordinary poem. A wonderful play on the two forms of "saving"!! Saving money (being in the "black" instead of the "red") and saving the soul (being pure or "white" instead of sinful and stained- no longer white). Bravo!
Nicely put. Clearly you have stored up both knowledge and widsom in your Spirit's bank.
Wonderful gifts, for sure!
Hi Gemma
Your post reminds me of an old (hippy days) song, Black and White by Three Dog Night:
First verse:
"The ink is black, the page is white
Together we learn to read and write
A child is black, a child is white
The whole world looks upon the sight, a beautiful sight"
Thank you for the memory, it means a lot more too but this is enough to tell.
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Perfect Gemma! I will contemplate your words again and again. Great take on this wonderful prompt.
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Sheesh--that is good writing--
Wisdom has always seemed to be the soulful combination of experience and knowledge--
Thank you for this, Gemma-
I must mirror the others and thank you for these pithy lines of insight. I anticipate many layers here.
gemma, as always soothing and insightful...
perfect balance, the two together are indeed a gift
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