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Jake’s challenge for this week is REFLECTIONS
This week finds me reflecting on my history with things electronic; over the past twenty or more years, I have shorted out out random electrical items. So many batteries on so many different watches have malfunctioned that I finally stopped wearing watches! The one that stays tucked in my luggage continues ticking – two years and counting! My finger on an elevator button, electric car window button or a copy machine ‘start’ button, at times, triggers a malfunction. Miguel Rendon of ESCoffee gave me a cell phone and insisted that I join the modern world and stay better connected; on retrospect it’s a bit amusing that the phone joined the cemetery of sizzled electronics several months later! Are there demons lurking in the shadows?
(Am I the only person who sees demons lurking in the shadows?) Playa Rosada, Nicaragua
When I reflect on possible explanations for this baffling phenomenon, I realize that I am often hurried, stressed or around someone with high non-stop energy. I seem to transfer or unload that extra energy into the closest electrical gadget as if those objects are lightning rods! At times when walking at night, I note that a street light suddenly blinks into darkness. (Coincidence?)
Double your viewing pleasure: Full Moon over Shrimp Ponds – Ecuador
Thankfully I am rarely stressed any more, and I sidestep people who scatter my energy. I politely ask the driver of a car to raise or lower my window – just in case! Over the past few months my camera rolled over and refused to take another image, and my computer continues to wave the SOS signal, (Coincidence?!)
Playa Rosada, Nicaragua – Calm Reflections
A pre-sunrise stroll connects one with Mother Earth and Ocean. Playa San Miguel, Costa Rica
This week I will be travelling to Guayaquil and am hopeful to find a doctor who can repair the camera. (And correct my binoculars’ diplopia!) Most likely I will be returning with a new computer, and I look forward to seeing WordPress posts in full-size format instead of the mini-laptop size! It will be great to have a computer that thinks with lightning speed instead of rolling each command around its sluggish brain until it decides to kick it back or grant me one step forward in my tasks!
A Visual Balm to Calm the Senses!
I hope that you’ve enjoyed these calming reflective images, brought to you via Jake’s Sunday Post Challenge of reflections. Hopefully I’ll resurface next week via posts from a new computer! If so, buckle your seat belts and prepare for a wave of strong positive energy coming your way soon!
Until then,
Z
Equator Reflections — See you again soon! Z
Brilliant, Z!!!!
thank you so much! z
I think you must be electifying 🙂
ha ha ha! thanks for the smile! z
Haha! I had a friend with the same ‘energy’ problems. She shorted out all electrical things, with which she came into contact. We attributed it to stress, as well, because when the body is stressed, I think the energy waves must malfunction causing all kinds of weird havoc! Good luck in your computer search. I used to be a PC kinda gal, but I recently switched to MAC. Why did I wait soooo long? It is so much better and very user friendly.
how amazing! she’s probably happy to know there are more of ‘us’ out in the world! z
Thanks for the comedic narrative along with those calming, glorious pictures! We should all have such explosive energy!!
muchas gracias! it’s been a busy week, but so far nothing’s malfunctioned! z
Great post. Good luck with your electronics. And who says they don’t control our lives. 🙂
so true! thanks! z
Your photos at absolutely stunning especially the one of he moon light! I agree that life is no good when you are stressed. I tend to be a high energy person that easier to easily get stressed out about everything. Now that the kids are getting a little older and I have more outlets like exercise and my blog I am much happier and much less stressed. Thanks for the great reminder!
thank you so much for your comment; yes, it’s great when we find positive ways to diffuse the stress! i’m glad you liked the moon image, which was taken from my house! i love the full moons – first rising over the shrimp ponds and then setting over the river. z
hmmm… as I was reading this, I could hear faint music, maybe one of my electronic gadgets was malfunctioning …. then I realized it was the theme song from the Twilight Zone…..great post zee !!
jajaJA! I can see both of you smiling about this one!
thanks! z
I had WordPress/computer issues on Monday. I’m blaming. WP, if Nyone actually needs to be blamed. All four of our avenues to the Internet could not have gone bad at once! I don’t think I have the power to short anything out 🙂 but who knows? Glad you got this post off. Equator? Wow!!!!
Great entry.
si; thanks so much, i spend most of my time in Ecuador and love my life here! z
Excellent work for this week theme my friend good choices of images ,Thanks for sharing Playamart – Zeebra Designs 🙂
Brilliant!!! I need to scream but I can’t do it where I am at the moment. Instead I’m taking a mini break to look at your wonderful photos and your art. Yes, I’m looking at your paintings a few times every week, I love them so much, :). Deep breaths, feel calmer and I am back at work again ready to face angry people… Conflict management…
you made me chuckle!my friend in guayaquil had a very stressful afternoon. i’ll have to tell him to try zeebra art therapy to diffuse the tension! you’ll have to warn us if our tomorrow/your today is going to be an easy one or a difficult one.
we both agreed that ‘the devil’s busy’ – always, and tries to find a way to sting our good nature!
hope the rest of your week goes well!
z
Zeebra art therapy is a brilliant idea! 🙂 I’m having a wonderful day, and a nice week but sometimes I loose my patience. Life is so much easier when you’re kind to each other. But some people love creating conflicts, and some refuse to change even one inch. Yes, “the devil is busy”, always… :). Amiga, have a wonderful day. I’m going to have a quick look at your paintings, and then I’ve to work again…
I am going to have to paint something and name it, “For Marianne’s viewing pleasure.”
As always, thank you!
Z
Thanks for the interesting reflections — and the photos are beautiful as well! I just love your eye for color!!
you are ALWAYS so very kind! thanks! z
A lovely assortment of images. What a good reminder that, even though the sun rises and sets each day, no sunrise,no sunset, is the same.
so very true! thank you so much! z
Lisa, I just saw where an earthquake had hit Costa Rica…omg…are you ok????
hey
sorry this took me this long to see this; i’ve not been online much. si, all’s ok.. i am in ecuador!
my friends are ok, and the epicenter was about 20 miles from where i live.
most have broken water lines but basically they’re all lucky.
thanks so much for caring!
love,
lisa
Amazing images that inspires one’s soul. Beautiful1
That dawn over Costa Rica is breathtaking!
If the new computer ends up in the ‘sizzled electronics’ dump, then you would be right in surmising that all the forces of the universe are aligned against your gadgets 😀
In Asia you would be offered many solutions! During the annual ‘Durga’ Puja in India, spread over 9 days, one is allocated for the worship of weapons that the goddess used to slay demons. It will amuse you to learn that rituals are performed over every single electronic gadget, machinery and motor vehicle on that day!!! Imagine computer consoles marked with vermilion and sandal paste, even our elevator door 😆 Should remember to click pictures this year!
Thanks so much for this information! Sounds like a nice holistic attitude about those gadgets that improve the quality of our lives. Having a goddess to slay demons sounds like a good custom as well!
I look forward to learning more!
Z