Saturday, September 25, 2010
hummingbirds
facts about hummingbirds:
Hummingbirds are part of the Trochilidae family found only in the Americas. They are unknown in the Eastern Hemisphere.
The most astonishing quality of hummingbirds is their ability to broadcast color. Hummingbirds radiate like hot coals in the sun. The color that reaches your eye is created by pigment, which absorbs some colors and rejects others. Like soap bubbles, hummingbird's color comes from iridescence, not pigment. It winks on and off, depending on the light source and the angle of the viewer. This allows hummingbirds to flash colors or hide them which is useful for males who want to impress females or threaten other males.
Hummingbirds are built for power and dazzle, hummingbirds are little more than flight muscles covered with feathers. 30% of a hummingbird's weight consists of flight muscles.
Hummingbirds require lots of energy. They have the fastest wing beats of any bird and their hearts beat up to 1,260 beats per minute.
A Hummingbird's flight speed can average 25-30 mph, and can dive up to 60 mph.
They will pull insects out of spiderwebs including the spider itself. Sapsucker holes are a double treat, netting both insects and sap!
A hummingbird can rotate each of its wings in a circle, allowing them to be the only bird which can fly forwards, backwards, up, down, sideways or sit in sheer space. To hover, hummingbirds move their wings forward and backward in a repeated figure eight, much like the arms of a swimmer treading water. Hummingbirds can move instantaneously in any direction, start from its perch at full speed, and doesn't necessarily slow up to land. Hummingbirds can even fly short distances upside down, a trick rollover they employ when being attacked by another bird.
Hummingbirds do not mate for life - the female raises the young on her own. The male hummingbird is not involved with raising the young. The female does all the work of raising her young alone! Females will lay a clutch of only two white eggs and will produce only one brood per season. The hatchlings will remain in the nest for three weeks.
Hummingbirds can live a decade or more in the wild.
FINAL THOUGHT: i am the same person i was before reading this. the world hasn't stop turning and there is still bad things happening as we speak. at the same time: life is wonderful. when i allow myself to look at things deeper than i have before-life isn't as dark as it seems. this world isn't just the bad things we see on the news. if i can appreciate something as small as a hummingbird and learn how amazing such a small thing can be.....then i can find beauty in myself and in others too.
QUESTION: what can you see in yourself or someone else that you find amazing. something that maybe no one really notices, but you appreciate and love (when looking closer at it and learning more about it)?
Hummingbirds are part of the Trochilidae family found only in the Americas. They are unknown in the Eastern Hemisphere.
The most astonishing quality of hummingbirds is their ability to broadcast color. Hummingbirds radiate like hot coals in the sun. The color that reaches your eye is created by pigment, which absorbs some colors and rejects others. Like soap bubbles, hummingbird's color comes from iridescence, not pigment. It winks on and off, depending on the light source and the angle of the viewer. This allows hummingbirds to flash colors or hide them which is useful for males who want to impress females or threaten other males.
Hummingbirds are built for power and dazzle, hummingbirds are little more than flight muscles covered with feathers. 30% of a hummingbird's weight consists of flight muscles.
Hummingbirds require lots of energy. They have the fastest wing beats of any bird and their hearts beat up to 1,260 beats per minute.
A Hummingbird's flight speed can average 25-30 mph, and can dive up to 60 mph.
They will pull insects out of spiderwebs including the spider itself. Sapsucker holes are a double treat, netting both insects and sap!
A hummingbird can rotate each of its wings in a circle, allowing them to be the only bird which can fly forwards, backwards, up, down, sideways or sit in sheer space. To hover, hummingbirds move their wings forward and backward in a repeated figure eight, much like the arms of a swimmer treading water. Hummingbirds can move instantaneously in any direction, start from its perch at full speed, and doesn't necessarily slow up to land. Hummingbirds can even fly short distances upside down, a trick rollover they employ when being attacked by another bird.
Hummingbirds do not mate for life - the female raises the young on her own. The male hummingbird is not involved with raising the young. The female does all the work of raising her young alone! Females will lay a clutch of only two white eggs and will produce only one brood per season. The hatchlings will remain in the nest for three weeks.
Hummingbirds can live a decade or more in the wild.
FINAL THOUGHT: i am the same person i was before reading this. the world hasn't stop turning and there is still bad things happening as we speak. at the same time: life is wonderful. when i allow myself to look at things deeper than i have before-life isn't as dark as it seems. this world isn't just the bad things we see on the news. if i can appreciate something as small as a hummingbird and learn how amazing such a small thing can be.....then i can find beauty in myself and in others too.
QUESTION: what can you see in yourself or someone else that you find amazing. something that maybe no one really notices, but you appreciate and love (when looking closer at it and learning more about it)?
Thursday, September 23, 2010
shackles
shackels: a metal fastening, usually one of a pair, for encircling and confining the ankle or wrist of a prisoner or captive; a fetter or manacle.
another definition is: to restrain in freedom of expression or action.
What an awesome experience to praise God through any circumstance (no matter how bad it has gotten or is getting)and to keep in mind how good and in control He is no matter what difficulty is there. can freedom of praise be expressed in the "worse-case-scenarios"? the answer for me would be a loud YES! but have i been able to praise God, be thankful for the circumstances, dance when my circumstance looks like there's no reason to celebrate, laugh when i felt i should be crying, loved myself when i felt i didn't deserve it, or look at those around me and see God at work when i wanted to focus on my problems? and that answer would be YES! i have fallen to common-normal feelings of defeat, frustration, sadness, and anger in bad situations. but God has, at times, remove the "shackles" from those typical ways to respond in bad situations and have allowed me to sing and dance as if no such bad situation had existed. only God could do that. only God could create such a celebrated experience in me when all appeared dark and gloomy. i have had those times and have remembered those times enough to help me when new situations arose. to be honest....laughing and dancing is not my first reaction at the time "it" happens. but i'm not the type to live in the moment of "poor pitiful me" for too long. that's when God removes the "shackles" that bind me to sadness or defeat and i am able to sing and dance through my circumstance. God is good not only when good things happen. God is good ALL the time-no matter what happens. easy said than expressed? the answer would be YES. but can it be done? and the answer would be a loud YES!
FINAL THOUGHT:it's funny how God continues to be God no matter what. He never changes despite our circumstances or our emotions. but then again, because of who we are....HE is who He is: awesome,powerful, loving, forgiving, accepting, and full of blessings. our shackles doesn't bind God to be less than God. our shackles binds us to our weaknesses as humans. but it also gives us an opportunity to see God....be God!
QUESTION:when was the last time you got to expereince "God being God" in your toughest circumstances and you were truly able to be thankful and at peace in the midst of a bad situation?
another definition is: to restrain in freedom of expression or action.
What an awesome experience to praise God through any circumstance (no matter how bad it has gotten or is getting)and to keep in mind how good and in control He is no matter what difficulty is there. can freedom of praise be expressed in the "worse-case-scenarios"? the answer for me would be a loud YES! but have i been able to praise God, be thankful for the circumstances, dance when my circumstance looks like there's no reason to celebrate, laugh when i felt i should be crying, loved myself when i felt i didn't deserve it, or look at those around me and see God at work when i wanted to focus on my problems? and that answer would be YES! i have fallen to common-normal feelings of defeat, frustration, sadness, and anger in bad situations. but God has, at times, remove the "shackles" from those typical ways to respond in bad situations and have allowed me to sing and dance as if no such bad situation had existed. only God could do that. only God could create such a celebrated experience in me when all appeared dark and gloomy. i have had those times and have remembered those times enough to help me when new situations arose. to be honest....laughing and dancing is not my first reaction at the time "it" happens. but i'm not the type to live in the moment of "poor pitiful me" for too long. that's when God removes the "shackles" that bind me to sadness or defeat and i am able to sing and dance through my circumstance. God is good not only when good things happen. God is good ALL the time-no matter what happens. easy said than expressed? the answer would be YES. but can it be done? and the answer would be a loud YES!
FINAL THOUGHT:it's funny how God continues to be God no matter what. He never changes despite our circumstances or our emotions. but then again, because of who we are....HE is who He is: awesome,powerful, loving, forgiving, accepting, and full of blessings. our shackles doesn't bind God to be less than God. our shackles binds us to our weaknesses as humans. but it also gives us an opportunity to see God....be God!
QUESTION:when was the last time you got to expereince "God being God" in your toughest circumstances and you were truly able to be thankful and at peace in the midst of a bad situation?
Saturday, September 18, 2010
FINDING ME
I WENT TO THE MOUNTAINS TO TRY TO FIND ME
TO KNOW WHO I WAS OR WHO I COULD BE
I ONLY SAW TREES AND A LANDSCAPE OF FOUNTAINS
AND WALKED AWAY ONLY DISCOVERING MOUNTAINS
I WENT TO THE CITY TO TRY TO FIND ME
TO KNOW WHO I WAS OR WHAT I COULD BE
I ONLY SAW PEOPLE ALL OVER THE PLACE
I DIDN’T FIND ME OR EVEN MY FACE
I WENT TO THE GRAVEYARD TO TRY TO FIND ME
TO KNOW WHO I WAS OR WHERE I COULD BE
I ONLY SAW GRAVES THAT WERE FILLED WITH THE DEAD
SO I LEFT THE GRAVEYARD AND WENT HOME INSTEAD
I WENT TO MY MIRROR TO TRY TO FIND ME
TO KNOW WHO I WAS OR WHO I COULD SEE
THE FACE THAT I SAW WAS THE SAME FACE EACH DAY
THAT LOOKED RIGHT BACK AT ME WITH NOTHING TO SAY
BUT THIS TIME I STOOD STILL-REMOVED THE DISGUISE
I LOOKED PAST THE NEGATIVES COVERING MY EYES
AND SAW SOMETHING DEEPER AND SAW WHO I WAS
I SAW SOMEONE THAT ONLY NEEDED MY LOVE
SO, WHEN I GO SEARCHING AGAIN TO FIND ME
I KNOW THERE’S NO PLACE I COULD POSSIBLY BE
EXCEPT TO LOOK INWARD AND PASS THE DISGUISE
AND THERE I’LL BE FOUND WHEN I OPEN MY EYES
GREGORY BOYER
it's easy to forget who you are and what you're all about. it's easy to not even know who you are and how to answer that question. you can go through life thinking who you are is what you do and is based on who you love and who you are constantly around. this is where God comes into the picture. He brings "light" to our idenity. He brings truth (good or bad). and He brings love-so that we could know how to love ourselves. believe it or not....that's tough for alot of people to do. finding yourself-you only need look to God. it's a quicker search like google:-)
FINAL THOUGHT:don't be afraid to learn about who you are. as the saying goes "God don't make junk". you won't find perfection, but you will find you're not as bad as you may think. and you just may find God along the way.
QUESTION:what do you love about being who are you right now?
I WENT TO THE MOUNTAINS TO TRY TO FIND ME
TO KNOW WHO I WAS OR WHO I COULD BE
I ONLY SAW TREES AND A LANDSCAPE OF FOUNTAINS
AND WALKED AWAY ONLY DISCOVERING MOUNTAINS
I WENT TO THE CITY TO TRY TO FIND ME
TO KNOW WHO I WAS OR WHAT I COULD BE
I ONLY SAW PEOPLE ALL OVER THE PLACE
I DIDN’T FIND ME OR EVEN MY FACE
I WENT TO THE GRAVEYARD TO TRY TO FIND ME
TO KNOW WHO I WAS OR WHERE I COULD BE
I ONLY SAW GRAVES THAT WERE FILLED WITH THE DEAD
SO I LEFT THE GRAVEYARD AND WENT HOME INSTEAD
I WENT TO MY MIRROR TO TRY TO FIND ME
TO KNOW WHO I WAS OR WHO I COULD SEE
THE FACE THAT I SAW WAS THE SAME FACE EACH DAY
THAT LOOKED RIGHT BACK AT ME WITH NOTHING TO SAY
BUT THIS TIME I STOOD STILL-REMOVED THE DISGUISE
I LOOKED PAST THE NEGATIVES COVERING MY EYES
AND SAW SOMETHING DEEPER AND SAW WHO I WAS
I SAW SOMEONE THAT ONLY NEEDED MY LOVE
SO, WHEN I GO SEARCHING AGAIN TO FIND ME
I KNOW THERE’S NO PLACE I COULD POSSIBLY BE
EXCEPT TO LOOK INWARD AND PASS THE DISGUISE
AND THERE I’LL BE FOUND WHEN I OPEN MY EYES
GREGORY BOYER
it's easy to forget who you are and what you're all about. it's easy to not even know who you are and how to answer that question. you can go through life thinking who you are is what you do and is based on who you love and who you are constantly around. this is where God comes into the picture. He brings "light" to our idenity. He brings truth (good or bad). and He brings love-so that we could know how to love ourselves. believe it or not....that's tough for alot of people to do. finding yourself-you only need look to God. it's a quicker search like google:-)
FINAL THOUGHT:don't be afraid to learn about who you are. as the saying goes "God don't make junk". you won't find perfection, but you will find you're not as bad as you may think. and you just may find God along the way.
QUESTION:what do you love about being who are you right now?
Friday, September 10, 2010
a road to family
A ROAD TO FAMILY
A ROAD TO FAMILY
BRINGS COLORS INTO OUR HEARTS
WHERE THERE WAS ONCE SEPIA
THE COLORS OF BUTTERFLIES
SPREADS ITS WINGS
AND NATURE SPLASHES HER HUES
SMILES BRINGS LIFE TO FAMILIES
AND FAMILIES BRINGS LIFE TO THE WORLD
A HOUSE GIVES BIRTH
WHERE A CHILD IS BORN
AND IT WILL BREATH NEW MEMORIES
INTO THE WORLD
MEMORIES TO WATCH CLOSELY
MEMORIES WE SIT AND PONDER
MEMORIES THAT KEEPS US
ON THE ROAD WE ARE ON-CALLED
FAMILY
A FAMILY FOR THE YOUNG
A FAMILY FOR THE OLD
A FAMILY FOR THE HUMOROUS
THE TEACHER
AND THE LEADER
WE WATCH THE ROAD
TAKE OUR JOURNEY
TO RIVERS OF SERENITY
DOWN TO STREAMS OF LOVE AND SANCTUARY
OUR GAMES ARE PLAYED IN HARMONY
NEVER IN SOLITUDE
BUT IN TOGETHERNESS
WE SPEAK WORDS FAMILIAR TO US
AND WATCH THEM PLAYED ON TAPE
WORDS THAT EMBRACE US
WORDS THAT BOND US TOGETHER
WORDS THAT BRINGS US CLOSER TO FAMILY
A NEW GENERATION
WITH A NEW ROAD TO TRAVEL
THAT WILL TURN THIS WORLD UPSIDE DOWN
WITH NEW MEANING AND PURPOSE
AS WE TRAVEL ON THIS ROAD
TO FAMILY
GREGORY BOYER
08/15/10
FINAL THOUGHT:the journey we take creating our family history will be a road that is different for everyone. some roads are "rocky" and some roads are full of twist and turns. some appear to be all over the place with no destination known. but the journey i take with my family is creative and fun. there are bumps and rocks that cross our path, but most of the ride is smooth and that gives me great memories of a great trip. and the road i take alone away from them...is still a road that they will journey with me because i carry who they are with me wherever i go.
QUESTION:can you recall a great memory of your family that means alot to you?
A ROAD TO FAMILY
BRINGS COLORS INTO OUR HEARTS
WHERE THERE WAS ONCE SEPIA
THE COLORS OF BUTTERFLIES
SPREADS ITS WINGS
AND NATURE SPLASHES HER HUES
SMILES BRINGS LIFE TO FAMILIES
AND FAMILIES BRINGS LIFE TO THE WORLD
A HOUSE GIVES BIRTH
WHERE A CHILD IS BORN
AND IT WILL BREATH NEW MEMORIES
INTO THE WORLD
MEMORIES TO WATCH CLOSELY
MEMORIES WE SIT AND PONDER
MEMORIES THAT KEEPS US
ON THE ROAD WE ARE ON-CALLED
FAMILY
A FAMILY FOR THE YOUNG
A FAMILY FOR THE OLD
A FAMILY FOR THE HUMOROUS
THE TEACHER
AND THE LEADER
WE WATCH THE ROAD
TAKE OUR JOURNEY
TO RIVERS OF SERENITY
DOWN TO STREAMS OF LOVE AND SANCTUARY
OUR GAMES ARE PLAYED IN HARMONY
NEVER IN SOLITUDE
BUT IN TOGETHERNESS
WE SPEAK WORDS FAMILIAR TO US
AND WATCH THEM PLAYED ON TAPE
WORDS THAT EMBRACE US
WORDS THAT BOND US TOGETHER
WORDS THAT BRINGS US CLOSER TO FAMILY
A NEW GENERATION
WITH A NEW ROAD TO TRAVEL
THAT WILL TURN THIS WORLD UPSIDE DOWN
WITH NEW MEANING AND PURPOSE
AS WE TRAVEL ON THIS ROAD
TO FAMILY
GREGORY BOYER
08/15/10
FINAL THOUGHT:the journey we take creating our family history will be a road that is different for everyone. some roads are "rocky" and some roads are full of twist and turns. some appear to be all over the place with no destination known. but the journey i take with my family is creative and fun. there are bumps and rocks that cross our path, but most of the ride is smooth and that gives me great memories of a great trip. and the road i take alone away from them...is still a road that they will journey with me because i carry who they are with me wherever i go.
QUESTION:can you recall a great memory of your family that means alot to you?
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