WQ #14: April 5: EASTER/AWAKENING/RENEWAL/WHITE & PASTELS
The quote in the title is paraphrased from Thomas Hooker.
“Easter is the demonstration of God that life is essentially spiritual and timeless.”
-Charles M. Crowe
Easter Awaken Our Spirits
Happy Wednesday, and welcome to #WQ What symbolizes Easter more than the spring pastels of new life? What is happening in your life this week? Tell it with a quote and a photo, story, poem, or combination.
I celebrate Easter as a religious holiday, but photos are difficult since I wasn’t around for the actual first event. I hope you will enjoy these reminders of Easter instead. Can you imagine what our world would have been like if there had been cell phones 2,000 years ago? I have to assume that timing is as it should be. People might have focused on photography instead of the event.
Follow where your quotes lead you and have a “hoppy Easter.”
Last Week’s Featured Bloggers on Changes
- EAT, PLAY, LIVE – JULIE’S GRIEVANCES FROM HER HUSBAND
- KEEP IT ALIVE – “NATURE LIKE LIFE” CHANGES
- LADY LEE – “If you change, you’re still you.”
- LOVING LIFE – AWAKEN YOUR PASSION AND CREATIVITY
- PICTURES IMPERFECT – PHOTOGRAPHERS BEWARE!
- SECOND WIND LEISURE – AWAKENING
- THIS IS ANOTHER STORY – WET AND COLD RECORDS IN UTAH
- WHERE STORIES CAN SPARK THEIR MAGIC – FOR A CHANGE – LOVE YOUR ENEMIES.
- WIND KISSES – PEEKS INTO SPECTACULAR SEDONA
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- Keep It Alive – Poems to renew and inspire
- Lady Lee – Beautiful flowers, poems, and some lovely music
- Loving Life – Lots of Easter activities with grandkids
- Middleton Road – t-shirt weather
- Pictures Imperfect – Watch out for the shiny sword!
- Wind Kisses – Buzzing with bees!
Or use Mr. Linky to link your post, or to read other posts. 🙂
There’s a Trick to This, Kids
Adults and kids alike love making bubbles. Presented by Unlimited Bubbles.
“Tiny Bubbles” was originally written for Lawrence Welk, since he tended to perform “champagne music”. Welk turned it down, although he later performed the song several times on his television show after it became a hit.
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Eggs-Actly
“The best Easter is one spent with your Peeps.”
— Unknown
Is blurry in? It is one of three choices of ways to edit photos. Whaaaaa? It’s kind of cool for memes and poetry on pictures, though. I made my little Bitmoji blurry to match my picture.
“Why did the Easter egg hide? He was a little chicken.”
— Unknown
How do you like my new Easter Bitmoji outfit? I thought a pastel blouse would be just the thing. I remember when my new Easter outfit included white gloves. Now that’s OLD!
Miscellaneous Pastel Flowers – FOTD
Awakened to Beauty
“Water is to me, I confess, a phenomenon which continually awakens new feelings of wonder as often as I view it.”
Michael Faraday
Pastel reflections Verdant eyeliner edges Sky's luminous eyes ©Marsha Ingrao 2023 Traditional 5-7-5 Haiku
WQ #14 Inspired by
- Lens Artist Photo Challenge – Tricky Photography
- FOTD
- Sunday Stills – Awakens
- Cell Pic Sunday – Lighthouse selfie
- Natalie’s Weekend Coffee Share & PPAC – trips galore – Charleston and Portugal
Upcoming and Ongoing on Always Write
If I miss you this week while I’m traveling, I’ll catch up with you this weekend. Lots of love to all of you for a wonderful week.
- WQ Page
- WQ #15: April 12: BE A TOUR GUIDE WHERE YOU LOVE
- WQ #16: April 19: EARTH/NATIONAL GARDENING DAY
- WQ #17: April 26: ABSTRACT/WRITER’S CHOICE/DOUBLE DIP CHALLENGES
- #DICKENSCHALLENGE started February 7th. Join Yvette Prior, Trent McDonald, and me in reading ONE – not THREE Dickens’ novellas by June 9th. Donna from Retirement Reflections posted an excellent review on her challenge, What’s On Your Bookshelf this month.
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53 responses to “#WQ #14: Awakening Our Hearts Is Beyond Our Power”
Blowing bubbles are such simple fun for any age. My two-year-old loves bubbles. I have to hide the bubbles because she blows bubbles in the house and it makes a mess.
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Just don’t make any bubbles out of bleach! LOL JK. I saw this guy again a few days ago. He loved the pictures.
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I can’t believe I hadn’t read this post until now, Marsha! Beautiful quotes, so perfect for Easter as a religious holiday and wonderful images of spring awakening for spring. I love those roses! I will be back to blogging on Sunday 4/16 for the pastel color challenge.
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This month is flying by. Vince enjoyed his conversation with Hans yesterday. Your pictures are fabulous. They will be fun to share. 🙂
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Hi Marsha,
Here’s mine
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Thanks for sharing your beautiful poetry, Sadje. 🙂
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My pleasure, always
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Hi Marsha – I loved the pastel flowers and the water reflecting the colours of the sky. We were out walking today and I noticed there were pastels everywhere as people were sitting around picnicking and sharing Easter gifts from pastel gift bags – and lots were wearing pastel outfits to match – it was all so pretty.
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Hi Leanne, your pastel walk sounds beautiful – and probably the exception color-wise for the fall. Australia – at least the parts I’ve seen is so colorful, from the birds to the flowers. Glad you are able to walk again. My first husband had two hip replacements before he was 30, and they were so successful.
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Fun post!
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Happy Easter week, Marsha. I love your flower and Prescott Lakes golf course photos. Beautiful pastel colours. Thank you for your weekend coffee share.
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Happy Easter to you tomorrow, Natalie. It’s almost here already! Thank you for your kind words! Life is beautiful and is constantly being renewed. 🙂
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Happy Easter dear Marsha. What a beautiful poem and the rose is stunning! 💞
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Thank you, Cindy. I did have fun with this post in spite of technological problems. 🙂
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You’re so welcome and glad you enjoyed it!! 💞
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We were out with our realtors that night celebrating the sale of our condo. I thought the lake looked like an eye reflecting the gorgeous sunset. 🙂
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Your sunset photo is simply gorgeous.
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Bubble photos are lovely 🌹
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Thank you so much!
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Loved the bubbles new friend! It was so wonderful to meet you yesterday!
~Nancy
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Hi Nancy, sorry to take so long to write back! It was wonderful to meet you! I love your cheerful smile. I look forward to getting together more. Jodie’s setting up something for May 5th. We’ll have such fun!
We went out to see the super blooms that Ingrid told us about along the way to Saguaro Lake. What a beautiful drive!
See you soon. I’ll be by your blog when we get home today. I didn’t bring my computer.
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Yes! What a beautiful area you drove back through!!
And I am hoping to join you all on the 5th! 😊
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I’m so excited to have you join us! We have such a fun group. Sometimes we also go on field trips and take pictures.
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These were great Marsha. I’m sorry about the problems you had with your first post…uggh! Those pastels were beautiful.
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Thanks, Kirstin. At least I finished it. LOL
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A lovely post Marsha! You have covered so much of the essence of Easter here. Always a bummer when you cannot complete a post because of WordPress problems. Enjoy you trip! Happy Easter 🐰🐇🐣
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Thanks Aletta! You know what that’s like!!! Happy Easter, my friend.
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Happy Easter Marsha!
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Happy Easter, Aletta. 🙂
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love your bubbles and pastel flowers and reflections, Marsha 🙂 Happy Easter week ❤
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Thank you Lady Lee. Thanks for using the Mr. Linky! I enjoyed your post so much!
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Oh, that’s so horrible the post didn’t save. I have had that happen and it never gets easier.
It was such a joy to meet up again today and thank you for being such a great friend,
XOXO
Jodie
http://www.jtouchofstyle.com
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I had such a lovely time, Jodie. I’m so glad I got to sit next you you and across from our new friends – well new to me. I can’t wait until May 5th. Let’s email and plan something special – another field trip, maybe?
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Yes, that would be so fun. And if not then, definitely another time. Because Prescott would be the place to go for photos in the heat of summer since it’s cooler,
XOOX
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True, but there is so much to do down in your area, and I will be there on May 5th. We can do something in Prescott in June or July, or you can stay in Prescott for a night and we might try something in Flagstaff.
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Love that idea 🙂
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Yay! We’ll chat soon!
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I kinda chuckled when I saw your bubbles. And it was a great idea! A few days ago I tried to show my granddaughter and her friend (both age 3) how to gently blow into the wand for the bubbles.
They watched intently and then one conveniently started swiping the wand around with great success and the other poured the liquid into a little machine so it “snowed” bubbles. And together they made up and sang “its a bubble party”. And I realize now, they are smarter than me. lol .
I felt your frustration with you “schedule”. There are idiosyncrasies with WP. I guess challenge makes us stronger.
I love your Bitmoji and how you fit her into the story. And my favorite photo is of the water at the golf course. The quote was perfect and the color and mood was all encompassing for your post today. Hope you have a happy easter. Missed you all today. No doubt a day of laughter and fun.
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Hi Donna, thanks for the lovely comment. I did have fun with this post, and it took a lot less time to rewrite than to write in the first place – and fortunately for everyone reading the post, it was quite a bit shorter! LOL I loved your post. We did miss you terribly! And you missed seeing Ingrid and Nancy who were both lovely. I didn’t know them before our lunch. Jodie has suggested May 5th as our next date. I think it would be fun to do something special.
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I have been connected to Nancy for quite some time. She’s fun and has a nice blog to read. I haven’t met Ingrid. What is her blog called? I’ll have to check on her. May 5 should work for me.
I think it’s special to see all of you🤗🫶🏻. But I am always ready for extra-special too.
Thanks for your note about my post as well. It’s been fun to gather people and see interpretations on an idea…as you know…
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Ingrid’s blog is https://livelaughrv.net/. She hasn’t posted for about a year. She is a lovely person and a friend of both Terri’s and Nancy’s.
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I’m on team bubbles 🙂
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Bubbles IS the team to beat right now!
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There’s no popping us now 😁
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🤪🤣😂
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How lovely to cover Easter in the post about awakening.
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Thanks, Robbie! Have a great Easter week and Easter.
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Love the bubbles photos best
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That was so cool. Bubbles popping everywhere!
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Amazing sword!
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