Wordless Wednesday

Shutterfly..

I just recently opened a shuterfly account if you would like to check it out. I will be posting photos there that I want be posting on this blog, and some posted on this blog are posted on shutterfly.

Here is the address: www/photographybyamanda.site.shutterfly.com

Circles cont..,which they do

I watched a program about savants several nights ago. One savant featured was Daniel Tammet. He is a high functioning autistic savant, and he can calculate a large array of numbers in his head at the speed of a computer. He calculated many lines of numbers correctly of the never ending Pi (TT) directly from his head. Truly Awesome!

It's also awesome what the definition of Pi is. Pi is the mathematical term for the circumference divided by its diameter. What's so amazing about that is is it doesn't have an exact number only an approximate number, and the reason for that is it doesn't matter how many digits is calculated it never ends. Click here if you want to see a calculation of 200 million digits. It's also the same number for any circle. Pi is infinite and there's never been any repeating numbers. In 1768 Johann Lambert proved that there cannot be any repeating patterns.

How did I become obsessed with circles? At the park one day with my new camera in tow to play around with some shadows of circles interested me, and I began to look around and I realized there are more circle shapes in our environments than any other shape-they are everywhere! 2nd place would go to the square I think.

A short time later circles became personally significant, and I share a few with you here. The circle of life, which never ends. It's eternal.

Soeren Palumbo Fremd HS Speech 2/28/07

This is in honor of dear to my heart nephew Hayden, and my Uncle Dwight-the most gorgeous man I've ever seen only in photos, and to the countless others who are special blessings.

These are our thoughts and feelings exactly. For me it wasn't difficult to learn because my dad taught us different from an early age by his example. And for as long as I can remember he would and still does talk about his memories of his dear brother who contracted polio during the polio epidemic, which severely crippled him. To listen to my dad share some of the cruel ignorance he saw his very dear brother subjected to is heartbreaking, and these are the only times I have ever seen my daddy cry. I'm thankful for those times because my dad knew firsthand what a blessing it was as he and probably the rest of the family were subjected to the stigmatization from those years, and those times when company came and my grandmother would remove my uncle to another room-Oh the anguish she must have felt at having to do such a thing, not because she was ashamed of her son she loved with all her motherly heart, but all because of non-acceptance and stigmatization. It wasn't about shame, it was about protecting.

And then we were blessed with Hayden-He talks to angels, because I saw him do it once. The most beautiful baby born I've ever seen whose almost 9 yrs old now.

This video is almost 10 minutes long, but well worth listening too, and I so hope that you do. Own it and share it because he speaks for us all.

Thank you and love to all,

amanda

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Circle of Life

If you look around what shape do you see most of? For me it's circles. I see them everywhere, and I think there are more circles in our environments than any other shape.

Here are some of my photos of circles and there will be more because like the circle's path it is endless.

As I have been noticing and photographing circles they have taken on a more significant meaning connecting me, and enlightening me in many ways spiritually.

"A circle is an open doorway to eternity, where perfect wholeness begins to be a reality. it's continious path reminds us of our ceaseless attentiveness to well-being. As all becomes attuned, the song of the universe is surprisingly familiar-here life is complete. The circle's oneness is always enough to embrace all, just as a shower of light contains the whole spectrum. Finally, we learn to live in the eternal now."

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