Lens Artists Challenge #254: Spiritual Sites

This week the Lens-Artists challenge is focused on Spiritual Sites. While many associate spirituality with religion, the Oxford dictionary defines it as “relating to or affecting the human spirit or soul as opposed to material or physical things”, a much wider interpretation. Visit her site for inspiration  Tina’s Lens-Artists Challenge

Nature is the very heart of our spirituality, “Nature is my god.” This beautiful Planet Earth is our mother and our home.

When I am in nature I feel whole and connected and larger than life, but also insignificant & part of something bigger than myself. Isn’t that the sense of religion at its core?

Historically, nature, mountains, rivers, trees, the sun, the moon have always been honored in ancient cultures.

Ancient wisdom describes human beings as having five layers of experience: the environment, the physical body, the mind, the intuition and our self or spirit.

Spiritual life in Churches, Temples, Cathedrals, around the world

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Lens Artists Challenge #253: Fragments

Brian of Bushboy’s World is our guest host this week with the challenge: Fragments:

He wrote: We always have been made up of pieces. What I would like to see is some of your fragments.

Life is made of fragments, memories are just that. A fragment from here and there. Having had the same experience, my husband and I, often remember different things and oftentimes slightly differently.

I have three boys, all adult’s, but I have fragments of the everyday life memories, remembered when looking at old photos.

Time a fragment history – old newspaper from 1914. Ink bottle discovered from the ground. Well walked boots, so many kilometers. Memories written down. Old chairs

Art – the creations I do, they are fragments of my mind and imagination.

I found this actually a challenge to find photos for this, then I improvised, driftwood, broken branches, it is stretching it a little. My husband told me we are not going to break anything for this… 😀

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