“Did you know that Sand Dollars are alive?” I said

March 23, 2015March 23, 2015 | MichelleMarie

Sandollar

“Did you know that sand dollars are alive?” I said.
I watched and they tossed one into their bucket. I looked down and saw one and noticed it looked like it was moving, so I leaned in for a closer look and sure enough it was burrowing into the sand. I didn’t have the heart to toss it in a bucket. This morning I saw this photo and I remembered this trip to Panama City Beach and I wondered were the bucket of sand dollars was that everyone, but me collected. Didn’t seem right to remove a living animal from it’s habitat, toss it into a bucket to never be thought of again once home from vacation.

“Did you know that sand dollars are alive?”
My Encyclopedia says this about them.

Sand dollar, any of the invertebrate marine animals of the order Clypeastroida (class Echinoidea, phylum Echinodermata) that has a flat, disk-shaped body. They are close relatives of sea urchins and heart urchins. The sand dollar is particularly well adapted for burrowing in sandy substrates. Very small spines used for digging and crawling cover the entire surface of its body and are appressed backwards toward the posterior anus. The mouth is located in the centre of the body’s underside. The upper surface exhibits pentaradiate symmetry, with a pattern of five “petals” spreading out from the centre. Some species found stranded on the shores of North America have five or six slots, or lunules, through the test (external skeleton). Most sand dollars measure from 5 to 10 cm (2 to 4 inches) in diameter. Species of comparable size occur in shallow coastal waters throughout the rest of the world, except in Europe and Antarctica.

Reference
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/521929/sand-dollar

3 of my favorite thing Moon Sun White flowered trees

March 22, 2015November 20, 2015 | MichelleMarie

3 of my favorite things

Moon

Sun

White flowered trees

Fly~Maddie & Tae (=’ ‘=)

March 22, 2015March 4, 2016 | MichelleMarie

I love how each time I am heading for a change there is a song one of my friends shares and this one from Laurie is all encompassing for baby girl [Alex] and then myself. Some deep inner healing is taking place all while I release and fight the urge to smother and clutch!
(=’ ‘=)

butterfly

The Zone~Inspiration from my Uncle

March 22, 2015November 19, 2015 | MichelleMarie

thezone
Being in the zone is like no place a human has ever known,
the zone takes you to places outside of yourself where time stands still.
Artist, painters, writers, musicians, crafters, and anyone who has a gift,
we humans are all blessed by God, and given many blind gifts by him.

Many humans go to the grave without discovering their God-given gifts,
if we walk with God deep in our heart, in His time do we come to discover,
the gifts that God has bestowed upon us, placing the tools right at our feet.
Blessed are those that discover their gifts, their talents bestowed by him.

To boldly develop these gifts of artistry, is something that God truly want us to be.
In example, the accountant who spent years at his career, then went to an art fair,
he discovered a painter creating beautiful artwork on a canvas, and it spoke to him.
The accountant bought a painting from this man, it deeply conversed with him.

That weekend, the accountant found himself at an art store purchasing the tools,
needed to paint; set it all up, brushes, paint, canvas, painting books and an easel.
This accountant discovered a new hobby that would come to bring him many gifts.
He began painting with no fear, burning up weekends filling canvas after canvas,
having no clue if any of the pictures that he painted were any good at all.

One weekend in time, the accountant woke up in the morning with the vision,
in his minds-eye a brilliant beautiful painting masterpiece.
This man began to paint on his canvas for countless hours nonstop.
There was no time on this man’s watch; no regular thoughts in his mind,
no sounds of his familiar surroundings.

From early in the morning, until the wee hours at night, he awoke from his
timeless state of medicinal peace with God, who was behind him with every brush stroke,
enveloping a ZEN of peaceful feelings and emotions. He had truly become a painter,
as he marveled at his beautiful creation of art generated by him, and God as one,
in this newly found place called “The Zone.”

Everyone has gifts blessed by God, some discover many gifts. God has filled
us up with many gifts. It is those among the few, who are willing to get quiet,
with God, and walk the ground with him daily in humility. These are the people
who posses the highest probability of discovering their hidden gifts, and the tools
at their feet, in which to develop these hidden gifts.

“The Zone,” is self medicinal, a purity of enveloped pure energy, a blissful Odyssey
of self-healing emotions, the fifth dimension of pure thought, enveloped into
personal timeless heaven.

Gunnar Timothy