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What You See Is What You Get. This is a journal blog, an explore-blog, a bit of this and that blog. Sharing where the mood takes me. Perhaps it will take you too.

MenoAZering; O=Orb


For April, I'm participating in #BlogchatterA2Z, and you will find original images created by me and some ramblings to go with them. I will capitalise words that begin with the featured letter (on first use only). Let me know what you think of the pics, words, or both in the comments! For more of this madness, you can visit Blogchatter.


Where to OPEN a post on the letter O? With the perhaps OBVIOUS reference to the planet upon which we reside. This lustrous, OPULENT, generous ORB of such inordinate beauty and surprise. A place that is so precious as to have given forth life. It is not just the ORDINARY life of earth and water, microbes and OOZE, but ever more complex forms leading up to the extra-ordinary, sentient beings that are a virus upon its skin. 

Seen under the microscope of the cosmos, these beings are a wonderment, capable of OUTSTANDING works of art, architecture, mechanics, various sciences, and the ability to imagine. The ability to comprehend the abstract.

Seen in the light of their connection to their surroundings and their effect upon those environs, they are a pox upon the earth. Their incredible imagination seems incapable of comprehending living with instead of against the natural substratum. They are OBNOXIOUS... indeed, they might be classified as noxious weeds, injurious to the wellbeing of everything around them. Including others of their own kingdom, albeit of a different class, order, family, genus, species, subspecies, or race. In fact, often because...

As this exceptional planet ORBITS its sun, one of a gazillion other suns, at the centre of a system viewed from the centre of the cosmos in which it sits, one of a gazillion other systems - a single tree in an endless forest - is anything that OCCURS upon it, this small gemstone orb, of any import at all...?


27 comments:

  1. Last time I check we lived on Earth.
    Coffee is on and stay safe

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  2. That image you have done is just fabulous! ... You have so deftly strung together a medley of Os!
    O = Oxford comma

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  3. we love it and we love the orb... a place what has so much things we never saw ...

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  4. Reading your post left me feeling open to magic--open to smiles:)
    Thank you. xx

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  5. I love the image. The vastness and wonders of the universe explained so beautifully and the O's used so effectivly!

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  6. YAM your orb would make a most beautiful piece of blown glass garden art.
    Hugs Cecilia

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  7. I sat staring at this new piece of art, before I read your post, I thought this looks like our world, and it looks beautiful and like it is burning up and flying apart under our feet.
    then I read your post and all I can say is Amen, Amen and Amen again! every word is true. and the best thing is I felt what your wrote before I read it by looking at your art. that doesn't happen often for me

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    1. Hari OM
      WEll - I am chuffed - for you and for me! YAM xz

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  8. I can see a one eyed alien trying to catch an illuminated entity with its Lego like clutches while is a celestial bird is flying past. This could be a very good prompt for a Sci-fi!
    Sorry for deviating from the topic but this was my connect with the today's painting, courtesy my orb ;)
    This painting is so inviting, interesting and open to interpretation!
    -Anagha Yatin
    https://canvaswithrainbow.com/

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  9. I'm not sure what to make of the image but I like it.

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  10. At work is bang on! This orb is indeed precious and the only one we have!

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  11. I see an eyeball in the art work and nice use of "o" words!

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  12. Bertie might have pointed out that our Orb is an Oblate spheroid (approximately).
    Gail found today's artwork striking and intriguing.

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    1. Hari Om
      And Bertie's Opinion would have been appreciated - more tangerine than Orange! Yxx

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  13. Wow! What a wonderful orb, I found myself gazing at it for awhile before movig on to the actual post!

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  14. Wonder filled post! namaste, janice xx

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  15. Love your post on O! Purrfect! And we hope you have a marvellously happy week!
    Purrs Marv

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  16. That's a rather striking, thought provoking image. Loved this take on O!

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  17. We really like that one. We are a bit Overloaded with the message that we are destroying the world and begin to wonder if all our efforts are a waste to time in the end. We are middle class, well off and well educated - it is a our privilege to be able to care, yet we are the consumers of this world.

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    1. Hari OM
      This is true... but if enough of 'us' seek to use only what is necessary and 'shop local'... However, as one who once would have been classed as you say, as a pensioner I am now below the 'bread line' and am definitely one of those feeling the immediate pinch of recent c.o.l. rises; this not only means that one is shopping for the absolute minimum, but one is also tending to shop for that which offers the best value and - disturbingly - that all too often means buying 'air miles' in food and goods from countries continents away... making the choice not to have those things would mean having no fruit (too early for local berries - I do forage later in the season). It really is a conundrum and it is the sheer weight of population numbers that now works against us. Is it not a surprise that Ma Nature every now and then comes up with something to try and cull us! A harsh reality, if unpopular thought. Yxx

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