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		<title>Empowering Shifting Perspectives &#8211; Your View or Mine &#8211; Picture to Ponder &#8211; v8-5</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:26:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve been following this blog for a while you undoubtedly are aware that I often find art in bird droppings on the boardwalks where I wander. You also know that one of our consistent themes in Picture to Ponder has been around querying the possibilities that open up from shifting perspectives. Today&#8217;s Photos and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Feet &#8211; Magic Moments &#8211; Preserving Memories &#8211; Picture to Ponder &#8211; v8-5</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 04:17:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s issue of Picture to Ponder is revision of Issue 108, May 24, 2005, when I was doing four issues a week. You&#8217;ll see, as you look below, that the subject of today&#8217;s featured photograph is my feet in my late, beloved husband Sam&#8217;s lap, as he used my legs for a &#8220;table&#8221; on which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Rotted Pear sparks Perspective Shifts, Openings and Humor &#8211; Picture to Ponder &#8211; v8-1</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 04:01:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sheila Finkelstein</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A quick follow-up &#8211; After publishing last week&#8217;s Picture to Ponder, I discovered the possibility of the relaxation/respite ocean videos as the background image while working in other programs. I added a quick, new post to the blog and included the &#8220;Gulls at the Ocean&#8221; video within the message. You can view it directly within [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ocean Energy and Visuals While Working on Your Computer</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 04:16:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sheila Finkelstein</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I continue to be so excited with my video desk-top discovery written about earlier today in my Orchid Light and Ocean Video post that I took a picture of a Word document surround by ocean energy as I worked. The image you see is WORD open, on top of a QuickTime video paused where I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Orchid Light and Ocean Video Respite on Computer Desktop &#8211; Picture to Ponder &#8211; v8-1</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 00:34:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sheila Finkelstein</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Though I did wish you a Happy New Year in the closing issue of Picture to Ponder for 2011, I&#8217;m moved to share the following photos and video for their light and aliveness. Continuing the celebration, these orchids are spilling light and joy into the New Year. May it be a wondrous one, full of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Choices and Variables &#8211; Complex or Simple &#8211; Appreciating Nature &#8211; Picture to Ponder &#8211; v7-48</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 23:38:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sheila Finkelstein</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s Picture to Ponder post evolves around choices, accepting what is, making things complex or receiving with ease. Given the abstraction of most of the images, I am including a Nature photo also, for those whom I assume expect to see nature photographs here. Explanations are below the pictures. Today&#8217;s Picture to Ponder Photos - [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Color, Texture, Shape in Avocado Seeds &#8211; Transformation &#8211; Picture to Ponder &#8211; v7-45</title>
		<link>http://photographyandtransformation.com/color-texture-shape-in-avocado-seeds-transformation-picture-to-ponder-v7-45/2011/11/16</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 03:28:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sheila Finkelstein</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ AVOCADO PIT Aged, Solid, Rock Hard, Rich in color, texture, patterns And oh so much more. On its own, it splits in two Peel the parchment skin Find the heart lines, textures, Ying and Yang? Is there a message here, or do we simply accept it for what it? Beauty contained in the ordinary, often [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Releasing Rigidity &#8211; Play and Transformation with Multi-colored Rose &#8211; Picture to Ponder &#8211; v7-43</title>
		<link>http://photographyandtransformation.com/releasing-rigidity-play-and-transformation-with-multi-colored-rose-picture-to-ponder-v7-43/2011/11/03</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 02:46:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sheila Finkelstein</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The focus of this week&#8217;s Picture to Ponder is &#8220;Play&#8221; and the permission we do, or don&#8217;t, give ourselves to &#8220;freely&#8221; play. The photographs themselves are a result of my following through on taking a photo of whatever catches my eye. This week&#8217;s feature is one rose, not artificial, in a glass vase on a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s Next &#8211; Circling Back to Self as Seen in Wood Pods &#8211; Picture to Ponder &#8211; v7-30</title>
		<link>http://photographyandtransformation.com/whats-next-circling-back-to-self-as-seen-in-wood-pods-picture-to-ponder-v7-30/2011/07/29</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2011 23:29:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sheila Finkelstein</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you read the last Picture to Ponder post, you&#8217;ll most like recall my fascination with the unfolding of two interlocked, wood-like, seed pods that got totally flat after soaking in water. One of the photos showed the pods starting to curl up. I put them back in water until my grandsons came, so together [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Discovering, Openings and Transformation &#8211; Picture to Ponder &#8211; v7-29</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 17:36:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sheila Finkelstein</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My older son and two grandsons are visiting this week, so today&#8217;s Picture to Ponder is late and will mainly be the photographs and story documenting discovering and transformation. The Queries are brief and might be profound for some of you. Today&#8217;s Picture to Ponder Photos &#8211;   These photographs result from my latest fun [...]]]></description>
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