Sunday Trees : Autumn landscape

This image is one of my favourites. The autumn light on bare trees makes the surrounding quite magical.

I hope I can be the autumn leaf, who looked at the sky and lived. And when it was time to leave, gracefully it knew life was a gift ~Dodinsky

 

Inspired by Becca’s Sunday Trees.

Nurturing Thursday – Insulin

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

14th November is “World Diabetes Day”.

https://worlddiabetesday.org/about/2019-theme/

A story about today——

Today is the birthday of a man who made miracles happen. In 1920, a four year old boy Terry Ryder diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes. In those days, the only way to save diabetes patients was to put them on a starvation diet. In July 1922, Terry weighed less than 12 kg & could not take 4 steps by himself. He was one of the first put on Fredrick Banting’s new discovery. Within 2 weeks he started gaining weight. By September Terry was healthy.

Terry was just one of thousands of children saved around the world by Fredrick Banting’s miracle cure for diabetes. Also adults and children around the world now take this miracle treatment for granted.

When Fredrick Banting discovered insulin, he refused to put his name on the patent. He felt it was unethical for a doctor to profit from a discovery that would save lives. Banting’s co-inventors, James Collip and Charles Best, sold the insulin patent to the University of Toronto for a mere $1. They wanted everyone who needed their medication to be able to afford it.

 

Inspired by Becca’s Nurturing Thursday

Nurturing Thursday : Don’t doubt yourself

What would be better than shaing this piece of information today:

It’s Nobel Laureate C V Raman’s 131st birth anniversary today. He had unshakeable faith in his work and abilities. Though he was elected to the Royal Society, a great honour in those days, when he was just 36, he didn’t consider it a big deal at all! He knew he would win a Nobel Prize after discovering the Raman Effect in Feb 1928. After missing out in 1928 & 1929, he was so confident of winning in 1930 that he he purchased ocean liner tickets to attend the ceremony 5 months in advance, before they even told him he had won.

(Joy Bhattacharjya)

Nelson Mandela has said, ” There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living“.

Inspired by Becca’s Nurturing Thursday

Nurturing Thursday: Accept

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths ~Walt Disney

This image was taken at the grand place or central square of Brussels last Friday. Yes I was there just for weekend.

A secret, I am taking photography to another level and working on my portfolio. I am not sure if it’s right time but I wanna try it as a challenge. It’s time consuming and tiring especially after being in office for almost 9 hours these days.

Enough about me but are you trying something new these days? Break the routine and have fun 😀

This post is inspired from a comment by Carolyn of “does it even matter” and is my contribution for Becca’s Nurturing Thursday this week. .

 

 

Nurturing Thursday: Try

You will never know how much you can accomplish until you try. Never stop trying. Your miracle will come in undefined moments ~ Lailah GiftyAkita

Inspired by Becca’s Nurturing Thursday theme.

Floral Friday

Flowers don’t worry about how they’re going to bloom. They just open up and turn toward the light and that makes them beautiful.  ~Jim Carrey

Weekend 85: On the mountains

The following quotes seem to be connected.

I like the mountains because they make me feel small,… ‘They help me sort out what’s important in life.~ Mark Obmascik

Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain. ~Edmund Hillary

Nurturing Thursday: A reminder

Inspired by Becca’s Nurturing Thursday theme.

Nurturing Thursday

Not every day we feel disturbed but sometimes a series of happenings make us uncomfortable. We then do not live the good moments. For a while we get tangled in recent past.

Let go over a cliff, die completely, and then come back to life — after that you cannot be deceived. ~ Zen Proverb

For Becca’s Nurturing Thursday theme.

Nurturing Thursday: Appreciation

Give youself a gift of five minutes of contemplation in awe of everything you see around. Go outside and turn your attention to the many miracles around you. This five- minute-a-day regimen of appreciation and gratitude will help you to focus your life in awe ~Wayne Dyer

Picture taken at the Tokyo sea life park.

Inspired by Becca’s Nurturing Thursday!