Last night, when I heard Barack Obama’s speech, I wept. Not because I believed his words; his promises; his point-of-view. Not because I identify myself as a democrat, or because I deal in the currency of hope. Not because I want him to be president or because I don’t want him to be president. I [...]
Archive for August, 2008
“Without being political…”
Posted in Inspiration, Listening, Photo Canvases, Photography, Wholeness on August 29, 2008 | 3 Comments »
“Saying thank you…”
Posted in Photo Canvases, Photography, Poems, Poetry, Wholeness, WS Merwin on August 19, 2008 | 3 Comments »
LISTEN with the night falling we are saying thank you we are stopping on the bridge to bow from the railings we are running out of the glass rooms with our mouths full of food to look at the sky and say thank you we are standing by the water looking out in different directions [...]
“Memory lane…”
Posted in Dad, Family, Photography, Wholeness on August 17, 2008 | 2 Comments »
How do you put 85 years of life in a shadow box frame? Sunday school at the Methodist Church; high school and college football and basketball; WW II on a ship in the Pacific; graduation from the University of Virginia; global travel–Mexico; the Caribbean; Central and South America; England; Scotland; Wales; France; Switzerland; Italy; Spain; [...]
“Angels always…”
Posted in Mary Oliver, Nature, Photo Canvases, Photography, Poems, Poetry, Wholeness, Writing on August 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
POEM: BY THE WILD-HAIRED CORN I don’t know if the sunflowers are angels always, but surely sometimes. Who, even in heaven, wouldn’t want to wear, for awhile, such a seed-face and brave spine, a coat of leaves with so many pockets— and who wouldn’t want to stand, for a summer day, in the hot fields, [...]
“The deep innerness of all things…”
Posted in Nature, Photo Canvases, Photography, Poems, Poetry, Rilke, Spirituality, Wholeness on August 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
THE BOOK OF PILGRIMAGE, II, 22 You are the future, the red sky before sunrise over the fields of time. You are the cock’s crow when night is done, You are the dew and the bells of matins, maiden, stranger, mother, death. You create yourself in ever-changing shapes that rise from the stuff of our [...]
“Summer rain…”
Posted in Family, Mothering, Photo Canvases, Photography on August 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Dashiell, native of Los Angeles, didn’t know about thunder storms. He was here for the hot and steamy days of July and like his Mama, he loves the sound, the smell and the feel of summer rain.
“Twilight…”
Posted in Dad, Family, Mary Oliver, Photo Canvases, Photography, Poems, Poetry, Wholeness, Writing, Yoga on August 11, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Tonight at Yoga School, we meditate. As we deepen our breathing and settle on our cushions, the instruction is to “do nothing” and “be nobody.” To drop our roles and responsibilities; to breathe, feel and be. I breathe. Thoughts of my father arise. I breathe… The years, the layers of responsibility–some of it accepted unconsciously; [...]
“Look what happens…”
Posted in Inspiration, Nature, Photo Canvases, Photography, Poems, Poetry, Wholeness on August 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Sun beams Even After all this time The sun never says to the earth “You owe me.” Look what happens With a love like that— It lights the whole World. – HAFIZ -
“It’s been too long…”
Posted in Listening, Mary Oliver, Nature, Photo Canvases, Photography, Poems, Poetry, Wholeness, Writing on August 10, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Sometimes life is very full. It used to be, that inspite of all that was going on around me, I would sit down at the end of the day and edit my photos and write my blog. Lately instead, I’ve been organizing the hard drive on my awesome new hand-me-up MAC desktop (thank you so [...]
