SWEET DARKNESS When you eyes are tired the world is tired also. When your vision has gone no part of the world can find you. Time to go into the dark where the night has eyes to recognize it own. There you can be sure you are not beyond love. The dark will be your [...]
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“The sweet confinement of aloneness…”
Posted in David Whyte, Dialogue, Inspiration, Nature, Photo Canvases, Photography, Poems, Poetry, Spirituality, Wholeness, Writing on January 30, 2008 | 3 Comments »
“No glitter…”
Posted in Dialogue, Inspiration, Natalie Goldberg, Photo Canvases, Photography, Spirituality, Wholeness, Writing, Zen on January 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
FROM The Great Failure by Natalie Goldberg INTRODUCTION “She knows there’s no success like failure, And that failure’s no success at all.” Bob Dylan After my Zen teacher died, a fellow practitioner said to me, “Natalie, your writing succeeded. You didn’t follow the teachings. Everything Roshi taught us was about how to fail.” We both [...]
“To be dazzled…”
Posted in Dialogue, Inspiration, Nature, Photo Canvases, Photography, Poems, Poetry, Wholeness, Writing on January 6, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I am continuously surprised and delighted by Mary Oliver. I hesitate to say that she’s my favorite poet–it’s impossible for me to choose just one poet to adore–I would say that her capacity to capture in words…in word-pictures…resonant experience; well, it’s just brilliant. She’s brilliant. My camera becomes a prop…a doorway to noticing. The light, [...]
“Musing…”
Posted in Dialogue, Family, Photo Canvases, Photography, Poems, Poetry on January 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Today, my 50 mm lens arrives. I can see myself lurking…stalking those moments where friends and family are lost in thought or activity. With my husband this is fairly easy. He loves to muse and today he was engrossed in some light reading on divorce case law…ugh. Whenever he reads it aloud, I have a [...]
“Resolutions…”
Posted in Dialogue, Family, Photography, Wholeness, Writing on January 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
New Year’s Day 2008?? How can that be? It’s my sixtieth year and the typical resolutions…go to the gym daily; give up sugar and caffeine; make more money; reduce debt; lose 5 pounds; blah, blah, blah…really have no appeal. Fun, grandchildren, love and affection are high on the list this year…photos and photo mastery…yes, that [...]
“The life line’s crease…”
Posted in Dialogue, Photo Canvases, Photography, Poems, Poetry, Prayers, Spirituality, Wholeness, Writing on November 30, 2007 | 4 Comments »
IF YOU KNEW What if you knew you’d be the last to touch someone? If you were taking tickets, for example, at the theater, tearing them, giving back the ragged stubs, you might take care to touch that palm, brush your fingertips along the life line’s crease. When a man pulls his wheeled suitcase too [...]
“Quiet richness…”
Posted in Dialogue, Family, Photo Canvases, Photography, Spirituality, Wholeness, Writing, Yoga on November 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Tonight’s Raja Yoga class invited a form of Swadyaya (self-study or reflective meditation). We were guided to reflect on and remember different periods of our lives, beginning with birth to age five; then to age thirteen; then to age twenty; then succeeding decades. The dominant questions concerned what influenced us–who were our idols/ heroes; what [...]
“Until my dying day…”
Posted in Dialogue, Family, Inspiration, Photo Canvases, Photography, Poems, Poetry, Spirituality, Wholeness, Writing on July 9, 2007 | 1 Comment »
This is my dear husband. He has been my gold standard lover for almost twenty years…encouraging my every dream and desire; partnering with me as an ally in personal growth and evolution; humoring me when I lose my sense of humor and always reminding me that family matters most. Today when I am completely undone [...]
“Water is a question…”
Posted in Dialogue, Inspiration, Mary Oliver, Nature, Photo Canvases, Photography, Poems, Poetry, Spirituality, Wholeness, Writing on July 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
SOME THINGS, SAY THE WISE ONES Some things, say the wise ones who know everything, are not living. I say, you live your life your way and leave me alone. I have talked with the faint clouds in the sky when they are afraid of being left behind; I have said, Hurry, hurry! and they [...]
“Building the universe…”
Posted in Dad, Dialogue, Family, Inspiration, Mary Oliver, Photo Canvases, Photography, Poems, Poetry, Spirituality, Wholeness, Writing on July 6, 2007 | 3 Comments »
I tell my friend Patricia that Dad is back in the hospital. This has been an on-going saga in my life. More so in the last ten years, and very much so in the last five years. For three years in a row, he was hospitalized for both Thanksgiving and Christmas…one year he was either [...]
