“The whole world is, to me, very much ‘alive’ – all the little growing things, even the rocks. I can’t look at a swell bit of grass and earth, for instance, without feeling the essential life – the things going on – within them. The same goes for a mountain, […]
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“I looked on, I thought, I reflected, I admired, in a state of stupefaction . . .” ― Jules Verne Hmmm. There’s something charming about the sound of that calming response. So beautifully onomatopoeic. It’s the satisfying sound of silence. Of ponder. It’s the consideration of an idea just discovered […]
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“For what you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing: it also depends on what sort of person you are.” ― C.S. Lewis It happens a lot to me in photography. I walk one way down a long forest trail, consuming all the life, light, and lure […]
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“Invisible threads are the strongest ties.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche Entanglement. In simplest terms, it’s the word physicists use to describe the deep energetic connection that exists between two particles — even after being physically separated. Or as Einstein called it, the “spooky action at a distance.” By being once united, the particles […]
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each day, mule deer crowd around your grave to receive the life still in you. ― Joe Dudeck A haiku on our fallen tree — now chopped into pieces outside my window — and how it fulfills a new calling to sustain life after its death. (In fact, two deer . . […]
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“Eyes blinded by the fog of things cannot see truth. Ears deafened by the din of things cannot hear truth. Brains bewildered by the whirl of things cannot think truth. Hearts deadened by the weight of things cannot feel truth. Throats choked by the dust of things cannot speak truth.” […]
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“Winter is not the death of the life cycle, but its crucible.” ― Katherine May It’s February. The middle ground between the beginning and the ending of winter. It’s at this time when I become restless to move in one direction or another. Let the cold of winter stay and […]
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“Curiosity is our friend that teaches us how to become ourselves. And it’s a very gentle friend and a very forgiving friend, and a very constant one.” ― Elizabeth Gilbert In our house, we often remind each other to be curious not judgmental — a line attributed to Walt […]
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“The only way we can change the way we feel is by becoming aware of our inner experience and learning to befriend what is going inside ourselves.” ― Bessel A. van der Kolk In 2004, I was working out at a gym and tore the trapezius, rhomboid, and latissimus dorsi […]
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“Silence is not the absence of something but the presence of everything . . . It is the presence of time, undisturbed. It can be felt within the chest. Silence nurtures our nature, our human nature, and lets us know who we are. Left with a more receptive mind and […]
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