Post Tagged with: "Colorado"

See the Beauty: Bittersweet

See the Beauty: Bittersweet

“Sometimes a thing and the opposite of a thing are true at the same time.” ― Wynton Marsalis . . .   . . . Lindsay’s a six, and I’m a seven. What’s that mean? It’s Enneagram speak for our respective types. She best associates with #6 — the committed, […]

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See the Beauty: Rooted

See the Beauty: Rooted

“To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.” ― Simone Weil . . .   . . . When we moved to Colorado in the spring of 2019, we uprooted our lives in pursuit of a dream to live amongst the mountains. […]

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See the Beauty: Unmoored

See the Beauty: Unmoored

“In an unmoored life like mine, sleep and hunger and work arrange themselves to suit themselves, without consulting me.” ― Kurt Vonnegut . . . . . . I know someone who forgot how much she loved to paint because she stopped doing it years ago after her husband belittled her […]

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See the Beauty: Do

See the Beauty: I Do

“Marriage as a long conversation. When marrying you should ask yourself this question: do you believe you are going to enjoy talking with this woman into your old age? Everything else in a marriage is transitory, but most of the time that you’re together will be devoted to conversation.” ― […]

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See the Beauty: Sun - Lake Dillon, Colorado

See the Beauty: Sun

“Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows.” ― Helen Keller   Summer Solstice — the moment the Northern Hemisphere tilts closest to the sun — arrived this past week, marking the official start of summer. Each year, I’ve eagerly awaited the return of the longest […]

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See the Beauty: Conversations - Colorado Springs

See the Beauty: Conversations

“The rocks are beyond slow, beyond strong, and yet, yielding to a soft, green breath as powerful as a glacier, the mosses wearing away their surfaces grain by grain, bringing them slowly back to sand. There is an ancient conversation going on between mosses and rocks, poetry to be sure. […]

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See the Beauty: Soak - Colorado Springs

See the Beauty: Soak

“They both listened silently to the water, which to them was not just water, but the voice of life, the voice of Being, the voice of perpetual Becoming.” ― Hermann Hesse, “Siddhartha”   My life, much like the landscape around me, seems very parched at the moment. Dry. Dusty. Desolate. […]

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