A camera is a save button for the mind’s eye. — Roger Kingston said that. Something I’ve always regretted is not keeping the cameras in my life, particularly the old Brownie cameras — we even had one of those old… Read more
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Open it up
“Today is a gift. Open it up and take it for a ride.” — said Diane Schuller
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observed and absorbed …
Her simple statement has remained with me. It was the gravity of her message. She said she’d be taking time away from social media and news in general to take in the real life occurring outdoors. And then she punctuated… Read more
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offer it a sip of tea
“A beautiful plant is like having a friend around the house.” –Beth Ditto My dear mom would have agreed with that sentiment. It ran in her veins, like our life blood, or the life-giving rivers that feed the globe’s oceans…. Read more
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breathe
Being a Person “Be a person here. Stand by the river, invokethe owls. Invoke winter, then spring.Let any season that wants to come here make its owncall. After that sound goes away, wait. A slow bubble rises through the earthand… Read more
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on this autumn day
“Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love – The birds are consulting about their migrations, the trees are putting on the hecticor the pallid hues of decay, and begin to strew the ground,that one’s very footsteps… Read more
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when women were birds
“Once upon a time, when women were birds, there was the simple understanding that to sing at dawn and to sing at dusk was to heal the world through joy. The birds still remember what we have forgotten, that the world is meant to be celebrated.”–Terry Tempest Williams… Read more
