motivation vs inspiration
A human life is the most complex narrative of all: it has many layers of events which embrace outside behaviour and actions, the inner stream of the mind, the underworld of the unconscious, the soul, fantasy, dream and imagination. ~my favorite John O’Donohue I’m quoting him here because I seem to have let go of […]
perspective
(photos of this glorious time of year) You know, I don’t like all stories. I was just at the “transfer station” (dump) where there is cute little swap shop. I dropped off two books there: stories about people. They were true. But not of interest to me. To my surprise, though, I’m really enjoying a […]
when slower is beautiful
Quiet. The lake is almost still. I love the lake when it’s still. Why is it so difficult for me to be still? Even slow down? I love to move. I love to be impressed by “what gets done”. Looking forward to a busy day. In that schedule is, yes, meditation. It’s on my “doing” […]
worry / play
I don’t feel good – I have this kind of really lousy chest thing going on; so I used that as an excuse to go into full-blown worry. “This could be the end” kind of ridiculousness. Oh yes. Thank goodness I had arranged yesterday for Fred, my carpenter friend, to come by and bring me […]
delivery
I was so thrilled that I got such an early start on my day – cloth on the hill just soaked with dye. And then…. I hear in the not so distant range, this high-pitched “beep – beep – beep”! I think to myself, “No! Not my driveway!” I had placed a bright red cooler […]
what color
I have my ideas about the color of water. The water that I know. Water that I remember. But what color is water, anyway? According to O’Donohue, Colour is the language of light. And water is more affected by light than anything, doesn’t it seem? I took the photos (above) of the same body of water […]
moving into
Moving into fall. It’s the time of year where color is noticed. I mean noticed. Not that we aren’t super happy at the first shoot of green in the spring. Or delighted by the color of tulips, roses, peonies come summer. Of course. Of course. But fall? What is fall except this light show on […]
colored by
Two days in a row. Polar opposites. How do we deal with unwanted, then – the so delicious? Yesterday was colored by news I wish I hadn’t read. That information was not good. And it made me wish I hadn’t encountered it. Wish I hadn’t been “colored by it”. How deeply we understand color. We […]
Nydia
Did I ever tell you about my horse named Nydia? She was trained for competition in England before she came to us – my childhood family. She had been schooled for steeple chase but was sold because she was too high-strung. She would do well on our long, leisurely rides through the woods, we thought. […]
noticing the shift
Color is the language of light…Light is the greatest unnoticed force of transfiguration in the world: it literally alters everything it touches… ~John O’Donohue, “Beauty” If you were able to see this orange cloth where it is lying now – if you could walk around and witness it straight on – you’d notice the grey […]