How many billions of leaves lay on the forest floor? I’m attracted to one of them. Why? I pick it up. Gingerly. It’s dry and fragile. I put it in my pocket. And hope that it does not turn to dust there. It joins other found objects brought home to ponder. Bones, bark, stones… attracted […]
Category Archives: ZEN
Sometimes we find ourselves asking…
“Y” did I weep while watching the well produced Daisy Jones and The Six, E5, last evening, when one of the characters said, “…it was obvious that they made each other better; …until they didn’t”? “Y” did that line of dialogue strike me so personally? words on a screen? triggering such deep heartfelt emotions? “Y” […]
Been a Long Time Coming…
A whole lot of sand has poured through the hourglass of my life since last I posted here I’ve lost people, places and things over the past many years and now find myself alone Near the western shores of the Great Lake Michigan “home of the good spirit” In the days before settlement, our area […]
Engage…
…the senses see, touch, look, feel to and fro zen (click photograph for larger view) Leica R8/DMR, 60 mm Macro Elmarit
to and fro zen…
temperatures sway between solid and liquid to and fro zen (click photograph for larger view) Leica M Monochrom, 50 mm Summilux Asph
being… with bees… and flies…
Raghu Rai suggested, “A photograph has picked up a fact of life, and that fact will live forever.” I’m not sure about the forever part. Yet an un-retouched photograph does seem to make a note of tiny factual fragments clipped out of the time and space continuum. But what do these facts mean? What was this […]
This morning’s reflections — full of gratitude!
(click photograph for larger view) Gratitude for: life; love, family and friends; fresh food, water and shelter. On the 17th Ann gifted me with a beautiful bowl; with which to continue exploring the “one bowl method;” on yet another aesthetic level. Filling this beautiful bowl with Ann’s spiced pretzels, seedless grapes and almonds, this morning, presented […]
Back to the wabi-sabi of it all…
Here are two passages from Juniper that summarize wabi-sabi: The term wabi-sabi suggests such qualities as impermanence, humility, asymmetry, and imperfection. These underlying principles are diametrically opposed to those of their Western counterparts, whose values are rooted in the Hellenic worldview that values permanence, grandeur, symmetry, and perfection. … Wabi-sabi is an intuitive appreciation of a […]
In touch with my body
For the last 4 months I’ve “gotten in touch with my body.” Better late than never I guess. Up until 4 months ago I really just took my body for granted. It more or less did what I asked it to do (up until the last few years – when the back aches and knee […]
Friday’s flower – interbeing
Thich Nhat Hanh wrote, “‘Looking deeply’ means observing something or someone with so much concentration that the distinction between observer and observed disappears. The result is insight into the true nature of the object. When we look into the heart of a flower, we see clouds, sunshine, minerals, time, the earth, and everything else in […]