water falls freezing on contact with buds wishing the warmth would arrive (click photograph for larger view) Leica R8/DMR, Leitz 160/ 4/0.10 microscope objective
Category Archives: ZEN
Porch cave meditation
the beautiful way: weather and time returning the cedar to earth (click photograph for larger view) A seed in the earth grows into a cedar tree which men harvest and fabricate into lumber. I fashion the boards into my porch; which serves me for 25 years; only to be reclaimed by the atmosphere; due, in part, […]
forms fro zen
rock, sand, here and now covered, they continue to express their form (click images for larger views) Leica R8/DMR, 100 mm Apo Macro Elmarit
Milwaukee river meditations
“In good writing, words become one with things.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson perhaps also in good photography the image becomes one with the subject as well as the moment for the moment I think so (click images for larger view) Leica R8/DMR, 350 mm Telyt
aware, motivated, yearning, reaching
“Whether working with a human figure or a still life, I am deeply aware of my spiritual connection with it. In my life, as in my work, I am motivated by a great yearning for balance and harmony beyond the realm of human experience, reaching for the essence of oneness with the Universe.” – Ruth Bernhard […]
“The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind”
returning (always) to the study of wabi sabi wherein the student perceives beauty in the ephemeral, transient, isolated, simple, subdued tranquil, natural, intimate, eternal, melancholic, asymmetrical, earthy, organic, rough, uneven, asperities, spacious, humble, sober, intangible yearning, impermanent, passage of time… (click image for larger view) Leica R8/DMR, 60 mm Macro Elmarit
Contemplate the cycles and seasons of life
snow will soon cover the paths walked with Sophia and ice the river from which this mandala emerged her fourth fall my sixty third (click image for larger view) Leica R8/DMR, 60 mm Macro Elmarit
Wishing wells and mandalas
listen to warm thaw watching egos dissolving into a sea of compassion [qt:/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/mz000034.mov 480 10] (click on images for larger view)
Inspiration: Morning. A new day. The first day of a new era. Waiting for Barack Obama to deliver his inaugural address.
“Art is the perpetual motion of illusion. The highest purpose of art is to inspire. What else can you do? What else can you do for anyone but to inspire them?” — Bob Dylan (click image for larger view)
Giving and receiving = utopia
The 365 Tao, 103, on Reciprocity (paraphrased): Hands grasp, but also give; and can teach us generosity. Mouths taste, but also speak; and can teach us to give thanks in word and song. Noses breathe, but also smell; and can teach us to learn from our environment. Eyes see, but also show; and can teach […]