To meditate means to go home to yourself. Then you know how to take care of the things that are happening inside you, and you know how to take care of the things that happen around you. ~Thich Nhat Hanh
sunday morning with Thich Nhat Hanh
blossom
macro monochrome
sunday morning with Amy Tan
“She holds up the cage with the owl. ‘But now I have a beautiful cat-eagle that can carry with him my new wish. When he flies away, all my old sadnesses will go with him. Then both of us will be free.'”~Amy Tan*
*cited: Amy Tan, The Hundred Secret Senses.
cmmc – close up
At night in my sleep
embraces the summer shadows
of my life. ~Oto*
Cee’s August’s cmmc: close up or macro
*cited: Y Hoffmann, Japanese Death Poems
wordless wednesday – 8.2.23
silent sunday
an early morning with Etty
“…Woke up in the middle of the night. And suddenly remembered my important dream. A few minutes of intense effort to bring it back. Gluttonous. Greedy. Had the feeling that the dream was part of my personality, that I had the right to hang on to it, that I must not let it escape me, that I had to be certain of it if I am to be a rounded and whole person.*
Cee’s Photo Challenges: FOTD
*Trans, Arno Pomerans. An Interrupted Life. Lester & Oren Dennys Limited. 1983. pg.58
monochrome monday
a child’s smile…silent
resounding within the heart,
memories…blossom
flower of the day
I cast the brush aside
from here on I’ll speak to the moon
face to face ~Koha
Nikon D750 …f/5.6 1/500s 85mm 800 ISO i
Image submitted in response to Cee’s flower of the day (FOTD) challenge
untitled
Sony RX100 … f/3.5 1/320s 8.8 mm
for you who rarely visit…
for you who
rarely visit,
though you have already arrived,
may the early evening storm
not blow so hard!
~Ryokan*
*cited:
Sky Above, Great Wind
K Tanahashi
initially posted on September 1, 2015
faded blossom
tears long forgotten
buried in the sands of time
a faded blossom
bckofford
Nikon D750 f/4.5 1/400s 85mm 800 ISO
a meditative journey 
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