independence
nature
weekly photo challenge: simplicity
image submitted in response to Jenn’s (Wits End Photography) weekly photo challenge: simplicity
early morning readings
“…Visual transmission through images speaks directly to intuition and feelings, circumventing the verbal mind. Drawings offer spaces for imagination to wander, evoking meanings too complex or subtle to know intellectually. This state of mind, in which one can receive information through images, points to one of the closest parallels between the contemplative and creative paths. Aesthetic appreciation and receptivity to spiritual teachings are both practiced with an open-ended state of mind, a state of comfortable not-knowing. We draw and meditate in heightened awareness of what is happening in the moment, opening the space for new ideas, and allowing change to happen.”
John F Simon, Drawing your own Path. pg.150
wordless wednesday
six word saturday: let light show your true colors
Submitted in response to Debbie’s (Travel with Intent) Six Word Challenge.
story telling: aging
Week 19 Story Telling: Aging (Love it or hate it, aging is something we all experience. So tell us the story of Aging in a single photograph)
Images submitted in response to Dogwood Photography’s annual 52-week photography challenge.
Riverbend ponds natural area II
Wabi-sabi is a beauty of things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete. It is a beauty of things modest and humble. It is a beauty of things unconventional…
Koren, Leonard, Wabi-Sabi for artists, designers, poets, & philosophers. Stone Bridge Press, Berkeley, CA
riverbend ponds natural area
pond reflection
of this world
or the world beyond? on the sea
the sunset glow
~Tsuda Kiyoko (M Ueda, Far Beyond the Field)
lens artists photo challenge: weathered or worn
If you wish to participate in this week’s Lens Artists Photo Challenge hop on over to Leya’s
reflections of autumn
Sitting quietly, doing nothing,
Spring comes, and the grass grows by itself. Zenrin Kushû (The Way of Zen)
memories
What intensity of memory clings to your heart?
That gentle shower fell on the leaves–
Only for a moment [our hearts touched]. ~The Sarashina Diary (Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan)
a meditative journey 
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