Thanksgiving

RIC_9117-2, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Better than any argument is to rise at dawn

and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.

Wendell Berry

A frame

RIC_1358-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

A frame is a unit of space-time; i.e., a moment is not an abstraction, but is filled with what is seen by the eye.

Czeslaw Milosz,

A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry

Self

RIC_9751_edited-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Loneliness is the poverty of self.

Solitude is richness of self.

May Sarton

Wonder

RIC_9753-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Never say there is nothing beautiful in

the world anymore. There is always

something to make you wonder in the

shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf. 

Albert Schweitzer

To be seen

RIC_8423-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

     In order for connection to happen,
     we have to allow ourselves to be seen
     — really seen.
      
      Brené Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection

The Past

RIC_2921, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

The past is a road of initiation, not victimization.

Angeles Arrien

Eternity

I think that maybe
I will be a little surer
of being a little nearer.
That's all.  Eternity
is in the understanding
that little is more than enough.

R. S. Thomas