Seeing

Arbor Award Ceremony 3, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


Seeing comes from within ourselves, 
not from the vague "out there" of the outer world. 

David Ulrich, 
The Widening Stream: the Seven Stages of Creativity

Eating

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Originally uploaded by rchoephoto

Eating with the fullest pleasure – pleasure, that is, that does not depend on ignorance – is perhaps the profoundest enactment of our connection with the world. In this pleasure we experience and celebrate our dependence and our gratitude, for we are living from mystery, from creatures we did not make and powers we cannot comprehend.

Wendell Berry