Birds
Love Songs To and From a Magpie
Love Songs To and From a MagpieThis month, I'm participating in a remarkable workshop offered...
Sandhills’ Mandarin Stroll
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Sandhills Bless a Mandarin Sky
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Family of Sandhill Cranes Wading through Golden Waters
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Redwing Blackbirds in the Bosque
Ahhh – to be back in the Bosque!
Invincible Dawn
Whatever calls to you now. Whatever sings for your attention or knocks on your door, turn toward it. Run with wings flapping pulling the light within you forward….
Sandhill Family Take-Off
You cannot protect the environment unless you empower people, you inform them…
Savoring the Mornings
Instead of blasting off in a mass ascension, they collectively decide the light is just too gorgeous, the reflections on the water…
Surveying the Meadow
Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself…
Little Wonders
The earth is too beautiful to let our awareness of it slip away. Find something lovely to notice today.
Hummingbird Yawn
Although it looks like this hummingbird could be orating a great poem, she was just…
Cormorants Loitering
What is the foundation of all civilization according to Jean Renoir?
The Flock of Distractions
What can you embrace that is wholly beneficial and supportive of the beautiful work you want to do but is yet to be done?
Seeing Through
On letting go and seeing what might emerge…
The Real Meaning of Closeness
Ahh, the pandemic has taught us all so much through isolation and distancing…
Look for the Patterns
I love how this flock of sandhill cranes reminds me of notes in musical score – like a feathered arpeggio…
Centered in the Swirl
Maybe it’s time to choose YOU…
On Looking for Something
“As long as we’re caught up in always looking for certainty and happiness, rather than honoring the taste and smell and quality of…
Egret Strikes Through
After weeks of silence, this musing takes a stab at describing the pain, fear, and brutality of racial injustice during our time of upheaval
Solitary Ibis
I have a choice, always, of how to frame my beautiful life. If I see myself as being lonely, then the emotions of loneliness are sure to follow…
We of the Floating World
We of the Floating World live only for the moment, giving all our time to the pleasures of cherry blossoms and snow and maple leaves…
Through the Red Willows
A Canada Goose spies the photographer through red willows…
Egret as Illumination
I believe in embracing my duality, in learning to let darkness and light, peacefully co-exist, as illumination…
Flying Together
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
Walking on Water
You can spend your time on stage pleasing the heckler in the back, or you can devote it to the audience that came to hear you perform…
Red Tail on the Hunt
See a sequence of photographs of a red tail hawk as she flew toward my camera…
Flying Toward Ourselves
Please, listen to your heart. Hear its voice above all others.
Magical Beast also known as the Roseate Spoonbill
This a photo of what I can only describe as a Magical Beast. Roseate Spoonbills present like chimera’s – part lizard, part flamingo, with a dash of White Rabbit…
Let the Beauty You Love…
Happy Valentine’s Day!
Something that looks foolish
The right answer always hides behind something that looks wrong, something that looks foolish…
A Running Start
Those times when you get up early and you work hard, those times when you stay up late and you work hard, those times when you don’t feel like working…
Long Exposures and Longing to Be True to Oneself
To reveal oneself–to be true to oneself– requires more time and more risk than the span of 1/1000 of a second…
A Wider Circle
A Wider Circle“Mother Teresa said the problem is, we draw our family circle too small. Your family...
Worrying comes to nothing
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Watching the Sandhill Cranes
A gorgeous poem about sandhills by William Stafford…
Flying Each Other Home
Rest in peace Ram Dass
The Freedom in Truth
How does the world suffer when your heart is boundaried?
Go on anyway
Do not let the fact that things are not made for you, that conditions are not…
I will not be tamed
I Will Not Be Tamed“The ancient roots of the word "art" have to do with connection, and art, at...
Seemingly Insignificant Little Ducks
Finding a wealth of depth and beauty in unexpected places…
Heron rows forward into flight
Mary Oliver’s timeless description of a heron…
The way God appears…
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Projections of the collective consciousness
We can and will learn to do things differently when the need is urgent enough. One thought becomes two thoughts, becomes millions of synapses firing in a new direction…
Movement and Chaos
“There is one thing your teacher must be,” she said, “It doesn’t matter what discipline he or she adheres to. What matters is that your teacher is…
The Winds of Grace
The winds of grace are always blowing, but you have to raise the sail…
Praying for us to open our eyes
“The eyes of the future are looking back at us and they are praying for us to see beyond our own time. They are kneeling with hands clasped…”
Be like snow geese
Sometimes, the light is the active subject in a photograph. Allow it to shed awareness on the beauty of…
Nature is Watching
Some thoughts on nature staring us down and taking appropriate, urgent action
Clearing
Do not try to save
the whole world
or do anything grandiose.
Instead…
Unexpected Intrusions of Beauty
On this Thanksgiving Day may the beauty of this life surprise you.