The Winter of Listening
The Winter of Listening What is precious inside us does not care to be known by the mind in ways that diminish its presence. What disturbs and then nourishes has everything we need. What we hate in ourselves is what we cannot know in ourselves but what...
Growth and Decay
Growth and Decay “Each day of human life contains joy and anger, pain and pleasure, darkness and light, growth and decay. Each moment is etched with nature’s grand design – do not try to deny or oppose the cosmic order of things.” – Morihei Ueshiba Photo...
Wishes and Promises
Wishes and Promises “The blossoms of the apricot blow from the east to the west, and I have tried to keep them from falling.” – Ezra I took this image back in May when my apricot tree was flowering with wishes of the harvest to come. But unlike the previous two...
Apricots in the Rain
Apricots in the Rain At the most difficult moments of my life, when it seemed that every door was closed to me, the taste of those apricots comes back to comfort me with the notion that abundance is always within reach, if only one knows how to find it. – Isabel...