Photo of the Day

Standing Still Before Dawn

There was no wind and no crickets on this mid-December morning. No packs of coyotes howling. Maybe this is what death is like? When seeing and hearing pass away and all you can feel are your…

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…

Remembering what I’ve forgotten

Every time I see a small herd of deer in the Bosque del Apache, I am so taken by their tender presence. They are…

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

Unexpected Intrusions of Beauty

On this Thanksgiving Day may the beauty of this life surprise you.

Hidden Jewel

“For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it.”

You miss the shots you don’t take

Yay! This shot won an award. But oddly enough, what began as a meditation on success turned into a contemplation on the true nature of failure.

When Women Were Birds

Once upon a time, when women were birds, there was the simple understanding that to sing at dawn and to sing…

Marveling at the Extinction of Organic Beings

Nevertheless so profound is our ignorance, and so high our presumption, that we marvel when we hear… – Charles Darwin

imagining the birds and i

The birds and I share a natural history. It is a matter of rootedness, of living inside

The Secret Sky

This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take…

The Silent Space

“‪When it comes to the beauty of nature, time stops, the space becomes silent and the soul falls…

Both Sides of Everything

Reclaiming ourselves usually means coming to recognize and accept that we have in us both sides of everything. We are capable of fear and…

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…

The quiet opening

The quiet opening
between fence strands
perhaps eighteen inches.

The Deer Who Smiled at Me in Yosemite

It’s a risky move, publishing this post. You might figure out just how silly I really am. How silly?

Tunnel View in Starlight

No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty. Whether as seen carving the lines of the mountains with glaciers, or gathering matter into stars, or planning…

Sunset Driving Back from Glacier Point

“I think, well, I’ve had a shit of a life, all things considered. It wasn’t fair. Everyone I’ve ever loved is dead, and my leg hurts all the bloody time…

Komorebi

Komorebi – sunlight that filters through the leaves of trees

Flying Through Dusk

“Twilight fell: The sky turned to a light, dusky purple littered with tiny silver stars.” ― J.K. Rowling

Soft Sandhill Takeoff

“In order to see birds it is necessary to become a part of the silence.” ― Robert Lynd

Coyote on the Move

“Coyote is always out there waiting, and Coyote is always hungry.”

– Navajo Proverb

Sandhill Cranes Flying Over the Bosque del Apache

“When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.”
― Ralph Ellison

Intensity Brings Focus

It is very important on the spiritual path that you are not dead serious. Being intense is one thing. Being tense is another. Intensity brings…

Speak Up

I share a flock of inspirational quotes encouraging women to speak up in this post.

The Ancient Rhythms

“The ancient rhythms of the earth have insinuated themselves into the rhythms of the human heart. The earth is not…

If Only We Discover It

“The world is a possibility if only you’ll discover it.” ― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

Above the Angels

Don’t be on the side of the angels, it’s too lowering. – D.H. Lawrence

Who is Available?

The opportunity to experience yourself differently is always available. – Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

When Everyone’s Included

What is one to do when the weight of the world and the anxiety it can provoke begins to take a toll on you?

An Invitation

Invitation. One of my favorite poems from my favorite poet, Mary Oliver

Walking on Water

There are moments in the fading light when I am so touched by the beauty of this world that I understand we are all angels…

Wishes and Promises

I took this image back in May when my apricot tree was flowering with wishes of the harvest to come. But unlike the previous…

Crimson Sunset

If you can let go of passion and follow your curiosity, your curiosity just might lead you…

Apricots in the Rain

The taste and the aroma of my tree’s generous offerings will come back to comfort me in the days to come, reminding me of the love that is…

Secrety Beauty

Beauty is hiding in places we often don’t expect to find it…

First Batch

If you don’t like apricotish snapshots you’ve come to the wrong place! (At least until my bumper crop has been polished off.) I had no concept of the size of the wave I’d end up…

Love Made Visible

Early into this waltz of fruit my heart leapt at the discovery of the sweet impression left by a soggy-bottomed apricot I picked off the kitchen…

The Endless Harvest

I’m saving the stones – each a promise of new growth – as this endless apricot harvest creeps along…

Secret Beauty

Ladybug, Ladybug fly away home! Your house is being made into jam!!!

A note about FREEDOM

As much as my mind would like to turn away and push these thoughts and images through a trap door, I’m setting an intention to bear witness to both…

The Gift of Bearing Witness

How can a photograph understand the woman who is looking? Listen to my very first PODCAST where I share my creative process, which is also a practice of paying attention…