by susan preston | Jan 29, 2020 | Bosque del Apache, Landscape, Photo of the Day
It’s light that sustains me “Stabilized in love, we are grounded in the courage that empowers us to touch the hurting places. Prior to being grounded in love, we think we are nothing but the self that things happen to. We are afraid to go near the hurting place...
by susan preston | Jul 11, 2019 | Photo of the Day, Santa Fe, This Life
Secret Beauty With the bumper crop of apricots ripening on my tree I’ve spent most of the last two days preserving literally hundreds of them. You can imagine my surprise when I discovered a laybug tucked behind one of the stones of an apricot I was pitting....
by susan preston | Jun 23, 2019 | Landscape, Musings, Photo of the Day, Santa Fe
Moon Songs For me, photography has always been a hymn to beauty. This view was indeed reinforced and much deepened when I learned more about Buddhist philosophy and practice. According to the Buddhist teachings, Buddha-nature is present in every living being. The...
by susan preston | Mar 27, 2019 | Landscape, Musings, Photo of the Day, Santa Fe
New Moon A new moon teaches gradualnessand deliberation and how one gives birthto oneself slowly. Patience with small detailsmakes perfect a large work, like the universe.– Rumi As I watched the tiny sliver of a new moon make a rapid descent through a narrow...
by susan preston | Oct 10, 2018 | Musings, Photo of the Day, Santa Fe, Sunrise + Sunset
Hope Rises Hope rises and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is pain. – Hunter S. Thompson Love plans for tomorrow. I love this, especially now, on the cusp of midterm elections which...
