Reverie
Posted: June 24, 2009 Filed under: 365 Life in the Bogs Challenge, Adventures in art, Earth, home, Photography, Quotes, Spirit, Summer, water | Tags: Gaston Bachelard, pond, reflections, rowboat, water 5 Comments
(041: Rowboat and reflections. Photo © 2009 by Robin)
Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.
~ Gaston Bachelard
More weeding for me today. That will be followed by laundry, washing dishes, and other forms of housework. I live such an exciting exotic enlightened life.
😉
Life in the Bogs 
Your life is more exciting than I’d be able to keep pace with in your shoes, I can tell you that.
Thanks for taking away my frownie face! 🙂 Can I have one of dem little monster type things though, instead?
Biz: Nope. I’m sorry. No monster type things. You might wind up with a frownie face again and then where would we be?
Back to square one, that’s where.
You could keep pace. I’m sure of it. 😀
Gorgeous black and white image. Great quote. I haven’t thought about reverie. Hmm.. Weeding? Ye gads! I have to get outside at least five in the morning because of the heat. There’s a Buddhist saying about enlightenment. Laundry before enlightenment and laundry after enlightenment…. and I guess that goes for weeding and washing dishes too. LOL
LOL, Anna! I’ve heard that Buddhist saying in another way —
Before enlightenment: Chop wood, haul water.
After enlightenment: Chop wood, haul water.
Same principle. 😉 And what’s scary is that we really do chop wood and haul water out here. We must be majorly enlightened. lol!
LOL, Robin, I think I had crossed my wires in Buddhism. I was thinking of the same thing you quoted but of Jack Kornfield’s “After the Ecstasy, the Laundry.” So I put laundry in there instead of chop wood, haul water. Well, it is the same principle, all in all, as you said. I sure laughed after I read your reply. Laughter is good for a cross-wired 50 year old brain. 🙂 🙂