Ramshackle explorations
Posted: February 20, 2013 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Adventures in art, Daily Walk, Digital Art, Earth, home, Letting Go, Mindfulness, nature, Photography, pond, Quotes, snow, Spirit, Walking, wandering, water, weather, winter | Tags: Beauty, falling down, Hiking, Houses, Leonard Koren, MaidinSun Photography, nature, Outdoors, Photography, pond, quotes, snow, Wabi-sabi, water, weather, winter 37 Comments
Going within
Beauty can be coaxed out of ugliness. Wabi-sabi is ambivalent about separating beauty from non-beauty or ugliness. The beauty of wabi-sabi is in one respect, the condition of coming to terms with what you consider ugly. Wabi-sabi suggests that beauty is a dynamic event that occurs between you and something else. Beauty can spontaneously occur at any moment given the proper circumstances, context, or point of view. Beauty is thus an altered state of consciousness, an extraordinary moment of poetry and grace.
~ Leonard Koren, Wabi-Sabi: For Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers
266: Dogwood evolution
Posted: June 16, 2011 Filed under: 365 Life in the Bogs Challenge, Adventures in Life, Air, beginnings, Earth, goals, home, life, nature, Photography, Quotes, Spirit, Spring, Walking | Tags: Beauty, dogwood, Flower, garden, Hal Borland, Photography, postaday2011, quotes 25 Comments
April 30, 2011
To see a hillside white with dogwood bloom is to know a particular ecstasy of beauty, but to walk the gray Winter woods and find the buds which will resurrect that beauty in another May is to partake of continuity.
~ Hal Borland
Although I don’t have photos of the dogwood tree from the winter months, April was such a gloomy, rainy, chilly month that it at least qualifies as being gray (as in walking “the gray Winter woods” in the quote). Posting every day has given us all a chance to see things as they unfold. I thought it would be interesting to see the unfolding in one post.
251: Pulchritude
Posted: June 1, 2011 Filed under: 365 Life in the Bogs Challenge, Adventures in art, Adventures in Life, Air, Critters, Earth, Fire, garden, gardening, home, nature, Photography, pond, Quotes, Spirit, Spring, Walking, wandering, water, winter | Tags: Allen Tucker, Beauty, damselfly, dragonfly, Flower, Margaret Prescott Montague, Oriah, Peony, Photography, pond, postaday2011, Rhododendron, Timothy Ray Miller 39 Comments
(Dragonfly and pond lights)
Pulchritude has to be one of the oddest words for beauty I have ever seen or heard. There are so many other words that I think say it better, and I often wonder if anyone ever uses the word pulchritude and if so, what would be the occasion for using it? It’s all a matter of perception, I suppose. There are some out there who probably adore the word pulchritude. Beauty is, they say, in the eye of the beholder.
Life in the Bogs 