Beat
Posted: February 4, 2013 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Air, Critters, Daily Walk, Earth, home, nature, Photography, Quotes, snow, Spirit, Walking, water, weather, winter | Tags: birds, European Starling, flowers, MaidinSun Photography, nature, Northern Cardinal, Outdoors, Photography, quotes, Rumi, snow, sparrow, water, weather, winter 20 Comments
The beat of wings
Beating your wings and feathers
You broke free from this world…~ Rumi, Gone to the Unseen
Today’s Capture Your 365 prompt is Beat. The beat of drums, the beat of the heart, the beat of a bird’s wings. In the case of the starlings pictured above, it looks like I captured the beat of the wings as well as the bird on the suet crying, “Beat it!” to the other bird flying away. Starlings can be rude creatures.
Death of a cardinal
Posted: January 15, 2013 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Air, Critters, Daily Walk, Digital Art, Earth, endings, Fire, home, Letting Go, Mindfulness, nature, Photography, pond, Quotes, Spirit, Walking, water, weather, winter | Tags: Animal Speak, Bird, clouds, MaidinSun Photography, Marcus Aurelius, nature, Northern Cardinal, Outdoors, Pema Chödrön, Photography, pond, quotes, Ted Andrews, trees, water, weather, winter 37 Comments
Shadows
It’s said that when we die, the four elements — earth, air, fire and water — dissolve one by one, each into the other, and finally just dissolve into space. But while we’re living, we share the energy that makes everything, from a blade of grass to an elephant, grow and live and then inevitably wear out and die. This energy, this life force, creates the whole world.
~Pema Chödrön
Life in the Bogs 