Balance
Posted: March 13, 2013 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Air, beginnings, Daily Walk, Digital Art, Earth, Fire, home, Letting Go, Mindfulness, nature, Photography, Quotes, snow, Spirit, Spring, Today's Joys, Walking, wandering, water, weather, winter | Tags: balance, Eat Pray Love, Elizabeth Gilbert, flowers, Health, Hiking, MaidinSun Photography, nature, Outdoors, Photography, quotes, Rumi, snow, spring, Sufi poetry, trees, water, weather, winter 19 Comments
Balanced between winter and spring. Frosty oak leaves.
Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralysed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birds’ wings.
~ Rumi, Essential Rumi
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.
Peaceful morning in the meadows
Posted: August 1, 2012 Filed under: 365 Yoga Challenge, Air, Critters, Digital Art, Earth, Fire, home, life, nature, Photography, pond, Spirit, Summer, Walking, wandering, water, weather | Tags: Albert Hofmann, clouds, flowers, George Gissing, Meadow, nature, Outdoors, Photography, pond, quotes, reflections, Rumi, Tiger Swallowtail, water, weather, wildflowers 42 Comments
Every tree and plant in the meadow seemed to be dancing
those which average eyes would see as fixed and still.~ Jalal ad-Din Rumi
The energy of the sun
Posted: July 24, 2010 Filed under: Adventures in art, Adventures in Cooking, Earth, Fire, garden, gardening, home, nature, Photography, Spirit, Summer | Tags: flowers, quotes, Rumi, sunset 6 Comments
(Black-eyed Susans at sunset.)
You sit here for days saying, ‘This is strange business.’ You’re the strange business. You have the energy of the sun in you, but you keep knotting it up at the base of your spine. You’re some weird kind of gold that wants to stay melted in the furnace, so you won’t have to become coins.
~ Rumi
Life in the Bogs 