words and pictures....
August 8, 2016
Sometimes you feel like you’re all tied up in knots… 
No matter how hard you try, you just can’t seem to get lose. But here in lies the secret, for nothing ever stays the same. In time you will find yourself free from the knots, ready to paddle down the river…
Life is that simple if you let it be. It takes practice to “go with the flow” and let the rhythm of life run its own course. And it takes faith. Loosen the knots… Trust the flow.
August 3, 2016
When we are young girls we often dream of being a mermaid, as grown women we realize that shallow living holds nothing for us, it is the depths that drive us…
From Anaïs Nin’s 1950 novel, The Four-Chambered Heart, based on her life: “I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.”
The Eastport Mermaid: Photo by Pamela J. Leavey
August 2, 2016
Today’s Quote of the Day is from one of my favorite memoir and nature writers, Terry Tempest Williams:
“Once upon a time, when women were birds, there was the simple understanding that to sing at dawn and to sing at dusk was to heal the world through joy. The birds still remember what we have forgotten, that the world is meant to be celebrated.” ― Terry Tempest Williams: When The Women Were Birds
*Lesser Goldfinches photo by Pamela J. Leavey
August 1, 2016
Nature is the most primal escape from technology that we can seek out to realign ourselves with our very humanity. While nature has long been considered the great escape, the need to escape into nature is more pressing than ever as we are literally consumed by technology itself.
There are devices all around us. Those devices suck us in. They trap us, spellbound. Waiting. Patiently. For the Text, the PM, the Tweet, the News Feed update.
Those devices alert us to pay attention to them, now, not later; not unlike the Myna birds in Aldous Huxley’s Island, parroting “Here and Now Boys, Here and Now,” reminding every one to be in the moment. Being in the moment is a wonderful thing.
However, if being in the moment means we are constantly connected to digital communication via IPhones, Droids, Tablets, Laptops, Desktops, and every other Smart technology device that invades our lives unless we turn them on “mute,” then we have a problem. We are swiftly becoming a Universe of Devices. We’ve forgotten how to disconnect. (more…)
July 31, 2016
I’ve been busy clearing my head for the past couple of months. Every now and then we all need to do that. In the interim I’ve been taking a lot of photos and making some changes to my website. I’ve launched the first of the changes and I expect there will be more to come. Stay tuned as I start up regular posting again…
In the meantime, here’s a few new photos:
June 2, 2016
“I pray to the birds because they remind me of what I love rather than what I fear. And at the end of my prayers, they teach me how to listen.” – Terry Tempest Williams
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