Clouds are bumpy on top but they show remarkable complexity below as well. In the daytime we don’t notice but as the sun sets and we get light at a different angle, the swirls, curls and swirls come to life.
Watch the world open up by changing your angle of perception.
This fenceposts looks like a staff that a mighty magicuser would weild. Full of potential and at the ready. I’ve been pondering this photo for awhile. I’m drawn to its imperfections. It’s like a dream. Trying to focus on an idea that’s not quite there, not quite realized but within a larget context. Reaching for the stars but having an unclear quest ahead. This is the journey.
How is your journey today?
Every concept or project starts with the roughest idea. No thought comes out fully formed. We add our stick figures and rough outlines and add the details as they come. We shouldn’t ever stop. With every new person, or new idea, or new place we should seek out the treasures and color in the sketch. Keep coloring today. Drag out the pencils, markers , chalk and watercolors. Make it sloppy or neat but just keep coloring.
High clouds moved in just before sunrise to beautifully frame this shot today.
I hope as I approach ancientness that I twist up perfectly and balanced. And I’ll probably need a little help standing. Thank you all for following the journey and commenting.
Even under a full moon the stars are shining. No surprise there. More plane trails in and out of DIA Sunday Nov 29.
Every time I drive down this path I enter the realm of journey. So many places to discover and explore. Even the places I know well still keep their secrets. All places change, each visit different, no matter how much we want them to stay the same. I like coming back to hear the old stories again and listen for new ones.
Are you listening to listening for whispers of change?
Om means different things to different people. Atman, the interior spirit, soul, ultimate reality, truth. No matter how you slice its meaning the uttering is holy. It touches on the sacred like a sunrise.
This sign was found in Missouri; a random encounter along a country road.
Are you on the lookout for a brush with the sacred in your life? During this season?
We passed this sign during at night, during rainstorm. We zoomed right past it and the thought of taking a picture of it just would not let go. We had been talking about driving back through this backroad on the way home during the daylight so we could enjoy more of the landscape. So we planned the route back. I reflected on what such a picture meant to me. Om means different things to different people. For some it’s just a sound but I think it gets at something deeper; deeper soul, deeper spirit, deeper reality. It’s that simple thought and sound that opens the reality of the Universe wide open if you sit with it.
If we could look through a crystal ball and everything were laid out plain to see im not sure we’d be that excited. Most times, we can set the mood of the day. We can set the tone to meet the task. Today, choose how to approach the day.
What draws me most to this picture is the rich fall colors that show behind the lensball. We set the mood and tone of our life but I doubt we’d be so present with that action if we knew all the things that will happen and in their order. Each day we get to choose, a good tone or down tone. And I know we respond to that metacognition. If I believe and strive for the good day and set the tone so all can feel it then I cannot fail. All those external things have no effect.
My daughter and my wife tell me often that I wonder; with more questions than I really care to know the answer of. Curious minds create interesting thoughts. I wonder if this is true of you?
Today wonder often.
This is one of my favorite image edits. And it reminded me of a conversation that we had about how I approach the world. With wonder. I ask that question so often. I think it’s my driving force. I may not care to know but just to wonder; the freedom of wondering. I said curious minds create curious thoughts. And I wonder if I’m alone. I would really like to know that it’s not the case. Thankfully, I’m surrounded with people who wonder more too.
