Landscapes of the Mind – Six Singular Experiences
It’s all about the mind, of course. All experience filters through it, the outward and inner, nature and the art …
Tag Archives: Nature
Finding Our Place in the Family of Things
I often turn to the poetry of Mary Oliver when seeking solace, when trying to negotiate a path through the …
October Trees, Falling Leaves, Bursts of Glory
October is my birth month. I’ve always had mixed feelings about that. Being born when the days are growing shorter, …
Resting in the Grace of the World
“When despair for the world grows in me, and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear …
On a Quick Walk to the Mailbox
After so much rain this year on the central coast of California, the hillsides around our home are green and …
Poem & Paintings, A Song
The sun does not shine on us but in us. The rivers flow not past, but through us, thrilling, tingling, …
Three to Share: Beauty, Art, Place
I love discovering new blogs that inspire me and want to share three, among many, that I discovered this past …
Pied Beauty, Poem & Paintings
Pied Beauty by Gerard Manley Hopkins Glory be to God for dappled things – For skies of couple-colour as a …
New Paintings, the Folding Hills of California
I’ve long loved the way the rolling hills along the coast of California fold together and overlap, the sensuality of …
“Something in This Sleeping Earth” – Two by Whyte, One by Fiske
All My Body Calls All my body calls for something in this sleeping earth we call the spirit. But how …
