I took this image back in 2009 at Inniswood Gardens. I do not remember the details but you have to admit this is one kool dude.
Kool Dude
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It’s the Light
..amateurs worry about equipment,
Vernon Trent
professionals worry about money,
masters worry about light,
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Interesting …
… how she carries her phone when she has no pockets.
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A World of Its Own
I see this and smile because this bee does not have news, politics, car insurance, college debt to worry about. All it needs to deal with is daily survival in their one year life cycle. The following is from the Bumblebee Conservation Trust.
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Closed for the night
Met a friend this past Thursday evening for coffee and conversation. Closed the place down. Liked this scene as we left.
I had a friend give me a book called Anam Cara by John O’Donohue, an Irish poet and philosopher. It is a book I need to read slowly, taking in small amounts and letting the words and ideas sink in. I have enjoyed the book and may need to read more of his work. I just heard a podcast with him and Krista Tippet which gave me another taste of his philosophy and soul.
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Reflection
Almost bought myself a fedora this past week. While trying on the hat I could see this young lady’s reflection in the mirror. I like her expression as she thinks I’m taking a photo of myself, not knowing I’m taking her photo. She liked the image when I showed it to her afterwards. Enjoy your weekend! And, the hat looked dang good on me!
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Don’t go there…
By “there” I’m referring to anywhere near the campus at Colorado State University as (about) 33,413 students have descended on campus in the past 24 hours. Parents are dropping off new freshman at the dorms so the streets are lined with cars and bright orange parking cones. CSU police and students are directing traffic. Simply said, it’s a mess!
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Original Goodness
We are made, the scriptures of all religions assure us, in the image of God. Nothing can change that original goodness. Whatever mistakes we have made in the past, whatever problems we may have in the present, in every one of us this “uncreated spark in the soul” remains untouched, ever pure, ever perfect. Even if we try with all our might to douse or hide it, it is always ready to set our personality ablaze with light.
Eknath Easwaran -
Art of Attention
“Spirituality is the art of transfiguration. We should not force ourselves to change by hammering our lives into any determined shape. We do not need to operate according to the idea of a predetermined program or plan for our lives. Rather, we need to practice a new art of attention to the inner rhythm of our days and lives.”
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The Changing Landscape
I made an early afternoon drive out east of I-25 looking for clouds against the eastern horizon. Drove on some roads I’d not been on for quite some time and things have changed out there. I found a large 200 yard wide strip of land running east and west that is from a buried pipeline. Along with the pipeline comes more more oil drilling rigs. I came back into town feeling a heaviness and a sad feeling as I notice the landscapes change.
“The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector, by which disease passes into health, age into youth, death into life. Without proper care for it we can have no community, because without proper care for it we can have no life.”
Wendell Berry
