Dewdrops

Red leaves and frostdrops
Diamonds on huckleberry
Angel tears or dew

Leave a trace

All I can do is leave a trace.
I can leave it on a piece of paper;
or on the ground,
but the best place to leave it
is in the heart and memory of someone else.
- Eli Wiesel

Center of the anemone

Anemone glows
Maple leaves twist and shimmer
Gold crimson scarlet

Near Junction Lake

In the sun

The grape harvest

If the heavens were not in love with wine,
There’d be no Wine Star in the sky.
And if earth wasn’t always drinking,
There’d be nowhere called Wine Spring.
I’ve heard that pure wine makes the Sage.
Even the cloudy makes us wise.
If even the wise get there through drink,
What’s the point of True Religions?
Three times and I understand the Way,
Six and I’m one again with Nature.
Only the things we know when we’re drunk
Can never be expressed when we’re sober.

- Li Po (699 – 762 AD)

Cosmos

There are times in one's life - when one simply has to stop, step out of one's routine and take the trouble to think. It's not a luxury but an obligation: how else to even try to make measured, considered decisions based on deliberation and self-awareness rather than on impulse or fear?

from Running to the Mountain by Jon Katz

Beauty streams through us

This world is all ours, belonging to each of us: swan, crane, walrus, wren, dog, muskrat, saxifrage, pine, polar bear, you, me. But too many of us have relinquished our hold on the natural world and turned toward power and the ownership of things. The circuit that binds air to ocean, river to mountain, snowdrift to glacier, ice to water, flows through each of us. … Beauty streams through us, inside and out, the way waves and skeins of radiant energy from the sun give us life.

- Gretel Ehrlich

Ivy flower

To change one's life: Start immediately.
Do it flamboyantly. No exceptions.
- William James

Alberta Street Fair

True or false

We are at liberty to be real or unreal. We may be true or false. The choice is ours. We may wear now one mask and now another, and never if we so desire, appear with our own true face. But we cannot make these choices with impunity. Causes have effects. And if we lie to ourselves and to others, then we cannot expect to find truth and reality whenever we happen to want them.

- Thomas Merton

Hooks on you

Near the river

Understanding the needs of the world

Motherhood is not simply the organic process of giving birth ...
it is an understanding of the needs of the world.
- Alexis DeVeaux

Something good for a child

If you want to do something good for a child...
give him an environment where he can
touch things as much as he wants.
- Buckminster Fuller