After a summer shower, raindrops hang suspended in a spider web
like persistent memories of the shower that had fallen.
Our own minds are full of these jewels; fluid, translucent, shifting and
temporary pieces of the past that can bedazzle us.
Archive for August, 2012
The way we were
Posted in Summer, tagged contemplation, memories, photography, raindrops, spider web, summer shower, the past, writing on August 13, 2012| Leave a Comment »
One cycle
Posted in Summer, tagged contemplation, double exposure, inspiration, photography, pleasure, Russian Giant sunflower, watercolour, writing on August 10, 2012| 10 Comments »
These Russian Giant sunflowers lining a garden on the South Shore
of Nova Scotia, Canada mark the one-year anniversary of m1nute.
It’s been my pleasure interacting with readers during the past year and
I look forward to more. From this point on the posts will arrive
as inspiration strikes rather than on a schedule three times a week.
(For the curious – the photograph is a double-exposure with the second
image being a watercolour rendition of the original photograph.)
Finger of fate
Posted in Summer, tagged busy minds, contemplation, inevitable path of the ocean, natural world, photography, symbols, tidal water, voice inside us, writing on August 8, 2012| 4 Comments »
A finger of tidal water points out the inevitable path of the ocean.
This sign will linger for a moment and then be gone.
Such symbols exist in our lives as well as in the natural world.
And most often, a voice from inside us calls out their existence;
unless our busy minds explain them away.
Back and forward to the present
Posted in Summer, tagged comprehension of life, contemplation, future, natural state, past, photography, present, state of mind, writing on August 6, 2012| 10 Comments »
Here is the past, the present and the future.
This is often the state of our minds: looking back, looking ahead,
looking around; trying to piece together a comprehension of our lives.
When these states of being can be brought together – with past and future
joining the present moment – a natural state of being can be achieved.
Bejewelled
Posted in Summer, tagged bejewelled, bells, contemplation, music, photography, rings, writing on August 3, 2012| 6 Comments »
Rings on her fingers and
bells on her toes.
She shall have music
wherever she goes.
Be where good things happen
Posted in Summer, tagged contemplation, fondly, friends, gather there, photography, remember, shoreline, thrive, writing on August 1, 2012| 4 Comments »
If you and your friends happen to like the shaded, shallow shoreline
of a freshwater lake, then by all means, gather there.
Go where you thrive, stay there for as long as it is good,
and then remember that place fondly.
m1nute 