The beauty of the earth, the beauty of the sky, the order of the stars, the sun, the moon . . . their very loveliness is their confession of God.” St. Augustine The super moon and appearance of Mars last Friday prompted this reflection on moonlight, moon crater scars, and our response to hurts inContinue reading “La Bella Luna”
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Stirring up a hornet’s nest – or not
Walking through our woods this week, I spied in a tall beech tree, a hornet’s nest. I left it well enough alone except to zoom in (140mm) with my Nikon camera. With my naked eye I could only observe a few hornets flying around the nest but the photo revealed ones clinging to the paper-likeContinue reading “Stirring up a hornet’s nest – or not”
Here, there be dragons
While sorting through images I’ve saved through the years, I came across this one from a trip to Seattle to visit a friend about 6 years ago. My friend and I decided to venture out of the city to take a ferry over to Lopez Island northwest of Seattle in the Pacific ocean for someContinue reading “Here, there be dragons”
Siddhartha, Suffering and Death
While driving through town this morning around 10:30 on one of the backstreets in a part of town which could be characterized as marginalized, low income, immigrant, rental row houses. I had cut through the back street to avoid High Street and all the traffic lights – not that town has a great deal ofContinue reading “Siddhartha, Suffering and Death”
Freedom
What is freedom? What does it mean to you to “be free”? Is it free to do whatever you want? Free to worship and believe what you feel is right for you? Free to speak your passions and beliefs? Freedom from worry, stress, anxiety, fear? Free to create, do a job, have a careerContinue reading “Freedom”