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Been walking and reading. Time to share the lessons as the ongoing quest to see all Tennessee’s waterfalls continues…
It is all very beautiful and magical here – a quality that cannot be described. You have to live it and breathe it, let the sun bake into you.
Ansel Adams
“It may be that when we no longer know what to do we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go we have come to our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.”
Wendell Berry
Make connections; let rip; and dance where you can.
Annie Dillard
It is in the woods we return to reason and faith.
Emerson
Leave no stone unturned. Deeply explore the beauty in your life.
Neil Gaiman
Lyrics to "The Seed" A Song by the beautiful Aurora Aksnes (Photos by Lunar) Just like the seed I don't know where to go Through dirt and shadow I grow I'm reaching light through the struggle ...
... Just like the seed I'm chasing wonder I unravel myself All in slow motion ...
... Suffocate me so my tears can be rain I will water the ground where I stand so the flowers can grow back again ...
... 'Cause just like the seed Everything wants to live We are burning our fingers But we learn and forget ...
... Feed me sunlight, feed me air Feed me truth and feed me prayers. ...
You’ll figure it out.
A few sights on the walk through Holiday Wonders.
The magnolia grooves, dancing to the beat of the heartwoods. Her limbs sweep down to touch Earth before reaching back up to Sky.
The pines are dressed for a more formal social affair it seems. There’s much underground intermingling amongst them, or so I’ve heard.
The crepe myrtle sings an operatic solo.
Magic is made.
Enjoy the season!
“The artist is always engaged in writing a detailed history of the future because he is the only person aware of the nature of the present.”
–Marshall McLuhan
Look about you at the little things that run the earth.
~E.O. Wilson
I just finished reading Wendy Williams’ The Language of Butterflies and I have a new appreciation for these beautiful and diverse insects. I highly recommend it!
All the water that will ever be is, right now.
~National Geographic, October 1993
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Someone in the desert was crying out for you.
Bad Water Basin salting up Death Valley
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Someone elsewhere was drowning.
Mississippi River gushing between Tennessee & Arkansas
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Someone was learning to swim in your deep end.
Pacific Ocean inviting us to the deep
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Someone was propelling herself forward through you.
Nameless water in her aquarium with jellyfish
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Someone saw herself in you.
Woodward Park Reflecting Pool reflecting the things above
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Someone saw you in the heavens.
Anonymous water fueling rainbows in the Memphis sky
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There are not enough lips to utter
All your fleeting names, O waterI would have to say them in every tongue
Pronouncing all the vowels at onceWislawa Szymborska, (Excerpt from a translation of Water. Read the beautiful poem here).
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My Svadhisthana Inspiration Playlist
Dear Island, ≈∝≈ Joseph Michael
Sleepwalk ≈∝≈ Kalani
Clare de Lune ≈∝≈ Kerrilyn Renshaw ≈∝≈ Classical Relaxation Piano with Soothing Ocean Sounds
Moonlight Sonata ≈∝≈ Chie Nagatani ≈∝≈ Classical Relaxation Piano with Soothing Ocean Sounds
(ok, absolutely anything and everything from the Classical Relaxation Piano with Soothing Ocean Sounds Album)
Somewhere Over the Rainbow ≈∝≈ Israel Kamakawiwo’ole
Heaven ≈∝≈ DJ Sammy
I Want Your Sex ≈∝≈ George Michael
The Seal Lullabye ≈∝≈ Voces8 & Lavinia Meijer
As the Water… ≈∝≈ John Williams
Erotic City ≈∝≈ Prince
Orinoco Flow ≈∝≈ Enya
Overflow of Love ≈∝≈ Alexandre Desplat ≈∝≈ The Shape of Water
The Women of Water ≈∝≈ Lin Hai ≈∝≈ Empire of Silver
Made of Water ≈∝≈ Tom Wisner
Feelin’ Love ≈∝≈ Paula Cole
Temple and tempo
rhythm and roar
dance
to the beat
of Earth’s shore
