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Bhutan – A Gallery of Photos

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I had dreamed about Bhutan… mesmerized by the thought of its majestic mountains and mystery.  Experiencing it finally in person, I found it to be full to brimming with radiance.  Its people and environment warm and absorbing, magical. Gross National Happiness a real thing to strive for, not money and things. Spirituality and prayer, quiet, respect for elders and the land.  Bhutan left a deep impression that walks with me still and always will. I treasure the time there and all it left inside me.

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Thailand – A Gallery of Photos

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Thailand, land of multiple layers, cultures, and religions…colors, textures, chaos, spirituality, water taxis, tuk tuks, politics, the juxtaposition of Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity, Judaism and Islamic faiths coexisting in close proximity.  Jarring disparity between extreme wealth and extreme poverty.  Grand palace grounds, the Gold Buddha, the Emerald Buddha, Thai food and massage, the river… so much to take in and absorb.  Such a richness to the experience, piercing intensity, followed by sublime relaxation…memories to savor again and again…

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To Generate More Life

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“What must I give more death to today, in order to generate more life? What do I know should die, but am hesitant to allow to do so? What must die in me in order for me to love? What not-beauty do I fear? Of what use is the power of the not-beautiful to me today? What should die today? What should live? What life am I afraid to give birth to? If not now, when?”

-Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes

 

 

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Moving Through Nature

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“I found myself wishing that we could live like the birds and move through nature without hurting it ourselves.”

-Ross Macdonald

“In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against Nature not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth.”

-John Milton

“Go out, go out I beg of you
And taste the beauty of the wild.
Behold the miracle of the earth
With all the wonder of a child.”

-Edna Jaques

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Becoming Indigenous

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“Knowing her grandchildren
would inherit the world she left behind,
she did not work for flourishing
In her time only.
It was through her actions of reciprocity,
the give and take with the land,
that the original immigrant
became indigenous.
For all of us,
becoming indigenous to
a place means living as
if your children’s future mattered,
to take care of the land as if our lives,
both material and spiritual,
depended on it.”

~Robin Wall Kimmerer

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Behind Which Beauty is Hiding

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“Everyone needs a practice which polishes them, to wear away at the obscuring mindstuff which settles like debris on one’s way of seeing. In our hearts, we know there is meaning to it all, an ordering nature to the chaos, but like a dream that slips away into forgetting, we have to practice at coming into its coherency. Without such a practice, we fall prey to the belief that the toxic fog of consensus culture is the real reality. When in fact, it is only the ‘not-beauty’ behind which beauty is hiding.”

-Toko-pa Turner