in the garden

remembering Lucille

2012-01-25T18:27:00.001-05:00

now on Etsy

2012-01-22T11:26:00.003-05:00

...a virtual trunk show, gallery & flea market

fence

2012-01-18T21:14:00.002-05:00

mystery

2012-01-11T08:26:00.001-05:00

It began in mystery and it will end in mystery, but what a rare and beautiful country lies in between.

-Diane Ackerman

hedge

2011-12-07T18:08:00.002-05:00

tiny rocker

2011-12-04T17:11:00.001-05:00

to cry

2011-12-03T03:26:00.001-05:00

The heart is right to cry even when the smallest drop of light, of love, is taken away... You are right to do so in any fashion until Gd returns to you.

-Hafiz

family archives

2011-12-01T19:37:00.000-05:00

Bowl of Saki

2011-11-29T22:02:00.002-05:00

The deeper your prayers echo in your own consciousness, the more audible they are to God.

-Hazrat Inayat Khan

globe

2011-11-28T07:41:00.000-05:00

fog

2011-11-22T07:50:00.001-05:00

offering

2011-11-22T07:42:00.001-05:00

I swear I will not dishonor my soul with hatred, but offer myself humbly as a guardian of nature, as a healer of misery, as a messenger of wonder, as an architect of peace.

-Diane Ackerman

do not be daunted

2011-11-06T09:28:00.003-05:00

Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world's grief. Do justly. Love mercy. Walk humbly. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it.

-The Talmud

Mt Vernon

2011-10-29T14:08:00.000-04:00

breathing

2011-10-26T08:04:00.000-04:00

The whole universe is breathing as our breath; we limit the process by our assumption that we are doing the breathing.

-Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan

expectation

2011-10-23T10:15:00.000-04:00

Any kind of expectation creates a problem. We should accept, but not expect. Whatever comes, accept it. Whatever goes, accept it. The immediate benefit is that your mind is always peaceful.

-Sri Swami Satchidananda

Moose

2011-10-23T10:14:00.000-04:00

self-rising flour

2011-10-22T11:48:00.000-04:00

1 cup of all-purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoons of baking powder
1/2 teaspoon of salt

detail

2011-10-22T10:25:00.001-04:00

pay attention

2011-10-21T08:47:00.001-04:00

To pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences.

-W. H. Auden

double portrait

2011-10-20T21:48:00.000-04:00

right through

2011-10-20T18:45:00.001-04:00

The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either - but right through every human heart.

-Alexander Solzhenitsyn

night shop

2011-10-20T09:18:00.003-04:00

wall flower

2011-10-17T07:04:00.001-04:00

clemency

2011-10-17T07:03:00.001-04:00

The beginning of divine wisdom is clemency and gentleness...

-St Isaac of Ninevah

off Derech Beit Lechem

2011-10-15T09:45:00.000-04:00

supported

2011-10-14T08:21:00.001-04:00

We should notice that we are already supported at every moment. There is the earth below our feet and there is the air, filling our lungs and emptying them. We should begin from this when we need support.

-Natalie Goldberg

cafe and chocolate

2011-10-14T08:19:00.001-04:00

look

2011-10-13T16:55:00.001-04:00

If you want to know your past life, look into your present condition; if you want to know your future life, look at your present actions.

-Padmasambhava

what's missing

2011-10-13T13:29:00.000-04:00

framed

2011-10-11T19:53:00.001-04:00

chalk

2011-10-09T10:48:00.000-04:00

realizing

2011-10-05T18:54:00.001-04:00

...Gd realization is not about you realizing Gd but about Gd realizing you... through meditation you realize the capacity to step aside and allow a direct experience of Gd's realization of Him or Her-self to occur through you.

-Phillip Gowins "Practicle Sufism"

olive tree

2011-10-05T18:49:00.001-04:00

portrait vase

2011-09-29T19:41:00.000-04:00

Har Menuhot

2011-09-27T21:31:00.001-04:00

a fitting

2011-09-26T14:38:00.001-04:00

on stones

2011-09-23T08:44:00.000-04:00

Schatz

2011-09-22T19:58:00.000-04:00

shuk

2011-09-21T06:59:00.001-04:00

power

2011-09-20T08:25:00.000-04:00

Power is being told you are not loved, and not being destroyed by it.

-Madonna

vista

2011-09-19T08:20:00.002-04:00

meaning and joy

2011-09-19T08:19:00.000-04:00

The progress of our soul is like a perfect poem. It has an infinite idea which once realized makes all movements full of meaning and joy.

-Rabindranath Tagore

&

2011-09-18T07:35:00.000-04:00

bougainvillea

2011-09-15T08:45:00.001-04:00

circular

2011-09-15T07:30:00.000-04:00

cafe shadow

2011-09-14T06:35:00.000-04:00

awaiting the flood

2011-09-14T06:33:00.000-04:00

Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul.

-Simone Weil

Jerusalem laundry

2011-09-12T20:19:00.000-04:00

reclaim

2011-09-12T20:18:00.003-04:00

Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it towards others. And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there will also be in our troubled world.

-Etty Hillesum

gold

2011-08-25T07:51:00.000-04:00

smile

2011-08-25T07:49:00.000-04:00

billboard

2011-08-24T21:37:00.001-04:00

be patient

2011-08-21T12:41:00.001-04:00

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves.

-Rainer Maria Rilke

nest

2011-08-18T04:49:00.002-04:00

disarm

2011-08-13T08:21:00.001-04:00

If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

landscape with African violets

2011-08-10T21:28:00.002-04:00

no ground no walls no reference

2011-08-09T09:43:00.001-04:00

It doesn't matter what your teacher says, what a sutra says, what tradition says, or what your peers say. The doubts will continue and your efforts to allay them by appealing to authority will never settle them. You cannot settle things by relying on the dust left by others. Instead, open to your own experience of doubt. Don't hold back. No ground. No walls. No reference. Totally open. Isn't that what you were looking for?

-Ken McLeod

poetry

2011-08-05T10:33:00.000-04:00

possibilities

2011-08-02T08:40:00.000-04:00

pears

2011-07-31T10:53:00.001-04:00

every day

2011-07-31T10:50:00.002-04:00

Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.

-Matsuo Basho

hydrangeas

2011-07-25T19:19:00.001-04:00

Royal Enfield

2011-07-24T08:09:00.001-04:00

green shirt

2011-07-22T10:29:00.002-04:00

love that fails

2011-07-22T09:17:00.000-04:00

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by its own fullness, not by its reception.

-Harold Loukes (Quaker)

close to the bone

2011-07-21T07:42:00.001-04:00

Gratitude is so close to the bone of life, pure and true, that it instantly stops the rational mind, and all its planning and plotting.

-Regina Sara Ryan

50%

2011-07-19T21:34:00.001-04:00

event

2011-07-17T10:08:00.001-04:00

HH

2011-07-16T09:45:00.002-04:00

vows

2011-07-16T09:36:00.003-04:00

For as long as space and time endures,
and as long as sentient beings remain,
until then, may I too abide
to dispel the misery of the world.

-Shantideva

Pagossa Springs

2011-07-04T13:43:00.002-04:00

worn prayer flags

2011-07-03T13:30:00.000-04:00

Durango

2011-07-02T15:32:00.000-04:00

carpet

2011-06-19T20:26:00.001-04:00

textile

2011-06-18T07:11:00.000-04:00

3rd floor

2011-06-17T07:29:00.002-04:00

legacy

2011-06-17T04:43:00.000-04:00

Faith is a legacy we leave ourselves from former lifetimes.

-Chagdud Khadro

red bird

2011-06-14T09:27:00.002-04:00

the gesture

2011-06-14T09:26:00.000-04:00

The extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation.

-Annie Dillard

roses

2011-06-07T08:52:00.002-04:00

joy

2011-06-07T08:50:00.000-04:00

For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.

-Anne Morrow Lindbergh

neighborhood

2011-06-06T09:59:00.000-04:00

overhead

2011-05-30T03:04:00.000-04:00

The Summer Day

2011-05-29T18:44:00.000-04:00

Who made the world?
Who made the swan, and the black bear?
Who made the grasshopper?
This grasshopper, I mean-
the one who has flung herself out of the grass,
the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,
who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down-
who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes.
Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face.
Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away.
I don’t know exactly what a prayer is.
I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down
into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass,
how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,
which is what I have been doing all day.
Tell me, what else should I have done?
Doesn’t everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?

- Mary Oliver

Clara

2011-05-25T19:35:00.000-04:00

belly of emptiness

2011-05-22T05:11:00.002-04:00

As you eat, feed your negativities and illusions into the belly of emptiness, dissolving them into all-pervading space.

-Dudjom Rinpoche

Tara Mandala

2011-05-11T19:43:00.000-04:00

stars

2011-05-11T07:51:00.000-04:00

Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light; I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.

-Sarah Williams

Green Tara detail

2011-05-10T09:09:00.001-04:00

path of the heart

2011-05-10T09:05:00.004-04:00

The absolute truth cannot be realized within the domain of the ordinary mind. And the path beyond the ordinary mind, all the great wisdom traditions have told us, is through the heart. This path of the heart is devotion.

-a glimpse

through the reeds

2011-05-10T09:04:00.001-04:00

the planet

2011-05-10T06:13:00.001-04:00

Today the planet is the only proper "in group." Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.

-Joseph Campbell

spring snow

2011-05-09T19:51:00.000-04:00

atomic age

2011-05-09T09:32:00.000-04:00

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the "atomic age" - as in being able to remake ourselves.

-Mahatma Gandhi

rain chain

2011-05-08T18:19:00.002-04:00

offerings

2011-05-07T10:01:00.000-04:00

landing

2011-05-05T17:32:00.000-04:00

aerial

2011-05-04T22:48:00.002-04:00

tree cozy

2011-04-19T10:29:00.002-04:00