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Archive for Nature – Page 14

Tiny Things

Leaves
I was sitting in ceremony last weekend with my friends & colleagues from the TLG, contemplating a question facing us about Restoring Wholeness. We’d each found a spot to think and be silent beside a little stream, and I chose one in the sun at the base of a tall slim tree.

Busy at my task of thinking and being silent 🙂 it took me a few minutes to slow down. When I did, I started to notice things. I saw the lazy shadows of water-skimmers on the bottom of the creekbed, a brilliant butterfly skuttered past on my left, and with a start – I suddenly saw these tiny delicate leaf skeletons that were all around me.

Simple Beauty in Reno

I spent part of this Labor Day weekend in Reno with good friends, sharing a lovely afternoon swimming in the Truckee River in downtown Reno (it’s true!) and hiking in the Sierra’s Lake Basin area.

I also managed a few minutes alone with their beautiful daughter who is off to college this year. She showed me a couple of short films she made from clips & stills she’d taken with her digital camera on trips to Paris and Ashland Oregon.

I was absolutely stunned by her creative ‘eye’, inspired by her
initiative and impressed by the wizards at Apple who had the vision to
package creative tools of this caliber along with their computers…
iMovie rocks!

I’m very excited by the creativity I see coming out of this new
generation, and just felt like expressing my gratitude to all that
nurtures their flowering. I pledge my assistance as a part of this
support network for all my young friends and family. For that matter, I pledge my support for the flowering of creativity in all of us! May it be so!

Neolithic Art

Stonehenge2
You’ll know if you’ve read any of the World Cafe Stewardship Dialogue blog posts that every morning at this wonderful event was begun in ceremony, with Anne Dosher calling on the eleven directions. I was particularly struck by her evocation to the SW, addressing the Stone People, Guardians of Dreams.

This combination of stones and dreams is meaningful to me partly
because of my attraction & connection to stone circles. One of the
subtleties that most fascinates me about being in the UK & Ireland
is the pervasive presence of neolithic art. I recently blogged a brief
post (with pictures) in my Art & the Environment blog, about the stone art I experienced during my recent trip to those verdant isles.

Old Stone

Stone

You’ve just got to love old stone… I’ve just returned from a business/pleasure trip to the green and pleasant land (England, and parts north), and feel washed in the aura of old earth. This image is from a brief walk I took around Bath…