I wonder when our
preferences for light design
and order begin?171
Origins?
Tag: origins
Who wants to leave?
Origins
Origins in timelessness
primal turquoise and tender
held by the softening sigh of
The Soundborn hearing the mothering
sustaining, nourishing seascape
of Wisdom’s womb – our first
teacher suckles, sings, balancesmakes connections, blankets
secure and hums lullabies
about our shared sky – teaching
the heart to seek answer to oureternal why. Yes, I will forever
remain bound to this
mothering sustaining
in the soul of IonaDepth and flow
and height and breadth
and symphony of
silent musicFrom her I am born
to move outward
to her – and to Wisdom
I will ever returnSRM
Abundant sense
I asked him [a joyful painter I knew] how he came to be a painter. He said, ‘I liked the smell of the paint.’
Annie Dillard
The Abundance
Sometimes just a sentence can bring about a smile – and seasons and reasons from yesteryear. I was asked forty years ago, beside this very Ullswater, what had whet my appetite for photography. I quite clearly remember answering ‘the smell of the leatherette on my Kodak Box Brownie!’ Makes sense to me!
Come and going
Every sound
has a home
from which it has come
to us
and a door
through which it is going
again,
out into the world
to make another home.David Whyte
from The Winter of Listening
River Flow, New and Selected Poems
