I wonder when our
preferences for light design
and order begin?171
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
