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Finding a Different View
Does daily drudgery cloud your view sometimes? Do you lose your zest for living when in the thick of hardship? Exploration to an above-it-all space revives the spark I depend on. Its a step back, a rush up – to a different view. A new angle with fresh shadows, new colors, spanning horizons. It is ...
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A Lens to Presence
When the day’s noise overtakes the still of now, I imagine my mother’s lens. It shows me moments of nature. She chases light that burns red and orange onto ripples of water and paints ducks to the shore. Framed in her eye is a canvas that captures patterns designed by time and presence to share ...
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Unbinding Chaos
My son designed a sculpture weeks ago. This presentation of great artistic magnitude reflects a certain state of mind I experience on occasion. The various elements or tasks of life are bound by stress. All things feel important. Order seems impossible. To tackle such a mass of confusion, I need perspective and a good dose ...
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Failure
What is failure to you? Do you fear it? This topic was inspired by the beginning of the classic movie with Julie Andrews, “The Sound of Music.” While the Sisters attempt to “solve the problem of Maria” the wise Mother of the Abbey reserves judgment. According to Wikipedia, “failure is the state or condition of ...