Weekly Photo Challenge: Sunset 02
A creative moment on a bench during a slow sunset over time. It is a beautiful evening at Lake Greenwood in South Carolina. The shadows are long as the sun sets through the trees.
Sun setting at Lake Greenwood, SC
Weekly Photo Challenge: Sunset
Meditation while witnessing a beautiful sunrise at Kure Beach in North Carolina. (If you don’t have a sunset shot, a sunrise is the next best thing).
Sunrise at Kure Beach, North Carolina
Urban Contemplation 05
The city series….
The Door (Recovery Remix 2011)
Transformation: finding new places to find oneself
The door that leads from the city
Urban Contemplation 04
The city series….
Across the River the City that Sleeps with Dreams….
The city that sleeps with dreams
Urban Contemplation 02
The city series….
The Playground (Recovery Remix 2011)….
Take me away from the place where all this started…this desire.
The playground
You Can’t Undo What You have Never Done
How Can I Undo the Things I’ve Never Done….
Sometimes we see ourselves as a reflection of our past,
present and future. The lenses in which we view our lives in all its complexity
are often distorted by the noise of our thoughts and the subsequent choices we’ve
made.
At times I ask myself, how I can undo the things I’ve never
done. Because in my mind, through those very lenses, I will with visceral
uncertainty see things not as they really are.
So in conclusion—living within the sphere of ambiguity—I’ve
come to realize that you have to bring something—something significant to the
table, and if you don’t, you may discover that your invitation and acceptance
speech has been rescinded.
But then that’s life—trying to undo the things, you’ve never
done.
How can you undo what you have never done
Weekly Photo Challenge: Fall
The color of Fall is always an intoxicating experience. I love to find new locations where the colors, smells and ambience of Fall enhances the day.
Fall colors in the trees
Weekly Photo Challenge: Faces 02
The second image in this series has four elements composed as one. The primary effect used for this piece is the displacement map. It takes a little effort but on a closer look you will find a host of faces.
Family faces via the displacement map effect
Weekly Photo Challenge: Faces
Here is one of a multiple collection of family portraits for this series. I wanted to use a variety of color elements and effects to express uniqueness in their faces.
The primary effect used in this portrait is colored edges.
Family faces via colored edges
Waking to Nothing Ever Being Perfect
a passing moment
child on a bike
a contemplative thought
fleeing the hopelessness
to the touch it is
like glass strewn urban decay
and dreams
that are shattered by the morning light
waking to nothing
ever being perfect…
Waking to nothing ever being perfect
Until You, I Didn’t Feel Quite Finished
the days fade into each other
waking
drifting
dreaming
sleeping
and…
until you, I didn’t feel quite finished
the nights fade into each other
thoughtless
senseless
emotionless
passionless
and….
until you, I didn’t feel quite finished
love haunts
love beckons
love promises
love fades
and…
until you, I didn’t feel quite finished…
until now….
Until you, I didn't feel quite finished
Weekly Photo Challenge: Textures
While hiking the Grandfather Mountain trail in North Carolina, I became fascinated with the rocks at the very summit. They were breathtaking mainly because of the textures they revealed when observed up close.
Rocks at the summit of Grandfather Mountain
How Can I know If You Believe In Me (a short reprise)
on a sea of glass
a reflection of what you believe
is it me
or my imagination
that is dreaming
believing in
the beautiful times gone by
and forgotten moments
now and forever
— for us
Now and forever believe in me
How Can I know If You Believe In Me
if there was a moment
in a dream
and you believed in me
does it change everything
now and forever
…. for us
Believe in me as we dream together
Are You There … Outside My Window
How can I know if I am dreaming, if when I wake I am still asleep….
Are you there outside my window
Weekly Photo Challenge: Path 04 – Caesars Head Waterfall
There was a lot of interest in my Path 02, the Caesars Head trail. And I mentioned that there was a lovely waterfall (the highest and longest in South Carolina) located at the end the 2.2 mile marker. So thought I would add this photograph of the waterfall to give a sense of the beauty that awaits one who hikes the trail to the lookout point. The waterfall is located across from an expansive gorge.
The waterfall across from the lookout point at Caesars Head
Weekly Photo Challenge: Path 03
My final installment for this challenge is the path to beautiful art at the Louvre via just one of the many bridges that cross the river Seine.
A path to beautiful art at the Louvre, in Paris, France
Weekly Photo Challenge: Path 02
Sometimes a path is a beautiful day—hiking a trail that leads to a destination of longing and discovery.
Hiking the Caesars Head trail in South Carolina
Post Canvas and Paint 04: Structures, Verse and Abstracts
Sleeping by a distant sunset I touched the forming world.
9.1.2011.2:35.a.m.
Walking by a waking night I saw the dreams of things to come.
8.30.2011.1:45.a.m.
Standing by the quiet lake I thought of nothing else.
9.1.2011.3:50.a.m.
Sitting by my window I heard a purple flower bloom.
8.30.2011.4:17.a.m.
Boulevard St-Michel in the Latin Quarter, Paris, France
Boulevard St Michel
The Latin Quarter has become synonymous with the Sorbonne
University in Paris, France. It is an extremely old part of Paris. It became
its scholarly center in the 13th century when the University was moved
from the lle-de-la-Cite to the Left Bank. The Boulevard St-Michel is a wide
avenue built during the Second Empire, and is affectionately known by the
Parisians as the “Boul’ Mich”. It ascends from the river Seine towards the hill
of Ste Genevieve. The boulevard is populated with second hand bookshops, cafes,
distinct and exotic restaurants and avant-garde cinemas. The Boulevard St-Michel is the heart of the Latin Quarter.
Weekly Movie-Making Moments in Film: Camille Claudel
A woman’s strength and determination is powerful….
A woman’s love is without equal…..
A woman’s suffering for that love is immeasurable….
Perhaps one of my favorite French films that depicts artistic creativity, strength, determination, love and obsession is none other than the film Camille Claudel finely directed by Bruno Nuyten and starring Isabelle Adjani as Camille—the young but gifted sculptress. In the film Camille possesses an artistic and romantic passion that consumes her. Her love for the sculptor, Auguste Rodin, and her life, ends in pain and lost.
Here is a clip from the film. What do you think? If you have seen the film, what is your opinion of Isabelle Adjani’s performance?
The Silence in Consciousness 02: a short reprise
Consciousness 10
Towards the Within, Consciousness has No Center
“Consciousness is everywhere, without a center. What appears to be a center is only a reflection in the mind”. … Swami Parmanandji Maharaj
Pure Consciousness, like sunlight is everywhere; however,
unlike sunlight it has no center.
As individuals, the I that we come to indentify ourselves
with comes into existence when Consciousness, manifesting itself as the
continuum of space, time and causations, mistakes
itself for its own reflection in the mind, identifies,
believes in, itself with its own reflection and limits itself to its own reflection.
Pure Consciousness has no center, it only just is.
Consciousness 11
The Silence in Consciousness
Towards the Consciousness within….
Consciousness
Consciousness 02
“We accept that we are, but we are not ready to accept that we are without anything—without
words, mind or body”. … Swami Parmanandji Maharaj
Consciousness 03
Consciousness 04
When attempting to understanding the concept or belief of our existence, we know the states of being awake, dreaming and deep sleep, but we may not be aware that our true Existence is independent of them. This is to say that our concept of existence and our actual Existence are two distinct things. At the base of all three states i.e. awake, dreaming and deep sleep is
the core foundation that alone makes their sense of being “real” possible. That foundation or substratum in which they originate from is Consciousness. At first glance, this may be difficult to understand, but we can transcend the three
states and realize the limited self as pure Consciousness.
Consciousness 05
Consciousness 06
Being without (the three states) means nothing but “I” exists. In truth, Consciousness Exist independently but we are not aware.
There is an interesting dichotomy that is at work here—how to understand that the three states are because of Me, but “I” am not because of the three states. At the core of this realization is the knowledge that my own Existence is free and not dependent on anything. The three states, our very existence, are transitory, only Consciousness is permanent.
Consciousness 07
Consciousness 08
By the very construct (the power to direct consciousness) in which our life is governed—being awake producing action, going from thought to thought, dreaming, and falling into sleep, we live life—we have the sensation of being “alive”. By this very same construct or shall we say capacity, we can return to pure Consciousness.
Consciousness 09
“If you remain continuously conscious, after some time the world will disappear and only pure Consciousness will remain”. … Swami Parmanandji Maharaj
What do you think? Do you question the knowledge of your existence (where does it come from), your purpose in life, what lies beyond what you see and feel? Does the awareness of your Consciousness play a role in knowing who you are and how you live your life? Please share.
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