Slow

Children playing…

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Last Moments

Holding onto color, life being drawn out to it’s last second, letting go is inevitable.

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Blending In

Ears alert, body frozen, his gaze locks with mine. I see you, do you see me?

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Chembow Skies

Toxic relative of the rainbow, wave goodbye to natural cloud cover, get ready for a geoengineered winter.

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Cloud Bank

Depositing aerosols into the atmosphere, creating the weather, making human health the withdrawal.

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Vibrant

Fluttering leaves create an illusion of sparkling hillsides, captured only for a second in my lens, movement trapped in stillness.

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Hollow

Filled with thoughts, fear of failure, beginning again. How do you occupy your mind? There is too much time felt alone, hold back crumbling, ok, no one’s looking now. Strength is found in odd places.

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Lace Trails

A simple sky transforms from clear blue to a mass of lace trails, expanding into our atmosphere, falling on the land.

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Fresh

Whipped air of fluffy powder, floating between trees, POOF — wipeout! Vibrant skies sitting amid puffy cumulo-seats, lounging in the crisp nip of winter.

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Equinox

Occuring twice a year (around 20 March and 22 September) the name is derived from the Latin aequus (equal) and nox (night), because the night and day have approximately equal length…a precise moment in time which is common to all observers on Earth.

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Extraordinary

Although it means very unusual, remarkable or great, it makes me think it’s just really ordinary…extra-ly so.

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Angles

Shadows rising light sinking warmth exchanged for night. Obtuse or acute, you know you are right.

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Yellow

Sickly sweet smell of cheer, champion of colors, bringer of brightness. Radiating a heroic vibration, tone is everything.

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Reflection

Finding not looking, existing not searching, knowing not wishing.

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Leaves

Cool colors turning warm, tones falling, leaving their summer homes.

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Serendipity

Surprise! Desirable discoveries happened upon by chance, the accident of finding something good or useful while not specifically searching for it. The word is derived from Serendip, an old name for Sri Lanka (aka Ceylon), from Arabic Sarandib, which was adopted from Tamil “Seren deevu” or originally from Sanskrit Suvarnadweepa or golden island.

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The Edison

Celebrating an era of invention and imagination— the blending of science, art, and industry.

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Softness

Honoring nature by being gentle with the self, having compassion for your plight, finding the delicacy within respect.

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Exposure

Elements culminating, effortlessly determining the course. Action will be taken regardless of your preparedness, be aware of the inevitable storm.

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Minute

Meandering microbes making meticulous merriment, mercilessly.

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Shiny

Saturated depth, daunting details of surrender. Polished perfection in nature’s flaws. What is shiny about you?

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Dew

Droplets balancing an act of nature, running, falling, sliding into the cool earth.

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Colors

Ready to shed it’s green for golden hues of rust. Letting go of life, falling to a fate of cyclic repetition. Have you let go of summer yet?

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Beam

Shot from an innocent cloud, the landscape touched by an iridescent ray of sky.

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Undulations

Guided by centrifugal force the ink finds the pulp, resonating waviness.

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Bear

Mountain spirit of old, patiently lumbering through scrub oak and sage brush, foraging for the inevitable winter ahead.

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Petal to the Medal

Strength in winning, from seed to flower, the cycle of existence persists. Survival of the fittest? Or survival of those that don’t die…but weren’t necessarily fit.

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Autumn

With fragrant dried grasses and leaves boundaries of winter are established. Fenced once more, are you keeping something in? Or keeping something out?

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Star

Found by a friend, distant yet not alone. Take late arrivals not hastily but withy-worthy of substance, not abuse.

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Direction

Saturated in ink within the confines of gravity. Used as a pendulum my brush grazes the pulpy grasslands of a blank page.

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The Soup

My favorite metaphor for the current world transition, first pointed out to me by Norie Huddle (Butterfly, 1990), is that of a butterfly in metamorphosis.
It goes like this: A caterpillar crunches its way through its ecosystem, cutting a swath of destruction by eating as much as hundreds of times its weight in a day, until it is too bloated to continue and hangs itself up, its skin then hardening  into a chrysalis.
Inside this chrysalis, deep in the caterpillar’s body, tiny things biologists call ‘imaginal disks’ begin to form. Not recognizing the newcomers, the caterpillar’s immune system snuffs them as they arise. But they keep coming faster and faster, then linking up with each other.
Eventually the caterpillar’s immune system fails from the stress and the disks become imaginal cells that build the butterfly by feeding on the soupy meltdown of the caterpillar’s body.
It took a long time for biologists to understand the reason for the  immune system attack on the incipient butterfly cells, but eventually they discovered that the butterfly has its own unique genome, carried by the caterpillar, inherited from long ago in evolution, yet not part of it as such (Margulis & Sagan, Acquiring Genomes 2002).
If we see ourselves as imaginal discs working to build the butterfly of a better world, we will understand that we are launching a new ‘genome’ of values and practices to replace that of the current unsustainable system. We will also see how important it is to link with each other in the effort, to recognize how many different kinds of imaginal cells it will take to build a butterfly with all its capabilities and colors.
– Elisabet Sahtouris, Ph.D., evolution biologist, lecturer and author of EarthDance: Living Systems in Evolution

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Sumi

Sophisticated strokes seldom seen, serendipitously serine. Meditating medicates moments miraculously, meaningful mezzanine.

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Particles

A sea of dust and ash rising, falling, swirling until finally deciding to settle with a little pull from gravity.

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Daisy Matrix

Intricacies of nature linked through design.

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Summertime

Planted last year they didn’t sprout, but this year they are blooming.

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Wander

Opulent thoughts of responsibility to oneself. The true calling inside follows through with action.

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Yoginī

The term is used for female practitioners of yoga as well as divine goddesses and enlightened mothers. “Recognize the tendencies that make you unique.” -Paramahansa Yogananda

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Diagonal

Shift in consciousness, shallow coincidence or serendipitous creation? Share your choice, surrounded by calm.

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Containers

To hold something, a solid foundation of support. Stash it away, bury it deep or display it proudly.

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Bottles

Light of shades, shadows left lurking, scorched sun shining.

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Open Road

Music blaring through flying air, purpose and destination, a winning combination.

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Agave Azul

Native of Jalisco, Mexico, tequila agave is produced by removing the heart (piña) of the plant in its twelfth year. Harvested piñas normally weigh 36 to 91 kg (80–200 lb). It is rare for one kept as a houseplant to flower.

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View

Panes containing perspective, frames fragmented.
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Formations

Visibly clouded. Photograph copyright (c) Trevi Bennett 2012

Rain Dance

Clouds, rays of the sun and spirits dancing.

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