Bigger Plans Than You Have For Yourself
This week in Leodom, brought to my inbox by Free Will Astrology: LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) – I was sitting in San Francisco’s Cafe Gratitude, meditating on your horoscope. In my notebook I’d doodled a...
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This weekend I was away on the second annual Travis Smith birthday sleep-over extravaganza on Vancouver Island. As I reminisced about last year’s event I was reminded of this photo, featuring Noriko...
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Ten good things from this week: 1) Booking a getaway to somewhere I’ve been wanting to go for a long time. I’m very excited. 2) Seeing all the colourful leaves on the trees as we drove to and from the...
View ArticleWaiting for the bus
In the mornings when it’s not raining, I love to watch all the overhead avian activity, as the sun comes up and I wait for the bus. None of the birds I see are very exotic but I take pleasure in...
View ArticleLife & laundry
As I came through my front door on Tuesday afternoon I was greeted by the latest issue of Ascent Magazine and its headline on the cover, “the yoga of everyday bliss: finding contentment in life &...
View ArticleYou are here
Five great things from the week: 1) Monday afternoon’s long vigorous walk in Pacific Spirit Park with Christina. We were treated to hints of golden light through the trees near the end of our walk,...
View ArticleThree bare trees
I’m starting to consider writing on my other blog again. I miss the outlet it provided for expressing myself verbally, and it was a way for me to practice my writing skills on a regular basis. I don’t...
View ArticleAs the crow strolls
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius. ~ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
View ArticleLight through yonder window
The essence of the spiritual path lies only in the beauty of the ordinariness, in the mundane, and in freedom of separation between the spiritual and the ordinary. ~ Dr. Thynn Thynn
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Here are two links to items I have enjoyed very much: A twenty minute lecture by Harvard psychologist Dan Gilbert that challenges the idea that we’ll be miserable if we don’t get what we want. The...
View ArticleEstuary
With it being Friday and all, I am really looking forward to the weekend, especially since there seems to be so much going on. Tomorrow is Earth Day, and there are many events happening in the...
View ArticleBrightness
I took this photo with my holga a few weeks ago on a trip to the Squamish area to go exploring with friends. It was a beautiful, peaceful day, with weather hot enough to make us wish for shorts and...
View ArticleMagnolia (b&w)
I can’t remember if I have mentioned this already, but I have recently added more prints for sale in my etsy shop. I’m hoping to upload more soon, once things settle down and I get the chance to scan...
View ArticleLight in the river
I went to see Volver at the Hollywood Theatre yesterday evening, and really enjoyed it. I am behind on my movie viewing so thank goodness for living near a second-run theatre. I did go see Hot Fuzz on...
View ArticleAnd now back to regularly scheduled yoga…
One of the gifts I was given for Christmas this past year was a one month unlimited pass to Semperviva yoga studio. I activated the pass in mid-February, purchased another one on-going when it expired...
View ArticleThe wonder and the beauty
Taken near Porteau Cove, BC. A few days ago I was looking through a set of shots taken with a pinhole camera back in the spring of 2007, and rediscovered this shot. I’m not sure why I didn’t scan and...
View ArticleBowen Island pinhole shots
Bowen Island, Miller’s Landing Ghost on the rocks. Bowen Island, Miller’s Landing. I am really happy with the shots from my little cardboard pinhole camera, taken on Bowen Island over the weekend. I...
View ArticleBallard Lochs, Seattle
Taken with a pinhole camera. Somewhere along the way I have become a nature photographer. I *think* I am okay with it…
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