Beauty & Sadness The last post attempted to loosely define Wabi Sabi and introduce the project I am taking up. One of the comments distilled the feeling of Wabi Sabi to beauty & sadness. I like that. The contents of the Wabi Sabi Project will be mostly visual (paintings, photographs of mine and sometimes others – […]
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Wondering about Wabi Sabi
So what about that project? I spend a lot of time writing and I have rarely come across a topic that resists writing. Wabi Sabi has resisted writing. Anything with an ounce of Zen is all about experience and being in the moment. This takes a lot of practice. Someone I speak to regularly told me […]
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Happy Holidays
In celebration of the holidays, I thought I would post some of my favourite winter twilight photographs and paintings from the archive – and a poem from Robert Frost. Wishing everyone a safe and happy holiday! Enjoy! See you in 2015… ————————– Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Whose woods these are I think I […]
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Reflecting on the ‘In Between’
At the end of a project, there is that space. You know, that space between the satisfaction of finishing one project and just before the anticipation of the next one takes hold. We are neither in the past, nor looking to the future. That space where, for a short time, we are completely present. Upon finishing the journal project, […]
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Traveling Journal ~ Part 5
The last stop for the journal was the Arbuckles and Turner Falls in south central Oklahoma. Half way between Oklahoma City and Dallas, this is a beautiful break in the smooth countryside of farm fields and ranches. We had small window of warm weather before the arctic blast hit and we spent it camping on […]
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Traveling Journal ~ Part 4
There is nothing better than cruising secondary roads in a convertible. And the quick elevation change of Mount Scott at the Wichita Mountain Wildlife Refuge is no trouble for the 500 c.i. engine of a ’74 Cadillac Eldorado. This day, the journal got to ride in style. While the bison chose to wander in the distant hills, the longhorns had […]
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