If I loved you less, I may be able to talk about it more.
– Emma, Jane Austen
the hymn
let her go to the sea
Photowalks
A Glass meetup from last year, including Nick, Daniel, and Caleb doing what photographers do, in East Lake. Are you sensing a theme this week, dear reader?
Week's End
Picked tulips outside a cafe in Capitol Hill, Seattle, WA,
reflecting how I feel at the end of a very full week.
Sparkles
Lake Union, 2011
Purple Sand Pipers
early morning beach vignette from 2012
Low Pressure
Freedom and possibility within layers of pressure.
Grateful to look out my window and see metaphor.
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A fern, in the Chuckanut Mountains, 2023
Perspectives #5
Lake Guntersville, AL, July, 2011
Perspectives #4
Seattle, from the ferry, in a moody February, 2011
Perspectives #3
Chicago, John Hancock Center, 2011
Perspectives #2
Dust storm on the Outskirts of Texas, 2012
Creature #5
In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag. ~ W. H. Auden
Creature #4
Mollusca phylum on yarrow.
Creature #3
Elephants are contagious. -Paul Eluard
Creature #2
"Have you ever held a snake? They are so strong. You can see why there are so many myths about them: they are unlike any other creature. It's extraordinary how that little brain can keep everything moving in different directions."
- Michelle Paver
Creature #1
"What we see before us is just one tiny part of the world. We get in the habit of thinking, this is the world, but that's not true at all. The real world is a much darker and deeper place than this, and much of it is occupied by jellyfish and things We just happen to to forget all that. Don't you agree? Two-thirds of earth's surface is ocean, and all we can see with the naked eye is the surface: the skin."
- Haruki Murakami
Red
Red, existing in extremes,
unable to be anything but itself.
Commanding passionately at the far end of this visible spectrum.
Orange
the not quite red
speedy, playful,
a fervent Finncoming.
(this guy’s name is Finn. He embodies the color orange)
Yellow
Yellow was a concept
Vastly misunderstood,
So explosive, engulfing,
That riding its expanse felt more scary than thrilling.
It’s opposites were soft and quiet and gentle
Yellow offered paradoxal ending promise of the same
If the color could be survived.