Starting a project that may take a few years…
“we travelers, walking to the sun can’t see ahead but looking back the very light that blinded us shows the way we came..” - wendell berry
an avalanche in slow motion /
When a warlord continues to kill and torture across a swath of Congo and Central African Republic, that’s not a “white man’s burden.” It’s a human burden.
To me, it feels repugnant to suggest that compassion should stop at a national boundary or color line. A common humanity binds us all, whatever the color of our skin — or passport.
- Nicholas D. Kristof
Peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees
Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer. Camp out among the grasses and gentians of glacial meadows, in craggy garden nooks full of nature’s darlings. Climb the mountains and get their good tidings, Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves. As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.
John Muir
Those who make a difference are the ones who jump in. They sacrifice safety and comfort for the satisfaction of doing work that matters…
mood piece: here|absent // filmed in oregon
// Posted February 5, 2012 //
in this moment . this second . nowhere else .
what is bound for us is unknown . but it's all there .
the start . the beginning .
something . stirring.
moving over the horizon .
with every sunset it draws nearer .
will i be ready to embrace .
will i be ready .
2|4|12
// Posted February 5, 2012 //
On and on the miles stretch for hours… #oregon #miles
I do not see the road ahead of me.
[hogback bridge | madison county, iowa 2011]
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“My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end. Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think I am following your will does not mean that I am actually doing so. But I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you. And I hope I have that desire in all that I am doing. I hope that I will never do anything apart from that desire. And I know that if I do this you will lead me by the right road though I may know nothing about it. Therefore will I trust you always though I may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death. I will not fear, for you are ever with me, and you will never leave me to face my perils alone.”
-Thomas Merton
tennessee’s winter field /
there is something here .
something in the fog. the mist. the wild sweet grass
in the vast valleys and
in the flowing meadows
in the cold
in the quiet cabins
in the smoke that billows from the hillside
there is something here .
