Attention + Focus + Time = Enchanted Awareness

“Tree”

It is foolish
to let a young redwood
grow next to a house.

Even in this 
one lifetime,
you will have to choose.

That great calm being,
this clutter of soup pots and books–

Already the first branch-tips brush at the window.
Softly, calmly, immensity taps at your life.”
― Jane Hirshfield

The Little Owl, Albrecht Dürer

“We do not obtain the most precious gifts by going in search of them,” she insisted, “but by waiting for them.”³

Simone Wiel from “Reflections on the Right Use of School Studies with a View to the Love of God.”

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Meandering Without a Plan II: On National Forest Road 74

NE Lewis County Washington In Mt. Ranier National Forest

SW of Mt Ranier

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Meandering Without a Plan: Life Finds Me Wherever I go

Keep Walking, 

by Rumi, Translation by Coleman Barks

Keep walking.

Though there’s no place to get to.

Don’t try to see through the distances.

That’s not for human beings.

Move within.

But don’t move the way fear makes you move.

Today, like every other day,

We wake up empty and frightened.

Don’t open the door to the study and begin reading.

Take down a musical instrument.

Let the beauty we love be what we do.

There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.

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Variations on a Vision: Almost Full Summer Moon

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Shadows and Sun and Busy Spiders

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