I hired Tom Phillips, the Zen Master of Navajo Photography Guides in Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park. My wife and I were crowded into the only seat of Tom’s pickup driving through the desert on the way to the first stop on Tom’s list of “Shooting Locations,” when we met a Navajo woman on aContinue reading “September 29, 2025”
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September 27, 2025
It can get to be too much like that (snaps fingers), but.”It” is only a matter of perspective.All it takes is turning the light around.The trick to turning the light around is found in working withcaring and not-caring, wanting and not-wanting.We can care too much about the wrong things.We can want too much of theContinue reading “September 27, 2025”
September 21, 2025
Experience is required to know/understand/comprehend. It cannot be said, told, explained, defined… Psyche is leading us to knowing throughout our life. We are not old enough to get it until we are old. And then it takes talking to/with people who are consciously seeking to grasp Psyche’s attempts at communion. Waking up. Enlightenment–is Psyche breakingContinue reading “September 21, 2025”
September 20, 2025
We have to be available.What it means to be available is this:”Those who would be my disciple have to pick up their cross everyday and come with me.”Cross-bearing is making the routine sacrifice/practice of handing over what we want in the service of what needs to be done, when, where and how it needs toContinue reading “September 20, 2025”
September 05, 2025
The relationship between the flow of life and emptiness, stillness, silence is “right there,” for all of us to experience any time.The place of silence (emptiness and stillness) in the life of the species from the beginning of consciousness until now is a topic I would like to have explored by those in position toContinue reading “September 05, 2025”
August 16, 2025
Each situation has its own direction and flow that has to be recognized and taken into account. Forcing action that is not conducive to the situation as a whole creates a disturbance in the flow that has impact and implications for the balance and harmony and wellbeing of the here, now and the not yetContinue reading “August 16, 2025”
August 12, 2025
We all are Psychic marvels, as is every other physical thing in the Cosmos. Psyche is the source of everything. And, if we are wondering what the point of it all is, the whole point is just for the joy of it. There is nothing to gain beyond being joyful over the experience of beingContinue reading “August 12, 2025”
July 21, 2025
This adventure of writing a daly reflection has opened before me as an exploration of myself and our (corporate/universal) need for this kind of exploration/realization/awakening/ enlightenment worldwide. Everything will do that if we let it.Everything is a portal, a port-key, a threshold to ourselves if we have the courage/luck to see what we look at,Continue reading “July 21, 2025”
July 12, 2025
Walking slowly with our thoughts through the fresh greens of spring awakens hope and confidence in our ability to meet the day on the day’s terms, see what is called for and do what needs to be done about it, when, where and how it needs to be done, and let that be that. TheContinue reading “July 12, 2025”
July, 2025
Growing up and doing what is called for in each situation as it arises is all there is to it. All there is to our life. It is more difficult than it might appear to be.Growing is the hardest part. We all grow up against our will. That is what growing up is. Learning toContinue reading “July, 2025”
June 30,2025
Waiting to know IT when we see it,and trusting ourselves to know what to do about it when we do–and in the meantime what do we do while we wait?Waiting is IT for me,and watching,seeing, hearing, knowing, doing, being.That has been IT,and I have had a good time doing IT.Making this photograph,these photographs, was aContinue reading “June 30,2025”
April 05, 2025
There is projection and there is association, and they may be the same thing. One thing I project onto this image is that Donald Trump would not find anything attractive about it. My projection is that he would hate it. It is not his kind of place. My projection is that he is attracted toContinue reading “April 05, 2025”
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