Caponigro was a poet among photographers. One who made images that evoked the senses by the way his images had such a depth of texture that there was movement in there captured stillness. And, the essence of the thing was never lost – whether it was plant life, a piece of fruit or a rugged [...]
“We are all visionaries, and what we see is our soul in things.” Henri Amiel
A friend I’m co-conspiring with has alerted me to the needs of a new world order of doing business from a feminine model. Not that the dominant male centric paradigm is wrong, it’s just simply undesirable: Working 8-5, 5 days a [...]
After burning the midnight oil in a feverish state of creative incubation (fueled by the full moon no doubt), The Light in the Garden is (finally) bound between some lovely covers…
The Light in the Garden by Allison Schultz | Make Your Own Book
Back in 2005, I started a page on my site that I called my blog. It wasn’t technically a real blog (that seemed scary back then – all that exposure), but it was a homegrown log of goodness nevertheless and came to bear the name “desultory and mellifluous,” as a descriptor of life in general, [...]
From the trailer for I’m Still Here:
“…That’s you, drops of water. And you’re on top of the mountain. A success. But one day you start sliding down the mountain and you think, “Wait a minute. I’m a mountain top water drop.. I don’t belong down in this valley, in this river, in this low dark [...]
One of my dearest of compadres was in town this past week just for one sweet day. We met in the Utah backcountry 10 years ago, spent nights under the stars, have weathered unexpected snowstorms, some epic hikes, savored some of the best showers money could buy and have been laughing ever since.
I met her at the [...]
After rummaging through many old academic papers, I found this quick little definition of Deep Ecology worth posting as a quick introduction:
The environmentalism of Spiritual Deep Ecology senses that the suffering of the earth is exacerbated by the divisions in perception created by Anthropocentrism that distance humanity from a more planetary awareness. The premises of [...]
“What is your relationship to spirit?” I asked one of my dearest friends. “I mean, How do you work with it? Live with it? Connect with it? Move through the day with it? How do you relate to it?”
She looked at me and smiled a knowing smile. “I’ve come to realize that it’s all you. [...]
Back in Mrs. Bissell’s AP English class, I met and fell deeply in love with the transcendentalists – Thoreau, Emerson, Longfellow & Co. In all the eras and genres of the written word, I was finally reading my people, and it was as if they were speaking to the deepest fibers of my being.
I clung [...]