“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with…
Category: Nature
Go on adventures
“You must go on adventures to find out where you truly belong.” ~ Sue Fitzmaurice
Gardening ’17, Part 2
My first year trying to grow veggies was 2014. I did what most probably do and gleefully purchased a variety of seeds. I learned through talking with friends that I only wanted to grow veggies that we would eat. That seems like a given but it truly isn’t. We had neighbors who grew a lot…
Morning after
One of my favorite things about living in Northern New Mexico is spring snow. Not spring as in jumping or spring as in water, but as the season. Last night and early morning we received 10 inches of snow in Taos Ski Valley, according to TSV snow report. In town, it’s always less in amount but not…
Nature of miraculous
…when you are convinced that all the exits are blocked, either you take to believing in miracles or you stand still like the hummingbird. The miracle is that the honey is always there, right under your nose, only you were too busy searching elsewhere to realize it. The worst is not death but being blind,…
Rio Grande Gorge, NM
“I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful — an endless prospect of magic and wonder.” ~ Ansel Adams
Do Not Despair
When you find yourself cocooned in isolation and despair and cannot find your way out of the darkness, remember that this is similar to the place where caterpillars go to grow their wings. ~ author unknown
Wander in Simplicity
“Let your mind wander in simplicity, blend your spirit with the vastness, follow along with things the way they are, and make no room for personal views – then the world will be governed.” ― Zhuangzi
Tent Rocks, NM
“Vision connects you. But it also separates you. In my work, and my life, I feel a desire to merge. Not in terms of losing my own identity… but there’s a feeling that life is interconnected, that there’s life in stones and rocks and trees and dirt, like there is in us.” ~ Bill Viola
Dandelion
“Simple and fresh and fair from winter’s close emerging, As if no artifice of fashion, business, politics, had ever been, Forth from its sunny nook of shelter’d grass–innocent, golden, calm as the dawn, The spring’s first dandelion shows its trustful face.” Source: “Leaves of Grass,” by Walt Whitman
