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Circle of Life

This morning when I looked in the mirror and saw the skin on my neck I realized that at that moment it looked like “old lady skin.” I was astonished to see this proof of my aging before my eyes. Seeing the Circle of Life before my eyes in the aging of my own body took me by surprise. We don’t talk a lot about aging as if by not acknowledging it we can somehow make it stop. But things keep happening to remind me that though my spirit may be eternal, this body I’m living in, is not. Contentment Read more…

By Marilyn, ago

Abiding Presence

This morning I decided to create a little bit of spring beauty with my fading alstroemeria flowers. So I found a nice snow drift outside the sliding glass window downstairs and “planted” the flowers there. It makes me smile when I look out the window. If I can inject some humor into these snow-covered spring days perhaps I can live with a sense of Abiding Presence that nature is doing exactly what she needs to be doing in this moment. When I let go of my human-centered viewpoint I begin to understand that we humans are probably not the highest Read more…

By Marilyn, ago

April Fools Day

Before the blizzard began last night I was so done with snow for the year. When Jon suggested that I might want to get up early to photograph the snow covered world I told him, “No way, I’ve had enough snow for the year!” But here we are with a big April Fools Day snow covered world. All Heaven and Earth Flowered white obliterate… Snow…unceasing snow ― Hashin, Japanese Haiku I told Jon that I had no desire to make photographs of more snow. And I that I was fed up with winter. But then I looked out the windows Read more…

By Marilyn, ago

Spring-ish

Looking at the calendar I can say that it must be spring. Looking at the weather forecast for tonight and tomorrow I want to say “Ish!” so it must be Spring-ish right now. Tomorrow with  probable new snow on the ground will be a kind of April Fool’s joke, not the kind I enjoy. So today I decided to look back through photos from years past at what spring looked like at the end of March. It was surprisingly varied. I remembered several March trips, to Hawaii in 2011, to Nebraska to see the sandhill crane migration in 2015, and Read more…

By Marilyn, ago

What Now?

I was talking with a friend recently and she asked an interesting question about purpose and age. She had recently celebrated a milestone birthday and wondered What Now? How should she be spending her days? What purpose(s) should she be pursuing? What really matters at this stage in her life? I suggested that the most important things she could do now (and always) were to choose joy, practice gratitude, and seek out wonder and awe as frequently as possible. For me, the regular practice of making photographs ticks off all those things. I experience great joy, see beauty in unexpected Read more…

By Marilyn, ago