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Thoughts on Alignment
Even though I don’t listen to audiobooks, I occasionally scroll through the titles that Spotify recommends. For reasons unbeknownst to me, my latest recommendations are in the self-help category and seem to center on the theme of not caring what other people think, or how to remain relatively unaffected or unbothered by other peoples’ words…
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The Positive Side of High Sensitivity
Intelligences are atoms of perception — they know and they see and they are pure, in short they are God. How then are Souls to be made? How then are these sparks which are God to have identity given them — so as ever to possess a bliss peculiar to each one’s individual existence. How,…
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Birds of Winter, Part III
Yellow-rumped Warbler With the winter storm approaching this weekend, I have every intention of spending as much time outdoors with my camera as possible. My bird feeders typically get mobbed on very cold days, especially when there’s snow and ice, and I would love to capture some of the action. I am also going out…
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Distant Worlds & Other Art
Distant Worlds, paper collage, 2026 Last Sunday afternoon, I spent time experimenting with some collage art. This was the first I’ve attended to my collage practice in a few months, and while I still don’t really feel like collaging as regularly as I once did, I did have some fun. Most of these are pretty…
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Birds of Winter: From the Feeder (Part II)
Mourning Doves The cold weather we’ve been having over the past few days has been bringing lots of visitors to the backyard. There is a constant stream of Pine Warblers and Yellow-rumped Warblers looking for suet and dried mealworms. Bluebirds, as well. I counted 15 Purple Finches early this morning when temperatures were around 20°F.…
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Woman of the Bare Trees
[Creative myth-making] restores to existence the quality of adventure, at once shattering and reintegrating the fixed, already known, in the sacrificial creative fire of the becoming thing that is nothing at all but life, not as it will be or should be, as it was or as it never will be, but as it is,…
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Birds of Winter, Part II
White-breasted Nuthatch (male) I have been quite busy practicing with my camera over the past week or so. And my feeders are extremely busy, too, which is great. I am seeing lots of bluebirds in the backyard this winter, as well as lots of finches–Purple Finches, in particular. I’ve also recently spotted a Yellow-throated Warbler…
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Reflections on a New Year
New Year 2026, paper collage Strange as it sounds, steady, patient growth in freedom is probably the most difficult task of all, requiring the greatest courage. Thus if the term “hero” is used in this discussion at all, it must refer not to the special acts of outstanding persons, but to the heroic element potentially…
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Birds of Winter: From the Feeder
Eastern Bluebird (male) The area around the Christmas tree feeder has become a very active gathering spot for my backyard birds; so, I decided to place another small tray feeder in the vicinity to accomodate everyone. Like I needed another bird feeder… At the moment, I am enjoying photographing birds in that part of my…
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