Today’s poem is The plum you're going to eat next summer by Gayle Brandeis.

Some blooms and bright color for your Saturday morning

From learning the word cyan as a kid to beholding it decades later in my wife's eyes, in a robin's egg, and in a reflected mottled sky...

I've seen three movies in the last week...one isn't letting go

Sometimes three feet is all it takes. A foggy morning, shifting light, and a small reminder of the world we can actually change.

It was a great gift this week to have my noticing and my week line up perfectly - at my daughter’s graduation from college! Her school’s primary color is purple and so the color was EVERYWHERE this we...

Paying attention and noticing the beauty, wonder, and diversity of the color brown over the last week!

My (red) noticings for the last week. Seven photos of red along with a confession about the color...

From our President on Easter. 🤡

The final shift - competition to community - from MaryAnn's book - Beginning with some 5th/6th grade memories and continuing to a foggy Thursday morning...

How beauty connects us and moves us beyond ourselves...

Handwritten expressions of seeking to be present more than being productive as well as an invitation...

Until a week ago, I had never heard of Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer.

A poetic and photographic gratitude for brothers I have journeyed with over the last 26+ years

A day that was a (mostly) black and white day to focus on the details, the patterns, and the movement, rather than the wide spectrum of color.

Needing to be among trees and at some water this morning and seeing some simple reminders of the connection we all hold. Plus Scout and her llama

How our pre- and misconceptions can fool us...and how we can learn from a mid-90s basketball player about change...

From Debra Rienstra- I wonder if relinquishing our alienation requires not only adult savvy and reeducation but also a return to that childlike spirit, where everything in the universe is imbued with ...

The hard but everyday and necessary work of going from what "triggered" me this week to what I was seeking to evoke...

A friend described their life as a “very dense soup of things.” I latched onto that evocative statement as it describes what a lot of life feels like right now

I didn’t sleep well Saturday to Sunday...Holding the light through the murder of Alex Pretti and insights from LOTR, music, wisdom, and love.

It has been a while since I’ve gone this long without posting something and there's still not a lot I'm saying in this one. A prayer/blessing and then pics...

How can you go wrong with a conversation about Wake Up Dead Man that goes into the movie (of course), Neibuhr, Richard Rohr, and even Rick-rolling...

So today is a bit more of a grabbag of various photos from the last week or so along with some brief reflections and also some links to some online posts that have been speaking to me this week.

So I have a long streak going in my journal of daily gratitude entries (2000+days and counting) but recently it has felt more like I have been going through the motions...

We are sadly coming to the end of what has been a beautiful Autumn around here. It seemed to start slowly but then changed oh so very quickly into the gorgeous rainbow of colors that Autumn brings. ...

2026 Calendars are available, Sacred Songs, and stunning colors of peak Autumn around here

Normally, I share here about photography but today it is about music (with some photographs thrown in of course).  This week had two beautiful musical experiences that are still resonating with me.

In which I give thanks for 250+ new subscribers and go back a year to Acadia but even more so a year ago when the muse started to speak about the 745am bench photos.

Several days ago, we lost one of the most courageous, strong, and beautiful people in the world. Not a politician, a sports/movie star, or an internet “influencer.” Instead a quiet but brilliant woman...

How these four noticings and actions challenge us to be bold and couragous for such a time as this.

Honestly, I didn’t realize that Monday was the Autumn Equinox but I sent a message to my family while out with Scout that it felt like a switch had been flipped and Autumn was here.

I was walking through the airport a few weeks back after helping one of our kids get moved back into college and I heard the now-familiar announcement from TSA: If you see something, say something...I...

“Will you seek to serve the people with energy, intelligence, imagination, and love?”  I am grateful to be learning more and more about these, but especially about imagination...