flowers or butterflies

“The camera makes you forget you’re there. It’s not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much.”
-Annie Leibovitz

 

simply books

what’s in number 7?

“For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.”-Matthew 25:35-36 New International Version (NIV)

note: I am currently reading, The Guardian of Mercy, by Terence Ward where the author enumerated the significance of number 7. The author talks about the painting, The Seven Acts of Mercy, by Caravaggio. Caravaggio in his painting added the seventh act of mercy: burying the dead.

I have finished The Noise of Time by Julian Barnes and Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman.

simply gardenia

note: from my one and only gardenia plant.

alone on the edge

note: Napa River

 

 

50 years of separation

the sunset a tangled spectacle
of blazing colors

the clouds break, dark separates
from light

full moon hides shyly
the summer soltice

 

a prayer

 

“I asked for strength that I might achieve;
I was made weak that I might learn humbly to obey.

I asked for health that I might do greater things;
I was given infirmity that I might do better things.

I asked for riches that I might be happy;
I was given poverty that I might be wise.

I asked for power that I might have the praise of men;
I was given weakness that I might feel the need of God.

I asked for all things that I might enjoy life;
I was given life that I might enjoy all things.

I got nothing that I had asked for, but everything that I had hoped for.
Almost despite myself my unspoken prayers were answered;

I am, among all men, most richly blessed.”

note: a prayer quoted by Ronald Rolheiser in his book,Forgotten Among the Lilies.

In the internet the prayer is attributed to a Civil War Soldier.

do something romantic

 

 

 

note:Come to Napa Valley, CA or be romantic where ever you are.

yellow kayak

Good day

note:I see these flowers on my walk to the river.