T.G.I.F: Here Comes The Sun…

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Here’s shot 1 at 6:10 a.m. in series of goose bump moments. More photos from this morning’s walk here.

“that is nothing but light — scalding, aortal light — in which we are washed and washed out of our bones” — Mary Oliver, from “White Owl Flies into And Out of the Field” in “Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver” (Penguin Press, October 10, 2017)

51 thoughts on “T.G.I.F: Here Comes The Sun…”

    1. Hi Roseanne. Thank you! And this is what I felt standing there: “We are so incredibly small, mere specks in our whole solar system” — George Gurdjieff, “Gurdjieff Groups in America

      1. I live near Totnes. Do you know Devon then? I assume so. It’s, as they say, God’s country.

        1. Julian, I lived in TQ for some 8 yrs and worked (for free!) at Foxhole. Totnes and Dartington were our spiritual home for music, singing, Summer school, culture, cinema and and and. For the soul we had the Torbay with sea, romantic parks, long walks, pubs etc. We would still be there if it wasn‘t for the end of HH‘s employer. Torquay was called God‘s waiting room because we had the old, frail, homeless from all of the North. One of them told me: I live on the Government‘s money, it‘s very little but I much prefer to be miserable here than in Birmingham…. He was always sitting down at the shore and I could understand him.

          1. Where do you live now? The whole of Torbay is god’s waiting room. I lived away in London for a while; I was glad to come back but now I feel the scent of the road all around me. The difficulty is to get out from the weight of apparent responsibilities I’ve accrued as a 50-something bloke who fell under the spell of the legal profession.

  6. Holy cow, pal! These images are beyond gorgeous…what a morning! And Mimi is right, the pairing of this stunner with Mary Oliver’s shimmering prose…it doesn’t get any better….💕

      1. Try this: https://www.pubhist.com/person/3988/jmw-turner

        And view both; paintings and watercolours

        He was both a romantic painter and keen (political) observer / commentator (in paintings), v.highly regarded in the UK.

        Mind you, not one of my favourite painters (too much gloom for my taste) but a superbly gifted artist with an incredible observation of all things moody, atmospheric, temperamental.

        I like his depictions of nature in fog, autumnal sadness or here, glowing burning morning….. ouff, my brain is now fully awake

  10. “Aortal light”
    Wow
    The aorta is the largest blood vessel/ artery in the human body.
    Arteries carry oxygenated blood.
    This woman, Mary Oliver, can write. And this is brilliant.
    i am feeling this light in my largest blood vessel, my aorta, right now.
    This takes the light everywhere in the body.
    If this is not a mental climax, I don’t know what is!!!

        1. Only in your head Gypsy. Only in your head.

          I don’t feel I’m all that perceptive, mainly because I live in a cloud of my own making. — Sheila Heti, Alphabetical Diaries (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, February 6, 2024)

          1. dk
            Imagine yourself in a tiny submarine in the left ventricle of a beating heart gushing up into the Aorta!

  13. “We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.” -Jacques Cousteau

    Rest.Reset.Return.

  16. Hmm, I wrote a very different kind of comment on Instagram (?) because that’s where I first saw these 6 amazing images… Something, like “no need for words, not even Mary Oliver’s poetry” if you could be there and experience these gifts from nature, you must have been moved deep into your soul. Thank you so much for sharing these!

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