Notes:
- Post Title: From Mary Oliver’s “Terns” (Thank you Make Believe Boutique)
- DK Photos: 6:15 to 6:40. 60° F. Cove Island Park, Stamford, CT. More photos from this morning here.
Nothing you ever understand will be sweeter, or more binding / Than this deepest affinity between your eyes and the world.
September 17, 2022 by 36 Comments
Sunday Morning
June 6, 2021 by 20 Comments
Don’t forget, as busy as you may be, to quickly raise your head and cast a glance at those great silver clouds and that silent blue ocean in which they are swimming…take notice of the resplendence and glory that overlie this day…because this day will never, ever come again! This day is a gift to you like a rose in full bloom, lying at your feet, waiting for you to pick it up and press it to your lips.
― Rosa Luxemburg, (1871-1919) in “Reform Or Revolution”
Notes:
- DK @ Daybreak. 5:17 am, June 6, 2021. 69° F. Cove Island Park, Stamford, CT.
- Quote: Thank you Beth @ Alive on All Channels
Sunday Morning
October 25, 2020 by 29 Comments
DK, Daybreak. October 25, 2020. 6:30-7:30 am. 42° F. Cloud Cover 75%. Cove Island Park, Stamford, CT
Monday Morning Wake-Up Call
August 31, 2020 by 40 Comments
Notes:
- Daybreak. August 31, 2020. 5:59 to 6:08 am. 60° F. Humidity 70%. Wind: 6 mph. Gusts: 7 mph. Cloud Cover: 32%. The Cove, Stamford, CT
- Inspired (again) by Helen Macdonald: “I kept trying to find the right words to describe certain experiences and failing. My secular lexicon didn’t capture what they were like. You’ve probably had such experiences yourself – times in which the world stutters, turns and fills with unexpected meaning. When rapturousness claims a moment and transfigures it. The deep hush before an oncoming storm; the clapping of wings as a flock of doves rises to wheel against low sun; a briar stem in the sun glittering with blades of hoarfrost. Love, beauty, mystery. Epiphanies, I suppose. Occasions of grace. — Helen Macdonald, Vesper Flights (Grove Press, August 25, 2020)
Lightly Child, Lightly.
July 2, 2020 by 27 Comments
So rests the sky against the earth. The dark still tarn in the lap of the forest. As a husband embraces his wife’s body in faithful tenderness, so the bare ground and trees are embraced by the still, high, light of the morning. I feel an ache of longing to share in this embrace, to be united and absorbed. A longing like carnal desire, but directed towards earth, water, sky, and returned by the whispers of the trees, the fragrance of the soil, the caresses of the wind, the embrace of water and light. Content? No, no, no–but refreshed, rested–while waiting.
— Dag Hammarskjöld, “Markings” (Alfred A. Knopf, 1964)
Notes:
- Quote: Thank you Beth @ Alive on All Channels
- Photo: DK’s Daybreak. 5:19 am. July 1, 2020. 65° F. Humidity 100%. Wind: 3 mph. Gusts: 4 mph. Cloud Cover: 66%. Cove Island Park, Stamford, CT
- Post Title & Inspiration: Aldous Huxley: “It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them.”
The Ocean is the most elemental…
November 18, 2012 by 22 Comments
The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach. I have heard them all, and of the three elemental voices, that of ocean is the most awesome, beautiful and varied.
Quote Source: Thank you Rob Firchau @ Hammock Papers. Image Source: abirdeyeview
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