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Walking. Heart & Out of My Mind

January 17, 2021 by Live & Learn 128 Comments

It’s been almost a full month since I’ve had anything to say on this blog. A full month. It’s as if I’ve lost my voice. Posting puppy pictures. Sylvia Plath quotes. Camels. What’s next? Memes?

This dry spell coincides with my sipping of the ~900 page tome by Heather Clark: “Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath.” And here’s Sylvia: “I will seek to progress, to whip myself on, to more and more—to learning. Always.” Live & Learn? We see where that got her, right?

257 consecutive days. My morning walks around Cove Island Park. Without a single missed day. That’s today’s climax, up top. What can one possibly say, or write about, that’s more important than THIS? That’s bigger than THIS?

It used to matter, blogging, that is. It used to mean something. Posting every day. Sometimes twice day. Driving stats. Checking stats. Boosting views. Gaining followers. Counting Likes.

Today, not so much.

Sawsan poked the Bear about a week ago when she noticed posts have moved from daily to something else. I’m reconsidering this blogging thing. Running out of steam. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Blog, Blogging, Photography, Quotes, Story, Sun, sunrise, Sylvia Plath

Guess.What.Day.It.Is?

January 13, 2021 by Live & Learn 35 Comments

Photo: “Camel Herding” by David Swindler: “Since we are in Mongolia, what could be better than taking on the role of a camel herder! It was a cold morning in the Gobi Desert as evidenced by the camel’s breath. Fortunately, we warmed up quickly as we climbed the steep dunes with the camels. Immediately after I snapped this shot, the camel came up and kissed Evelyn on her shoulder. What a memorable morning we had with these magnificent animals!” (Thank you for sharing Christie!)
Background on Caleb/Wednesday/Hump Day Posts and Geico’s original commercial: Let’s Hit it Again.

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Caleb, camel, desert, gobi desert, Hump Day, Inspirational, Mongolia, morning, Photography, Sun, sunrise, Wednesday

Monday Morning Wake-Up Call

December 21, 2020 by Live & Learn 50 Comments

Daybreak. December 21, 2020. 6:45 to 7:46 am. 34° F. Cove Island Park, Stamford CT

Filed Under: Inspire Tagged With: clouds, cove island park, Inspirational, Monday, morning, Photography, snowman, Sun, sunrise

This moment…this lovely Sunlit room of my mind. Holy…The whole toe of my boot…Tapping.

December 8, 2020 by Live & Learn 24 Comments

Notes:

Post title: Excerpts from Jericho Brown‘s “Meditations at the New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park,” in The Tradition for which he won the Pulitzer Prize. (via “who are you really, wanderer?“
Photo: DK, this morning @ 6:16 a.m. @ Cove Island Park, Stamford, CT. 27° F. Feels like 16° F.

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Inspirational, Jericho Brown, Photography, Poem, Poetry, Sun, sunrise

Lightly Child, Lightly

December 3, 2020 by Live & Learn 29 Comments

I consider the light that enters the room in the early hours of the day as a messenger of the sun, a direct voyager, a particle, a wave, who knows, but an object of sorts that left its solar source, covered miles, and landed on my skin. So the universe constantly visits us while waiting for us to reverse that itinerary.

— Etel Adnan, from Shifting the Silence (Nightboat Books, October 27, 2020)

Notes:

Photo: DK, 7:01 a.m. Wed Dec 2, 2020. Cove Island Park, Stamford, CT.
Quote via lifeinpoetry
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.”

Filed Under: Books, Inspire, Photography, Quotes Tagged With: Aldous Huxley, etel adnan, let go, light, lightly, Sun, sun light, sunrise, Work

Monday Morning Wake-Up Call

September 28, 2020 by Live & Learn 18 Comments

We must be done with cruelty especially to ourselves,

to start again beaming like the sun;

fresh.

— Alice Walker, Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart; The World Rising

Notes: Photo: DK, Monday, Sept 14, 2020, 6:26 am. The Cove. Stamford, CT. Quote: via korraled

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Alice Walker, fresh, Inspirational, Monday, morning, Photography, Sun, sunrise, wake-up

Lightly Child, Lightly

August 20, 2020 by Live & Learn 19 Comments

“I unlatched the shutters. The light was as intense as a love affair. I was blinded, delighted, not just because it was warm and wonderful, but because nature measures nothing. Nobody needs this much sunlight. Nobody needs droughts, volcanoes, monsoons, tornadoes either, but we get them, because our world is as extravagant as a world can be. We are the ones obsessed by measurement. The world just pours it out.”

— Jeanette Winterson, Lighthousekeeping (Harvest Books; April 3, 2006)

Notes:

Quote: Thank you Beth @ Alive on all Channels
Photo: Here comes the sun by hpskurdal
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.”

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: acceptance, Aldous Huxley, Gratitude, Jeannet Winterson, light, lightly, Love, Peace, Photography, Sun, sunrise

Sunday Morning

July 12, 2020 by Live & Learn 38 Comments

Daybreak. 4:44, 5:13 & 5:48 am. July 12, 2020. 72° F. @ 4:30 a.m.: Humidity 83%. Wind: 10 mph. Gusts: 21 mph. Cloud Cover: 4%. Weed Avenue & Cove Island Park, Stamford, CT