a fine mingling of letting go ... and

At the end of the day ... I move a seashell from one jar to another - and also write some gratitudes ... and something I sincerely wish to let go ... I sleep soundly ....!

At the close of day  .... move a seashell .... and write gratitudes and slips to let go .... we only have today ....  

At the close of day  .... move a seashell .... and write gratitudes and slips to let go ....

we only have today ....  

Consider this: "All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on." -Havelock Ellis

 

In the wave-strike over unquiet stones

In the wave-strike over unquiet stones
the brightness bursts and bears the rose
and the ring of water contracts to a cluster
to one drop of azure brine that falls.
O magnolia radiance breaking in spume,
magnetic voyager whose death flowers
and returns, eternal, to being and nothingness:
shattered brine, dazzling leap of the ocean.
Merged, you and I, my love, seal the silence
while the sea destroys its continual forms,
collapses its turrets of wildness and whiteness,
because in the weft of those unseen garments
of headlong water, and perpetual sand,
we bear the sole, relentless tenderness.

Pablo Neruda

 

I miss the ocean here inland .... 

Glorious August

Without humidity - how different Maryland is with "Canadian air" ! Sunflowers, butterflies, light background sound of crickets. Finished applying Cabot Semi Solid stain/seal "Milkweed" tint,   to my studio ... plus cleaned up 40 year old trim from a friend's cottage. It will live again on the gable ....

Click on the photo below ...  to view Gallery for today Sunday August 25.