Agnes on Valentine’s Day 2004 At Her Assisted Living Facility, Spring Texas — Image by kenne
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Petal Wings — Photo-Artistry by kenne
Nature Doing Its Thing — Bee On Prickly Pear Cactus Image by kenne
Greater Roadrunner On Patio Wall — Image by kenne
— kenne
ON THIS DAY, 2017 –kenne
Somewhere in the Santa Catalina Mountains, Continuing the Process of Becoming
Knowing and Not-Knowing
We are all concerned with our competence and the competence of others. Most people are interested in being more competent and surrounding themselves with competent people. The key to our level of competence is our level of knowledge.
In Zen practice, knowledge involves the interplay between knowing and not-knowing. However, it is crucial not to conclude that not-knowing means you don’t know. On the contrary, not-knowing means not being limited to what you know.
Maybe things are this way, but perhaps they are not. (Philosophically, it can be important to help people realize what they do not know is a necessary part of knowledge. But such a paradoxical thought, from a learning and teaching point of view, is confronted with the
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Hermit Thrush (The Huntington Botanical Gardens)– Image by kenne
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Hedgehog Cactus (genus Echinocereus) Blossoms — Image by kenne
The hedgehog cactus earned its name because its short, spiny stems resemble hedgehogs.
The blossoms last for five days, opening in the morning and closing at night.
Karesansui Gardens (The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens) — Panorama Image by kenne
Who speaks the sound of an echo?
Who paints the image in a mirror?
Where are the spectacles in a dream?
Nowhere at all — that’s the nature of mind!
— Tantric Buddhist Women’s Songs
Easter Is Gone, But Not The Bunny — Photo-Artistry by kenne
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Property Line Outside Tucson– Image by kenne
Three Sketches of Anxiety
—Curtis Bauer
The Parlando Project has ended Poetry Month with the crown jewel, so I feel an obligation to share with my followers. Excellent work, Frank.
It’s been quite the job of work to do daily posts with new lyric videos here this April in celebration of National Poetry Month, and I haven’t taken the time yet to see what impact those extra efforts have had. Though I was re-releasing already recorded audio pieces from the earliest years of this six-year Project this month, even the fairly simple lyric videos took more time than you might think — and then there was the selection of which pieces to present, as well as writing a few hundred words on what I currently thought of each of them.
Well, not only is today the last day of National Poetry Month, it’s International Jazz Day, and I felt I needed to make a nod to that today. So, let’s play two!
The first piece is, I think, one of the prettiest of the more than 600 performances we’ve presented:…
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First posted on May 30, 2011. — kenne
Redwing Blackbirds Are Very Common At The Sweetwater Wetlands Park In Tucson (April 29, 2022) — Images by kenne
Becoming is Superior to Being 