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Welcome Change 1 comment

Morning Sky — Image by kenne

“People are often afraid of change just because they do not trust themselves enough.
When you welcome change you also learn, grow, and develop a better version of yourself.”

— Raffacllo Palandri

Posted November 20, 2024 by kenneturner in Capturing the Moment, Information, Philosophy, Photography, Quote, Tucson Arizona

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Autumn Nature Leave a comment

Autumn Nature (A Walk In The Woods) — Image by kenne

Nature

O Nature! I do not aspire
To be the highest in thy choir, –
To be a meteor in thy sky,
Or comet that may range on high;
Only a zephyr that may blow
Among the reeds by the river low;
Give me thy most privy place
Where to run my airy race.

In some withdrawn, unpublic mead
Let me sigh upon a reed,
Or in the woods, with leafy din,
Whisper the still evening in:
Some still work give me to do, –
Only – be it near to you!

For I’d rather be thy child
And pupil, in the forest wild,
Than be the king of men elsewhere,
And most sovereign slave of care;
To have one moment of thy dawn,
Than share the city’s year forlorn.

— Henry David Thoreau

Posted October 21, 2024 by kenneturner in Autumn, Capturing the Moment, Fall, Information, Mt. Lemmon, nature walk, Philosophy, Photography, Poetry, Santa Catalina Mountains, Tucson Arizona

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The Woodlands Waterway Leave a comment

Joy, Katelyn, and Dave, July 4, 2004

Do not live half a life
and do not die a half death
If you choose silence, then be silent
When you speak, do so until you are finished
If you accept, then express it bluntly
Do not mask it
If you refuse then be clear about it
for an ambiguous refusal is but a weak acceptance
Do not accept half a solution
Do not believe half truths
Do not dream half a dream
Do not fantasize about half hopes
Half the way will get you no where
You are a whole that exists to live a life
not half a life.

— Khalil Gibran

Posted July 11, 2024 by kenneturner in Capturing the Moment, Existential Moment, Information, Joy, Katelyn Turner, Kenne David, Philosophy, Photography, The Woodlands

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This Is Us Not Losing Sight 3 comments

This Is Us Not Losing Sight — Photo-artistry by kenne

Life is short, and it is sinful to waste one’s time. They say I’m active. But being active is still wasting one’s time,
if in doing one loses oneself. Today is a resting time, and my heart goes off in search of itself. If an anguish still clutches me,
it’s when I feel this impalpable moment slip through my fingers like quicksilver… At the moment, my whole kingdom is of this world.
This sun and these shadows, this warmth and this cold rising from the depths of the air: why wonder if something is dying
or if men suffer, since everything is written on this window where the sun sheds its plenty as a greeting to my pity?

— Albert Camus