Joy and James, MD Anderson Sprint for Life, April 30, 2010 — Image by kenne
Eyes tell the story
runners finishing the run
near the finish line.
— kenne
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Zen Fountain in The Woodlands 3 comments
Zen Fountain In The Yard of Our The Woodlands Home (May 2010) — Photo-Artistry by kenne
Our yard had a lot of me
in the plants, lighting, and
the fountain where we
buried our cat, Kiko.
And there was the sweat
from the gulf coast heat,
digging through roots to
place the water reservoir.
The photo for this painting
was taken weeks before
we left our east Texas home,
for a Tucson desert home.
Our friends and family
called us crazy for leaving
the piney woods for a new
home sixteen hours away.
We return to Houston a
couple times each year,
having driven by our old
home only once, not
stopping, afraid of what
we might see of the old
Zen fountain and landscape
we created with love.
— kenne
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I like most of Frank’s posting. Unlike my posting, he puts a lot of thought into his writing, I feel it, write it and leave it—no analysis, which is why his stir is good. —kenne
There’s a story that a poet once read a poem to a small group. There were a few murmurs in that small audience, that kind of appreciation — the kind that a not-uncommon everyday poet might expect at a public reading. It’s a sound that says “That certainly sounded like something. Might be good, but can I trust myself? That was poetry, and poets can be clearly beautiful without being, well, clear.”
Yes, there are poems that can cause amen shouts. Yes, there are poems where audiences will applaud. Some of those poems are useful, and isn’t that a kind of beauty? Yes it is — but I said this was one of those poems one more commonly hears when a poet reads.
This time, one listener in the small audience spoke up. “What does that poem mean?” they asked.
The poet looked at the honest questioner for a moment…
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‘Black Man’ — Photo-Artistry by kenne
‘We pledge allegiance
All our lives
To the magic colors
Red, blue, and white
But we all must be given
The liberty that we defend
For with justice not for all men
History will repeat again
It’s time we learned
This world was made for all men’
— from Black Man by Stevie Wonder
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Two Sandhill Cranes Coming In For A Landing At Whitewater Draw — Image by kenne
here for the winter
spend time before heading north
to begin again
— kenne
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Cat and Bird 1 comment
Cat and Bird by Paul Klee moma.org
Predator
It takes only a minute
to bury a wren.
Two trowels full of dirt
and he’s in.
The cat as the threshold
sits longer in doubt
deciding whether
to stay in or go out.
— Billy Collins
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Mums On The Patio Table 2 comments
Mums — Image by kenne
the color of fall
mums on patio table
our store-bought flowers
— kenne
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Mule Deer in Sabino Canyon (November 8, 2022) —- Images by kenne
On the SCVN Bird and Plant walk (November 8, 2022), we spotted a mule deer eating what appeared to be prickly pear pads.
We are aware that deer will eat the fruit but not the pads. You can tell from these photos that she seems to enjoy the chew.
However, she began to sneeze and use her left hind hoof to scratch her head — wonder why.
— kenne
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Always More Saguaros On The Sunny Side of A Hill ( November 8, 2022, in Sabino Canyon) — Image by kenne
Saguaros love sunlight, so the southern part of a ridge or hill will attract the growth of many saguaros.
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Dragonfly Glow — Photo-Artistry by kenne
“When one person suffers from a delusion,
it is called insanity.
When many people suffer from a delusion
it is called a Religion.”
— from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance:
An Inquiry Into Values by Robert M. Pirsig
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Desert Mistletoe Berries Attracting Birds To Sabino Canyon 1 comment
This morning on the Plant and Bird Walk, we could see a small flock of Eastern Bluebirds, none close enough to get any good photos,
but more will be coming to Sabino Canyon because of all the desert mistletoe berries in the canyon. Till then,
the berries are attracting plenty of Phainopeplas.
— kenne
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Sunset Over The Tucson Mountains — Image by kenne
I look at a sunset
and begin to wonder
what is the relationship
between the senses
and matters of beauty,
art and taste responding
one’s feelings and emotions?
The quality of being.
— kenne
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Old Jules says, “. . . life is about YOU, not anyone else” it is, therefore, personal. At death, it is the personal that dies, and what lives on is the soul — the soul of a person never dies (impersonal immortality). — kenne
I need a transition here to something else I want to say and the transition is awkward in this thought flow, almost trite.
One of the thornier paths we can choose to avoid self-damage is forgiveness. The only virtue in that path is that it avoids the even more destructive route of the state of unforgiveness (self- destructive- our unforgiveness rarely harms anyone but ourselves).
But genuine forgiveness by its nature has to be an act of self-forgiveness- a recognition that we are flawed- full of warts- that those flaws and warts are the water and fertilizer to our growth—with that recognition we can then recognize and forgive flaws in others without setting ourselves up on a superior moral plane and thereby stumbling into one of the multitude of tiger-traps hidden in the path of forgiveness.
When the path of forgiveness is allowed to lead into the more worthy path…
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Cooper’s Hawk in Sabino Canyon — Image by kenne
I have a little knowledge of this bird,
never as much as an ornithologist.
Maybe it’s because I don’t have
the right personality or something,
being concerned fundamentally
with the “oughts” of life from
a philosophical point of view,
if you know what I mean.
— kenne
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Conversations — Photo-Artistry by kenne
Lovers
Learn from yesterday
Laugh about today, but
talk about
tomorrow
— John Boynton
Becoming is Superior to Being 