Estate Sale In Tanuri Ridge — Image by kenne
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Estste Sale Leave a comment
This morning’s jog in the neighborhood was different,
Disclaimer: I don’t go to flea-markets, antique shops,
Circling on around, I caught up with Joy who,
She got my attention when she said the sale
There laid out on display as if it were a camera
At the moment, I decided to not let my photography life
Yellow Flower — Creating a New Consciousness Leave a comment
“Yellow Flower in Circles and Squares” — Image by kenne
Sometimes to appreciate beauty
it must be taken out of context
to capture a new perspective
based on my love of nature, sex
and life in a new consciousness
for the flower is neither
a subject nor an object
apart from being a flower.
— kenne
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Gray Squirrel Leave a comment
Gray Squirrel — Image by kenne
camera pointed a squirrel staring at me I stare back at him what is he doing up there what I'm I doing down here -- kenne
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To Make Soft Leave a comment
Computer Art by kenne
To Make Soft . . .
Words are nothing,
feelings are everything.
Struggling to share feelings
placing petitions of desire
at the door of your heart,
shut not the door.
Love will break your heart,
scorn not what we do.
Looking for peace of mind
the truth will set us free
explaining not what is real,
too complicated to follow
knowing not our time to go
lifetime is no time at all.
kenne
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Christmas Still Life Leave a comment
Christmas ’05 Still Life — Computer Painting by kenne
“We do not “come into” this world;
we come out of it, as leaves from a tree.”
— Alan Watts
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A Message To All Humankind Leave a comment
Image by kenne
A MESSAGE TO ALL HUMANKIND
Sometimes life is unpredictable.
It dictates things that you do not want to pursue,
nor do you wish to listen to.
But no matter how we resist life,
it won’t allow itself to lay unappreciated
and devalued for a long time.
For each day we live on this planet,
each breath we took when were awake
and each silent breath when we are asleep,
life is already in its existence.
For life is within us,
it envelops us in everything that we do.
It is there, silent and yet overbearing,
when we took our own paths,
when we mold our own destiny,
and when we choose wise and unwise decisions.
Decisions that might or might not
affect the way our life will be.
For no matter what path we choose,
life is always there.
Life is the essence of life.
Life is a God-given gift bestowed upon humankind.
Life is our life.
Without life, humanity would not have existed,
I would not have existed.
Life gives us the freedom to choose,
to see things in its pure goodness,
but above all, life gives us the ability to live on this planet.
For it is life that we found each other. For it is in life that we are one.
We are not only citizens in our own countries
but we are citizens of the world.
We are here because of life,
and we are here because we have life.
Live life to its fullest form.
Thank God for bestowing upon us life. Life is life.
— Unknown
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Seattle Skyline, Seven Years Out Leave a comment
Jonathan, Joy & Kenne, Seattle Skyline (September 1, 2009) — Image directed by kenne
To bring anything into your life, imagine that it’s already there.
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Same with anyone who’s been flying for years and loves it
still we’re part of a world we deeply love.
Just as musicians feel about scores and melodies,
dancers about the steps and flow of music,
so we’re one with the principle of flight,
the magic of being aloft in the wind!
— Richard Bach
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Life: It Goes On 1 comment
Lupine Blue Butterfly On Cranesbill Wildflower (August 5, 2016)– Image by kenne
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
— Robert Frost
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Happiness Is What You Make Of Life 2 comments
Clouds Over the Santa Catalina Mountains — Image by kenne
“Too many Americans have twisted the sensible right to pursue happiness into the delusion that we are entitled to a guarantee of happiness. If we don’t get exactly what we want, we assume someone must be violating our rights. We’re no longer willing to write off some of life’s disappointments to simple bad luck.”
— Susan Jacoby
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Spring Break 1 comment
“Spring Break” — Image by kenne
“Life is too short to miss out on being really happy.”
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Red Hole In The Sky 3 comments
“Red Hole in the Sky” — Computer Art by kenne
Life doesn’t always give you what you want,
so you have to learn to make the best
of what you get.
— kenne
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Reaching Out 6 comments
Tom and Kenne Turner
This is a posting I had drafted not knowing that I would be getting word Tom was in the hospital and after talking to my nieces and Tom’s nurse, made arrangements to fly to Seattle. It was not to be, Tom passed away November 13, 2014.
Much has happened since then , sharing, grieving and loving. What follows is the draft that was not finished. The video was put together the last time I saw Tom, which was at his daughter, Lisa’s wedding on the island of Lummi near Bellingham, Washington.
kenne
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My brother has been in my thoughts a lot lately. For sometime now, he has not been responding to email and voice-mail. Lisa, his daughter tells me he has become a “bonafied hermit.”
“Healthy in body and mind,
I end my life before pitiless old age
which has taken from me my pleasure
and joys one after another,
and which has been stripping me
my physical and mental powers,
can paralyse my energy and break my will;
making me a burden to myself and others.
For some years I had promised myself not to live beyond 70;
and I fixed the exact year for my departure from life . . .”
— Paul Laforgue
(This was hand written by Tom on a statement from the BigRock-Health Clinic, Tumwater, Washington — date not known.)
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Five Years Out 2 comments
Kenne, Kika & Joy, June 21, 2010, waiting for the movers.
We are starting our sixth year here, longer than most friends and family would have predicted, especially since Joy has not grown to love southern Arizona the way I have. However, the five years we have lived here have allowed us to experience most of the things we took into consideration when deciding to move — a new adventure and being closer to Joy’s family in southern California.
We are now looking forward to year six in the desert southwest, which will include continuing to explore options, contrasted with more traveling. The following poem is titled “Birthday” but could have easily been titled “Life.”
turned around,
here am I.
knowing how
not the why.
young in heart,
old in age.
feeling the itch,
pacing the cage.
inner peace,
knowing the thou.
learning to write
a thesis of now.
turned around,
and found love.
living the moment,
free as a dove.
still learning
when to talk.
listening for,
beat of the walk.
reality is now,
truth in the heart.
singing the knowledge,
a requiem to smart.
turned around,
found beauty in art.
traveling the future,
with Dylan and Descartes.
— kenne
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Alone In The Night Shadows II 6 comments
Alone In The Night Shadows II — Image by kenne
Alone in the night shadows
Abandoned in the darkness
Tall sentinels raise their arms
In the light of the full moon
Facing the old ranch house
Where the poet is signing
As the night-raven sings
In concert with howling coyotes
Under the alluring moonlight.
– kenne
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- Alone In The Night Shadows (kenneturner.com)
- Abandoned Desert Ranch House – Building The Myth (kenneturner.com)
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Continue To Crawl . . . 9 comments
Image of Mother before she passed away in September, 2006 by kenne
Continue To Digest The Emptiness
The wise teach,
all things are
connected in the Universe,
and remain so throughout time –
continue to digest the emptiness.
As gatekeepers
to all things connected
we open the gates to experience,
learning to love and care for others –
continue to digest the emptiness.
The foolish
give rise to aliens,
lacking knowledge of the whole,
“. . . see the dragon in my garage” –
continue to digest the emptiness.
Trying
to understand the messages
in our fleeing experiences,
seeking to be identical with the norm –
continue to digest the emptiness.
Yet,
our impermanent passing experience
is where knowledge exist,
maximizing the significance of the whole –
continue to digest the emptiness.
Unused knowledge
is not retained,
like the fruit of the tree,
decays as soon as it is ripe –
continue to digest the emptiness.
Seek not to ripen
on the tree of knowledge,
for knowledge that has crystallized
quickly loses clarity of the whole –
continue to digest the emptiness.
As our reality
is narrowed,
our ability to connect is lessened, thus
diminishing meaning and value –
continue to digest the emptiness.
Lacking actualization,
should not stop
us from crawling,
with the “struggling ant” –
continue to digest the emptiness.
Continue to crawl . . .
kenne
Mother was always a walker — Image by kenne (August 2004)
