The Ghost of Brother Tom At Sunset — Image by kenne
Brother Tom at Sunset
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A Ghost In The Sunset 2 comments
Long white beard—
He stands quiet,
Sky bleeds orange,
Morning Awakens 1 comment
Morning Awakens — Photo-artistry by kenne
Morning Awakens
Morning awakens the light
Slowly stirring the heart
Revived from the sleeping night
By a singing meadowlark.
Accounting for the moment
Can we ever know
How age built a monument
From what it doesn’t show?
I don’t mind
As long as you know
I will make it shine
By allowing time to slow.
— kenne
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Northwest Archipelago, San Juan Islands Leave a comment
Northwest Archipelago, San Juan Islands — Image by kenne
A spring night in Shokoku-ji
Eight years ago this May
We walked under cherry blossoms
At night in an orchard in Oregon.
All that I wanted then
Is forgotten now, but you.
Here in the night
In a garden of the old capital
I feel the trembling ghost of Yugao
I remember your cool body
Naked under a summer cotton dress.
— Gary Snyder
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Sailboat In The San Juan Islands 2 comments
Sailboat In The San Juan Islands — Abstract by kenne
Sailboat fades away
Anchored in the setting sun
Too abstract to see.
— kenne
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Dance of Life in Sculpture Woods On Lummi Island 2 comments
Dance of Life in Sculpture Woods by Ann Morris — Photo-Artistry by kenne
Lummi Island is in the San Juan Islands an archipelago in the northwest corner of the contiguous United States between the U.S. mainland and Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. The San Juan Islands are part of the U.S. state of Washington. Sculpture Woods: Studio Grounds of Ann Morris is where you will find much of her eighteen years of work in bronze. With myth and metaphor, Ann Morris’ sculpture speaks of the relationship between Nature and humankind.
— kenne
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Sunset Over The San Juan Islands — Live Everything 1 comment
Sunset Over the San Juan Islands — Image by kenne
Forming an archipelago in the northwest corner of the contiguous United States, the San Juan Islands are between the US mainland and Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada and are part of the U.S. state of Washington.
— kenne
“Be patient toward all that
is unsolved in your heart
and try to love the questions themselves,
like locked rooms and like books that
are now written in a very foreign tongue.
Do not now seek the answers,
which cannot be given you because
you would not be able to live them.
And the point is,
to live everything.
Live the questions now.
Perhaps you will then gradually,
without noticing it,
live along some distant day
into the answer.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke
(from Tom Turner’s book of quotes and notes)
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Capturing the Moment — 41 Places to Go in 2011 2 comments
San Juan Islands as Seen from Lummi Island — Image by kenne
Five New York Times foreign correspondents (past and present) have identified places they would go back to if they got the chance. One of those places is the an archipelago, the San Juan Islands in the northwest corner of the continental United States and Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, and are part of Washington state. One year ago August, we spent a few days on one of these paradise islands, Lummi Island. Not one of the larger of the islands, but located a short ferry ride from the mainland. We were there for the wedding of my nice, Lisa, where she and he future husband, Michael, would go on bike rides through the beautiful landscapes. The time we spent on the island was brief, but very memorable, from the wedding at Willows Inn, the island’ s nature beauty to the bed ‘n breakfast on the north end of the island. It is easy to see why correspondent, Sara Dickerman listed it in the cover article for Sunday’s New York Times Travel section. We would love to go back and also visit some of the other islands in the archipelago.
Kenne
(Below: Brother Tom at Willows Inn – Left: Lisa & Michael — Image by kenne)
