Bald Cypress Bonsai (Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens) — Image by kenne
Nature’s Harakiri
Crossroads without roads
Bonsai trees slapped by sandstorms
Kites slam in rice fields
— Iolanda Scripca.
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Bonsai Tree (The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens) — Image by kenne
“There are no borders in bonsai,
the dove of peace flies to palace
as to a humble house,
to young as to old,
to rich and poor.”
— John Naka
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Hermit Thrush Forging On The Ground 2 comments
Hermit Thrush (The Huntington Botanical Gardens)– Image by kenne
Foraging on ground
Picking up insects on soil
Hermit thrush blends in.
— kenne
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Bottlebrushes (The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens) — Images by kenne
Bottlebrushes are native to Australia and The Huntington has among its many gardens an Australian Garden. (March 31, 2022)
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“The Landmark” by Enrique Martínez Celaya at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens — Photo-Artistry by kenne
“We cannot love unless we have accepted the forgiveness,
and the deeper our experience of forgiveness is, the greater is our love.”
– Paul Tillich.
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Huntington Zen Garden (March 31, 2022) — Panorama by kenne
I have lost count of the number of times I have visited the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, collections-based research, and educational institution in San Marino, California. The Huntington is like a “riprap” — loose rocks used as a foundation that a person can assemble before them.
Riprap
Lay down these words
Before your mind like rocks,
placed solid, by hands
In choice of place, set
Before the body of the mind
in space and time:
Solidity of bark, leaf, or wall
riprap of things:
Cobble of milky way,
straying of planets,
These poems, people,
lost ponies with
Dragging saddles—
and rocky sure-foot trails.
Game of Go.
ants and pebbles
In the thin loam, each rock a word
a creek-washed stone
Granite: ingrained
with torment of fire and weight
Crystal and sediment linked hot
all change, in thoughts,
As well as things.
— Gary Snyder
Becoming is Superior to Being 