Ending a Circle of Motion, Beginning the Next; A Sunday Special Edition

Sunday, December 30, 2012

Ending a Circle of Motion, Beginning the Next

These photos are from my walk along the Mission Reach of the San Antonio River on Wednesday, December 19.

The excerpt from Joy Harjo's poem came to mind as I was reflecting on the end of another year, the end of another circle around the sun, and looking forward to the next.

Wishing all a safe and happy new year
filled with an expanding awareness

of the wonders of nature
and many new adventures and encounters.

Bamberger Nature Park, Of Rocks and Shallow Washes

Friday, January 14, 2012

Today's Photos:

Once again, I stayed primarily on the dirt trails that wind through this beautiful, wooded landscape. While I was walking across and through the numerous shallow washes in the park, a quote from Joy Harjo's preface to the book, Secrets from the Center of the World, kept coming to mind:

"All landscapes have a history, much the same as people exist within cultures, even tribes. There are distinct voices, languages that belong to particular areas. There are voices inside rocks, shallow washes, shifting skies; they are not silent. And there is movement, not always the violent motion of earthquakes associated with the earth's motion or the steady unseen swirl through the heavens, but other motion, subtle unseen, like breathing. A motion, a sound, that if you allow your inner workings to stop long enough, moves into the place inside you that mirrors a similar landscape; you too can see it, feel it, hear it, know it."

As a side note, this entry is being posted on Saturday afternoon due to a glitch in the internet system upgrade. The glitch has now been resolved. The walks and posting should be back to normal on Monday, at least as normal as life can be at this point.