“View from my Window”
After the rains of the night.
Good morning…
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We yearn for the taste of the sacred…and through our cameras discover it, the world, and ourselves.
January 13, 2014
“Surrender…to You” (Hafiz)
The
Closer
I get to you, Beloved,
The more I can see
It is just You and I all alone
In this
World.
I hear
A knock at my door,
Who else could it be,
So I rush without brushing
My hair.
For too
Many nights
I have begged for Your
Return
And what
Is the use of vanity
At this late hour, at this divine season,
That has now come to my folded
Knees?
If your love letters are true dear God
I will surrender myself to
Who You keep saying
I
Am.
*****
May 2014 be the year that you recognize the beautiful person that you are – and may you find your most graceful and vibrant ways of living that Being.
I begin this new year on Cape Cod, Massachusetts – in a house on the marsh, down the road from a beautiful beach in Eastham. This is my new nest for the winter.
As I deepen my creative, contemplative, and transformational practices, I invite you to share in the Spirit as it unfolds…in your own work, and with me.
Image: “Boat Meadow Beach at Sunset, Eastham, Massachusetts”
From “A Winter on Cape Cod” © Heidi Straube 2013
Poem: “Without Brushing My Hair,” Hafiz, translation by Daniel Ladinsky
December 19, 2013
“Hopi Spirits Returned”
I love this.
The Annenberg Foundation decided to secretly buy up sacred Hopi artifacts at auction, so they could return them to the Hopi of Arizona. What a great understanding and support of the integration of culture, art, and spirituality!
Today’s New York Times article, “Secret Bids Guide Hopi Indians’ Spirits Home,” covers art house intrigue, auction etiquette, respect for American Indian spiritual beliefs, and finally a contemporary shipping challenge:
“The objects, surreal faces made from wood, leather, horsehair and feathers and painted in vivid reds, blues, yellows and oranges, cannot be encased in Bubble Wrap, for example, because it would be seen as suffocating the divine spirits.”
I imagine the Hopi spirits smiling now, on earth and in the afterlife.
(Image: Joel Saget/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images, NY Times 12/19/2013:
“Alain Leroy, owner of an auction company in Paris, surrounded by sacred Hopi spirit masks.”)
December 11, 2013
“The Ceramic Canvas – Art of Food Plating”
Interesting article, “The Ceramic Canvas” – recently in the New York Times.
In addition to my enjoyment of the article, my main interest was the slide show, “Beautiful Plates,” – which made me very hungry and ready to go to a fabulous restaurant immediately – but which is also just beautifully shot by Evan Sung.
The images themselves are art forms, based, of course on the work of the chefs, but also taken to the next level by the talent of the photographer in using white space, lighting, simplicity.
Visit his website – more beautiful creations await you.
Enjoy – be inspired – and then go eat something wonderful –
(or let your photography shoot of “beauty” be your sustenance?)
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