ghost nature

Glistening-green Tanager (Chlorochrysa phoenicotis), family Thraupidae, order Passeriformes, Ecuador

Handmaiden Moth (Amata cyssea), mating, family Erebidae, Karnataka, India

Pseudodirphia menander, family Saturniidae, Mindo Cloud Forest, Ecuador

This moth, in the silk moth family, does not have a common name in English.

by Rainer Maria Rilke tr. Joanna Macy

Quiet friend who has come so far,

feel how your breathing makes more space around you. Let this darkness be a bell tower and you the bell. As you ring,

what batters you becomes your strength. Move back and forth into the change. What is it like, such intensity of pain? If the drink is bitter, turn yourself to wine.

In this uncontainable night, be the mystery at the crossroads of your senses, the meaning discovered there.