Sprightly Aphotic

O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind? Percy Bysshe Shelley (at Boulder Valley Ranch Open Space) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bqnlh5kFv6Y/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=je0iz800nn2e

“One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between man and nature shall not be broken.” —Leo Tolstoy (at Boulder, Colorado) https://www.instagram.com/p/BqbA4vZFyxm/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=fc5y4592h9z1

How sweet the morning air is! See how that one little cloud floats like a pink feather from some gigantic flamingo. Now the red rim of the sun pushes itself over the London cloud-bank. It shines on a good many folk, but on none, I dare bet, who are on a stranger errand than you and I. How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature! Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes (at Boulder, Colorado) https://www.instagram.com/p/BqIyuklFWRB/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1e44olg7cmcxw

It's a funny thing about life, once you begin to take note of the things you are grateful for, you begin to lose sight of the things that you lack. Germany Kent (at Boulder, Colorado) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bp_S2SsFZqN/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=ljxzsmll1mmf

There's a sunrise and a sunset every single day, and they're absolutely free. Don't miss so many of them. Jo Walton (at San Diego, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/BpyMRHFlon4/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=ik1c7fyy6gtu

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination. Carl R. Rogers (at Mission Beach) https://www.instagram.com/p/BpuV-hUFmgG/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=6p0s6ps9gr9f

People are just as wonderful as sunsets if you let them be. When I look at a sunset, I don't find myself saying, "Soften the orange a bit on the right hand corner." I don't try to control a sunset. I watch with awe as it unfolds. Carl R. Rogers, A Way of Being (at Mission Beach Boardwalk) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bps40rqFIDj/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1ssrnyy62kyux

Thank you, dear God [divinity/Nature/Luminous], for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough. Thank you for the rain. And for the chance to wake up... Garrison Keillor (at Ucluelet, British Columbia) https://www.instagram.com/p/BpLgE7snyNo/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=vfbf1v1qtgj3

#🛶 #🍁 (at Ucluelet, British Columbia) https://www.instagram.com/p/BpLfpDmnt_b/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1u8rjyt2gtzjx

“Everyone must believe in something. I believe I’ll go canoeing.” — Henry David Thoreau (at Ucluelet, British Columbia) https://www.instagram.com/p/BpLWppinMiw/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=10ev6nwtyf3e2

My dream is to live a good life and be loving, be close to God [divinity/Nature/the Luminous] and be a good human being... Ziggy Marley (at Ucluelet, British Columbia) https://www.instagram.com/p/BpLVcRunBsa/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=3eiptanjxku0

Two Canadians and a wannabe. . . . #canada #besties #🇨🇦 #🍁 (at Ucluete) https://www.instagram.com/p/BpK23TUna0h/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=12l3rhk2tz41p

For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you. Neil deGrasse Tyson (at Ucluelet, British Columbia) https://www.instagram.com/p/BpKfdLQnBIM/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=78qjlxhz899z

Darling, ”within you is the light of a thousand suns” Robert Adams (at Cumberland, British Columbia) https://www.instagram.com/p/BpHm_XfneNZ/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=dng937mlj5kd

It was the time when they loved each other best, without hurry or excess, when both were most conscious of and grateful for their incredible victories over adversity. Life would still present them with other mortal trails, of course, but that no longer mattered: they were on the other shore. Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera . . . #slow #october #moments #inacommitedrelationship #withlife (at Boulder, Colorado) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bo-Aw16nehs/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1j9yrltmhcbhd

“I think us here to wonder, myself. To wonder. To ask. And that in wondering bout the big things and asking bout the big things, you learn about the little ones, almost by accident. But you never know nothing more about the big things than you start out with. The more I wonder, the more I love.” - Alice Walker, The Color Purple (at Colorado) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bo6bw16Hvgf/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=lvpvlmueeq20

The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper. W.B. Yeats (at Colorado) https://www.instagram.com/p/BofYDWPnOGf/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=t99w5zqh14v4