#fotovitae

LIKE STAINED-GLASS

What practices do you engage to kindle and keep lit your inner light?

Why is keeping your light on important?

SILENT COMPANIONS ON THE CAMINO (V)

SPIRITED GATHERING

all the companions i met along the way today

pigs eyes and ears flowers fragrances snails colours cows sheep curves, lines and shapes

led me from the awesome verdant cathedral of nature to the unassuming dimly lit church in town

and together,  in one magnificent sound of Silence we sang a Pentecostal song of awakening that melted all the walls separating the sacred from what some people still believe is profane.

FRAGRANCE

My companion on the road today.

It has been said that a flower does not need to preach. It simply spreads its fragrance. The fragrance is its own sermon.

And I listened all along as best as I could to all kinds of scents and fragrances including the ones I am not accustomed to such as manure!

NATURE ON A PILGRIMAGE OF ITS OWN The view from my window this evening.

ON PEOPLE AND SUNSETS

"People are just as wonderful as sunsets if you let them be. In fact, perhaps the reason we can truly appreciate a sunset is that we cannot control it. When I look at a sunset, and put a bit more purple along the base, and use a little more pink in the cloud color.’ I don’t do that. I don't try to control a sunset. I watch with awe as it unfolds." 

—Carl Rogers, A Way of Being (Houghton Mifflin; 1 edition, 1980) page 22