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Misión San Francisco de Asís, Ranchos de Taos, NM. Photo: Geraint Smith (Aug 1, 2023) :: [Robert Scott Horton]

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At This Moment

“It is not the body that is important but the atmosphere around it. The atmosphere becomes permeated with this finer vibration, in the stillness. And another quality is there.

An axis begins to appear, of pure attention. There is a sensitivity. This atmosphere, filled with energy. The body, like an envelope.

Respect this atmosphere, this energy contained in the body. And then, even subtler energies can come into you—the Light can come into you.

All my thoughts, feelings, ideas are nothing compared to this precious treasure, this quality of energy that is not mine but what I am.

More and more, with attending to presence, allo'wing higher forces to enter, staying collected, returning, we can live in a new way.

You can serve this energy. And the energy can heal. From it can come my best action in the world, my best action for others. Help each other through living in this pure Attention.”

White Cross Saint Francis Church

Geraint Smith · :: Blanca massif, Colorado.

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“In the oldest religion, everything was alive, not supernaturally but naturally alive … For the whole life-effort of man was to get his life into contact with the elemental life of the cosmos, mountain-life, cloud-life, thunder-life, air-life, earth-life, sun-life. To come into immediate felt contact, and so to derive energy, power, and a dark sort of joy. This effort into sheer naked contact, without an intermediary or mediator, is the root meaning of religion.”

- D. H. Lawrence

Moonset across the plateau from El Rito, Taos Co, NM. Photo: Geraint Smith (Dec 30, 2023)

(Robert Scott Horton)

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Among the Navajo, the land is thought to exhibit sacred order…each individual undertakes to order his interior landscape according to the exterior landscape. To succeed in this means to achieve a balanced state of mental health…Among the various sung ceremonies of this people-Enemyway, Coyoteway, Uglyway- there is one called Beautyway. It is, in part, a spiritual invocation of the order of the exterior universe, that irreducible, holy complexity that manifests itself as all things changing through time (a Navajo definition of beauty).”

John Konopak: The "spirits" of New Mexico condensed into ONE, iconic image: Moonrise, Black Mesa (on Po-woh-ge-oweenge Pueblo) across the Rio Grande from the Capilla de la Sagrado Familia, which I've always thought of as a Penitente morada, and its cemetery. Thousands of people drive by every day on the way either to or from Los Alamos.

Photo: Geraint Smith

[Robert Scott Horton]

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"Love is something you and I must have. We must have it because our spirit feeds upon it, we must have it because, without it we become weak and faint. Without love our self-esteem weakens. Without it our courage fails. Without love, we can no longer look out confidently at the world. With love, we are creative. With love, we march tirelessly. With love, and with love alone, we are able to sacrifice for others."

Sunflowers. The flash floods fill up the arroyos. The sediment blocks the runoff. The mud in the water settles and I have a moment of reflective bliss. :: [Geraint Smith]

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“My friend Terry says that when you need to make a decision, in your work or otherwise, and you don’t know what to do, just do one thing or the other, because the worst that can happen is that you will have made a terrible mistake.”

Geraint Smith: The solstice isn’t a whole day, it’s a moment. Today’s summer solstice moment is 8:58 am MDT. :: [Robert Scott Horton]

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“We are here to witness the creation and abet it. We are here to notice each thing so each thing gets noticed. Together we notice not only each mountain shadow and each stone on the beach but, especially, we notice the beautiful faces and complex natures of each other. We are here to bring to consciousness the beauty and power that are around us and to praise the people who are here with us. We witness our generation and our times. We watch the weather. Otherwise, creation would be playing to an empty house. According to the second law of thermodynamics, things fall apart. Structures disintegrate. Buckminster Fuller hinted at a reason we are here: By creating things, by thinking up new combinations, we counteract this flow of entropy. We make new structures, new wholeness, so the universe comes out even. A shepherd on a hilltop who looks at a mess of stars and thinks, ‘There’s a hunter, a plow, a fish,’ is making mental connections that have as much real force in the universe as the very fires in those stars themselves.”

Colander eclipse. :: [Geraint Smith]

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The great thing is not having a mind. Feelings: oh, I have those; they govern me.