DON'T FEAR the FIRE...

"This is now. Now is all there is. Don't wait for then, strike the spark light the fire..." - Rumi

"...a forest fire. You can see it, taste it from a mile away..." 

                                                                                                                       -Denis Waitley

"The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet..." -Thomas Merton

 "I arise today through the strength of Heaven, light of the Sun, brilliance of the Moon...

Splendor of Fire, speed of lightning, swiftness of Wind, depth of Sea,

stability of Earth, firmness of Rock..." -St Patrick

"Sunrise. What is the name of the deep breath I would take for all of us? It is happiness. It is another one of the ways to enter fire..." -Mary Oliver

"....and give relief to those of you who are troubled. It is revealed from heaven in blazing fire..." -2 Thessalonians 1:7

"Winter is copper, autumn is bronze, spring is silver, and summer is gold..." -Matshona Dhliwayo

"You, darkness, of whom I am born...I love you more than the flame that limits the world to the circle it illuminates...."- Rainer Marie Rilke

"Words are only painted fire...a look is the fire itself..." -Mark Twain

"If someone strikes my heart, it does not break, but it bursts, and the flame coming out of it becomes a torch on my path..." -Hazrat Inayat Khan

"In the summer I was a wild child in the woods, with no shoes, and in the fall it was back to the city, shoe shops and school..."

                                                                                                                          - Margaret Atwood

"The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire..." -Susanna Catherina Langer

"I could never in a hundred summers get tired of this..." -Susan Branch

"Summer night....even the stars are whispering to each other..." -Kobayahi Issa

"Don't fear the light within. May it ignite the Sacred Flame in your soul..." -Paulo Cohelo

Photographs 2025 Campbell River, B.C.

THAT HOUR to SUNRISE....

"DAY BREAK" by John Clare (1793-1864)

The red east glows, the dewy cheek of Day

Has not yet met the sun's overpowering smile;

The dew drops in their beauty still are gay,

Save those the shepherd's early steps defile.
 

Pleased will I linger  over the scene awhile;

The black clouds melt away, the larks awaken-

Sing, rising bird, and I will join with you:

with day-break's beauties I have much been taken,

As your first anthem breathed its melody.

I've stood and paused the varied cloud to see,

when day's first rays, the far hill top adorning,

Fringed the blue clouds with gold:

Oh doubly charmed I hung in raptures then on early Morning.

"What breaks in daybreak? Is it the night? Is it the sun, cracked in two by the horizon like an egg, spilling out light?" -Margaret Atwood

"Every day is a fresh start for you. Every sunrise is a new chapter in your life waiting to be written..." Juansen Dizon

Photographs (2025) Campbell River, B.C.

FROM ABOVE....

CLEAR EVENING 

   by Sara Teasdale (1884-1933) from the collection " Dark Side of the Moon" ( 1926)

The Crescent moon is large enough to linger

A little while after the twilight goes

This night the garden perfumes are earth and apple

dewy pine and rose....

Over my head four new-cut stars are glinting

And the inevitable night draws on;

Evenings on evenings

Years on years forever

Be taut, my spirit, close upon and keep

The scent.....

the brooding chill

the gilding fire-fly

A poem I learned before I fall asleep....

                                                                                            EACH EVENING.......

"We are all naturally seekers of wonders. We travel far to see the majesty of old ruins, the venerable forms of the hoary mountains, great waterfalls, and galleries of art. And yet the world's wonder is all around us; the wonder of setting suns, and evening stars, of the magic spring-time..." -Albert Pike

            "Every evening brings us closer to God..." -Martin Luther

"So let us welcome peaceful evening in.." -William Cowper

 photographs 2025