SMOKE in the SKIES...

WHAT THE THUNDER SAID(excerpts) by T.S. ELIOT(1888-1965)

Here is no water but only rock

Rock and no water and the sandy road

The road winding above among the mountains

Which are mountains of rock without water

If there were water we should stop and drink

Amongst the rock on cannot stop or think

Sweat is dry and feet are in the sand

If there were only water amongst the rock

There is not even silence in the mountains

                       

But dry sterile thunder 

  

...without rain

And no rock...

if there were rock and also water.

And water a spring a pool among the rock

Not the cicada

and dry grass singing

but the sound of water 

over a rock...

Where the hermit-thrush sings in the pine trees

Drip drop drip drop drop drop drop

But there is NO water...

Photographs 2026

 

BLOOD MOON RISING...

"There are nights when the wolves are silent, and only the moon howls..." -George Carlin

"The moon is always jealous of the heat of the day....." -Alice Hoffman
 
                                             

"Don't tell me the moon is shining. Show me the glint of light on broken glass..."

                                                                                                              - Anton Chekhov

                                   "Stay wild, Moon child..." -Ritta Klint

"See a flame in a spark. See great things in little beginnings..." -Richard Sibbes

"God put the moon in the sky to remind us that our darkest moments lead to our brightest..." -Lynne Ewing

"Tell me the story about how the sun loved the moon so much he died every night to let her breathe..." -Hanako Ishii

                                          
"The moon was so beautiful that the ocean held up a mirror..."

                                                                    -Ani DiFranco 

             "Go slowly, my lovely moon, go slowly ..." -Khaled Hosseni           

"You're my flame in the dark. We chase away the shadows around each other..." -Richelle Mead

"Drag me to the moon, to catch a star an seize its brilliance, as I'm swept up in amorphous dust..." -Bradley Chicho

         "We ran as if to meet the moon..." -Robert Frost

"Don't tell me the sky is the limit, when there are footprints on the moon..." -Paul Brandt

"The moon looks upon many night flowers; the night flowers see but one moon..." -Jean Ingelow

Photographs 2025 Campbell River, B.C.

 

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.