I thought of past and future. I thought of then and now. I thought of inside and outside. I thought of excitement and toleration. I thought of Yes and No. I thought of choose or refuse. I thought of stuck or continue. I thought of the questions and answers.
Sometimes I think I believe that I am beyond all that. Sometimes I think I believe I have nothing to say. Sometimes I’m high. Sometimes low. I think I know. But realise I don’t know. Then? I thought of who, what, when, why, which, and, the oddity, how. I thought of many things and yet none of those things. I thought of the questions I couldn’t find the answers to. So I thought that there were answers to be found. So I photographed the window reflections of inside and outside. From room to room and up the stairs. And yet they provided no answers or questions.
So then you enter a single room which makes sense of your life.
Sometimes you bite the bullet and enter the fray. Sometimes you seize the opportunity to relax and enjoy the time of day. You enter the room and have something to say.
Now? Which book to choose. Whichever. You have nothing to lose.
Gray Summers 
Sometimes i get the feeling that everything is relative.
Beautiful series especially with reflections.
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Thank you. A quick trip around the house with instinctive one off ‘window’ captures on the iPad. Spot on when you say everything is relative. An intentional thought out photograph when using expensive film. Or iPad digital click, look, keep or delete. Or these completely through to outside or both through and back into the room imagery where the windows tell stories. Some work and others do not. Very busy in the garden presently. So have only dipped into a few of your blogs of photographic work and words. You produce fascinating results. All the best.
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thank you for taking a look and for the kind words. On my way to another street walk in Telaviv.
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Sometimes I close my eyes and walk toward the bookshelf. But then I falter, because the deck is loaded. Just yesterday, I challenged myself, of the thousands of books I have gathered, if only 5 could be taken to prison, or Prosporo’s island, which would they be?
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Five. That’s a very difficult choice. Definitely a Henry David Thoreau I should imagine. Reading has been an absent, but recently I’ve been more disciplined. The mind no longer wanders whilst reading. Thanks to a Katherine May choice, read a few weeks back, it’s sparked the love again. Cheers Richard.
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I have pulled 5 which I still am adjusting. Finding myself torn between great reads, and great learns. 3 are for sure: the I Ching, Moby Dick, and Jung’s Mysterium Coinciones… The last 2 choices are a wrestling match between 50 or so options
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Interesting choices so far. Aware of these, but unfortunately never read them. But they would certainly be apt for keeping the mind alive long term. I own I Ching, but have only dipped here and there.
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That was a good starter. I remember looking at yarrow sticks on the internet and then wanted to input myself into getting them acquired in a natural manner. Then they would truly belong. Grow my own or find my own. Much like when I made my own rune set in the kiln. Also gathered stones, found over many months, to eventually get to a self carved set. Saying out loud the lines required when carving each individual line of the rune. Rather like ‘The Way of Wyrd’ and how Wulf instructed Brand how important it was to attend to such matters. Only yesterday I found a wonderful ‘pebble’ in the garden coloured dark grey to black. Small enough to use as a spin in the hand comforter. And there in lay the conundrums. What is the pebble made of? How to use as a comforter? Do you accept the patterns and subsequent readings from cast runes or sticks that you yourself have created? The runes? I felt very humble when casting and subsequently read. You try to understand everything attached to a subject of enquiry and learning. I suppose I am so used to floating above philosophies and simply settling on an individual reading within the subject. For example, I/Increase (above/below) in I Ching, will show one particular section like Nine in the Fifth place and the inner lightbulb switches to on. To bring self recognition, affirmation of what I want involved in my spiritual self, resulting in calm and then well being. Total understanding is very far away for my own limited skills. I too have the Richard Wilhelm book. You’ve given me a great insight into its nature and how to use it. Cheers Richard.
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I have yarrow sticks that I have cut from the slope out back, and dried and preserved … More important I believe I have learned to to accept that the subject/agent is myself, yourself, whoever activates the hexagrams with intent. In many ways, every reader of every book is the protagonist of that reading, but the I Ching, through the casting process, makes that fact explicit.
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I’ll take that on board definitely. I realise from what you say about yourself as the agent. If I’m to accept that biorhythm interplay in the garden is an interactive process between myself and nature and how to self perform to hopefully assist in the creation of balance. Then just as important is casting sticks from my own efforts. Akin to acting out with sincerity by performing the whole process required. Nice one Richard.
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You just nailed exactly what I was stumbling to articulate. So good to reconnect on these things. I have missed you.
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Yes. I have missed you too. Exchanges do give great vibes.
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Thoreau is on the list, but probably out weighed by Pausanias’ Description Of Greece, an amazing travelogue of the classical world, much in the same phenomenological eye-view that Thoreau happened upon so many centuries later.
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I love the natural world that Thoreau presents. Currently reading, in bits and bobs, Nature Fix. I know the Covid situation has deeply impacted on myself psychologically. I now find that having attended to the house decorating and now settling back into the garden’s ability to offer learning regarding biorhythms and permaculture a change is happening. I look deeper at surroundings. Read more about what is important in the garden. My VeeDub is having an overhaul as I write. So extending into the countryside is around the corner too. You have a fascinating character and a fantastic way of looking at life Richard. Looking forward to your future spiritual adventures. All the best.
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