anne lamott sums up fall

Anne Lamott

(I took the photo on a walk by the Willamette)

Wilco and Uncle Lyndon

The dapper gentleman walking a ways down the path is my Uncle Lyndon, who was kind enough to put up with me randomly throwing myself on the ground and taking pictures of leaves.

Jeff Tweedy's brilliant lyrics happen to make me think of the bright falling stars that are autumn leaves, and the heavy feet that trod them into the ground until they are the new path.

simon van booy and twisty bark

Simon VanBooy makes me want to lay in the middle of a wide open plain and let life drift around me. This is from the book I wrote up a while ago.

The tree was on a hike I took recently. I love the movement in the branches.

rumi and a duck pond

The pond is in Milwaukie, Oregon. The whole poem by Rumi is worth checking out.

langston hughes

Langston Hughes

I got my jeans almost irrevocably muddy taking this picture. And this poem kept tumbling down the steps toward me...asking ever so gently to be taken into consideration the next time I go rolling around in life's muck.

leonard cohen and joanna macy meet on a portland trail

Anthem- Leonard Cohen

Joanna Macy

what it is

If you read my other blog, My Best Friend's Arm, then you know I love music.

What you might not know is that while I'm listening to various people tell me what they feel...I am feeling many other types of pain and wonder and joy and squirmy humanity.

So I take pictures. Or at least I try to. Am trying to. But why not pair what I see with what I hear? So I'm pairing the words of beautiful people (poets, writers, lyricists) with visions of the new things I'm trying to see.

Like a Jesuit once related to author Anne Lamott, maybe Heaven is just getting a new pair of glasses.