DREAM SERIES

“there’s something beautiful 

about keeping certain aspects of your life hidden. 

maybe people & clouds are beautiful 

because you can’t see everything.” 

― Kamenashi Kazuya

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BEAUTIFUL PLACES

“The world is full of beautiful places. 

Let your heart be one of them.”

― Jenim Dibie

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MAGNOLIAS & HAIKUS

I was searching for a poem or lovely quote about magnolias

when posting this last one,

but to my amazement did't really find anything...

(all you poets out there,

here's a subject for you :))

But then I discovered The Haiku Guys & Gals,

asked for a haiku about magnolias,

& bang it arrived in my inbox a little while ago,

just in time for the real deal blooming out there.

The scent of hope is definitely lingering in the air...

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BRUISED

“it was the kind of moon
that I would want to send 

back to my ancestors
& gift to my descendants

so they know that I too,

have been bruised...

by beauty.” 

― Sanober Khan, Turquoise Silence

MAGNOLIA

"Whatever it is you water

that is what will grow

so always water love,

not fear."

E.V. Rogina

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TODAY

Today I'm flying low

& I'm not saying a word.

I'm letting all the voodoos of ambition sleep.

The world goes on as it must,

the bees in the garden rumbling a little,

the fish leaping,

the gnats getting eaten.

And so forth.

But I'm taking the day off.

Quiet as a feather.

I hardly move 

though really I'm travelling 

a terrific distance.

Stillness. 

One of the doors 

into the temple.

~ Mary Oliver

BROKEN

“Life cracks us into unrecognizable shards 

of former incarnations. 

Slivers of our hurt and our pain and our shame 

nestles next to fragments 

of our truth, our divinity, 

our fierce reclamation of power."

"It is this very brokenness that allows us to knit together, 

kaleidoscope style. 

And we spin and shift and turn to the light 

until we appear brilliant, 

lit from within. 

Suddenly we are revealed; 

unexpected beauty born directly from brokenness."

"We have to be willing to break in order to become.” 

words: Jeanette LeBlanc

GHOST OF JUNE

"ghost of june,

i will always find you everywhere ~"

"in the madrigal of anastasia lilies;"

"the henna dusted tresses of twilight

spread over the baroque bed

of sleepy highways

tapering into a sheet of dust;" 

"in the shadows that junipers tattoo

over chiming brooks;"

"in the clairvoyant racket of ravens

promising the sylvan vagabond's homecoming."

words: Scherezade Siobhan

images from an intoxicating drive on a weekend in June. 

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THE JOURNEY

"One day you finally knew

what you had to do, 

& began,

though the voices around you 

kept shouting their bad advice ~"

"though the whole house

began to tremble

& you felt the old tug

at your ankles."

"Mend my life"

each voice cried.

But you didn't stop.

"You knew what you had to do,

though the wind pried

with its stiff fingers

at the very foundations,

though their melancholy was terrible." 

"It was already late enough,

& a wild night,

& the road full of fallen branches and stones."

"But little by little,

as you left their voices behind,

the stars began to burn

through the sheets of clouds,

& there was a new voice 

which you slowly recognized as your own,"

"that kept you company

as you strode deeper & deeper

into the world,

determined to do

the only thing you could do ~"

"determined to save 

the only life you could save."

Words: Mary Oliver

Model: Ani Pinchuk

Muah: Stephanie Korhonen

© Rebecca Watson Photography