Spring on my street in detail

“Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes, and the grass grows by itself”

-Zen proverb

Snow Fall

Wait for me

Should we lose each other in the shadow of the evening trees
I'll wait for you
Should I fall behind
Wait for me

Happy Halloween!

I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion.  ~Henry David Thoreau

-at home in the forest. relaxin' on a mushroom.-

I want to know if you are willing to live, day by day, with the consequence of love. -David Whyte

Solitude

I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other. -Rilke

   

"These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased.” -Rilke

Waterford, Virginia in October... magical.
    .ryn

A Moment

“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.”

-Maya Angelou

 

Ryn's Summer Mixtape

In summer, the song sings itself. 

-William Carlos Williams

Ryn's Summer Mixtape

Side A:

1. "You are a Tourist"- Death Cab for Cutie

2. "Rumble '69"- Link Wray

3. "Faded High"- GAYNGS

4. "Little Red Corvette"- Prince

5. "Summertime"- Dj Jazzy Jeff & Will Smith

Side B:

1. "Battle of Evermore"- Led Zeppelin

2. "Dangerous Weapon"- Storyhill

3. "My First Lover" - Gillian Welch

4. "Sunshower"-Chris Cornell

5. "If I Should Fall Behind"- E Street Band

What are your fave summer tunes?

Leap

"We're alive all of a sudden, for sure now, yes, ready or not here we come. Stronger and weaker, bluer and blacker, happier and clearly more sad-we are being swept along toward the end of our lives and there is no point in looking back just yet. Ride. This is why: we are looking for something undeniable. (We really believe this stuff.) Somehow when we gather all of our stories together, (yours, hers, his, theirs, ours), it is a way of peering out of an upstairs room into the distance, the distance within, the distance without.
Leap.

God lets us make a mess in the kitchen, a friend once said. So make the first move. Our boat is leaky, but it's the right boat. (We're out on the lake now.) This gift is for us. You will be my diary. I will be your mason jar full of backyard flowers.""

-Linford Detweiler

Memorial Day Snapshots

Color

"Nature always wears the colors of the spirits."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

A Glimpse of Winter

I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.

Rainer Maria Rilke 

Flock of Colors

"A person should always offer a prayer of graciousness for the love that has awakened in them. When you feel love for your beloved and his or her love for you, now and again you should offer the warmth of your love as a blessing for those who are damaged and unloved. Send that love out into the world to people who are desperate; to those who are starving; to those who are trapped in prison; in hospitals and all the brutal terrains of bleak and tormented lives. When you send that love out from the bountifulness of your own love, it reaches other people. This love is the deepest power of prayer."
— John O’Donohue, Anam Cara “The Wounded Gift”

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I would have loved to known the Irish poet and philosopher John O'Donohue when he was alive.  He left this earth far too soon but left behind a very big imprint on the hearts of many people.  And he left behind stories and thoughts and beautiful prayers.  I think he would have made a fantastic friend... he understood the light and dark of the heart, he listened to the earth, he laughed. 
Take a quiet moment to listen to John himself reading one of his prayers in his own voice.  This is such a beautiful prayer and it means even more to me actually hearing his soft Irish voice. 
I hope your weekend is filled with a flock of color.
    .ryn

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Family

"What greater thing is there for human souls than to feel that they are joined for life - to be with each other in silent unspeakable memories."

  ~George Eliot

A fall visit home to Minnesota for family, puppy, leaves, pie, warmth, love...

    .ryn

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