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Natural . . . infinite . . . yes: photo meditation

by Laurie Klein 29 Chiming In

Natural, infinite, yes—what images do these words conjure for you?

Scouting the Natural World

Last weekend Dreamer and I attended photography classes in Stehekin, Washington.

A four-hour boat trip up Lake Chelan launched the last leg of our journey. Dreamer sat on the deck absorbing scenery. Anticipating camera jargon I wouldn’t know, I sat inside at a table to (finally) read my camera manual (well, part of it).

After the first class, we bundled up in our rain gear, then explored the local harvest festival, cameras ready.

Time seemed to slow down despite the dank weather as I scouted unusual natural images.

Like this sundial faithfully doing its work. In the rain.

natural time

My goal was to “receive” the images rather than “take” them, a photography method I learned from Christine Valters-Paintner. 

Time became elastic as I paid close attention to my surroundings. Perhaps I can offer you a taste. Will you join me in a visual meditation today?

Visio Divina

Visio Divina is a way of seeing, an ancient spiritual practice which invites the viewer to be fully present, attentive to imagery and its possible messages to the viewer’s spirit.

Perhaps these photos will beckon you toward rest. Contemplation. Memory. I’ve interwoven them among lines of a favorite e. e. cummings poem.

i thank You God for most this amazing day

 reflections

for the leaping greenly spirits of trees

hillside spirit

and a blue true dream of sky

natural kite

and for everything which is natural

natural wonder

which is infinite

spirit moving over the waters

which is yes

Biblio Diva Discovers the Eggs

(I who have died am alive again today: and this is the sun’s birthday

flames against a rain-streaked window

this is the birthday of life

Green sprouts form a clump of dirt cupped in two hands

and of love

While a Baby Slept

and wings

 Wings, waiting

and of the gay

great happening illimitably earth)

Rainbow in the waterfall

how should tasting touching hearing seeing
breathing any—lifted from the no
of all nothing—human merely being

doubt unimaginable You?

Natural light, Yearning's door

(now the ears of my ears awake and

Unshelved Bell Finds New Home

now the eyes of my eyes are opened)

natural blue eyes

When did you last encounter a natural, infinite yes? Were you seeking the experience, or did it come as a gift?

Laurie Klein, Scribe

“i thank You God for most this amazing” by E.E. Cummings, from 100 Selected Poems. © Grove Press, 1994. Reprinted with permission. (buy now)

Filed Under: Soul Mimosas Tagged With: natural, photo essay, Visio Divina October 11, 2016

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