Jun 28, 2016 | Art, Global, Love, Misc, Photography, Post, Travel
Jacksonville Florida takes some getting used too.
But one thing is for sure, like any other place, you can still excavate beauty.
It may take some commitment. Some exploring. Some digging. Some driving. But it is there.
One of my favorite places thus far in Jacksonville is Driftwood beach.
*At sunset it’s crawling with photographers, but for good reason, IT IS STUNNING!
The glowing light dappling throughout the driftwood laden sand. Ahhh!
Every time we go it looks a little bit different, depending on the erosion, tide and storms.
Driftwood beach mysteriously shape-shifts. A tree graveyard.
Holiness. I am in love with it’s land.
Take a picnic, bring your ENO hammock with a good book. It’s all you will need here to feel like your on vacation!
Jun 22, 2016 | Global
This week was a surprising one. We have wanted a pup for a while now, researching every breed on this green earth.
When I woke up on saturday morning I had no idea I would be getting a pup later that day.
When I saw her though, I knew… I ran to my Love, showing him a photo on my IPhone exclaiming I had found our dog. That was it.
(Half Catahoula/Half Australian Shepard/Australian Cattle Dog)
Her name is Saṃsāra, a Sanskrit word that means “wandering” or “world”, with the connotation of cyclic, circuitous change.
It also refers to the theory of rebirth and “cyclicality of all life, matter, existence”, a fundamental assumption of all Indian religions.
(It also happens to be the most brilliant documentary ever, in case you have never seen it. )
So with our new pup in tow we played in thunder storms, cooked-out with friends, saw incredible full spectrum rainbows and went to the beach on the summer solstice.
*Which coincided with a full moon for the first time since 1967, it was pure magic!!!
We have had some blissful days chilling with each other and taking it slow, to which I am very grateful.
I’m finishing up articles, posting photos of Call of the Wild Soul, Ghost Ranch and day dreaming about Utah.
Florida isn’t so bad right now… Not bad at all.
P.S. We totally call her Sāra, which is pronounced like “sahr–uh”.
Jun 17, 2016 | Art, Global, Healing, Love, painting, Photography, Post, Travel
After a day of wild painting we snuck away to Plaza Blanca (The White Place), a full moon on the rise, lighting sinking fast.
“Making bold commitments, while staying open to change.” Something you will often hear Flora say in her classes.
Magic happens in that space, doesn’t it? When you take action, going with your gut but at the same time stay open to possibilities.
This is how it is with painting… with photo sessions… with life…
“It was all unknown to me then, as I sat on that white bench on the day I finished my hike.
Everything except the fact that I didn’t have to know.
That is was enough to trust that what I’d done was true.
To understand its meaning without yet being able to say precisely what it was,
To believe that I didn’t need to reach with my bare hands anymore.
To know that seeing the fish beneath the surface of the water was enough.
That it was everything. It was my life – like all lives, mysterious and irrevocable and sacred.
So very close, so very present, so very belonging to me.
How wild it was, to let it be.”
-Cheryl Strayed, Wild:From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
You don’t always have to know where you going or how it’s all going to turn out. This mysteriousness, this wildness is the sweet nectar of belonging to life.
(All photo’s taken at the luscious and incredible Call of the Wild Soul Ghost Ranch Art Retreat by: Erin Faith Allen)
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Jun 16, 2016 | Art, Global, Healing, Love, painting, Photography, Post, Travel
“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.”
-Ambrose Redmoon
Misty says she used to be incredibly shy, the idea of teaching absolutely frightened her.
Yet the desire to paint was greater. The desire to create was greater.
The desire to be who she truly is, was greater.
I am filled with gratefulness that Misty had courage to paint/teach.
Her work and life is truly inspirational. Thank you dear… thank you for being courageous!
(Photo’s taken at the luscious Call of the Wild Soul, Ghost Ranch Art Retreat created by: Erin Faith Allen)
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Jun 15, 2016 | Art, Global, Photography, Travel
“You can’t go on like you’re going to start really living one day, like this is some preamble to some great life that’s going to magically appear.
I’m a firm believer that you have to create your own miracles” -Perry Moore
John, thanks for getting up at the crack of dawn to trapse through the dessert; just so I can get that early morning glow. Thats commitment, my friend.
Plus “cowboy” looks pretty damn good on you!
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