Storm Glyphs

Storm Glyphs, a photo by TomRaven on Flickr.

"No one expects the rug to be yanked out from underneath them; life-changing events usually don’t announce themselves. While instinct and intuition can help provide some warning signs, they can do little to prepare you for the feeling of rootlessness that follows when fate flips your world upside down. Anger, confusion, sadness, and frustration are shaken up together inside you like a snow globe. It takes years for the emotional dust to settle as you do your best to see through the storm."
— Slash (Slash)

after the storm...

Solar Backlight

Solar Backlight, a photo by TomRaven on Flickr.

"Oh, may your silhouette never dissolve
on the beach, may your eyelids never flutter
into the empty distance. Don't LEAVE me for
a second, my dearest, because in that moment you'll
have gone so far I'll wander mazily
over all the earth, asking, will you
come back? Will you leave me here, dying?"
— Pablo Neruda

Into-the-sun sihouette time...

By Mystic Isle

By Mystic Isle, a photo by TomRaven on Flickr.

"The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love."
— Meister Eckhart

The mystic isle at sunset...

Wide Open Series #3
#1 is here and #2 is here

In Azure Space

In Azure Space, a photo by TomRaven on Flickr.

"You sit at the edge of the world,
I am in a crater that's no more.
Words without letters
Standing in the shadow of the door.

The moon shines down on a sleeping lizard,
Little fish rain from the sky.
Outside the window there are soldiers,
steeling themselves to die.
~
The drowning girl's fingers
Search for the entrance stone, and more.
Lifting the hem of her azure dress,
She gazes --
at Kafka on the shore"
— Haruki Murakami (Kafka on the Shore)

Nothing but endless blue sky and azure ocean...

Wide Open Series #2

On Golden Beach

On Golden Beach, a photo by TomRaven on Flickr.

"Be empty of worrying.
Think of who created thought!

Why do you stay in prison
When the door is so wide open?"
— Rumi (The Essential Rumi)

A bracing stroll in the vast expanse...

Wide Open Series #1

Beyond The Dunes

Beyond The Dunes, a photo by TomRaven on Flickr.

"Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic."
— Frank Herbert (Dune (Dune Chronicles, #1))

Beyond the dunes lies the endless ocean...

Three Dog Dusk

Three Dog Dusk, a photo by TomRaven on Flickr.

Music at night, and the moonlight on the sea,
The beat of waves upon the rocky shore
And wild white spray, flung high in ecstasy;
The faithful eyes of dogs, and treasured books,
The love of Kin and fellowship of friends
And all that makes life dear and beautiful.
From I Thank Thee God That I Have Lived by Elizabeth Craven (1750 - 1828)

Freedom! - Three dogs bounding along the beach at dusk...