Breathing It In

Breathing It In, a photo by TomRaven on Flickr.

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."
— Maya Angelou

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Mystigull

Mystigull, a photo by TomRaven on Flickr.

"Don’t believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding. Find out what you already know and you will see the way to fly."
— Richard Bach (Jonathan Livingston Seagull)

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Transitory Tracks

Transitory Tracks, a photo by TomRaven on Flickr.

"Things aren't all so tangible and sayable as people would usually have us believe; most experiences are unsayable, they happen in a space that no word has ever entered, and more unsayable than all other things are works of art, those mysterious existences, whose life endures beside our own small, transitory life"
— Rainer Maria Rilke

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Watching It Fall

Watching It Fall, a photo by TomRaven on Flickr.

"And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it."
— Roald Dahl

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Listen to Joey Fehrenbach - Being Around You

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Hovering Above

Hovering Above, a photo by TomRaven on Flickr.

"As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment. And sound stopped and movement stopped for much, much more than a moment."
— John Steinbeck (Of Mice and Men)

If you look hard you can see the shell the Gull is dropping to break it open on the hard wet sand :-)

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Listen to Koan - Sweet Dream

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Surf Coast Dreamtime

Surf Coast Dreamtime, a photo by TomRaven on Flickr.

I am a child of the Dreamtime People
Part of this Land, like the gnarled gumtree
I am the river, softly singing
Chanting our songs on my way to the sea
My spirit is the dust-devils
Mirages, that dance on the plain
I'm the snow, the wind and the falling rain
I'm part of the rocks and the red desert earth
Red as the blood that flows in my veins
I am eagle, crow and snake that glides
Thorough the rain-forest that clings to the mountainside
I awakened here when the earth was new
There was emu, wombat, kangaroo
No other man of a different hue
I am this land
And this land is me
I am Australia.

Spiritual Song of the Aborigine by Hyllus Maris, Aboriginal Poet (1934-86)

Read more: www.creativespirits.info/aboriginalculture/spirituality/#...


Surfcoast Dreamscapes Series #6
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Listen to Joey Fehrenbach - Mellowdrama

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Dreamscape II

Dreamscape II, a photo by TomRaven on Flickr.

"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night."
— Edgar Allan Poe

Surfcoast Dreamscapes Series #5
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Listen to O Yuki Conjugate - Ascension

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