Faces iMake http://www.facesimake.com/ is an iPhone app where faces are made with everyday objects - very creative app and tremendous fun for all ages.
On a morning bike ride this beauty caught my eye - not sure what type it is.
Some of my office mates below celebrating Phil's birthday (shot with and edited on an iPhone 4).
Everything is plundered, betrayed, sold,
Death's great black wing scrapes the air,
Misery gnaws to the bone.
Why then do we not despair?
Death's great black wing scrapes the air,
Misery gnaws to the bone.
Why then do we not despair?
By day, from the surrounding woods,
cherries blow summer into town;
at night the deep transparent skies
glitter with new galaxies.
cherries blow summer into town;
at night the deep transparent skies
glitter with new galaxies.
And the miraculous comes so close
to the ruined, dirty houses --
something not known to anyone at all,
but wild in our breast for centuries.
to the ruined, dirty houses --
something not known to anyone at all,
but wild in our breast for centuries.
~ Anna Akhmatova ~
If its summer it must be time for a new iPhone. Here's the line (1 of 4 such) at a local mall. My line time: 4 hours even though I arrived at 5 a.m. - Apple store time: 20 minutes to buy and activate it. Oh joy...a new baby in the house.
Zen teacher Issan Dorsey, who established the Maitri Hospice in San Francisco, was on his deathbed when one of his closest friends came to visit him.
“I’m going to miss you,” the friend said.
“I’m going to miss you, too,” responded Issan.
He was silent for a moment.
Then he asked, “Are you going somewhere?”
— Sean Murphy, "One Bird, One Stone"
These snaps were taken at a recent 12 day retreat I attended at St. Benedict's Monastery Retreat Center near Snowmass CO. Great setting, spiritual companions, veggie food, staff, beauty, silence, stillness and space (geophysical and otherwise).
