Mindfulness Comes At A Price
This Is How The World Works
Salish Archipelago
Northwesterlies – Doublebluff – Whidbey Island
Evening In May
Morning Solitude
Islands, Ocean, Mainland and Cascade Mountains
An Island Neighbor – Haliaeetus leucocephalus washingtoniensis
"The Haida believed both animals and people had souls, which were essentially the same. The bodies of different animals were merely their "canoes" and all were capable of assuming other forms at will; "or better, they possessed a human form, and assumed their other forms when consorting with men." The killer whales were believed to …
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Behold the Sun
Italo Calvino – Mr Palomar’s Philosophical Book of Mental Illustrations, Or Poets, Take Back The World.
Mr Palomar is an accomplished practitioner of zen buddhism. He is astute at seeing what is before him as it is. Where he gets into trouble is when seeing, or being, is not enough and he needs to develop his strategies and plans together with his angst at trying to do the right thing in …
January Waiting On the Edge
Coast Douglas-firs Reaching for the Sun
Native Grove of Rhododendrons
Along the hiking trail at Greenbank Farms woods in central Whidbey Island.
Pacific Northwest Connections Are Critical to Orcas
West Pacific Review 