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Sweet Darkness

9/28/2013

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When I can't sleep...

When I want the beauty of solitude and stillness

5 am is a good time for me...

Here are images from the Hermitage on Beaver Run and from Route 62 near Killbuck, Ohio, of the Killbuck Wetlands, just waking up.
The KillBuck Wetlands receive the water from Nashville, Ohio to the west, some 30 miles away, as the land gently slopes downward toward the wetlands.

Here is David Whyte's poem "Sweet Darkness" which has invited me into a new place, many times. 

But you really don't need the poem, just to ponder the photographs might carry you into new places, where laying down what no longer brings you alive, becomes a
"no-brainer."
What is compelling to you about these images?

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Sweet   Darkness

 
When
your eyes are tired
the world is tired also.

When
your vision has gone
no part of the world can find
you.

Time
to go into the dark
where the night has eyes
to recognize its
own.

There
you can be sure 
you are
not beyond love.

The
dark will be your womb
tonight.

The
night will give you a horizon
further than you can
see.

You
must learn one thing:
the world was made to be free
in.

Give
up all the other worlds 
except the one to which you belong.

Sometimes
it takes darkness and the sweet
confinement of your aloneness
to
learn

anything
or anyone
that does not bring you alive is too small for
you.


 
                                              ~
David Whyte ~



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What is compelling
to you
about these photographs?

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1 Comment
Frank
9/28/2013 07:45:44 am

The fish-eye photogragh of the sky was stricking. The shape make a planet of the sky. Wonderful.

The foggy wetland - brought a sleepy serenity.

The last with dead tree trunks standing water, reminds me that the past contributes to the creative slim and living water of the future. see what lies before you, a continum not yet finished. The primordial soup cooks eternal.

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