I love these drops of water on stems, leaves and petals. They are like little lenses to see the world through, little prisms or jewels decorating the hedgerow. I’ve no idea what this is. It was lying in the middle of the path right in front of me. Like gossamer, a little tangle of filaments [...]
Archive for July, 2011
Morning dew…the becoming of a new day
Posted in from the dark room, life, perception, photography on July 30, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Footprints across the fairway
Posted in from the dark room, photography on July 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Following on from yesterday’s blog post about the golf ball, the morning dew was heavy this week and let me capture some really interesting images. (I’ll post more later) But take a look at this one…..in the light of post about creating our own paths…
Here now
Posted in from the dark room, from the living room, life, photography on July 27, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I’m not a golfer, but what this photo made me think was, if this is where the ball landed, this is where the golfer will have to play it. The rules state you play the ball from where you find it. No point moaning or groaning or wishing it was somewhere else. It is where [...]
Umbell Sky
Posted in from the dark room on July 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
In “If you go down to the woods today…” post I pointed my camera at the forest floor. In this I’m pointing it up from the forest floor….
If you go down to the woods today…..
Posted in from the dark room on July 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday I went wandering in a forest which has grown up at the foot of an old quarry. Got lots of lovely shots, but these two completely took me by surprise! I spotted the glint of a sparkle under a thick growth of ferns so pushed my camera under the leaves and clicked. Look what [...]
Out of Our Heads
Posted in books, from the reading room, life, neuroscience, philosophy, science on July 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Alva Noë’s “Out of Our Heads” [ISBN 978-0-8090-1648-8] makes a strong case for understanding consciousness as a phenomenon, not produced by the brain (in the way that the stomach produces gastric juices, as he says), but rather….well, this is how he puts it – Consciousness requires the joint operation of brain, body, and world. Indeed [...]
The space within
Posted in books, from the reading room, life, neuroscience, philosophy on July 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Once in a while, I get shocked into upper wakefulness, I turn a corner, see the ocean, and my heart tips over with happiness – it feels so free! Then I have the idea that, as well as beholding, I can also be beheld from yonder and am not a discrete object but incorporated [...]
Making the world
Posted in books, from the living room on July 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The natural world is one that is sculpted by the life processes that occur within it. Living beings alter their environment and so alter their landscape of possible actions. ………..Alva Noe. “Out of Our Heads” We don’t create the world from nothing, but we do create the possibilities of our world, which in turn creates [...]
Life path
Posted in Uncategorized on July 21, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Wanderer, the road is your footsteps, nothing else; wanderer, there is no path, you lay down a path in walking. In walking you lay down a path… Anotonio Machado (translation by Francisco Varela)
Where healing comes from
Posted in from the consulting room, from the living room, health, life, personal growth, psychology, tagged flow on July 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Maxwell Maltz, a plastic surgeon who lived and worked in the US, studied the relationships between self-image, self-esteem and personal growth. He wrote “Psycho-cybernetics” in 1960 [ISBN 978-0-671-70075-1]. He uses a distinct language and set of concepts, which seems very 1960s to me, but the underlying understanding of human behaviour, the connections between the mind [...]
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