Heroes Not Zombies

May, being the month for the budding of potential, here are some more buds….

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One thing that strikes me when looking at these photos I took recently – you can tell where, I bet – is how different this style of dress is from the throw-away ever changing fashions – but, then, maybe they say something too……what do you think your clothes say about you?

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John O’Donohue, in the excellent documentary, Anam Cara, talks about the impact on life of living in the presence of mountain, and in a beautiful passage talks of how the clouds come down and hide the mountain but the knowledge of presence, even though it’s now invisible, continues to make an impact on life. In fact, the visible becoming invisible takes the impact to a whole new level

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We walk along numerous paths, streets, lanes every day. When we walk along them every day we can stop seeing them. Here are some paths I’d never walked along before which really grabbed my attention and reminded me to notice the paths I’m taking.

In the case of these garden paths in Kyoto, the paths themselves are beautiful. What about the regular paths you follow every day? What about the paths you follow through life? Where’s your present path leading, and what kind of path is it? Beautiful? Interesting? Enriching? (by the way, no paths go nowhere!)

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When I looked at this stone, I thought I was looking at water…..then, I remembered some other stones I’d seen that seemed like that.

All stones which appear to flow….and I wondered about all those ways we have of subdividing Nature – solid, liquid, gas for example – and how appealing it is when we find in one form the echoes of another.

In the Higashi Honganji Temple in Kyoto, I saw this path – ok, not as natural as the rocks above, but beautiful and flowing all the same…..

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Look carefully at this cloth. What do you see?

I took this photograph in the Ginza branch of my favourite French tea room chain – Mariage Freres.

I love the subtlety of this design. It’s like a watermark. Distinct and clear, but only in a certain light. It would have been easy to overlook it. Yet it is also hard to miss.

I wonder what my watermark looks like?

I wonder what subtle but clear patterns distinguish me and what kind of light would reveal them?

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OK, I admit, I’ve no idea…..what’s an eyelash salon??!!

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If you fall asleep in public places, probably just as well have your own guard dog I suppose….

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