FernRock Retreat

#morninglight #oceansunrise #soulmate #breastcancer #breastcancerawareness #photohaiku #haiku #haikupoetry #haikupoem #morningmeditation #gratitude #rumi #rumiquotes At the shore with my soulmate @partieswithsdl celebrating and being grateful for 25 years this side of breast cancer. Once again the ocean says...open your hands. Breathe. Silence lies in the ocean... while words flow through the river. The ocean waits for you, don’t wait for the river. Look to the ocean and watch it’s message, it will come, it will come. - Rumi - See more

#crescentmoon #eveninglight #eveningmusic #music #photohaiku #haiku #haikupoetry #photohaiku #eveningmeditation #mindful #mindfulness The music is not in the notes, but in the silence in between. - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -... Songs are sneaky things, they can slip across borders. - Pete Seeger -

#winter #wintersnow #winterbirds #winterbirdsphotography #birds #birding #birdsofinstagram #northerncardinal #birdphotos #photohaiku #haiku #haikupoetry #haikupoem #maryoliverpoetry #maryoliverquotes #amandagormanpoetry What I want to say is that the past is the past, and the present is what your life is,... and you are capable of choosing what that will be, darling citizen. So come to the pond or the river of your imagination, or the harbor of your longing, and put your lips to the world. And live your life. - Mary Oliver - For there is always light, if only we’re brave enough to see it. If only we’re brave enough to be it. - Amanda Gorman -

#winter #icephotography #icephoto #photohaiku #haiku #haukipoetry #haikupoem #morningmeditation #mindfulness Winter is not the death of the life cycle, but it’s crucible.... - Katherine May - (from the book Wintering) See more

#birds #birdsofinstagram #birding #birdphotography #birdphoto #tuftedtitmouse #photohaiku #haiku #haikupoetry #haikupoem #activehope #rumi #rumipoetry #gandhiquotes #morningmeditation #mindful #mindfulness #meditation Submit to a daily practice. Your loyalty to that is a ring on the door. ... Keep knocking and the joy inside will eventually open a window and look out to see who’s there. - Rumi - I am not conscious of a single experience throughout my three months’ stay in England and Europe that made me feel that after all East is East and West is West. On the contrary, I have been convinced more than ever that human nature is much the same, no matter under what clime it flourishes, and that if you approach people with trust and affection you will have ten-fold trust and thousand-fold affection returned to you. - Mahatma Gandhi-

#birdphotography #birdphoto #birdphotos #birding #birdsofinstagram #winterwren #wrens #photohaiku #haiku #haikupoetry #haikupoem #rainermariarilke #rilkequotes You, darkness, of whom I am born- I love you more than the flame... that limits the world to the circle it illumines and excludes all the rest. But the dark embraces everything: shapes and shadows, creatures and me, people, nations-just as they are. It lets me imagine a great presence stirring beside me. I believe in the night. - Maria Rainer Rilke- As we live in this time of darkness, together...may we also together, imagine this great presence stirring beside us

#dogs #dogsofinstagram #irishsetter #irishsettersofinstagram #canisfamiliaris #photohaiku #haiku #haikupoetry #haikupoem scarfs by @2.05.0 photo by @j.d.lionheart Deeply embarrassed by the lack of intelligent leadership at the national level yesterday, I am asking for a transfer... The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven, not man’s.... - Mark Twain - If there are no dogs in heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went. - Will Rogers - If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog. - Harry Truman -

#fullmoon #coldmoon #happynewyear #happynewyear2021 #photohaiku #haiku #haikupoetry #haikupoem #rainermariarilke The hour is striking so close above me, so clear and sharp, that all my senses ring with it. I feel it now: there’s a power in me... to grasp and give shape to my world. I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has needed me. My looking ripens things and they come toward me, to meet and be met. - Rainer Maria Rilke- (from Rilke’s Book of Hours)