"Do not go to the garden of flowers! O friend, go not there: In your body is the garden of flowers. Take your seat on the thousand petals of the lotus and there gaze on the Infinite Beauty." - Kabir #poetry #mysticpoetry #mysticism #meditation #kabir #imageandverse

"I request you to teach yourself the sudden recognition of your true nature."

🪶🇨🇦 Today is a triple-decker day in Canada: Fathers Day, Solstice Day, & Indigenous Peoples Day. One hopes the nation-wide commemorative events help speed healing, reconciliation, & visible practical progress in providing all public services to isolated communities. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Suddenly, there’s nothing to do and too much— the lawn, paths, woods were never so green white blossoms of every size and shape—hydrangea, Chinese dogwood, mock orange spill their glistening. -Rose Styron 'Summer Solstice' #ImageAndVerse #photography #Solstice #EastCoastKin

Bucket list item: Library of Celsus in Ephesus, 2nd c. CE tomb for a Roman consul, 3rd largest library in western antiquity. Columns with niches for 4 statues, female personifications of: wisdom (Sophia) knowledge (Epistēmē) intelligence (Ennoia) & courage (Aretē) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library...

Li Bai “Song of Green Water” O'er water green the autumn moon shines bright, on Southern Lake they gather lilies white. The lotus-blooms so lovely as to speak, outshine the bashful oars women's fair cheek. c.750 Tang Dynasty Analysis: www.cn-poetry.com/libai-poetry...

#WeekXforXyloid #AlphabetChallenge "Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself?" - Thoreau 📷 #myphoto

Ay, in the grove of the temple and in the shadow of the citadel I have seen the freest among you wear their freedom as a yoke and a handcuff. And my heart bled within me; for you can only be free when even the desire of seeking freedom becomes a harness to you, 1/2 🖋️ Kahlil Gibran 📸 Len Williams

Happy #Solstice to all. ☀️ Turn, turn, turn!

What would the summer solstice be without the annual party at Stonehenge? 😁 A photo essay of the costumes and revellers. apnews.com/photo-galler...

Sharing sketches of many different animals. These works feel like an unfolding of the kind of linework I naturally enjoy. To me, they also reflect the way I like to draw. #shouxinsketch #petart #animalart #illustrationartists #sketch

🥵 I'm in favour of whatever leads people to awakening. Even a ban on booze in a heatwave. 😁 www.reuters.com/business/env...

este año, como en todos los años...

Mon Amour du Bleu "Paris Poéme"

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But I've seen strangers become family , pain turned into poetry, broken hearts learn to beat again. TV 📽️: 📺 : Anthony Bourdain (Parts 2 Unknown) (2013-2018) Travel 🌸 🦋 🌿 🌇 (Photo by Kirpal Singh)

If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,   If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute   With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,   And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son. 🖋️ from Kipling "If" 🎨 ALT

#Poetry #Painting Softness is not weakness It takes courage to stay delicate in a world this cruel. - Beau Taplin

#Poetry #Painting #Summer The sound of the ocean soothes my soul, And I feel all my worries release, In this moment of pure contentment, I find my mind finally at peace. - Nikhil Thale 🎨 Dee Nickerson

With life as short as half-taken breath, don’t plant anything but love. - Rumi 🌺 photo: Tao of Gardening

Holnap J'écris pour progresser dans mes langues d'apprentissage. Hongrois Holnap Holnap... A remény Kelet felől kel fel Mint a nap Demain Demain L'espérance Se lève à l'est Comme le soleil

A poem and drawing, both recent. I didn't do them to go together, but they fit well.

Happy Sun🌞Day, Susan! @sdcushing.bsky.social. How are you? Will you please pour me a large cup of #BlueBrew #coffee to help me tackle my to-do list? 🌞☕️🌞 For #StunDay and #WeekXforXyloid #AlphabetChallenge (not my photo):

Morning. 😁 Where coffee? ☕ 📸 Alia Noordin

#Poetry #Painting #Twilight "Oh yes!" whispers Night Cat. "I've been up and down. I've wandered around and gone all over town! I've been on adventures exciting and rare. I've visited places no feline should dare!" - Lucy Wall 🎨 Pascal Campion

If you take nothing else away, this is the most central point; whenever you find something- it's not what you're looking for. OK? The reason we find something is because we go looking for something, therefore, don't go looking for something. Stay where you are. Sit, just sit. ~ James Low

My favourite JJ Cale concert on Youtube. 😎 For @asitisnow.bsky.social 😁 www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaHx...

A wonderful adventure documentary (English narration), from a French surfing family who have perfected the art of the simple life. (52 mins) 🏄‍♀️🏄‍♂️🏄🏄🌏😎 #wisdom www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbaW...

It's solstice weekend. 😎 The Lower Ottawa Valley looks as green as Ireland; a cool wet spring has made gardeners & farmers happy. Poor Lovie looks longingly at her swimming pool, but is gracious about the needed good rains. I hope your local weather is kind to you, eh. 😁 apnews.com/article/summ...

Bonne Nuit ! (L'océan n'est pas une décharge 😉)

This woodblock print is a legendary masterwork by the Shin-hanga virtuoso Shiro Kasamatsu (1898–1991). Titled "Iizaka" (depicting the historic hot-spring onsen town of Iizaka). It captures the profound, quiet solitude of a mountain hot-spring village wrapped in winter twilight.

#goodnight But I welcome the darkness where the two eyes of that soft panther glow. The darkness is my cultural broth. The enchanted darkness. I go on speaking to you, risking disconnection: I’m subterraneously unattainable because of what I know. – Clarice Lispector, The Stream of Life .

Classical allusions in comics. 😁 Top: Le Radeau de la Méduse, Théodore Géricault (1819), the wreck of the frigate Méduse (with horrendous outcomes.) Bottom: Asterix the Legionary, Goscinny & Uderzo (1970), where the pirate ship gets sunk yet again. Their captain says, "Je suis médusé." cc in ALT

This is Merry, our son's Maine Coon cat. With obligatory blep. 😁 #Caturday

Wherever I went today, I was looking for beautiful souls. 🎥: Out-Takes from the Life of a Happy Man (2012) Director: Jonas Mekas ☁️ 💙 🌙 🌿 (Photo by Kirpal Singh)

#Poetry #Painting As soon as the sun sets in the west They all sally forth on an amorous quest A tomcat calls from the top of a roof A second answers from somewhere aloof Others arrive, and the concert begins amorous clamorous cats on a roof -Edward Harrington (1934) 🎨 Terry Runyan

"Letting go" in contemplative practice (meditation) is paradoxical but it's needed. Because our trying to understand what is happening, our trying to appreciate what is true—is itself a part of what is happening. Trying to appreciate what is true is already an example and expression of what is true.

We are older than our bodies.

Nagaoka Temmangu Shrine, Kyoto, Japan. Photography by T’s Photo（busy・・・) on Flickr.

Vincent (Collage numérique 2024. Numéro 1 d'un diptyque)

"When the mind is free of grasping, aversion, dullness, and distraction, it relaxes into unfabricated awareness. When there is no identification with the empty appearance of the conventional self, we effortlessly accommodate all that arises."

― Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche (in The Tibetan Yogas of Dream & Sleep)

Parenthèse

This is for all the healers everywhere. 🕯️

Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are. Mason Cooley 📷 siavosh ejlali

So tender are my thoughts of you Still warm after the glow The stones are too soft to throw... Sophie Zelmani - Memory Loves You youtu.be/23DhWZmI_M8?... .

J. M. W. Turner’s “A Boat and Red Buoy in a Rough Sea” (c. 1835-40). Out of _Impressions in Watercolour: Turner and his Contemporaries_ (The Holburne Museum, Bath, 2025). Barely a splash of red paint, buoy like an afterthought. I love the title: how it reduces the immediate world to its essence.

It's worth reflecting on this quote from time to time ... In social networks, the function of "friends" is primarily to heighten narcissism by granting attention, as consumers, to the ego exhibited as a commodity. – Byung-Chul Han, Müdigkeitsgesellschaft