book release, fancy pants, simple living

“When you photograph people in color, you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in Black and white, you photograph their souls!”
― Ted Grant

“We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.”
― May Sarton

As I was out shooting photos of the stars, in black and white, there was this amazing chorus of owls chattering off in the distance. None of the day creatures were even close to waking.

Through the trees I could hear the back and forth conversations of nocturnal critters closing down the night.

Sitting on the ground, looking up, provided some nice cooling energy for my sort of fiery thoughts. Inside me there has been a low-rumbling of Alchemical Phoenixery.

The Earth smelled of clean sheets and antique books. Each breath from my body seemed to sink me lower into the heavy clay soil.

Years ago, when I was doing holistic health and wellness work, it would amaze me how many times people would say, “I’ve changed,” only to keep up the same patterns. After working through tough issues, packing up emotions and fears that no longer served, and taking the reigns of personal responsibility, there was no need to tell me how they had changed. I noticed it. Others noticed it.

This applies in my own life. Looking over past blog posts and social media exclamations, you can clearly see a pattern of “See! See! I’ve changed – really I’ve changed.” But that was not the case, really. Old skeletons would fall out of various closets, reminding me that some things still needed attention. However, the desire to feel better, do better, be better was there. Even if I had to pretend.

But grass and roots do not really care about your existential issues. They are too busy just doing and being. As the root winds into the rich humus, it finds its way by using intuition, heart, and the desire to bring itself to a place of knowing its own way.

gather photographs
of some stars in the morning
before cats wake up
– ku 10–6–2014

This weekend I joined the ranks of indie writers/publishers and put a book together with several of my poems. If interested, the link is in the comments section.

Keep growing,
– ku