Category Archives: Weekly 2

October week 4 – Orderly Disorder

Posted on 10/29/2012 by Stacy

In times of stress and frustration, as is the case for me at election time, I look for ways to find calm in chaos, hope in despair and empowerment in oppression. The images that I created this week I refer … Continue reading →

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October week 3 – Technicolor Dream Door

Posted on 10/23/2012 by Stacy

Doors:  in their cultural facades or minuscule details, we enjoy looking at them, photographing and painting them. Perhaps it is because it gives us both a sense of graphic beauty and mystery.  We wonder once they are open where they … Continue reading →

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October week 2 – A Post-card Thank You

Posted on 10/17/2012 by Stacy

I have said it before: photography for me is a form of visual spirituality.  Creating and then revisiting images are powerful means of meditation.  Of meditation, in her book “Crones Don’t Whine,” Jean Shinoda Bolen says: “Heartfulness and meditation come … Continue reading →

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October week 1 – Pagoda

Posted on 10/08/2012 by Stacy

At the edge of the water, below Strawberry Hill, at the east end of Stow Lake in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, you find a picturesque pagoda.  This pavilion with its red columns and green roof glows when bathed in … Continue reading →

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September week 4 – The Earth as Canvas

Posted on 10/01/2012 by Stacy

One of the things I love about the artist Andy Goldsworthy is that nature seems to be both his canvas and palette.  Not to mention his creative playground.  It is with respect and gratitude to the earth that he uses … Continue reading →

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September week 3 – Circles, Light and Darkness

Posted on 09/24/2012 by Stacy

One of my favorite chants is “Light and Darkness.”  Those words are just repeated over and over again.  It brings home the equality of their importance in the cosmos and each person’s individual existence.  I am singing these words right … Continue reading →

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September Week 2 – Right Brain Resurrection

Posted on 09/17/2012 by Stacy

While sitting in a cafe with friends there was a moment when all of us were on our “smart phones” at the same time.  When the server noticed she told us she wasn’t going to get into using a smart … Continue reading →

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September Week 1 – Fog and fiction

Posted on 09/10/2012 by Stacy

Gray mass oozing from the realm above entering into earthen caverns swiping sea swells in its path we call it fog! We feel its dense moisture draping us as partners shrouded without contrast in the path of its journey we … Continue reading →

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August week 4 – Water, Living Water!

Posted on 09/04/2012 by Stacy

In some parts of the country people would love to be playing in the fountains because it is scorching and other places dried up fountains would be preferred to those six feet under water.  For the peoples of these places … Continue reading →

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August week 3 – Pinnipeds and Pebbles

Posted on 08/27/2012 by Stacy

Harbor seals sometimes sit on rock ledges when the tide is changing to let the water run over them.  When the incoming tide is ebbing all around them they will lift up their flippers and heads creating a smile like … Continue reading →

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