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Category Archives: Nature

“I Ain’t The Problem… You’re The Problem!”

September 6, 2026

  “Hey buddy, what’re you lookin’ at? There’s nothing here to see. Keep walkin’!”   I had been strolling the …

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Slowing Down….

August 30, 2026

Riding the rainy windswept heights above Loch Ness, Scotland….   Yesterday, Saturday, I rode a bus an hour out of …

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Blessings…..

August 28, 2026

  I love the sweet innocence of children peering wide eyed out upon their expanding little world from strollers pushed …

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No One Cares… That’s Pure Zen!

August 18, 2026

  I took this photo in the gardens out front of the Tokyo National Museum.    There are times I …

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Simplification….

August 16, 2026

  “I eschew all clear cut interpretations: with increasing simplification the mystery heightens. What I know tends to become more …

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The Ten Thousand Voices….

August 6, 2026

  ““And do you know,” continued Siddhartha, “what word it [the river] pronounces when one is successful in hearing all …

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Simplicity….

July 7, 2026

  We construct our own complexity cages and then obediently step inside and close the door on ourselves. Once inside …

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No Grand Thoughts… Only…

July 4, 2026

  No quotes today.   No high minded thoughts.    Sometimes I just sit on a bench in my favourite …

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Solitude….

June 30, 2026

  “—But I have need of solitude, that is to say recovery, return to myself, the breath of a free …

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“Prisoners… Of Our Own Device…”

June 25, 2026

  “We are all just prisoners here, of our own device.”   At least I think that’s how the lyrics …

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