Thanksgiving 2011 / Strong winds and rain and sunshine
It's a Bellingham Thanksgiving with many grateful people out walking early in the stormy morning on the Taylor Street Dock section of the South Bay Trail and a man playing Frisbee with his dog at Boulevard Park in the wind and rain, and a sunbreak late in the afternoon.
I know that park! We walk it when I'm visiting my sis in Bellingham. Next trip up (I don't know when) I would love to meet you in person!
Today in Sacramento we have sunshine lighting up all the yellow and orange leaves that we blown off the trees and rained on yesterday. It's a golden carpet on the sidewalks and streets. Lovely.
Taradharma -- Hope to meet with you next time you are up here. You may be able to get my email address from robin. If not, I'll email it to her so she can send it on to you. I can picture a lovely Thanksgiving Day in Sacramento. I miss that late November light in California.
How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be? -- Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890)
Welcome to "37TH DREAM (RUMORS OF PEACE)".
The photograph currently at the top of my blog was taken on April 13, 2021, on the bluffs at the south end of Rosario Beach, which can be accessed from Highway 20 just before Deception Pass Bridge in Skagit County, Washington.
"OLD GIRL OF THE NORTH COUNTRY" (the earliest name for my blog) came to life in early December of 2006 so that I could post a 42-year retrospective of my paintings and drawings and through that action, create a new relationship with the day the man I loved returned from Vietnam in December 1970. For a while (sometime after spring of 2008, which is when he died) my blog was "TALKING 37TH DREAM WITH RAINBOW (RUMORS OF PEACE)". For a number of years, it's been "TALKING 37TH DREAM (RUMORS OF PEACE)." As of April 12, 2017 my blog was titled "37TH DREAM / TALKING 37TH DREAM (RUMORS OF PEACE/LOOKING UP)". Somewhere along the way it became 37TH DREAM (RUMORS OF PEACE).
To begin viewing the retrospective with narrative, scroll down to December 8, 2006, on this page:
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right temporarily defeated is stronger than evil triumphant. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)
All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware. -- Martin Buber (1878-1965)
It is only a little planet, but how beautiful it is.
-- Robinson Jeffers
The true end of a war is the rebirth of life; the right to die peacefully in your own bed. The true end of war is the end of fear; the true end of war is the return of laughter.
-- Alfred Molano
Enjoy every sandwich -- Warren Zevon (1947-2003)
Not in God's wilds will you ever hear the sad moan, "All is vanity." No, we are paid a thousand times for all our toil, and after a single day spent outdoors in their atmosphere of strength and beauty, one could still say, should death come — even without any hope of another life — "Thank you for this most glorious gift!" and pass on.
-- John Muir (1838-1914)
Philip Henslowe: Mr. Fennyman, allow me to explain about the theatre business. The natural condition is one of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster. Hugh Fennyman: So what do we do? Philip Henslowe: Nothing. Strangely enough, it all turns out well. Hugh Fennyman: How? Philip Henslowe: I don't know. It's a mystery.
3 comments:
Looks like a beautiful Thanksgiving Day there.
I know that park! We walk it when I'm visiting my sis in Bellingham. Next trip up (I don't know when) I would love to meet you in person!
Today in Sacramento we have sunshine lighting up all the yellow and orange leaves that we blown off the trees and rained on yesterday. It's a golden carpet on the sidewalks and streets. Lovely.
Taradharma -- Hope to meet with you next time you are up here. You may be able to get my email address from robin. If not, I'll email it to her so she can send it on to you. I can picture a lovely Thanksgiving Day in Sacramento. I miss that late November light in California.
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