the shadow has the information
shadow
The heat of the day can force us to slow down to pause and hopefully find shade.
When it’s so hot and bright, the only option we have is to stay in the shadow of a tree.
In the image titled Living in the Shadow is from Inside the Belly of the Whale the shadow is the area that we see clearly the the plant is a rich green.
learning to follow the flow
I choose a passage from Rainer Maria Rilke.
I’m sure he’s right, but it’s hard to learn to live in the flow of what life brings to us. I keep trying to be present, go with flow, like a river.
The flow of heartbreak and beauty, it takes practice, willingness and experience to allow them to happen at the same time.
One must never despair upon losing something, whether it is an individual or an experience of joy or happiness; everything returns even more magnificently. What has to decline, declines; what belongs to us, stays with us, for everything works according to laws that are greater than our capacity for understanding and that only seem to contradict us. You have to live within yourself and think of all of life, all of its millions of possibilities, openings, and futures in relation to which there exists nothing that is past or has been lost.
― Rainer Maria Rilke, The Poet’s Guide to Life: The Wisdom of Rilke
notice the flow
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them – that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like. Lao Tzu
thoughts and ideas
Sometimes you must, simply sit with your thoughts and ideas.
Below I’ve created a sketch book to keep track of thoughts and ideas. Which only means that I’ve recorded them – it’s my visual brainstorming journal.
I invite you to take a journal out and write or draw some of your thoughts and ideas, be willing to brainstorm a bit.