Haiku – 20091103

 

faded autumn leaves
falling into the whirlwind
race by in moon light

 

 

November 2009 Full Moon – Right Brain

Although the correct time of the November Full Moon is dated: November 2, 19:14 UTM, I thought I’d post a day earlier. Since we have just fallen off Daylight Savings Time here in the USA. I’ll let you calculate the exact phase of the November moon when this image was taken at 6:00 PM Sunday Evening November 1st. 2009!

Just to trick you, I filtered this image through GIMP so there would be no way of seeing a difference between this phase and the exact Full Moon Phase.

This way you can imagine looking at it with the Right Brain just like you would glance up at it while walking hand-in-hand with your favorite friend or spouse.

Just in case you never heard of your Right Brain – your body is controlled by a Right Brain and a Left Brain! Are you surprised?

The right-hand side of the human brain, believed to be associated with creative thought and the emotions.

The left-hand side of the human brain, which is believed to be associated with linear and analytical thought.

Ever wonder why some of us are so unsatisfied with our positions in life? I’m not saying there is anything wrong with our positions in life, but just maybe there is something missing and we can’t seem to put our finger on it?

I can say I’ve been there, Done that! I don’t want to rule the future, but I want to someday retire and live the rest of my life with that something the past 40 years had been missing as part of my profession and to make it a priority the rest of my life! I consider the majority of my hobbies as Right Brain, so after retirement – hobbies WILL EVOLVE INTO FULL TIME!

Daniel H. Pink, author of A Whole New Mind – Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future says:
A Whole New Mind is for anyone who wants to survive and thrive in this emerging world – people uneasy with their careers or dissatisfied with their lives, entrepreneurs and business leaders eager to stay ahead of the next new wave, parents who want to equip their children for the future, and the legions of emotionally astute and creatively adroit people whose distinctive abilities the Information Age has often overlooked and undervalued.
In this book, you will learn the six essential aptitudes – what he calls “the six senses” – on which professional success and personal satisfaction increasingly will depend. Design, Story, Symphony, Empathy, Play, Meaning. These are fundamentally human abilities that everyone can master – and helping you do that is my (Daniel H. Pink) goal.

Tossing of the Rose

While sitting on the top of a cliff high above the ocean, I watched a small group of people descend the steep trail onto the rocks by the water’s edge. They stood in the salty spray, each holding a rose and bowed their heads. I imagined the group was a procession of mourners far from the burial of someone dear to them. Two young women, one holding a baby girl, a teenage boy, and a young girl all turned their heads and tossed their rose into the breaking waves of the sea, then stood holding hands, united in deep sorrow.

While they stood together watching the roses being swept away into the deep blue sea, I reflected on the recent deaths of my father and my sister’s husband. For a few moments, I could clearly see them in my mind, while a peaceful calm swept through my thoughts.

Watching the young procession of mourners, as they stood in the salty spray beside the sea, I imaged myself from a distance, beside them, tossing roses for all our family members that have passed on.

There is a profound mystical attraction to the sea that comforts the lamenting soul.

Two Lights State Park Revisited

tinkering with the wide angle 24X zoom lens on my Nikon P90 and not using digital zoom settings it is possible to end up with fairly reasonable results – moving objects require enough speed to stop action and a lens f-stop large enough for sharp detail – focus should include objects at various distances from the camera …… the image is a composite of three photos taken with the same lens.

if you squint, you should be able to see the tanker on the horizon or click on the image to see a larger image on Flickr.

Two Lights State Park

this afternoon, at two light state park in cape elizabeth, maine the weather was pleasant and only a light breeze was stirring. i was amazed by the sound of thunder coming from small waves as they crashed into the rocky coastline. very few tourist and not very much activity on the water.

Summertime Reflections

on September 1st, 1985, my wife, daughter, and friends joined me on a short journey to Haverhill, Massachusetts to the homestead of John Greenleaf Whittier. if you are familiar with this early american poet, the following will make sense to you:

we took a ride to visit his homestead
the poet i read while laying in bed

we saw his house, the small desk and chair
the poems i read, he wrote sitting there

we saw his fireplace and felt the glow
remembering Snowbound shut-in by snow

hung on the wall was a red riding hood
left behind by love we have understood

my wife found an acorn under a tree
now as i hold it the homestead i see

well on August 15, 2009, saturday, before noon,  after reading from Stephen Greenblatt’s Will in the World How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare, i thought it would be interesting to spend the afternoon being tourists around the Haverhill, Massachusetts area, while imagining the summers of long ago that may have influenced John Greenleaf Whittier to translate into poetry.

Well, traveling in Southern Maine and Coastal New Hampshire, with temperatures hovering around 90 degrees, we decided to turn westbound, get something to eat, then head back to Southern Maine. traveling on interstate highways are scenic to a point and the RampVan air conditioning was working well, but today was too hot to play follow the leader in erratic traffic.

comparing the image on this post with the few verses of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer’s Dream, i’ll let you decide if traveling with the stop and go traffic patterns of restless families heading to ocean beaches before some of them reach their boiling point. the northbound lanes were backed up for MILES!

“A Midsummer Night’s Dream” 2.1. 249-256:

I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,
Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,
Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,
With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine:
There sleeps Titania sometime of the night,
Lull’d in these flowers with dances and delight;
And there the snake throws her enamelled skin,
Weed wide enough to wrap a fairy in.

Just a photo filtered crow

This crow was much further away from the camera than you’d imagine – it is fun to play with photo editing filters