love the animation of nature here, liz -- it's a way I have been thinking lately, too, in my hikes along the shoreline -- those erratic boulders have voices speaking over thousands of years -- we need to listen and wonder about it --
I like that you see it as animation, a kind of anthropomorphism I suppose, and could be seen as an almost religious, and definitely spiritual way of approaching ‘mere’ things! Living here in this very ‘other’ unfamiliar and very culturally different place this winter, I find I am seeing ‘things’ anew somehow.
I am loving your photos of shores, and particularly the individual rocks
Maybe, though I think I should have said "animism" rather than "animation." I wasn't thinking so much of anthropomorphic; in fact, the opposite -- the living spirit in things themselves looking back at me as I look at them. I think we are going through a similar process, you and I, of seeing things anew right now. In her book The Radiant Lives of Animals, Linda Hogan writes about a need for "re-minding," by which she means changing the way our minds perceive the world around us as though it were separate from us. To me, I have been feeling this shifting within myself each day that I head out along the shore. It feels like a physical shifting within me as though I were being reconstituted somehow. The pictures are beginning to mean something to me beyond just an image of an object. Even the various cameras seem more meaningful. I hold them differently both in my hands and in my mind. It's a change that is unexpected , but also long overdue. But we come to where we come when the time is right, right?
love the animation of nature here, liz -- it's a way I have been thinking lately, too, in my hikes along the shoreline -- those erratic boulders have voices speaking over thousands of years -- we need to listen and wonder about it --
Oh thanks Ron
I like that you see it as animation, a kind of anthropomorphism I suppose, and could be seen as an almost religious, and definitely spiritual way of approaching ‘mere’ things! Living here in this very ‘other’ unfamiliar and very culturally different place this winter, I find I am seeing ‘things’ anew somehow.
I am loving your photos of shores, and particularly the individual rocks
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Maybe, though I think I should have said "animism" rather than "animation." I wasn't thinking so much of anthropomorphic; in fact, the opposite -- the living spirit in things themselves looking back at me as I look at them. I think we are going through a similar process, you and I, of seeing things anew right now. In her book The Radiant Lives of Animals, Linda Hogan writes about a need for "re-minding," by which she means changing the way our minds perceive the world around us as though it were separate from us. To me, I have been feeling this shifting within myself each day that I head out along the shore. It feels like a physical shifting within me as though I were being reconstituted somehow. The pictures are beginning to mean something to me beyond just an image of an object. Even the various cameras seem more meaningful. I hold them differently both in my hands and in my mind. It's a change that is unexpected , but also long overdue. But we come to where we come when the time is right, right?
Oh yes! Absolutely!
So glad that we seem to be on broadly similar paths (quests?) it’s so heartwarming to share an aspect or two of the journey 🕉