{beauty breather: a photographic pause for rest}
Join me in a guided visual meditation - an invitation into noticing the wilderness within and without while making space for the fullness of our humanity. These beauty breathers are collections of my nature photographs, part of Notes From the Wilderness.
I am in Western Canada and experience four distinct and rather extreme seasons. This cycle is integral to my experience. I acknowledge this frame of reference may not be familiar to everyone yet I hope you will still be able to enter in and feel welcome.
You can return to each beauty breather as often as you desire. Notice what is the same and different in how you experience the words and images.
If you’re wanting to slow down but find yourself rushing through, try setting a timer (I really love the Insight Timer app.) Go at whatever pace work for you.
Meet yourself with kindness and gentleness. Let curiosity lead.
Last spring I wrote a pantoum for lingering in early spring that included the words: don’t rush, not yet. These words have returned to me this year, whispered in my ear countless times throughout the day. There is much to be done. There is so much that needs our attention and action. There is so much mind numbing, dumbfounding chaos around us. Don’t rush, not yet feels rather incongruent with the state of things and yet those words continue to echo within me. So, I’m listening. I choose to watch and linger instead of getting swept up and away by the current of commotion.
Join me as I walk in the fluctuations of early spring, where light snow continues to fall on the slowly thawing ground and frost continues to kiss each remnant from last fall and the winter we’re emerging from.

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everything in its time
don’t rush, not yet.