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Another Dawning: Part 3
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Picture taken at sunrise: Kopua Monastery
Another Dawning: Part 2
Picture taken from Southern Star Abbey, Kopua, New Zealand
Another Dawning
Up with the lark..
Picture taken at Southern Cross Abbey, Kopua, New Zealand
Another Morning
Another sunrise..
Picture taken at Kopua Monastery, New Zealand
From The Rising Of The Sun To Its Setting: Part 4
Sunset’s dying light.
Picture taken in the grounds of Kopua Monastery, New Zealand
From The Rising Of The Sun To Its Setting: Part 3
Afternoon:
sun shines through rain;
the wonder of a timeless covenant.
Picture taken at Kopua Monastery
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From The Rising Of The Sun To Its Setting: Part 2
Sunlight burns through the early morning mists..
Picture of early morning light taken at Kopua Monastery
From The Rising Of The Sun To Its Setting..
A certain stillness..
Picture taken shortly after sunrise at Kopua Cistercian Monastery
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Through Fecund Darkness Into Great Silence..
“..the dark divinity of our plight…”
(The Contemplative Heart, by James Finley*)
“..a time to be silent..”
(from Ecclesiastes 3:1 – 8)
Picture taken in Chennai
Hat-tip to Beth at louie, louie for the quote*
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All At Sea: To Step In An Ocean Of Freedom
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Picture taken on Payyambalam beach, Kannur
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All At Sea: The Wonder Years
“For whatever we lose (like a you or a me)
it’s always ourselves we find in the sea.”
From “maggie and minnie and molly and may” by e e cummings
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Picture taken on Payyambalam beach, Kannur
All At Sea: Learning The Ropes
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Picture taken on Payyambalam beach, Kannur.
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All At Sea: Getting Started
One of the fishing party adjusts the line.
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Picture taken on Payyambalam beach, Kannur
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All At Sea: A Family Business
Setting out with nets
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Picture taken on Payyambalam beach in Kannur, Kerala
All At Sea: To Step Beyond The Shallows
Contemplating the ocean
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Picture taken on Payyambalam beach Kannur in Kerala
All At Sea: Into The Maelstrom…
Braving the sea’s boiling waters to feed his family.
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Picture taken on Payyambalam beach Kannur in Kerala
Despite being familiar with both pieces of music for many years, I have only just noticed the similarities between the opening of the storm interlude In Benjamin Britten’s “Peter Grimes” and Leonard Bernstein’s “A boy like that” from Westside Story.
All At Sea: Turning Back
His nets set, a fisherman heads for home.
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Picture taken on Payyambalam beach, Kannur in Kerala
All At Sea: Back In The Shallows
The fisherman comes ashore.
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Picture taken on Payyambalam beach, Kerala
All At Sea: Now You See It…
..and now you don’t:
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Picture of a solitary fisherman taken on Payyambalam beach, Kannur
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