Weekly Photo Challenge: Texture
Texture: that which we touch, which touches us, which we feel. Texture lets us know we’re alive, we’re here, we’re present and presently interacting. Texture teaches us that the world is sameness...
View ArticleMorning Thoughts: Finding True Place In Wilderness
I found an essay called “The Body and The Earth” by Wendell Berry in The Unsettling of America published in 1977. It is an extremely articulate and broad analysis of that “spherical network” that...
View ArticlePresent Moment, Beautiful Moment
January 7 – past and present 1984 – It’s my wedding day. The weather is chilly and foggy in Northern California. I am too excited to sleep late. I have a date with my fiance for a morning meeting....
View ArticleEgo, Redundancy, Fasting and Abundance – Spiritual Lessons from Nature
Have you ever had an experience of ego awakening? I have. The first one I remember happened as I was sitting in church on a Sunday morning, listening to a sermon. I was a child of about 7, I think,...
View ArticleWeekly Photo Challenge: Future
Another morning of Spring snow, slowing changing to rain. The future comes to us haltingly, moment by moment. The human consciousness is capable of projecting thought far beyond this present moment....
View ArticlePoem in my pocket
I think I just wrote a poem. It has only 3 words. It goes like this: “Now See Hear…” It keeps running through my head. Text and photographs © Priscilla Galasso, 2016. All rights reserved.
View ArticleWeekly Photo Challenge: Over the Top
Lately, the world seems to have fallen to new depths of misery. I’m sure ten examples have just popped into your mind. Into this awareness, I want to insert illustrations of the fact that at the same...
View ArticleLens-Artists Photo Challenge: Surprise
The sudden sting of tears, unbidden. Grief leaking out along the edges of a prepared lid, supposedly clamped shut. I have been surprised by joy often. Lately, it is surprising to find myself awakening...
View ArticleNew Year’s Eve
Reblogged from 2011 and dedicated to my Mom, born this day in 1934 and transitioned from this life on October 22, 2020. The social tradition in this country is to spend New Year’s Eve with the person...
View ArticleLens-Artists Photo Challenge: Dramatic
“The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.” — John F. Kennedy The summer sky in New...
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