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Advent Day #16 – Sleep
Reblogging my list of free gifts from the Universe: To Sleep, Perchance To Dream December 16, 2011 by scillagrace And if tonight my soul may find her peace in sleep, and sink in good oblivion, and in...
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Advent Day #19 – Divinity
Have Some Divinity December 19, 2011 by scillagrace The premise is this: for each day in December, instead of counting down on an Advent calendar, I’m counting the free gifts we all get every day....
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Advent Day #20 – Wisdom
Wise and Otherwise December 20, 2011 by scillagrace December 20. The 20th free gift of the month is something that can be acquired, but cannot be bought. I don’t think that it can be given, either....
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Relationships: Why U R Doin’ It Wrong
Steve brought me a book we’d sold. “There are a few light pencil marks in the quiz section. Could you please erase them before we ship this out?” I glanced at the cover. Getting To “I Do”: The Secret...
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Special Sauce
“You are my friend; you are special. You are my friend; you’re special to me. There’s no one else who is like you; like you, my friend, I like you.” Fred Rogers Once in a lunar cycle, I am visited by...
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My Personal Titanic
From manic to panic to sinking, slowly, letting go, breathing with the flow, the end of woe, the bliss of weightlessness, the natural company of fish. It’s been kind of a crazy week inside my head....
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Threes
This week’s photo challenge is about a grouping of perspectives: the big picture, a relationship, and a detail. I like the idea of shifting points of focus because awareness and depth probably can’t...
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Living With Mystery
Possessing a human brain is no picnic. The cumbersome chunk of gray matter is quite the dictator. It wants to know: Who? What? When? Where? Why? How? It shines the light in our eyes, makes us squint...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Split-Second Story
The photo challenge for this week invites us to share a photo that captures an entire story in a single frame. Here is my interpretation. And what is the story? Is it merely a story of kids going to...
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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...
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Morning 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...
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Present 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....
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Ego, 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,...
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Weekly 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....
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Poem 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.
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Weekly 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...
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Lens-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...
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New 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...
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Lens-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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