“There are more things…likely to frighten us than there are to crush us, we suffer more in imagination than reality.” - Seneca
Huon Valley. Pentax MX, Portra 800, Sep 2022.
Real time pondering
I took the dog for a walk
We followed the rivulet upstream
Listening to the cascading dream
The trees swayed gently side to side.
At one point, I sat and wondered
Simply letting it all be.
The quiet observer, amazed
At the world unfolding.
Being present, I find contentment
Giving up ambition, I find peace.
When I think of her, I am grounded
Grateful that she is, and exists.
-A.S. 23/11/21, Lenah Valley
Misty morning countryside. Pentax MX, Portra 800, Sep 2022.
Worry not
Relinquish the obsession to control, to rule
to determine a certain outcome.
Be free, be innocent, be unwilling to admit
That you know what will happen next
Even when you think you do.
Worry not of what will be
for it may not
Worry not of what once was
Maybe it was not.
-A.S. 28/12/2021, Lenah Valley
Rolling hills. Pentax MX, Portra 800, Sep 2022.
Where does fear go?
One moment it is there
Gripping us with despair
Then a moment later
All that’s left is thin air.
-A.S. 6/1/21
The lone cow on the hill. Pentax MX, Portra 800, Sep 2022.