Favorite quote from the day:
I think we are healing the planet when we appreciate beauty. – Rikki Cooke
A Hui Hou
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Mo`omomi Preserve, Molokai, Hawaii
Stunning sunrise at Mo`omomi nature preserve this morning. Is it possible to be so full of beauty that you don’t know what to do with it? Yes. Here. Now.
Pule o’o Moloka’i
I walked to the main lodge this morning to the sounds of aloha floating across the Hui’s lawn. Bronwyn and hui staff were sitting on the punee, ukelele’s in hand, performing Pule o’o Moloka’i (Prayer for Molokai), a hauntingly beautiful song. Posted here for you to share the aloha.
Trying to photograph is like trying to love
Favorite quote from the day:
Trying to photograph is loving.
It’s a spontaneous thing and the moment effort starts going into it then all of a sudden your starting to get shackled. Your shackled with your mind, your history, your should’s – ‘I can do it better’, and your judgements.
So the trying part is showing up – that’s the discipline – to show up.
Hear Rikki below:
Point to heaven
I once was filled with sons of men
who raised their arms to God in praise
Until brushfire kissed my walls and then
set my roof ablaze
My congregation now consists of souls less apt to sing
but whisper softly with their leaves and for companions birds they bring
My architect must have known some day my roof would fall
for in my stones he etched the path – an arrow on my wall
Its message simple yet profound
I ask you all to see
My final sermon of them all
Point to heaven constantly
by, Jonathan Kingston
Neutrality is being in a place of peace
Day 1 of Rekindling the Creative Spirit has come to an end. Below are a couple of my favorite quotes from the day:
“Neutrality is being in a place of peace” – Rikki Cooke talking about approaching your subject matter in neutral, without preconceptions to cloud your vision.
“When I’m connected to the source, I am overflowing. I’m not being generous, I am simply overflowing. The two are totally different things.” – Dewitt Jones talking about living with a full cup.
Rekindling the Creative Spirit – Arrival Day
2011 Rekindling the creative Spirit photography workshop on Molokai, Hawaii began today. Afterburners go…