“Heart is sea, language is shore. Whatever sea includes, will hit the shore.” - Rumi
Hello friends! Do you ever see a quite and find it intriguing, but not really consciously understand it? That’s how I feel about the quote I started with. I need to ponder it a little more. Meanwhile, here are some images to ponder for your day:
Another photo from that spectacular sunrise on December 10, 2024.
I was so excited to hear and then see a hairy woodpecker! I see lots of downy’s, red-bellied, and flickers but very (very) few hairy woodpeckers!
How does he manage to hide his whole body behind that thin branch?
Flicker was slightly less excite about the hairy woodpecker, he quickly chased him off.
I wonder what those thorns look like to the tiny kinglet?
Hooded merganser flying in like, “Here I come to save the day!” (I mean, he does look a little like underdog, right?)
“Hello ladies, I am here to protect you!”
“See just how beautiful I am!”
Grebes looking perplexed, “what is this merganser doing?”
“Sorry, wrong audience! I was looking for female mergansers!”
Dude, you’re a little too close. Blue was coming in for a landing until he saw me - and I only saw him at the last second. But look at those FEET!
Bluebirds often look like they are a wee bit ticked off at me, lol.
Whereas kinglets just look a bit perplexed.
I don’t think I ever included this otherworldly-looking sunrise from November 23, 2024.
Love the softness of the moon.
May there be plenty of softness in your days.
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That Rumi quote is how Brene Brown begins the introduction to her book, Atlas of the Heart, which is an awesome book, if you've never read it. She talks about what the Rumi quote means to her and how it inspired the book. My understanding--our heart and our emotions exist beyond language. That's the sea. But language is the only means we have for understanding our emotions. Language is the only way we can communicate about our emotions or think through our emotions. So that's the shore?
That's why Brown wrote Atlas of the Heart--to give people a better language for talking about emotions. If we can't understand our own emotions or other people's emotions or talk about any of it, we're sort of stuck. Literally maybe out to sea. Alone. Stranded. The sea has to crash against the shore.
No idea if that's what Rumi actually meant, but it makes sense to me the way Brene Brown understood it.
We will all be better off if we follow Karen's focus on "bringing and being the energy I want to be in the world." If we only have one life to live ( and no departed "loved one" has returned to whisper otherwise to me) then that is how I choose to be. And in my humble opinion, there is no greater journey or adventure to embark upon...
A rabbi once paraphrased a famous story by telling me... " Clark, no one is asking you to be Moses, but try with all your heart, soul and mind to be yourself".
That Rumi quote is how Brene Brown begins the introduction to her book, Atlas of the Heart, which is an awesome book, if you've never read it. She talks about what the Rumi quote means to her and how it inspired the book. My understanding--our heart and our emotions exist beyond language. That's the sea. But language is the only means we have for understanding our emotions. Language is the only way we can communicate about our emotions or think through our emotions. So that's the shore?
That's why Brown wrote Atlas of the Heart--to give people a better language for talking about emotions. If we can't understand our own emotions or other people's emotions or talk about any of it, we're sort of stuck. Literally maybe out to sea. Alone. Stranded. The sea has to crash against the shore.
No idea if that's what Rumi actually meant, but it makes sense to me the way Brene Brown understood it.
We will all be better off if we follow Karen's focus on "bringing and being the energy I want to be in the world." If we only have one life to live ( and no departed "loved one" has returned to whisper otherwise to me) then that is how I choose to be. And in my humble opinion, there is no greater journey or adventure to embark upon...
A rabbi once paraphrased a famous story by telling me... " Clark, no one is asking you to be Moses, but try with all your heart, soul and mind to be yourself".