Taos Mountain From The Zendo, silent writing retreat in Taos, New Mexico, February 2007, photo © 2008 by QuoinMonkey.
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— a year ago we were there…
– posted on red Ravine, Friday, April 6th, 2007
April 6, 2007 by QuoinMonkey
Taos Mountain From The Zendo, silent writing retreat in Taos, New Mexico, February 2007, photo © 2008 by QuoinMonkey.
All rights reserved.
— a year ago we were there…
– posted on red Ravine, Friday, April 6th, 2007
Posted in Authors, Bones, Great Places To Write, Nature, Photography, Place, Practice, Silence, Spirituality, Structure, Taos, Travel, Wake Up, Work, Writing | Tagged just sitting, meditation, sit like the mountain, sit-walk-write, Taos Mountain, the practice of writing, writing retreats, zendo | 9 Comments
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a year ago, two months ago. blue memories make me want to ask you if you can post a photo of Taos Mountain in August, Ocotber, to remind us where we come from
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Yes, I’m glad you mentioned that. I had already planned to do so. When I start to miss Taos, and the Mountain, I can look at my photographs and remember what it was like to sit under her shadow.
I can also just sit – still, and silent. And the same memory comes. It’s in my body. I had the same feeling staring at the moonscape of Lake Superior last week.
I find the Mountain anywhere I feel connected to the earth. Ah…that’s a good feeling.
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Can you post one in honor of Spring?
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Yes, good idea. I’ll have to peruse my archives over the next day or so and see what I have. I love photographs because every single one I’ve taken holds a memory. Being a Cancer, I’m very connected to the past. It used to hold me back.
But I love the present so much now, I can’t wait to live each day. Not to say I don’t still struggle. Maybe I just have more tools to work with the struggle. And have gotten so much better at letting in the joy.
I’ll post one in the next few days. Thanks for the nudge.
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You know, we should point out the photo in the masthead is one of yours. Your photos are wonderous!
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Thank you! Photography is in my blood. From that little Brownie Instamatic I had as a kid to the Canon digital. Lots of change over the years.
Thanks again.
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The technical excellence of your shot has caught my eye at once, but that’s just nothing in comparison with magnificent message of your visual story. Thank you.
I never was in the mountains and therefore it is quite hard to imagine myself there, but while viewing your photo, I feel myself as if looking at some point that I am trying to reach. While recognizing myself in the total darkness of first plan I feel myself not beaten but uplifted by the light that I rejoice over on the fat horizon (under the window).
Thank you.
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Tomas, thank you for your generous comment. You have a very visual way of describing this photograph that makes sense to me – holding the gaze of something in the distance, moving from darkness to the uplifted light – and not being held back along the way.
It’s good for me to come back to this photograph of the zendo at Mabel Dodge Luhan House last February. I remember the morning I took it. The air outside was so clear and blue and bright and cold. Yet inside, it was dark and warm. I really loved morning meditation.
BTW, the comments mentioned Taos Mountain at different times of year. Here is a link to Taos Mountain in summer: Taos Mountain Haiku (LINK). I took it when I was there this July.
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