The Re-Enchantment of Everyday Life

She has graciously granted me permission to enlighten you with her talents.  I have gone through hundreds of her photos and pulled those that made me want to look twice - be it the color, the angle, the texture, or simply an emotion it evoked.  Here are just a few to wet your taste buds with, more to come...

 Sacred

                         

I was raised by the song

Of the murmuring grove

And loving I learned

Among flowers.

Friedrich Holderlin

                                       

Those who are in a frenzy utter

many wonderful things,

which a little later,

when their frenzy has abated,

they themselves do not really

understand,

as if they had not spoken them,

but God had sounded through

them as though through trumpets.

  

                            Marsilio Ficino

I have nothing to say

and I am saying it

and that is poetry

John Cage

Our theories and ideas are born from our suffering.

when sitting, just sit,

Above all, don't wobble.

Man models himself on the Earth;

The Earth models itself on Heaven;

Heaven models itself on the Way;

And the Way models itself on that which is so on its own.

 

Nothing happens for the first time.

 

the fragrance of the grass

speaks to me . . .

and my heart soars

The wheel outside the door is just the moon.

   Those objects hanging from the eves,

                   just Autumn clouds.

                           Liang Li (A.D. 850)

 

The smallest ingredient

is the most powerful,

the slightest act

the most potent.

People must have puddings

       I don't know what Nature is: I sing it.

        I live on a hilltop

        In a solitary whitewashed cabin.

        And that's my definition.

Fernando Pessoa

                                                                                                            I think it was from the animals

                                                                                                            that St. Francis learned

                                                                                                            it is possible to cast yourself

                                                                                                            on the earth's good mercy and live.

                                                                                                                             Jane Hirshfield

No matter how much suffering afflicts us,

we can always find a modicum of pleasure,

and that is sufficient.

Restoring Paradise

 

Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes and groves, . . . and you whose pastime Is to make midnight mushrooms . . . by whose aid, Weak masters though ye be, I have bedimmed The noontide sun . . .

SHAKESPEARE,  The Tempest

                                                              

Music is feeling, then, not sound;

And thus it is that what I feel,

Here in this room, desiring you,

Thinking of your blue-shadowed silk,

Is music.

The world being illusive, one must be deluded

in some way if one is to triumph in it.

W.B. YEATS

For we are the stars. For we sing.

For we sing with our light.

For we are birds made of fire.

For we spread our wings over the sky.

Our light is a voice.

We cut a road for the soul

for its journey through death.

Passamaquoddy Indian poem

Eden is that old-fashioned House
We dwell in every day
Without suspecting our abode
Until we drive away.

Emily Dickinson

Lori Prosser, Photographer.

She lives in the U.S. and in England with her husband

and her three sons.