On Lifestyle Choices / The Dao

Legado
Sorraia stallion in early spring sunshine
on the Ravenseyrie Sorraia Mustang Preserve

A comment was left in last month's blog entry by a reader with the moniker of "Joan of Arc".  This reader inquired:

"Lynne - can you disclose why you made the choice to live in the way that you do?"

A view of spring break up from atop the East Bluff on my bicycle commute to my studio on the bay (for optimum viewing select to play full screen):


And the answer to the question is:

I see the strength of the universe
And the fragility of mankind

Her Crystalline Soul
Paleolithic-style Rock Painting
by Lynne Gerard

I see the vulnerability of technology
And the reliability of Nature

Ravenseryie Potatoes

Dancing with prehistory and modernity
I looked to the Dao

Kevin's Daily Art Rack

It is intuitive, primordial
Infinitely sustainable

Waiting for spring

 
So I chose not so much to follow the Way
But to cease blocking it

Time for spinning

And found the Way is
Illuminated by love and beauty

Raven Over Ravenseyrie

--So there, "Joan of Arc", is my answer and I am grateful it is the same type of answer my husband gives.

Lunch with Kevin at Ravenseyrie

To "Joan of Arc" and all readers, I turn the question back on you:  "Why do you make the choice to live in the way that you do?"

Mushing to a Song

In the dim dawn

In the dim dawn,

Mushing to a song in my mind from bygone times -

 -Loving that flute!

And the limbs of Poplar at the edge of the forest

And the grullo forms of Altamiro and Fidalgo

On this beautifully bleak Winter's day at Ravenseyrie.

"Didn't it feel good?"

Yes, it did!

     ---L. Gerard

The grullo forms of Altamiro and Fidalgo

Limbs of Poplar

At the edge of the forest

On a beautifully bleak Winter's day

At Ravenseyrie

Special thanks to Joni Mitchell for her song Help Me