shutter bleh . . .
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doodlemaierMarcus Borg wrote a book that I'm soon to read called 'The Heart of Christianity', which I'm only certain H took to B-more with her so I can't quote directly here, but in it he states that when we see the world as ordinary and uninteresting our hearts are closed (to the Divine).
I thought about these words a lot yesterday as JG and I scoured DC taking photographs. I realised that every time the camera aperature opens to capture the ordinary array of light, reflecting off of ordinary objects, in ordinary places that my heart opens to the divine that I recognised there. For that reason I wish I could share the photographs that JG has posted at![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
the_autumn_knew, unfortunately for the rest her journal is 'friends only', however a lot of her work can be seen at poetryandfamine. She has an amazing eye, I can only imagine the heart behind them.
As I futz with the ones I took, and looking at what she's posted there this morning I realise that although mindful of these words I was, in a sense, prying the divine from the ordinary through my camera, forcing it out into the open. I was prying open my heart to the world with an electronic shutter mechanism rather than with compassion and forgiveness. While my eyes and mind were framing them my heart was orbitting matters in a different time and place; speaking of which have come to, what I hope is, a very gratifying confluence for everyone involved through this morning's phone call fromdontshootthecat. But that is a post for after I've gotten a handle on some of the mess in this apartment.
JG, if you read this: I had a wonderful time yesterday, and if your schedule permits I'd really like to do this again sometime soon! I hope I wasn't too heavy to travel with as I have this kind of aimless sense of geography and a really poor relationship with linear time. I got home last night and put dinner on, called H, and promptly fell asleep with a crushing headache! I don't think she's too terribly pissed about us visiting the Cathedral without her, but then we only scratched the surface there. Worth while? Oh, hell-yeah!
I thought about these words a lot yesterday as JG and I scoured DC taking photographs. I realised that every time the camera aperature opens to capture the ordinary array of light, reflecting off of ordinary objects, in ordinary places that my heart opens to the divine that I recognised there. For that reason I wish I could share the photographs that JG has posted at
the_autumn_knew, unfortunately for the rest her journal is 'friends only', however a lot of her work can be seen at poetryandfamine. She has an amazing eye, I can only imagine the heart behind them. As I futz with the ones I took, and looking at what she's posted there this morning I realise that although mindful of these words I was, in a sense, prying the divine from the ordinary through my camera, forcing it out into the open. I was prying open my heart to the world with an electronic shutter mechanism rather than with compassion and forgiveness. While my eyes and mind were framing them my heart was orbitting matters in a different time and place; speaking of which have come to, what I hope is, a very gratifying confluence for everyone involved through this morning's phone call from
dontshootthecat. But that is a post for after I've gotten a handle on some of the mess in this apartment. JG, if you read this: I had a wonderful time yesterday, and if your schedule permits I'd really like to do this again sometime soon! I hope I wasn't too heavy to travel with as I have this kind of aimless sense of geography and a really poor relationship with linear time. I got home last night and put dinner on, called H, and promptly fell asleep with a crushing headache! I don't think she's too terribly pissed about us visiting the Cathedral without her, but then we only scratched the surface there. Worth while? Oh, hell-yeah!
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Date: 2005-09-11 06:42 pm (UTC)just let me know when, and i'm there. and how. =) and you were wonderful to travel with, we made our way around alright, no worries. haha. it was an adventure, and such a lovely one at that.
much ♥
ps. git down!