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I’m out of sorts today, somehow slightly out of tune, odd pains in my body, everything an effort. Like a car that has had a crash twisting its chassis but still driveable, it crabs along the road at a strange angle. This is how we go through life, we have this beautiful soul but we have somehow got out of synch, we crab along pursuing bodily desires, dragging along our list of grievances our chassis somehow twisted around the axis of our spiritual self never quite managing to stay in t …

A clear, cold and stunningly beautiful day yesterday. Fresh snow on the mountain and a heavy frost. I was out pre dawn to get shots of the mountain with the southern cross low in the sky. Sunrise from port Taranaki then some bird watching at the Waiwhakaio river mouth.  Later in the day Catherine and I headed up to Taranaki for a short tramp in the fresh snow.  Beautiful views of Ruapehu and Ngauruhoe in the distance and then while we were taking a break, a friendly dunnock (hedge spar …

A beautiful clear cold winter morning on Friday with a stunning sunrise from New Plymouths West End beach. After seeing the sunrise I had planned to head out to the Waiwhakaio river mouth to see what birds might be about but when I looked out over the foreshore at west end I saw lots of kotare (NZ sacred kingfisher) hunting in the rock pools so that's where I stayed for the next four hours.  It was one of those days where everything went right for photography, beautiful warm morning li …

Silence burning throughout existence permeating everything.Stillness, peace, joy, love, silencedifferent aspects of the infinite.Unbounded freedom, pure awareness bubbling up into human consciousness.A vastness unfolding inside, a touch of the infinite within us all.The great arc of the milky way stretching out over the Tasman sea from Taranaki.  The glow on the horizon is from the moon which has just set.Our sun is insiginficant amongst the billions of stars of the Milky Way.  Our gal …