Maine Forest Cafe

365 TAO lists daily readings for the north and south hemisphere.

This morning, I looked at the balance between the two. After Tao is about the symmetry between reality and ideality.

N.318.Singing. Let us be like birds. Bird songs are seasonal and vary with the weather. As do we live, or should. Not in opposition, but with engaged harmony. For we cannot change the weather or the season. But we can celebrate each.

S.136.Judgment. That which agrees is the truth. Opposites and dualities have to exist. Truth is the only singularity in between.

Delta.182.Flow. This is the midpoint between the dualities of North and South. The freedom to choose and to change belongs with us.

Now that this is known, sing with seasons for that is the singular truth that allows us to flow with life, not bruised by living.

Continue reading ‘Does anyone really know what time it is?’

Trick’n'Treat. Why does it have to be either/or? Both truly compliment each other without the decision anxiety of forced choice. Really though, how many kids will choose Trick over Treat? Who goes to the store to buy a bowl of Tricks?

Would treating the adults become a trick? One shot of liberating courage. Now the event comes with a five, or much less, house limit.

Pumpkins have devolved into a clever, cut by the numbers, art form. Nothing like the free-form butcher knife creations of back in the day . This one here is more clever than I ever got to.

From ghoulies and ghosties
And long-leggedy beasties
And things that go bump in the night,
Good Lord, deliver us!
~Scottish Saying

Doe & Fawn, originally uploaded by Zeus Ocean Storm.

At eight o’clock this morning, I was sitting here in my study, researching a 2010 project. Just to left of this monitor, I looked down to see this fawn & doe feasting on drops from the forest apple tree. Grabbing my camera, I dashed downstairs to get a few photographs.

At first, the camera remained on point and shoot – aka Programmed mode. Due to the back lighting, the picture was wiped and washed out. Not to mention the slower shooter speed made sharp focusing somewhere between difficult and nearly impossible. Switching over to manual, I was able to speed up the shutter speed enough to sharpen the focus and eliminate the washing out.

I always wonder, how often do the deer come by and no one sees them. It was a good start to this day.