Photo: Yael Yehuda
May you have your eyes wide open
To truths
Your heart had always known
But some wish you’d forget:
Love holds far more power
Than hate;
Light illuminates
What darkness might aggravate;
Empathy is the only real energy
Of making great.
For The Daily Post
Also: Glow
Photo: Na’ama Yehuda
Some photo challenges are worth more than one dip into the creative well … And this week’s Glow deserves a second-helping. Here comes:
I love this photo of egrets in the emptied fishpond near my sister’s house. The palm sentinels in the background, marking a line between sea and dug up sand. The birds congregating at the end of day in the shimmery wet portion of the pond, pecking for what small critters and flying insects can be found. How some egrets linger, forlorn, over the exposed bits, perhaps waiting for a change of tide. Are they harking for the times just passed, when their ‘lake’ glittered with fins? Are they holding out hope — as water, and alas, not sparkling scales, reflect the soon departing sun — for better days and the return of plenty to dine on?
Photo: S. Levenberg
Beaches with sprawling, gentle surf are among my favorite things in the world. Long, shallow waves that coat expanses of sand evoke an instant relaxation response in me, and this glowing photo taken in Australia is no exception. The light on the water deepens the magic and transports me to time before time and this very moment in time, where the steady breath of the ocean pulses the very heartbeat of Earth and moon and sun.
Photo: Amitai Asif
Be brave
Be bold
Soar high
Behold.
Be free
Be fine
Climb up
And shine.
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Photo: Amitai Asif
As peaks tower above
Too-tall tasks
Too-far prize,
Take small steps
Pace yourself,
But continue
To rise.
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Photo: Dvora Freedman
What thoughts are swathed
Under your wrap?
What life
What pain
Your brows speak of?
Your eyes avert
But hearts respond:
You’re seen
You’re heard
Becloaked or not.
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Photo: Atara Katz
I am mesmerized by this photo of the guide guiding other guides in the Judea Desert. His finger is pointing at the very small spot their location represents, onto a map where the complete area isn’t much larger than the square mileage of New Jersey …
I love how his exacting indication contrasts with the vast dunes, hills, and mountains undulating far into the horizon behind him … How the vivid topographical colors on the map contrast with the subdued palette of the landscape …
To me this photo also tells the story of the limited perception one may have of the true scale of things: The size of our cells in relation to our body; our human form compared to the vast Earth; the Earth’s size in the Milky Way; our galaxy as a dot among other dots scattered through the universe like barely a pinprick on a map.
Photo: Amitai Asif
Be your own kind of
Exceptional.
Not inherently better than others
Not more entitled
Yet still unequivocally
Uniquely
Equipped
To be the best that you can be
And do the most good you can do
As you.
For The Daily Post
Photo: Amitai Asif
Do not be fooled to think
That clouds combed
Into neat white lines
Mean that the artful skies
Have suddenly
Turned tame.
For The Daily Post
Photo: Osnat Halperin-Barlev
Hand in hand
Up they go
Mom and child
Scaling sand
Readying for
Slide-down fun.
For the Tuesday Photo Challenge
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