SELF PORTRAIT

Photo by S. Auberle

In case you noticed my absence this past ten days, I've been traveling. Got to see great mountains, rivers, ocean and rainforests. If a word can possibly describe all these, it would have to be that over-used word of awesome. More likely, there are no words. Gathering together sketches, words, photos to, perhaps, write a poem, paint a picture. But it may be too much to condense into my small creations. In the meantime, some words from Thomas Merton that seem to fit:

Do not look for rest in any pleasure,

because you were not created for pleasure,

you were created for joy.

And if you do not know the difference

between pleasure and joy,

you have not yet begun to live.

~Thomas Merton