eye

“I” Trouble (not with Thou)

Due to lack of sleep and stress, I’m having trouble using the computer, specifically watching the screen. I aim to post once a day, still, though reading others’ writing is taking longer. I’m about a day and a half behind, just now. I don’t know what will help the eye trouble beyond taking long breaks. It’s not a good time to consider eye exams and ordering glasses and such. Hopefully, things providing (more) relief will happen for all of us.

Sorry. Thanks. I hope each of you and each one close to you is safe and well. We’re saying “safe and well” a great deal these days, aren’t we? Well, we have to do this as one thing out of many things we do to care.

Christopher

Photo by S N Pattenden on Unsplash

Parsons Chameleon

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Lent 27

Lent 27

(1 Corinthians 12:17)

We learn we are not an eye

But thankful to have it

I am many parts

So are you

So are we

And with others

Together

It is a body, yes

It has many strengths

Many colors

Many purposes

It cannot be judged

By standards of perfection

Unless we understand

We accept

That diminishment comes with time

That disabled happens

Sometimes from the start

Don’t add an automaton

To thinking

If it’s there,

Remove it

We are splendid

Like a galaxy

The galaxy of us

If not grace,

Similarly amazing

C L Couch

Photo by Bryan Goff on Unsplash

Petaluma, United States

I took a short 20 minute drive the other night to one of my favorite spots to see the stars. It was exceptionally clear this night. What you are looking at is the core of the milky way. This photo is made up of 30 photos stacked and stitched together to produce this shot. I hope you enjoy it and that if you get a chance to look up at night and view the stars. I’m on IG @bryangoffphoto Stop by and say hi!

(characteristics of a pillar of fire and a pillar of cloud)

April 1, 2019 1

A Little Hermeneutic for a Saturday Morning

A Little Hermeneutic for a Saturday Morning

(1 Corinthians 12:17)

If all were an eye

Which is a phrase I heard

(maybe in translation)

Then the body would have

Nothing else to do

Beyond looking

Sounds dull and

V R notwithstanding

Two-dimensional

Only when the body is all active

Is there interest and

Engagement with all the creation

That’s around us

And with the Genesis maker

We can say

(we have mouths)

That this is good

C L Couch

By Edgar Degas – High Museum of Art, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=28897481

November 3, 2018 0

Balintawtaw

Balintawtaw

Look me in the eye

Balintawtaw

How might

It undulate

Do you wave in

Love or fright

Attributes that

Can be shared, you

Know:

Each evokes

A shaking of

Soul-senses

Overcome one

To have the

Other—you decide

Then with one

Intent, look the

Other in the eye

In balintawtaw

Word-High July: Welcome!

Maria of Doodles and Scribbles and I [that’s Rosema at rosemawrites] are more than excited to read your takes on the 30 Beautiful Filipino Words.

Write or create a post inspired or about the Filipino word prompts.
A post can be anything. A poem, a fiction, a six-word tale, or even a photo. It’s all up to you.
Linkback/create a pingback to this post: Word-High July 30 Beautiful Filipino Words. Here is a quick tutorial on how to do a pingback.
Tag your post with WordHighJuly, so your co-bloggers will be able to read/see your take on the prompt. Here’s how you create tags.
Most important of all, read and comment to your blogger friends (old and new found, we’ll never know).

HOP ON and let’s all GET WORD-HIGH this JULY!

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