Japanese culture has a deep appreciation for the beauty of nature and its imperfections. This Wabi-sabi philosophy emphasizes the beauty of natural objects and processes, including the marks of time and weathering.
Driftwood, with its natural roughness, asymmetry, and marks of age, can be seen as an embodiment of these principles.
Beauty can be found in the imperfect and transient.
Bill and I are lucky to be able to walk along the sea in all seasons, to admire the rocks, the driftwood, to stare off over the waves, to get lost in something far deeper than ourselves.
Over the years, I have taken many photographs of driftwood creatures.
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April 4, 2022
In response to a photograph by Kathleen Moriarty (doctored to protect our protagonist)
April 4, 2022 In response to a photograph by Kathleen Moriarty Dressed in a flowered red dress, she has wandered far from the others, her bare feet in touch with the cool morning sand. She has wandered to the other side of the island, peopled only with driftwood shaped like ancient memories. Her brilliant red hair trails behind, trying to tell her about the exuberance of youth but she doesn't have the patience to listen. Rather, she wanders and with beckoning hand offers herself to some magic off-stage bird let's say, a young spoonbill also roseate. None of us will know what our little girl discovers now or ever, but perhaps, one day, almost a century away, her hair now the color of driftwood, she will wander back again to tell her story to a new generation of birds.
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We are all beautiful, natural objects, imperfect and impermanent, transient.
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I was so touched by this! Beautiful!
douce, mais petite triste