Miriam's Wedding Flowers

A few of my favorite photographs from Miriam's wedding. 

Dynamic Calm

I want an Ocean

of

Dynamic Calm

Ever changing

Colors

Reflecting

light

in

a

million

spaces

casting

shadows

to

the

depths

of

my soul

to

feel

the

beauty

of

LOVE

that

always

Is



Ancient Trees

Photo: Heather Williams, Fort Ben State Park, Indianapolis, IN

Again and again, however we know the landscape of love
and the little churchyard there, with its sorrowing names,
and the frighteningly silent abyss into which the others
fall: again and again the two of us walk out together
under the ancient trees, lie down again and again

   among the flowers, face to face with the sky.  

~Rainer Maria Rilke                       

Desiderata

 Photo: Heather Williams, Indianapolis, IN

Desiderata

Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.

As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even to the dull and the ignorant, they too have their story. Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit.

If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain and bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself. Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.

Exercise caution in your business affairs, for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals, and everywhere life is full of heroism. Be yourself. Especially, do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love, for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is perennial as the grass.

Take kindly to the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth. Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.

Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be, and whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul.

With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world.

Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.

~Max Ehrmann

To a brightness

Photo: Heather Williams, Holliday Park, Indianapolis, IN

Life is not hurrying

on to a receding future nor hankering after

an imagined past. It is the turning 

aside like Moses to the miracle of the lit bush.

To a brightness

that seems as transitory as your youth

once, but is the eternity that awaits you.

~R.S. Thomas

A feast he does not comprehend

Photo: Heather Williams, Fort Ben State Park, Indianapolis, IN

I would prefer to be able to say: "I am satiated,

What is given to taste in this life, I have tasted."

But I am like someone in a window who draws aside a

curtain

To look at a feast he does not comprehend.

~Czeslaw Milosz

Rhythm of the universe

Photo: Heather Williams, Fort Ben State Park, Indianapolis,IN

May you recognize in your life the presence, power, and light

of your soul.

May you realize that you are never alone,

that your soul in its brightness and belonging connects you

intimately with the rhythm of the universe.

May you have respect for your own individuality and

difference.

May you realize that the shape of your soul is unique, that

you have a special destiny here,

that behind the façade of your life that there is something

beautiful, good, and eternal happening.

~John O'Donohue