tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5100640878581081403.post6195266361818776581..comments2023-12-16T23:54:45.620+13:00Comments on . . . All Finite Things Reveal Infinitude . . . : GrrrrrClaire Beynonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00005365677016923903noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5100640878581081403.post-90342143343824963202011-02-01T10:21:16.573+13:002011-02-01T10:21:16.573+13:00PS. Rachel (and others), you might find this artic...PS. Rachel (and others), you might find this article amusing. . . 'it's titled Wet Pennies'. http://www.teachengineering.org/view_activity.php?url=http://www.teachengineering.org/collection/duk_/activities/duk_drops_mary_act/duk_drops_mary_act.xml<br /> <br />Googling for images of water striders and boatmen led me there. You and my US friend are right - the critter on this drawing is in fact a Water - or Penny - Strider. Boatmen are more robust in profile and physique! Thanks for prompting the research ; )Claire Beynonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00005365677016923903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5100640878581081403.post-8791926260094746202011-02-01T10:12:18.462+13:002011-02-01T10:12:18.462+13:00Dear Mim, I marvel at your gift for synthesis.
&...Dear Mim, I marvel at your gift for synthesis. <br /><br />'Delicate chance'<br /><br />'These sightings - grace'<br /><br />Yes and yes. So, too, your presence here. <br /><br />Thanks, as ever, Claire xoClaire Beynonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00005365677016923903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5100640878581081403.post-20474492634894995982011-02-01T10:09:04.418+13:002011-02-01T10:09:04.418+13:00Dear Marylinn - imagine if we could enter and occu...Dear Marylinn - imagine if we could enter and occupy a space with a similar lightness of touch, leaving neither dent nor stain on the surface of the things and people we come into contact with? I'm not sure if this is to be desired or not? Certainly our human affect/impact seems somehow at odds with this wish/this image? Is it a way of engagement that we might aspire to? Does lightness of touch imply shallowness of engagement? I suspect not. I would love to learn how to alight, touch, engage, disengage in the way this water boatman has. . . . no smudge of fingerprints, no bruise, no willful interference. Am just musing here. . .<br /><br />I love your term 'counter-techie', Marylinn. It has the ring of a qualification. . . Marylinn Kelly, CT ; ) xoClaire Beynonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00005365677016923903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5100640878581081403.post-81006871210939856402011-02-01T09:54:31.811+13:002011-02-01T09:54:31.811+13:00Dear, wry Susan - I love the way you come to thing...Dear, wry Susan - I love the way you come to things. . . he's a smart little bugger? Why yes! Or perhaps (like some of us at the moment) he's baffled at finding himself on strange territory, miles from where he started?! Love to you over in Maine xxxClaire Beynonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00005365677016923903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5100640878581081403.post-70017538481618134822011-02-01T09:50:04.498+13:002011-02-01T09:50:04.498+13:00Hi Steve - his image is like a shadow, isn't i...Hi Steve - his image is like a shadow, isn't it? And yes. . . it would interesting to include it. (I don't think I've invited an insect to 'take up residence' in a painting since I was a child. Could this be a sign?!)Claire Beynonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00005365677016923903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5100640878581081403.post-13174766018453905462011-02-01T09:15:53.090+13:002011-02-01T09:15:53.090+13:00Hi Elisabeth - the blog I'd intended continued...Hi Elisabeth - the blog I'd intended continued to rebel, play tricks, elude me. In the end, I surrendered. It clearly did not want to leave the draft box, so there it shall stay! <br /><br />You give us so much food for thought on your blog, Elisabeth - all that lively discussion on the significance of names, mother/daughter relationships, our relationship to & with anger. I regret I've been so tongue-tied lately. Though words elude me often, I do keep 'turning up.' Please accept a collection of appreciative pebbles in their place? L, CClaire Beynonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00005365677016923903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5100640878581081403.post-57326151386870280632011-02-01T09:00:48.227+13:002011-02-01T09:00:48.227+13:00Hi Rachel - oops, perhaps I've misnamed this d...Hi Rachel - oops, perhaps I've misnamed this dainty creature? Would you call him a 'penny strider'? (A friend in the US addressed him thus). I'd best do my homework! As you say, it was lovely of him to pose. . . and he left no tracks behind him (so contrary to the way we humans make our way?)Claire Beynonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00005365677016923903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5100640878581081403.post-55305853820940362712011-02-01T08:48:35.895+13:002011-02-01T08:48:35.895+13:00Hello Joan - and welcome to this space. I've j...Hello Joan - and welcome to this space. I've just been across to your blog and feel a kinship. I also explored the Mercy community you spoke of being a part of (in your profile); during my years in Cape Town (1986 - 1994) I was deeply engaged with The Institute of Spirituality (an ecumenical community under the direction of Arch-Bishop Desmond Tutu - you will, I'm sure, know all about it) and in the midst of these spiritually dynamic times, the resonances of that time and the instruction in 'ways contemplative' continue to inform my way of working and being in the world. It is a pleasure to meet you. I love the way you describe your connection to the land, your mountain, your river. I feel as though in coming to New Zealand, I found my turangawaewae, my soul place.Claire Beynonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00005365677016923903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5100640878581081403.post-71104253910788375252011-01-30T12:55:11.130+13:002011-01-30T12:55:11.130+13:00Exquisite . . .
Delicate chance.
These sightings...Exquisite . . .<br /><br />Delicate chance.<br /><br />These sightings--grace,<br /><br />Tender wishes from MimMimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13039776441665375475noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5100640878581081403.post-24007430452143961192011-01-30T11:27:15.415+13:002011-01-30T11:27:15.415+13:00And of course, he would be a water boatman. A van...And of course, he would be a water boatman. A vanished post is a puzzling thing...and counter-techie that I am, I have nothing to offer to retrieve it. xoMarylinn Kellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02759437467691163658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5100640878581081403.post-56675435823422530282011-01-30T04:26:01.723+13:002011-01-30T04:26:01.723+13:00smart little bugger, to find such a lovely place t...smart little bugger, to find such a lovely place to rest...susan t. landryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12454487318141469849noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5100640878581081403.post-81528217143998360222011-01-30T03:50:27.554+13:002011-01-30T03:50:27.554+13:00Maybe you should add its image.Maybe you should add its image.Out on the prairiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09548162534362532705noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5100640878581081403.post-63948372284741428452011-01-29T17:58:51.847+13:002011-01-29T17:58:51.847+13:00I'm curious to read the disappeared post, Clai...I'm curious to read the disappeared post, Claire, but in the meantime, your boatman is wonderful.Elisabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04015624747225433940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5100640878581081403.post-30123745172624735162011-01-29T17:37:44.190+13:002011-01-29T17:37:44.190+13:00That's not the same as what I call a water boa...That's not the same as what I call a water boat man; maybe they're different in the UK.<br /><br />Gorgeous image though; nice of him to pose.Rachel Fentonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10046917627054462214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5100640878581081403.post-31654397986699999002011-01-29T17:31:18.253+13:002011-01-29T17:31:18.253+13:00I am loving your blog.. that I just stumbled upon....I am loving your blog.. that I just stumbled upon..so inspirational. Thank you>Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470961835179653158noreply@blogger.com