This is a beautiful teaching. Carrie, I don't know you personally but your creative heart reaches out and connects to mine. Thank you for giving me thoughts of hope, healing, love and joy, and strengh.
This post sparked so many ideas. When I saw the photo of the Tree of Life sculpture, knowing its story, I was flooded with emotion. My mind then turned to The Washed Ashore Project, which makes huge sculptures from plastics collected from the ocean to bring awareness to that issue. I thought of my own growing collection of metal objects that could damage vehicles that I have retrieved from roadways, to one day be made into a sculpture. I pondered how patterns in life can be healthy or unhealthy, and the beauty of both symmetry and asymmetry. I thought of the term “sacred geometry,” and the wonderful phenomenon of vibrations, and the patterns in musical pitch and rhythm. And then I tried to just ponder it all.
I was by a marsh the other day to hear peepers and took this picture of mud..https://photos.app.goo.gl/TvHZPRtQcFXZUWfU8 it has its own pattern and the ext time the water flows here and dries up, I imagine the pattern changes. However as I read your post Carrie and thought about my mud picture, I thought about the sound the peepers make. It too is a repeating pattern. We were there near sunset. So it started slowly and then built up in sound as evening approached. Of course an occasional goose had to add some accents. The feeling I get is comfort in seeing the pattern. Or in this case hearing the pattern. There's order to the universe in the pattern. Less chaotic if that makes sense.
I loved this post, Carrie, as I always love your words and music. Have you been to New Zealand? The spiral shape, based on the growth pattern of the silver fern, the symbol of the country, is everywhere. The shape is called the koru. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koru
In a recent conversation at "On Being with Krista Tippet", Janine Benyus, co-founder of Biomimicry Institute, argues that "beauty has always been a signal of the good". Nature arranges both inanimate parts and living organisms in patterns, from crystals to plants to planetary systems, and we, humans, perceive them as beautiful. So they must be good. What can we learn from this observation? I dare to extrapolate patterns we can see into patterns we live through. The recurrence of days, weeks, seasons, years, our daily routines, work, seasonal activities, and finally, passing of generations resemble a spiral of leaves, every ring similar to the previous one, but each one a bit different, bigger, more mature.
Maybe we should find beauty and goodness in this repetitive pattern of our lives, too? Not complain about boring chores, not seeking extreme adventures so frantically? We live our patterns, and they may be beautiful and good, too.
Beautiful reflection. Thank you Jackie. I’ll definitely check out the link. I hadn’t heard that episode on On Being yet yes, to take some comfort and assurance from the daily patterns of our lives… Thanks again.
This is a beautiful teaching. Carrie, I don't know you personally but your creative heart reaches out and connects to mine. Thank you for giving me thoughts of hope, healing, love and joy, and strengh.
This post sparked so many ideas. When I saw the photo of the Tree of Life sculpture, knowing its story, I was flooded with emotion. My mind then turned to The Washed Ashore Project, which makes huge sculptures from plastics collected from the ocean to bring awareness to that issue. I thought of my own growing collection of metal objects that could damage vehicles that I have retrieved from roadways, to one day be made into a sculpture. I pondered how patterns in life can be healthy or unhealthy, and the beauty of both symmetry and asymmetry. I thought of the term “sacred geometry,” and the wonderful phenomenon of vibrations, and the patterns in musical pitch and rhythm. And then I tried to just ponder it all.
Opps did not finish writing...place of Love with a reverence for humanity and beauty of life. Blessings to you for you. ❤️🙏❤️
Carrie,
As a Nature lover observer, your words are music for my Soul. You write ✍️ from a plCe of Love
I was by a marsh the other day to hear peepers and took this picture of mud..https://photos.app.goo.gl/TvHZPRtQcFXZUWfU8 it has its own pattern and the ext time the water flows here and dries up, I imagine the pattern changes. However as I read your post Carrie and thought about my mud picture, I thought about the sound the peepers make. It too is a repeating pattern. We were there near sunset. So it started slowly and then built up in sound as evening approached. Of course an occasional goose had to add some accents. The feeling I get is comfort in seeing the pattern. Or in this case hearing the pattern. There's order to the universe in the pattern. Less chaotic if that makes sense.
I loved this post, Carrie, as I always love your words and music. Have you been to New Zealand? The spiral shape, based on the growth pattern of the silver fern, the symbol of the country, is everywhere. The shape is called the koru. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koru
In a recent conversation at "On Being with Krista Tippet", Janine Benyus, co-founder of Biomimicry Institute, argues that "beauty has always been a signal of the good". Nature arranges both inanimate parts and living organisms in patterns, from crystals to plants to planetary systems, and we, humans, perceive them as beautiful. So they must be good. What can we learn from this observation? I dare to extrapolate patterns we can see into patterns we live through. The recurrence of days, weeks, seasons, years, our daily routines, work, seasonal activities, and finally, passing of generations resemble a spiral of leaves, every ring similar to the previous one, but each one a bit different, bigger, more mature.
Maybe we should find beauty and goodness in this repetitive pattern of our lives, too? Not complain about boring chores, not seeking extreme adventures so frantically? We live our patterns, and they may be beautiful and good, too.
You can find the mentioned conversation here:
https://onbeing.org/programs/janine-benyus-biomimicry-an-operating-manual-for-earthlings/
Beautiful reflection. Thank you Jackie. I’ll definitely check out the link. I hadn’t heard that episode on On Being yet yes, to take some comfort and assurance from the daily patterns of our lives… Thanks again.