Do you take up residence in the antiquated, fabricated, and absorbed patterns of man? Or are you sagaciously swifter and more dynamically prudent than that, where they can’t (no matter how hard they look, with their old-fangled ways) ever find you? Though it’s really not a mere place, are you where they can’t ever know you? Concrete images of self are much of what they cadaverously exist as. Concrete images of self are what they taught you to absorb, and such images and devised schemes of inner dominancy are petrified and calcified. The solidified, isolated center of inner self-ish-ness (which really isn’t a center at all) is endorsed and condoned by ruthless others (who, themselves, absorbed from conditioned others). To go beyond conditioned ways, significantly, requires that the mind shed its primitive caterpillar/chrysalis ways and, instead, soar (as a fresh butterfly) free from all the inertness.
The beautiful butterflies and the colorful flowers of this marvelous earth are not separate things. Please don’t merely yank the flowers out of the soil and shove them in cold vases; please look at them where they grow (and connect with them). Please don’t net radiant butterflies and coldly stick them in framed wall-display-mounts; please enjoy them as they vibrantly fly (and please soar higher too). Please don’t try to isolate yourself in a dark, dead little corner (of self, of “me”) and think that you are somehow separate from (and different from) the living whole. Please blossom and open up your wings beyond mere stagnant (enclosed) ways.
We are each other (1) Photo by Thomas Peace c. 2016
We are each other (2) Photo by Thomas Peace c. 2016
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Beautiful images with profound words. I see you know the truth.
Thank you, Isabella! 🙂 … and the most profound truth is not merely knowable.
You’ve obviously experienced it too.
Thank you, Tom for reminding us to “open up your wings beyond mere stagnant (enclosed) ways”. Great post!
Many thanks, Amy! 🙂 We were at a big Museum the other day and, in their gift shop, they had cases of mounted butterflies. I had already written this post… but it reminded me of it.
Great post and extraordinarily captured pictures!!
Thank you, DL! I’ll continue to occasionally post butterfly photos from earlier in the summer and fall. 🙂
Looking forward to it !!
Gorgeous butterfly!
Thanks, Sara! 🙂 All that i photograph are local… though some of them travel (without fossil fuels) a lot farther from our region than i do.
Tom I do the same kind of photography for my blog – without your excellence – that’s the point though isn’t it? Nature is everywhere in our backyards!…and you demonstrate that so exquisitely.
Being close to nature right where we live is awesome, Sara! 🙂
My 2D photography isn’t nearly as impressive as the 3D holography that i used to do.
Beautifully said and beautiful butterfly. 🙂
Thank you, Scifi! I love Buckeye butterflies… (and they are very social, often seen in groups)!
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Your words and intentions are very true and you emphasize them with your beautiful photo, Thomas. I completely agree with you.
One hopes they are true! 🙂 (Of all the things to collect and display… butterflies shouldn’t be one of them.)
I love to watch them in nature here and in Greece. They are so beautiful and harmless.
Yes, seeing them in nature is the way it was meant to be! 🙂
So beautiful, the wings look like velvet.
Buckeye butterflies do have a very velvety look to them! 🙂 Good description, Karen!
We are each other. Beautiful 💕
Thanks much, Val! (Like the fingers of one hand.) 🙂
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Amazing and beautiful capture Tom! Great job 🙂