summer's here

This is one version of summer, here ~ at the beach, or
the hinterland. Northern NSW gets more rain
than many other parts of Australia, it's still a
different- browner - green, especially coming from Europe.
&, on sunny days, a very intense light.
This site will find lots of blogs. I like the comment at the top:
'Thanks, God'.. great what's happened in America !

japan

There was a great deal I enjoyed about Japan in the
few weeks I was there,

love the attention to detail,


yet felt relieved when I got to the Noto peninsula,
& saw some old boats, & farmhouses, trees
that weren't clipped.. I like the idea of a zen-like space,
or garden, but it never stays that way for long.
Fun paintings here
great design here

pictures for poems

An intense few months working with a poet to illustrate
his poems, years ago; these are four of them.
As far as I know, he still has (probably) rather more
paintings by Anie Williams than he really wants or needs.
I got to see a gorgeous part of Colorado, too.

This guy's photos of the yukon make me want to visit.

paintings of stones

Following on from last post, if you want to know more about
the Enneagram, this blog seems quite good. I'm not so
interested in the personal, these days. Although I read
these pages on elephants with pleasure.

At the beginning of my interest in Advaita/nonduality/satsang
painting stopped, first time ever, I guess because there was
a strong identification with being an artist.
Then, in Bavaria, I started to fill a small book with paintings
of the stones collected on walks. These are a few.

(When the AU$ is stronger I'll get book on George Quasha)

personality types

These show the 9 personality types of the Enneagram,
it's a smaller version of my pictures that appeared in the book
by Eli Jaxon Bear. I've added links that
show something about the various types. ( a little ambitious,
& still from the position of a 5 ) One, Two, Three, Four,
Five, Six, Seven, Eight, Nine.I searched in that order, realised it could take days/months,
so switched to you tube, a picture is always quicker.
(comments are welcome..)

new zealand

The New Zealand I saw was the vast, spare vistas
west of Christchurch, at that time dry & cool,
looking almost uninhabited, I couldn't tell if there
had ever been forests. Some of the mountains looked
like they'd pushed straight out of the earth, without
any intervening volcanic activity.

adding to last post

After I uploaded the last images, I was thinking
about how thin some of the people were, in the mountains,
& how my monk friends said very many people got
tb when they first came down from high altitudes.
This monk was one, living in great privation.

Then: these heartbreaking photos from James Nachtwey.