8:23

Wing and time, flying.

Photo: At Wellington airport, New Zealand

(A good friend just visited and I would 

have liked her to stay longer.)

way

In a few days, it's a national holiday here in New Zealand, when people honor those who died in the world wars, but I would like to honor those who work to end wars, large and small, who work to prevent them, and I think of A J Muste who said that there is no way to peace - peace is the way. 
Photo: A wreath made for ANZAC Day, Kaipororo, New Zealand

make something

The Chinese word for crisis

includes the word opportunity:

maybe start over and make 

something new.

Photo: An abandoned structure, Wairarapa

ekehetuna

Ekehetuna has to be one

of my favo(u)rite words/

names for a town, and here

is an entrance.

Photo: Door and shadow, Ekehetuna, New Zealand

the meeting

Here, lake meets sea.

Photo: At Lake Onoke,

Palliser Bay, New Zealand

traveling

How we travel

with the camera

at eye, in hand.

Photo: P. photographing,

Lake Onoke, New Zealand

white light

Some days, the light 

is so bright and white 

that we might disappear into it.

Photo: Home in Masterton, New Zealand

white kiwi

Maybe the bird guards us and trees 

for millions of years.

They stay with the same mate, 

sleep with beak tucked,

make two balls of hair in the daylight.

Photo: The back of a very large kiwi bird

in the town of Ekehetuna, New Zealand

Text: Excerpt from my poem: "Kiwi"

reading

reading images as words

Photo: Lichen on mailbox, Wairarapa, New Zealand

looking at a lily

You know you love something 

when you see it

in yet another way.

Lily and shadow, at J's home, Masterton, New Zealand

plum pot

We plum forgot 

we were making jam

and look how 

pretty mistakes can be.

Photo: Our pot covered in liquid plum

sway

I prefer to dance 

outdoors, and this whole

building and its entrance seem 

to be swaying, dancing.

Photo: A church in Masterton, New Zealand

our own kingdom

'The Kingdom of God Is Within You'

says Luke (17:21), 

says Leo (Tolstoy).

Photo: On an Ekehetuna Street, New Zealand

is this all

we need?

Photo: On a sidewalk, New Zealand

keeping people in, out

Janet Frame writes of several hospitals, 

with walls and doors and gates and screens, 

keeping people in, and people out, and just yesterday, 

I read her 'Gorse is not People' in which a patient had been expecting to be able to leave when she turned 21.

Photo: An old hospital, Greytown

turn turn turn

All wishes for (y)our new year.
Photo: Painted on a street, New Zealand