I am always drawn toward stormy skies, unsettling but beautiful.
These shots I took last week call to mind a book I'm reading called, The Stormy Search For The Self by Christina and Stanislav Grof, transpersonal psychologists. It's about the painful difficulties of personal transformation. Terrible, yet lovely, like the stormy New Mexico sky.
Like D.H. Lawrence says in Phoenix, "Are you willing to be sponged out, erased, cancelled, made nothing? Are you willing to be made nothing? dipped into oblivion? If not, you will never really change." But oh how painful that process can be, to be made nothing.
Though, rising from the ashes, one can be energized by the knowing of limitless possibilities. To be made nothing means the ability to create a new existence, perfectly tailored to the soul essence. It hurts for awhile. Yes. But the new growth ameliorates the pain and the promise of placid skies lies waiting.
I am always drawn toward stormy skies, unsettling but beautiful. 
These shots I took last week call to mind a book I'm reading called, The Stormy Search For The Self by Christina and Stanislav Grof, transpersonal psychologists. It's about the painful difficulties of personal transformation. Terrible, yet lovely, like the stormy New Mexico sky. 
Like D.H. Lawrence says in Phoenix, "Are you willing to be sponged out, erased, cancelled, made nothing? Are you willing to be made nothing? dipped into oblivion? If not, you will never really change." But oh how painful that process can be, to be made nothing. 
Though, rising from the ashes, one can be energized by the knowing of limitless possibilities. To be made nothing means the ability to create a new existence, perfectly tailored to the soul essence. It hurts for awhile. Yes. But the new growth ameliorates the pain and the promise of placid skies lies waiting. 
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Outstanding photos. I just want to say, Thank you. Very much.
Love this. Simple, yet so poignant!
I wish I could take storm pictures like yours! Mine never do any justice to what I actually see. Speaking of new growth I just finished a blog on that very subject!
I do like pictures like these. Never was apprehensive about stormy skies. These are edgy photos. Weather's never dull up there where you live. (Jack Matthews)
You take the best photos! Jack's right, they have an edge that pulls the eye in. NM skies seem to take on a personality all their own. I don't think a person can be stripped down to nothing...but, rather, have the non-essentials stripped away, like and onion, to the core essentials, then re-built. Sorta like an emotional boot camp.
You convey the spirit of the storm beautifully here and wow...the d.h. lawrence quote...woman, that says it so clearly, like the cleansed air after a storm. oxoxo...
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