THE MOON IS WATCHING...

0 Lady Moon, your horns point toward the east;

          Shine, be increased:

0 Lady Moon, your horns point toward the west;

          Wane, be at rest.

from Sing-Song by Christina Rossetti 

REPORTING FROM THE MOON, or rather, WAXING & WANING:

It's been six weeks since my last confession post.  And I must confess that I have missed y'all!  I know some of you have grown to count on these RIPPLES FROM THE CENTER.  No worries.  I'm back... and never ceased sending out ripples of the invisible kindnesses... or thinking of y'all as I took these pics... 

HIGHLIGHTS SINCE LAST I WROTE:

Shelley Morningsong & Fabian Fontanelle's concert at The Lodge at Sante Fe with Larry Mitchell on guitar!  CHECK 'EM OUT!

http://www.larrymitchell.com/ http://www.shelleymorningsongonline.com

Final recording of 17 BREATHS: INHALE.EXHALE with music by Larry Mitchell for my first spoken word-photography-music DVD 

ROAD TRIP & CAMPING north of Santa Fe in the Sangre de Cristos afterward... then up to Taos to the miracle of camping right beside Columbine Creek... took about 2000 pics! Did the full Enchanted Circle loop back around to Taos.

SEED Institute's WISDOM FROM THE ANCIENTS Conference... Autumn Equinox celebration... Harvest Moon & 100 Thousand Poets for Change!

NEXT TUESDAY!  I'm the featured poet @ Adobe Walls Open Mic @ Page One Books, Tuesday, Oct. 9th, 7-9pm.

http://www.kpgurney.me/AdobeWalls/Open_Mic.html

IDEAS GROWING: Premiere of 17 BREATHS:INHALE.EXHALE at a venue or a home near you!

The Moon is Watching FUNdraiser & online photography exhibit/sale to raise capital for a collaborative art installation and full-length DVD project via Kickstarter, IndioGoGo, or CrowdFunding Project and ETSY.com 

PAST THE FUTURE PRESENT: GOING HOME

Wistful, reflective, soothing... I am en.vel.op'd in a sepia haze...  seeing through the August lens of summer's Dog Days... my first post in over a month.  I've been meditating on the photos I've taken this summer.  This little 'film' was shot from one of my favorite 'locales' ~ the inside of the Southwest Chief.  (I did not get the name of these young Mennonite folk.  If this is you, let me know!)  

Note the water bottle, the cell phone...    

There are countless untold stories along this rail line, out on this magnificent, beautiful, wide open, abundant and at once unforgiving drought-prone landscape.  I invite you to enjoy this visual narrative, this unwritten story.  As with all work, it is a self-portrait of sorts.  I think it strikes a universal cord.   xoxo, Julie

PAST THE FUTURE PRESENT: GOING HOME

an original photojourney 'film' 

by Julie SuZaNNe BroKKeN

and FLYiNG HeARTs PRoDUCTIONs, © 2012

Song:  Going Home

Artist: Stephen Bennett

Album: Slide Area Ahead

Passenger Train of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, around 1895

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atchison,_Topeka_and_Santa_Fe_Railway

DREAMING IN GREEN

Summer is reminding me again of the value of pace and moving slowly through this luscious, gorgeous world... rain or shine, plenty or drought, no matter the season yet aware of each and every moment. Grace dances in this circle with Synchronicity and Serendipity ~ Sisters Three. They dance in this three-part entry... as the separate titles become their own poem.  

dreaming in green

in their native tongue

through smoke and shadow

comes indigo and gold

It was a revelation to walk in the Elena Gallegos Open Space this morning after yesterday's delicious pouring rain... to see how quickly green was returning to the bunches of blue grama grasses ~ dormant until yesterday!  Everything is singing in green... a crow, even the shy blue scrub jay hiding in a juniper, and the sweet little black-throated gray warbler flitting around these high desert pines.  And me?  Today was the day I fell in love with the one-seeded juniper trees as they whispered secrets about Georgia O'Keeffe. 

IN THEIR NATIVE TONGUE

  

Elena Gallegos Open Space, June 30th, in evening twilight  

THROUGH SMOKE AND SHADOW ~ INDIGO AND GOLD

Views looking west toward Corrales, New Mexico and the Romero Fire in the Rio Grande Bosque, June 22, 2012, from the roadside near Sandia Casino, as well as views from and in the Elena Gallegos Open Space closer to the mountains...  Smoke plumes and Apache Plumes, drought dormant Blue Grama Grasses in gold.