Photography is an art form that gives one an opportunity to "capture" a moment in time, a specific moment which otherwise might have gone unnoticed or unseen if it were not for the photograph and the love of sharing with others. I also view the photographs that I have been fortunate to take, as gifts from the universe. I know I have been guided to them, from a greater consciousness other than my own. As example, finding a goose in the median of a parking lot sitting on a nest hatching her brude. How beyond ordinary is that?
For beyond the ordinary is attending to the present--to the sacredness in the present. Beyond the ordinary is that which allows us to get out of the narrow confines of self to reach a place of interior peace where we are not obsessed with the thoughts of material possessions, immediate concerns, and learn to accept ourselves and our human nature. What lessons can we learn from a goose intent on one blessed event that of ushering in her goslings. Even with the noon hour traffic, she cannot be dissuaded to leave her sacred place. What can we discern from this devotion while in the mist of the swell of life and living, or hurrying to the next thing that grabs our attention? Could it be as Thomas Merton described as a "long loving look at the real?" or as Amelia Barr said,"It is always the simple that produces the marvelous." Could the lesson of Beyond the Ordinary be found not beyond but within?
