by Kim Ort | Oct 28, 2015 | Books, Consolations, Contemplative Photographers, Place
“Genius is best understood in its original and ancient sense: describing the specific underlying quality of a given place as in the Latin Genius Loci, the spirit of a place, it describes a form of meeting, of air and land and trees, perhaps a hillside, a cliff...
by Kim Ort | Sep 29, 2015 | Books, Consolations
The measure of our courage is the measure of our willingness to embrace disappointment, to turn towards it rather than away, the understanding that every real conversation of life involves having our hearts broken somewhere along the way. ~ David Whyte, Consolations...
by Kim Ort | Sep 22, 2015 | Books, Consolations
In this week’s reflection on “destiny,” I gravitated towards David Whyte’s description of “the everyday conversational essence of destiny: our future influenced by the very way we hold the conversation of life itself.” Destiny is...