by Kim Ort | Oct 14, 2015 | Art, Contemplation, Photography, Topics, Wonder / Awe, Workshops
Last week, I participated with 15 other artists, writers, and photographers in a fascinating retreat to Block Island – a beautiful sanctuary for people and birds off the coast of Rhode Island. One of the writing exercises was to write a letter from Block Island...
by Kim Ort | Aug 6, 2015 | Acceptance, Books, Essence, Humility, Spirituality, Zen Buddhism
Wabi-sabi refers to an elusive and elegant beauty. Wabi suggests a beauty of elegant imperfection. Sabi means loneliness or rather aloneness. Together, they suggest the beauty of ‘the withered, weathered, tarnished, scarred, intimate, coarse, earthly,...
by Kim Ort | Jul 23, 2015 | Contemplation, Openness, Photography, Zen Buddhism
This is one of those posts that ties together a few ideas that came across my radar last week. Firstly, I’ve been doing a lot of writing and I’m struck by how the process feels like a constant revision. I receive new insights and add them. Unnecessary...
