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Posted in Photography 2 with tags beauty, blog, blogging, joy, life, Merry Christmas, nature, nature photography, peace, photography, soul on December 25, 2014 by allisonlabineInto the Universe
Posted in Photography with tags beauty, blog, blogging, forest, inspiration, light, nature, nature photography, photography, universe, wilderness on December 16, 2014 by allisonlabineSuffused with Light
Posted in Photography with tags beauty, blog, blogging, inspiring, nature, nature photography, peaceful, sunlight, tree on December 16, 2014 by allisonlabineUnder a Cerulean Sky
Posted in Inspiration with tags beautiful, beauty, blog, blogging, life, mountain, mountains, nature, nature photography, photography, photos, river, rivers, sacred, sun, sunburst, sunrise, tree on October 12, 2014 by allisonlabineBraided gold
Flows through liquid hands
Summoning the world to
Rise.
Rumbling,
Nourishing,
Whispering…
Rivers carve
Mountains
Under a
Cerulean sky.
Crisp air,
Deep,
Deeper
Breaths.
Absorb. Inhale…
This
Sacred
Space.
Sweeping
Sentinels
Through the
Ages
Stretch, giving
Birth
To Nature’s
Luminous faces.
-Allison LaBine
Image: © Mac Stone
Imagination
Posted in Inspiration with tags beauty, blog, blogging, imagination, inspiration, joyce tenneson, nature photography, portrait photography, vincent munier on October 6, 2014 by allisonlabinePoetry of the Earth
Posted in Poetry with tags beauty, blog, blogging, flower, gibran, japanese wisteria, nature, nature photography, pink, plant, poetry, purple on September 29, 2014 by allisonlabineGratitude 365
Posted in Thoughts with tags beauty, blog, blogging, gratitude, inspiration, joy, meaning, nature, peace, photography, solar eclipse, soul, thanksgiving, travel photography on November 23, 2012 by allisonlabineBeauty of your dreams
Posted in Shared Inspiration with tags art, beauty, blog, blogging, dream, hope, inspiration, life, nature, ocean, painting, peace, quote, rainbow, sea on June 27, 2012 by allisonlabine
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
Artwork by Ashton Howard. http://www.ashtonhoward.com
A Call From Home
Posted in Inspiration with tags beauty, blog, blogging, brazil, depth, foreign, home, inspiration, life, live, mother, mother ocean, mystery, ocean, photography, sea, secret, travel, writing on April 16, 2012 by allisonlabineOne of the first words I ever spoke was “ocean.” I pronounced it oonda then, and I’d often ask my parents to take me to see the big oonda. As an adult, the first thing I do when I travel to another country is search for water – a coastline, if possible. Standing on quiet Brazilian sands years ago, I realized that even though I was thousands of miles away from my home in Florida, I was home.
The world of language barriers fell away, and I was left with the primal pull of a force so deeply ingrained in me, I knew it before my own name. Sometimes, the quiet is louder than any sound. The sea spoke softly that night, allowing the moon to weave silver in her midnight skin. I knelt down, listening to her gentle murmurs – to the faint music she played across the shore. She whispered of secrets long forgotten…of dreams hidden inside her depths.
The salt water ran cool and gentle over my hand till there was no longer a distinction between the two – till the sea became my own skin. Without a single word, she reminded me that before I ever took my first steps on land, I lived for nine months in the water – that all life on earth descended from her. In the dark calm of a foreign land, I was called back home.
If we listen closely, she calls to us all.
-Allison LaBine
http://www.motherocean.org
Photo by Allison LaBine