Sunday, January 15, 2012
Snow
The first and most likely the only snow of the season. Just a dusting. It is kind of pretty and it is a learning experience to see the ducks not complaining because it is cold or food is hard to find.
Sunday, January 01, 2012
Cheese, crackers, herb and wine
Cheese, crackers, herb and wine
Cheese, crackers, herb and wine
toasting the new year
while cursing time.
A new year?
What is new, what is not any more than the residue
of the endless intent of endless yesterdays?
Or is it a refining of vision,
a quest and answering of questionings
concluding today is all there is until tomorrow?
Cheese, crackers, herb and wine,
sacraments of earth and time
are all I need today.
poetry and photography Copyright 2012 by David H.Roche
Sunday, December 11, 2011
Holiday Tote Bag
A one of it's kind design resulting from the photograph of a spiderweb beaded with dew drops. When I was done with the image I saw that it looked like a Christmas ornament.
It never ceases to amaze me how many different images can be extracted from one original image.
Click on the image below to view and purchase the tote bag.
It never ceases to amaze me how many different images can be extracted from one original image.
Click on the image below to view and purchase the tote bag.
Sunday, June 12, 2011
Eyes of the World
I stopped along the river to eat a sausage biscuit and some hash browns.
This individual realized it and arrived out of the blue. There were signs up saying he / she should not be fed. I have a feeling there is something in people who read signs like that and decide to feed them anyway. I've got another feeling that there's people who read signs like that and would let them starve rather than disobey.
Anyhow I took a number of pictures of this guy or gal I don't know which, this bird was sharing time with me, and I took advantage of it. This one came out the best.
A song came to mind as I worked on the picture. Click on the title to hear the song. Click on photographs for greater detail.
Pretty isn't he /she? The bible tells us we can discover the deepest parts of God in the things that have been created. You might see a little of that in these photographs and art.
More eyes of the world
Photographs and text Copyright 2011 by David H. Roche
This individual realized it and arrived out of the blue. There were signs up saying he / she should not be fed. I have a feeling there is something in people who read signs like that and decide to feed them anyway. I've got another feeling that there's people who read signs like that and would let them starve rather than disobey.
Anyhow I took a number of pictures of this guy or gal I don't know which, this bird was sharing time with me, and I took advantage of it. This one came out the best.
A song came to mind as I worked on the picture. Click on the title to hear the song. Click on photographs for greater detail.
Pretty isn't he /she? The bible tells us we can discover the deepest parts of God in the things that have been created. You might see a little of that in these photographs and art.
More eyes of the world
Photographs and text Copyright 2011 by David H. Roche
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Highway to the Unknown
The gospel song 'You Gotta Walk That Lonesome Valley' comes to mind in this picture. In the end (spiritually speaking) we are completely alone. If we haven't learned to accept this one absolute requirement of life with peace and an understanding that provides hope for crossing over through the light into the unknown we have wasted our time and our end will be awful. We would be like the 'virgins' in Jesus' story who let the oil run out of their lamps. They imagined they were all set for the wedding, but as it turned out they were out of luck and couldn't go.
Artwork by David H. Roche Copyright 2011
Artwork by David H. Roche Copyright 2011
Saturday, February 26, 2011
Artistic Interpretation of Psalm 22
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What is mankind? The old testament describes him as having the characteristics of flowers of the field that come and go with the seasons. In the New Testament the Christ figure is said to embody all the human race. This would mean that the words of the bible verse applied to all of us.
Mankind wants to deny this. He (it) wants to be here permanently and he's devised religions to slap reality in the face and say it isn't so.
However it is so. We are like flowers of the field. We come and go.
"Like as a father pitieth his children, so the LORD pitieth them that fear him.
For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.
As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.
For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more.
But the mercy of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children's children;" Psalm 103
There is reason to hope, but hope only in a future dimension because this one is on the way to its conclusion.
Photograph Copyright 2011 by David H. Roche
What is mankind? The old testament describes him as having the characteristics of flowers of the field that come and go with the seasons. In the New Testament the Christ figure is said to embody all the human race. This would mean that the words of the bible verse applied to all of us.
Mankind wants to deny this. He (it) wants to be here permanently and he's devised religions to slap reality in the face and say it isn't so.
However it is so. We are like flowers of the field. We come and go.
"Like as a father pitieth his children, so the LORD pitieth them that fear him.
For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.
As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.
For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more.
But the mercy of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children's children;" Psalm 103
There is reason to hope, but hope only in a future dimension because this one is on the way to its conclusion.
Photograph Copyright 2011 by David H. Roche
The Shaman's Mind
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Shamanism is a way of aiding people to integrate themselves with their environment and this view of life includes the whole person in a whole environment involving healing and the restoration of balance within those relationships.
In western culture we have quite a different view of life. We view our environment as something we are at war with and must be conquered and subdued. This, I believe, is due to the influence of the Christian doctrines of the 'fall' and 'original sin' and the 'nature of man'. These declarations of what the 'Fall' meant reflect those sentiments and the result is that mankind views himself in the attitude that it, mankind, is an alien, a stranger and out of place in the environment he finds himself in. So he is at war with it and he has no peace within himself as a result.
Shamanism attempts to revise the way we look at our presence in the world. It's ultimate goal is to restore man to the condition where he does not feel afraid or alienated in the world. In the end we need to understand what this brief experience known as life is all about. If we think we are at war with everything because of the doctrine of the 'Fall' we will be conditioned to respond as if we were at war. Basically the way mankind is relating to the earth is the way a thug looks at an old woman's pocketbook as she passes by.
I found this website which describes Shamanic activity in a scholarly way. Google Shamanism.org or copy and paste the link into your browser. http://www.shamanism.org/ It was refreshing to see so erudite and acclaimed an authority speaking on the validity of this approach to understanding the relationships that life is comprised of.
This song is appropriate. Jim at his best.
Photograph is my property Copyright 2011 David H. Roche
Shamanism is a way of aiding people to integrate themselves with their environment and this view of life includes the whole person in a whole environment involving healing and the restoration of balance within those relationships. In western culture we have quite a different view of life. We view our environment as something we are at war with and must be conquered and subdued. This, I believe, is due to the influence of the Christian doctrines of the 'fall' and 'original sin' and the 'nature of man'. These declarations of what the 'Fall' meant reflect those sentiments and the result is that mankind views himself in the attitude that it, mankind, is an alien, a stranger and out of place in the environment he finds himself in. So he is at war with it and he has no peace within himself as a result.
Shamanism attempts to revise the way we look at our presence in the world. It's ultimate goal is to restore man to the condition where he does not feel afraid or alienated in the world. In the end we need to understand what this brief experience known as life is all about. If we think we are at war with everything because of the doctrine of the 'Fall' we will be conditioned to respond as if we were at war. Basically the way mankind is relating to the earth is the way a thug looks at an old woman's pocketbook as she passes by.
I found this website which describes Shamanic activity in a scholarly way. Google Shamanism.org or copy and paste the link into your browser. http://www.shamanism.org/ It was refreshing to see so erudite and acclaimed an authority speaking on the validity of this approach to understanding the relationships that life is comprised of.
This song is appropriate. Jim at his best.
Photograph is my property Copyright 2011 David H. Roche
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
How Did You Sleep?
Art by David H. Roche
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I couldn't help but remember what it was like to wake up with a hangover when I saw this picture emerge.
This is the initial photograph.
and then I added this one.
After that I just messed around with them. I learned a new technique when I got up this morning as well.
All images property of David H. Roche Copyright 2011
Click on photographs to enlarge them
I couldn't help but remember what it was like to wake up with a hangover when I saw this picture emerge.
This is the initial photograph.
and then I added this one.
After that I just messed around with them. I learned a new technique when I got up this morning as well.
All images property of David H. Roche Copyright 2011
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- My belief is that the Universe is a 'Friendly Place'. My goal is to make that known as obviously as the need for air. The way I proceed to do this is through indirection and non-teaching. I will place it in the room and go away. You will find it and say 'Ahah'.
