Teilhard would say that the challenge of spirituality is to integrate what does not seem to fit. To make it fit requires expanding one’s consciousness to new levels. As people add more and more complexity to their lives and integrate it, they continue to expand and further develop their consciousness.

-Teilhard de Chardin’s

The Phenomenon of Man

Explained Louis M. Savary

Adored this tree trunk as it wove its way in a very serpentine fashion through the dense (and still very green) complexity of foliage. Taken in the woods at Whiteleaf Cross, Princes Risborough.

Germany 2021

Captured in Berkeley, California in 2015 with a Tamron 90mm/2.8 macro lens wide open. (BBB2194)

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Tight relationships

Subsystems turn

Coherent organization

I love Christmas. It's my favourite time of the year: a season of kindness and generosity, friendship, laughter and love. It is also the time of the year when we get to deck the halls with beautiful decorations.

I have a Christmas tradition. I bead Christmas baubles for a select group of friends every year. Each of these baubles is 15 centimetres in diameter and contain hundreds of sequins, varying in number depending upon the complexity of the pattern and the type of sequins I use. Most sequins in these baubles are 5mm in diameter, but there are others that are slightly bigger and some which are smaller, like the small stars which are 3mm. Depending upon the colour of the sequin, I will use either a gold or a silver pin to attach it to the bauble.

These baubles are smaller than some others I do, however because they are complex patterns which start from the outside and are worked outwards in ever decreasing circles, each bauble takes approximately 2 to 2 1/2 hours per side.

It is however, a labour of love which I do to pass the time throughout the year.

Playing in arboretum Opeka (north Croatia)

Reflections of a part of the European Parliament in a water basin in front of the entrance building.

Ornate, dusty, old, repurposed, dominated by a tree, ironically beautiful. Basically these apartments are a metaphor for society in general.

On a misty morning in Little Wittenham Wood, these complex forms in the mist provide ample eye candy with their engrossing shapes and earthy hues.

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SAMYANG AF 135mm F1.8, stitched and edited in Affinity

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This shot reminds me of the ornamental Japanese blossom displays, but set in South Oxfordshire! The second shot of blackthorn blossom painting a spectacular display amid the complexity of the branches. There may be more to come!!

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While in Yangon, Myanmar, I was perplexed by the method being used to construct buildings. I'd never seen so much wood utilized and in such a concentrated area.

Autumn is back in South Bohemia.

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reflections

Urban detail. Dettaglio urbano. Abstract reality. Realtà astratta. Complessità. Complexity. Cameraphone. Androidography. Bologna 2022

Complexity.

youtu.be/bQWjlkl2klw "Out of complexity emerges greater complexity. We could almost say that the universe, nature, is a novelty-conserving or complexity-conserving engine. It makes complexity and it preserves it and it uses it as the basis for further complexity." -Terence McKenna

of buildings of Richard Meier ...

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I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,

or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.

I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,

in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms

but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;

thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,

risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.

I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;

so I love you because I know no other way than this:

where I does not exist, nor you,

so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,

so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep. "

pablo neruda sonnet xv11

The commandments of justice and mercy, indeed of love or the golden rule, have after all inspired historic resistance to lawless aggressions and to oppressive law. The Torah, the Jewish law, is not reducible to legalism or exclusivism, but supports the “struggle for justice and mercy.” 26 Perhaps it is a matter of infusing the commandments within the atmosphere of the Eros: “Arise my love, and come away” is also an imperative—a proposition in the sense suggested in our earlier discussion of truth-claims! After all, the ethics of “should and should not” may also encode, should also encode the divine lure. For without strong supportive structures of community, society, liturgy, theology, the chances are minute that we can individually or collectively even discern the initial aim...

...How does this unforcing force work? By sparking your desire: desire ignites desire. This sparking process takes place largely beneath and before our consciousness. Sometimes glimpsed in a dream, in a stranger’s face, in a flow of grief, a comforting embrace, a surge of music, a private illumination, a public act of truth. In conscience, shame, guilt, awe at a random sunset. The spark is what we hope for in prayer, meditation, worship. We infer it—and cannot in truth make any certain claims about it, as in “God told me this or that; God wills this or that for me.” For it comes already coated in our experience, in our own subjectivity, in the aims of our own socialized desire.

--On the Mystery, DISCERNING DIVINITY IN PROCESS, Catherine Keller

Possibly the last of this little series of blossoming blackthorn at Wittenham Clumps. The branches of these trees always fascinate with their complexity, a feast for the eyes to wander. Couple that with a glorious display of white flower and the seem now to be dancing.

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An imposing sight looms through the misty wood.The complexity highlighted by the backdrop of fine branches of the trees in the background.

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Week 7: Reflections.

Image based on a flower in Biltmore House's gardens

The fifth in this series and trying to find some kind of balanced shot in this chaotic scene is difficult to this is as close as I could get, hence the title.

Here is my 2021 close-up of this remarkable flower.

See my previous post for this year's life-cycle mosaic of it.

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