Comments on: Beauty in Decay

By: A Shade Darker | Sacred Witness

A Shade Darker | Sacred Witness — Thu, 27 May 2010 13:28:30 +0000

[...] for the generous support I am receiving from friends, strangers, the natural world, and the Divine.Darkness is a place where seeds grow. I will embrace that truth today.Related Posts:Silky Seeds of LifeMy [...]

By: Splashing Inside My Chest | Sacred Witness

Splashing Inside My Chest | Sacred Witness — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 21:51:28 +0000

[...] that we learn to become a big enough container for all of life’s complexity, paradox, and beauty. There is incredible richness in living from that place.When have you experienced the splashing in [...]

By: Carla

Carla — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:12:27 +0000

Joan, thank you for your kind words and for your contribution here. I hope we’ll here more from you and your words of wisdom.

By: Vivienne Whale Grace

Vivienne Whale Grace — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:14:53 +0000

Joan I love that you are embracing surrender.
I stepped into my sister-in-law’s car last night and there was a little angel card sitting there
“SURRENDER”
I can hear the message over and over.
love & blessings Vivienne

By: Joan

Joan — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:06:49 +0000

This piece, the Rumi poem, and then, Vivienne’s understanding, which has been mine from precious time to precious time…that surrender is the key, just made a beautiful completion, brought me full circle – again! Thank you both so much. As one of the caregivers to a friend who is in treatment for breast cancer (surgery which she is recovering from rather well, f/u chemo to be f/u by radiation, but surgery was successful, according to all tests, so far) and as I search for almost two years for work, I needed this as much as all the gratitude work I am doing and positive thought work – this is the other side of one and the same coin. Also, your photos are so wonderful. Thank you. I see life coming from the end of another life, here, not just ending, but the beginnings that are frequently only possible once something has come to an end.

By: Tina

Tina — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 22:27:57 +0000

Carla- thanks for stopping by my site! Yours is reminding me to be more intentional about my own.

I’m glad I stumbled across yours and I will be back.

Take care~ T

By: Carla

Carla — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:05:07 +0000

Thank you for your kind words, Tina. I’m glad you enjoy the photos and the post.

I’ve just been spending some time at your site, as well, and enjoy what I’m seeing! Thanks for your voice in the world.

By: Tina

Tina — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:17:15 +0000

Wow.
Found your link over at The Daily Coyote website.

Your photos are lovely and speak right to the heart.

Thanks for this one, especially.

Loss and death can loom large over our lives. They are inevitable. They are coming.

It helps me when a light is put on the beauty and necessity of these aspects of life.

Thanks for a snapshot of that!

By: Linda Thurman

Linda Thurman — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:49:22 +0000

Thank you for that quote, Carla–I could relate to it on a very deep and satifying level.

By: Vivienne Whale Grace

Vivienne Whale Grace — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:44:38 +0000

Dear Carla,
I am an apprentice to what Rumi speaks of and there was a time in one of my depths of darkness I taped that poem to the side of my dresser so it could be the first thing I saw as I opened my eyes.

I am learning to honour all my feelings one of the most painful of which was giving up hope. It was a feeling of utter desolation. Life did just not seem worth living the fight for our Gaia or peace just did not seem possible to win. I grew into understanding that I had to surrender, surrender to it all. Many times I thought suicide would be a door but I knew I could never walk through that door because of my loved ones. I am learning to surrender to the dark underworlds of my life as I call them and trust that like Spring I will return. The brown dead appearing bulb holds the beauty of a flower and I know my bleakness holds shoots of green. I no longer wish to save Gaia or fight for peace I’ve learnt I can only save myself and be peace. I love the work you are doing Carla using your beautiful imagery to invoke truth in us.