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Winter Evening Pilgrimage: Visual Meditation

 -Christine Valters Paintner @ Abbey of the Arts

(photos taken along the shore of the Hood Canal)

The winner of this week’s Poetry Party drawing will be announced later today! There’s still time to add your poem — currently up to 23 participants which is a wonderful outpouring of creative energy.

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11 Responses

  1. No wonder that you returned from this site so filled with fresh insight–the soul is fed with such rhythms and patterns and the freedom of birds in flight, dipping and diving, and by the expanses of the sea. The sounds that accompanied these scenes can only be imagined. and the slight movement and scent of the air around you as you stood and looked, and photographed and praised. Thanks, Christine for drawing us into the intimacy of those moments of solitude and awe. What a Love Story!
    Hugs–to you and one for your camera.
    Beheld, Rachelle