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Visual Meditation: Can you imagine?

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Images are all from the Wienerwald, or Vienna Woods, the large forest on the west side of the city.

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  1. Mary Oliver has always been one of my favorite poets, she seems to speak what I am thinking but never can get it on paper. I spent a day in the forest Monday walking the trails among the gorgeous trees and breathing in the autumn smells of the forest, a wonderful day of Sabbath. Thank you for the poem and pictures!