<p>The Autumn Colors Of Patagonia Are Beyond Compare. I've Never Seen Such Vibrant Reds, Yellows And Oranges. Often Times The Full Spectrum Of Color Can Exist On A Single Tree. Despite The Beauty Of The Scene, Photographing This Area Is A Challenge. Patagonia Is Famous For It's Epic Winds And I Was Able To Get The Leaves To Sit Still In Only 3 Of The 40 images I Took Here. <br />
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This Small Waterfall Is A 45 Minute Walk From The Small Town Of El Chalten, The Main base For Trekking In The Fitzroy Range. Walking Through The Tapestry Of Fall Color Up To The Icy Blue Lakes And Glaciers Of Cerro Torre Is An Experience I Will Never Forget.</p>

Sometimes by David Whyte

October 11, 2018

Post Series: Poetry Thursday

1.Poetry Thursday!
2.Poetry Thursday!
3.Poetry almost Thursday, Thanksgiving Edition
4.The first day of December, Poetry Thursday
5.Boy At the Window — Poetry Thursday
6.A Poem About Evolution — Poetry Thursday
7.Like Snow – Poetry Thursday
8.The Peace of Wild Things – Poetry Thursday
9.Rain – Poetry Thursday
10.The Real Work – Poetry Thursday
11.To The River – Poetry Thursday
12.A Beautiful Poem About Internal Darkness
13.Poetry Thursday – Genius
14.Poetry Thursday – Soon This Space Will Be Too Small
15.A Poem from Stephen Harrod Buhner
16.To Bless the Space Between Us – Poetry Thursday!
17.Poetry Thursday – A Quote from Antoine de Saint-Exupery
18.Poetry Thursday – Sarah Cleghorn
19.On a Tree Fallen Across the Road by Robert Frost
20.A Noiseless Patient Spider by Walt Whitman
21.My Will by Lorna Goodison
22.Going Away – A Poem from the Quechua
23.Blessing by John O’Donohue
24.The Trouble with Poetry by Billy Collins
25.Wild Geese by Wendell Berry
26.Silence of the Fall by Louisa Paulin
27.Poetry Thursday – Karl Ove Knausgaard
28.Snow Day by Billy Collins – Poetry Thursday
29.Winter Solstice by Jodi Aliesan – Poetry Thursday
30.A Brief For The Defense by Jack Gilbert
31.Lost by David Wagoner
32.Fiddling with the Idiot by Hafiz
33.The Sixth of January by David Budbill
34.Two Tramps in Mud Time by Robert Frost
35.What We Need is Here by Wendell Berry
36.Keep Moving Forward by Mitchell Greenwood
37.When I am Among the Trees by Mary Oliver
38.Praying by Mary Oliver
39.Thirst by Mary Oliver
40.Blueberries by Mary Oliver
41.The Sycamore by Wendell Berry
42.Jealous Hearing Someone Laugh by Hafiz
43.Advice to Myself by Louise Erdrich
44.Egg by C.G. Hanzlicek
45.The Broken Gourd by Wendell Berry
46.Another Spring by Kenneth Rexroth
47.Poetry Thursday – the Visionary Paintings of Paul Laffoley
48.Two Poems by Mary Oliver
49.What If? A poem by Ganga White
50.See No Evil by Billy Collins
51.We Who Prayed and Wept by Wendell Berry
52.Holy Thursday by William Blake
53.Woman by Nikki Giovanni
54.Choices by Nikki Giovanni
55.A Quote from Hafiz
56.The First by Wendell Berry
57.Excerpt for an Improvised Speech by Robert F. Kennedy
58.Riding Lesson by Henry Taylor
59.Messenger by Mary Oliver
60.In Rain by Wendell Berry
61.A Poetry Thursday with Rumi
62.Kindness by Naomi Shihab Nye
63.Sometimes by David Whyte
64.Having it Out with Melancholy by Jane Kenyon
65.After an Illness, Walking the Dog by Jane Kenyon
66.Admit Something by Hafiz
67.Turtle Mountain Reservation by Louise Erdrich
68.The Layers by Stanley Kunitz
69.Martian Rose by Stuart Atkinson
70.To The Unseeable Animal by Wendell Berry

This Thursday, a friend referred a new poet to me. I hope you enjoy it as I have!

Sometimes

By David Whyte

Sometimes
if you move carefully
through the forest,

breathing
like the ones
in the old stories,

who could cross
a shimmering bed of leaves
without a sound,

you come to a place
whose only task

is to trouble you
with tiny
but frightening requests,

conceived out of nowhere
but in this place
beginning to lead everywhere.

Requests to stop what
you are doing right now,
and

to stop what you
are becoming
while you do it,

questions
that can make
or unmake
a life,

questions
that have patiently
waited for you,

questions
that have no right
to go away.

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