{"id":296,"date":"2012-07-05T01:31:28","date_gmt":"2012-07-05T01:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nature-photography.daystarbooks.com\/wp_blog\/?p=296"},"modified":"2012-07-05T01:31:28","modified_gmt":"2012-07-05T01:31:28","slug":"a-dialogue-with-nature-thirdson-and-the-rivers-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nature-photography.daystarbooks.com\/wp_blog\/2012\/07\/05\/a-dialogue-with-nature-thirdson-and-the-rivers-sky\/","title":{"rendered":"A Dialogue With Nature &#8211; ThirdSon and the River&#8217;s Sky"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>A Dialogue With Nature\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><em>Therapy for the Soul\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Occasionally, when in discourse with the inhabitants of the sky that reside down by the river (<a title=\"nature photography by ike austin\" href=\"https:\/\/nature-photography.daystarbooks.com\/wp_blog\/?page_id=2\">this sky over the river is alive<\/a>),\u00a0I arrive in the Forest of Jimme&#8217; via a dense cloud that in an instant can billow downward from the sky, surrounding me in dense fog and when the cloud quickly dissipates, I find myself standing at the edge of another reality, I am transferred to Jimme&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Here in this place, the lessons of truth speak in silence through the minds of nature itself.<\/p>\n<p>But, I write only part truths, because each grain of sand perceives truth from its own perspective.<\/p>\n<p>Here is one grain more&#8230;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Silence Speaks in the Forest of Jimme&#8217;<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><em>In silence, I hear deeper truth.<br \/>\nDecisions &#8211; A path of mountains or rivers<\/em><\/p>\n<div>\n<dl id=\"attachment_297\">\n<dt><a href=\"https:\/\/nature-photography.daystarbooks.com\/wp_blog\/a-dialogue-with-nature-thirdson-and-the-rivers-sky\/nature-photography-michigan-by-ike-austin\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-297\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"nature photography michigan by ike austin\" alt=\"nature photography michigan by ike austin\" src=\"https:\/\/nature-photography.daystarbooks.com\/wp_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/nature-photography-michigan-by-ike-austin.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"504\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n<dd>nature photography michigan by ike austin<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Decisions &#8211; A path of mountains or meadows<\/h2>\n<p>This small blade of grass attracted my attention (it is typical \u00a0to dialogue with unexpected hosts in Jimme&#8217;) the blade of grass began telling me all about a\u00a0barren\u00a0tree off in the distance on the other side of a small body of water. I noticed that the tree&#8217;s bare branches jutted upward and outward in all directions, not to many branches, but just enough to get noticed from a distance.<\/p>\n<p>This small blade of grass imputed the following thought into my mind; \u00a0A decision no matter how seemingly small will branch into eternal consequences. An individual can decide to do something self serving, but remember, a decision, any decision by anyone is grafted into the bark of the tree of all life. Your seemingly independent thought-choice, will affect the many lives that reside down the branch of your decision and alter those lives based upon your seemingly personal action or non-action.<br \/>\n\u2014<em>Of<\/em>\u00a0<em>Fallen Nations Built on Slavery<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In the middle of my pondering \u00a0over the true seriousness of a simple decision, I was about to ask a question, but; the small blade interrupted my thought and injected its own; all decisions influenced outcomes. All decisions are root. Decisions affect not just you, your family, liberty of others, but will be the fall of entire nations. It said.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_304\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nature-photography.daystarbooks.com\/wp_blog\/a-dialogue-with-nature-thirdson-and-the-rivers-sky\/nature-photography-by-ike-austin-blade-of-grass\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-304\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-304\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-304\" title=\"nature photography by ike austin - blade of grass\" alt=\"nature photography by ike austin - blade of grass\" src=\"https:\/\/nature-photography.daystarbooks.com\/wp_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/nature-photography-by-ike-austin-blade-of-grass-300x224.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-304\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">nature photography by ike austin &#8211; blade of grass<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nLessons Learned &#8211; Dialogues in the Forest of Jimme&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nature Speaks &#8211;\u00a0<a title=\"nature photography michigan by ike austin\" href=\"https:\/\/nature-photography.daystarbooks.com\/wp_blog\/?p=115\">Nature Photography, Therapy for the Soul<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; Everyone can Hear<\/p>\n<p>Nature Speaks \u00a0&#8211;\u00a0<a title=\"nature photography michigan by ike austin\" href=\"https:\/\/nature-photography.daystarbooks.com\/wp_blog\/?p=123\">Through Birds<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; Therapy for the Soul<\/p>\n<p>Michigan Bird &#8211; Mallard Duck &#8211;\u00a0<a title=\"nature photography michigan by ike austin\" href=\"https:\/\/nature-photography.daystarbooks.com\/wp_blog\/?p=220\">Sun and Darkness<\/a>\u00a0Dialogue<\/p>\n<p>Michigan Bird &#8211;\u00a0<a title=\"nature photography michigan by ike austin\" href=\"https:\/\/nature-photography.daystarbooks.com\/Birds-of-Michigan-by-Ike%20Austin\/content\/_4220788111_large.html\">SandHill Crane Ancient Feet<\/a>\u00a0Dialogue<\/p>\n<p>Birds of Michigan &#8211;\u00a0<a title=\"nature photography michigan by ike austin\" href=\"https:\/\/nature-photography.daystarbooks.com\/Birds-of-Michigan-by-Ike%20Austin\/content\/_2735470883_large.html\">Great Horned Owl<\/a>\u00a0Dialogue<\/p>\n<p>Birds of Michigan &#8211;\u00a0<a title=\"nature photography michigan by ike austin\" href=\"https:\/\/nature-photography.daystarbooks.com\/Birds-of-Michigan-by-Ike%20Austin\/content\/_2094057340_large.html\">Great White Egret<\/a>\u00a0Dialogue<\/p>\n<p>Birds of Michigan &#8211;\u00a0<a title=\"nature photography michigan ike austin\" href=\"https:\/\/nature-photography.daystarbooks.com\/Birds-of-Michigan-by-Ike%20Austin\/content\/_5108488704_large.html\">Green Heron<\/a>\u00a0Dialogue &#8211; One Strange Sunset in Jimmie&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211; ThirdSon and the River&#8217;s Sky<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Dialogue With Nature\u00a0 Therapy for the Soul\u00a0 Occasionally, when in discourse with the inhabitants of the sky that reside down by the river (this sky over the river is alive),\u00a0I arrive in the Forest of Jimme&#8217; via a dense cloud that in an instant can billow downward from the sky, surrounding me in dense &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nature-photography.daystarbooks.com\/wp_blog\/2012\/07\/05\/a-dialogue-with-nature-thirdson-and-the-rivers-sky\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[120,175,224,273,282,327,398,399],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nature-photography.daystarbooks.com\/wp_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nature-photography.daystarbooks.com\/wp_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nature-photography.daystarbooks.com\/wp_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nature-photography.daystarbooks.com\/wp_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nature-photography.daystarbooks.com\/wp_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nature-photography.daystarbooks.com\/wp_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nature-photography.daystarbooks.com\/wp_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nature-photography.daystarbooks.com\/wp_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nature-photography.daystarbooks.com\/wp_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}