ƎVO⅃ution at the museum of nature

 Right before my very eyes.

ellis | happy

only the wind knows where it will carry our dandelion souls

We are in a period of transition (back-to-school being one of the transitions) and we are feeling all our feelings here. I am reminding myself that it's natural to feel busy and stressed and worried and sad. I am also reminding myself that I can fill myself with grace and acceptance and do one task as a time. That I don't have to be weighed down by everything that I've done, what I'm doing right now and what I need to do next and everything that I want. So grace and acceptance is what I'm working on now.

ƎVO⅃ution | joshua is one

This little love is celebrating his first birthday. I've had the absolute honour of documenting his growth every three months AND getting to know this incredibly sweet, cuddly, smiley little bubba. Happiest birthday to you sweet Joshua.

20/52 - ƎVO⅃ution of a smile

and right back to serious painting face.

ƎVO⅃ution: breath of the Spirit

the simplest most perfect little introduction to meditation written by a soul I am proud to call my friend.

love is spoken here

A burst of inspiration hit and I made this for our gallery wall. A little reminder; especially at the end of long exhausting days.

ƎVO⅃ution: double slit experiment

If you could but indulge me on this one, the nerd in me will be ever so grateful. It's a long video but take a moment to just soak it in. It could be profound or it could mean nothing to you or it could stick with you and dawn on you when your consciousness is ready.

My spirituality is rooted in science, letting my imagination run wild, believing that everything in every sci-fi movie ever made really truly did & can happen and meditation. And this experiment just blows my mind. Knowing that this is what's happening at a quantum level and the kind of power observation holds. Perceiving life from an ego-centric perspective creates finite options and a finite reality. This illusion of scarcity and competing for stuff paradigm we live in is painfully boring and uninspired. We are so infinitely better than this. All we need to do is be infinite, not finite little ego's with names and identities. So we practice away and there is so much more peace and an experience of abundance in our lives.

Always be evolving.

ƎVO⅃ution

totally made me smile

Seen here.

ƎVO⅃ution: flower

Earth, 114 million years ago, one morning just after sunrise: The first flower ever to appear on the planet opens up to receive the rays of the sun. Prior to this momentous event that heralds an evolutionary transformation in the life of plants, the planet had already been covered in vegetation for millions of years. The first flower probably did not survive for long, and flowers must have remained rare and isolated phenomena, since conditions were most likely not yet favourable for a widespread flowering to occur. One day, however, a critical threshold was reached, and suddenly there would have been an explosion of colour and scent all over the planet - if a perceiving consciousness had been there to witness it. Much later, those delicate and fragrant beings we call flowers would come to play an essential part in the evolution of consciousness of another species. -- A New Earth, Eckhart Tolle.

I think this perfectly describes what it means to be a parent. It is to create the conditions necessary to help a little flower blossom and fill this world with colour and fragrance.

ƎVO⅃ution: Dr. masaru emoto's water molecule experiments

Water is the most receptive of the four elements.

clip from what the bleep do we know

Makes you wonder doesn't it? If thoughts can do that to water, imagine what our thoughts can do to us? 

I have come to realise that transformation is wonderfully simple and wonderfully liberating. Without the practice of meditation, I don't know how simple it would be. But for me personally, meditation has been the solution to all my problems.

riverglen biodynamic farm | ottawa photographer

One principle we must grasp,

Otherwise no development will be possible in our crucial time.
Seek the truly practical life
but seek it in a way
that does not numb you towards the Spirit that is working in it.
Seek the Spirit,
but do no seek it out of greed for the supersensible,
from supersensible egoism;
but seek it, because you want to apply it
unselfishly in practical life, in the material world.
Make use of the ancient principle:
“Spirit is never without matter, matter never without Spirit.”
So that you say:
We intend to handle all material matters in the light of the Spirit,
And we shall seek the light of the Spirit in such a way
That it will kindle in us a warmth for our practical deeds.
Spirit that is led into matter by us;
Matter that is shaped by us until it reveals the Spirit it contains;
Matter that receives through us the Spirit revealed;
The Spirit that is brought by us to and into matter;
All this will build that active and vivid substance
Which can take humanity into real development;
Into that kind of progress that the people of today
In the deepest and most worthy longings of their souls
Can only but yearn for.

- Rudolf Steiner

I first heard of bio-dynamic farming a few years ago through my dear friends in India. Everything about it feels so gentle, loving and full of integrity and soul.

Spending time at Riverglen during early Spring felt mystical. 

I loved exploring this beautiful place, hearing Caroline talk about their lives and farming, and photographing the crops just as they were peeking their leaves out from under the soil. I can't wait to see this place in full bloom when I come back in July. I left feeling hopeful and happy about humanities ability to evolve. Thank you David & Caroline for having me over. And thank you for taking the road less traveled.

  For those of you who live in Ottawa, be sure to like their facebook page for updates. Produce is available for purchase at their farm store and at our local farmers market. For those of your that don't live here, I hope you seek out farms like this locally and support them.

 My sincerest hope this year is to collaborate with people and businesses that are taking the road less traveled and to share their story with you.