Keren Dibbens-Wyatt's Blog, page 26
January 26, 2017
26. Hand (sense of wonder)
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I spend a great deal of time propped up in bed, resting or sleeping, and with an extra virus on top of my M.E. I’ve not had much opportunity to take photos out of doors of late. Since the main activities I do manage are praying, writing and painting, my hands are invaluable treasures for which I am hugely grateful and I feel awed by the way they can create and move. Since the rest of me can’t, I sometimes even dance with just my hands! And every time I take notice and remember how blessed my hands are, I can look in awe at them and wonder at the fact that all of us are held within that one, infinite hand of care and loving mercy.
Photo and text © Keren Dibbens-Wyatt 2017
January 25, 2017
25. Ice (sense of wonder)
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A change of form, a kind of cold magic, this oh so solid steam; floating island in a shallow plastic tub. The mysteries of ebb and flow, stop and go. In your time, having been a puddle and a cloud, knowing above and below.
Such miraculous transformations all around us!
Photo and text © Keren Dibbens-Wyatt 2017
January 24, 2017
24. Gifts (sense of wonder)
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From the other side of the world you came, box of delights, carefully wrapped thoughts, pieces of a life longing to share itself gladly with unmet, beloved friends. That such generosity exists, giving time, care, consideration and love, this is worth my awe. The provision of friendship despite being housebound, from a loving God, through a loving friend.
Photo and text © Keren Dibbens-Wyatt 2017
January 23, 2017
23. Library (sense of wonder)
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Looking back a fortnight, did I really leave the house? How wonderful! And to an Aladdin’s Cave, books, books and more treasure, complete with raspberry seats and a helix standing on end. The wow, then is that such a place exists, that I got there, that it is free. The heart and head are beyond grateful, in the knowing there are libraries, other state-sponsored lunatics who hoard books and love them into being and onto shelves.
Photo and text © Keren Dibbens-Wyatt 2017
January 22, 2017
22. Blue Tit (sense of wonder)
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Tiny, tinted wonder, a bright flitting dart across the garden, how can something so small bring so much joy? Your beauty would be extravagant lunacy if arrived at purely by chance, and to me it is a Babel Fish giveaway of the nature of the artist who made you, as is the lift of my downcast heart that you cause.
Photo and text © Keren Dibbens-Wyatt 2017
January 21, 2017
21. Pearl Sky (sense of wonder)
With every colour available to you, you choose the softest oyster. An act of humility in an insanely neon world. And this whisper of colour shouts out the glory and wisdom of God, a shimmering that has me bending me to my knees.
Photo and text © Keren Dibbens-Wyatt 2017
N.B. from now on I’ll be putting the type of seeing we are looking at in brackets each day so we remember it.
January 20, 2017
20. Silver Spine
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The parked cars on the hill in the morning mist look like a spine winding, glinting as they are caught by the sun. Something so mundane, and yet with the light just right, the conditions so foggy, they become something beautiful, and I catch my breath and reach for my camera.
Photo and text © Keren Dibbens-Wyatt 2017
January 19, 2017
19. Daisy in January
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Tenacity, fortitude, foolishness? Perhaps all three at once. Hope beyond reason, to be flowering in this freezing weather. And yet, these plants grow and bud in the unlikeliest of places, so why not at bizarre times too? Could we ever be so bold, and burgeon against all the odds, I wonder?
Photo and text © Keren Dibbens-Wyatt 2017
January 18, 2017
18. Jumbo
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Not a cloud floating in the blue beyond, and yet here is a gigantic bird of metal, held up by pure air. Like hearing a voice over a phone, this is something I will never quite grasp the mechanics of, and also something quite incredible. The ingenuity of humans teamed with the laws of the universe that were written millions of years before we could bang rocks together.
Photo and text © Keren Dibbens-Wyatt 2017
January 17, 2017
17. Earthworm
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Did you know that an earthworm has internal organs, including a bladder? How does it all fit in there? Look at the way it slithers along by the ingenious use of expansion and contraction of segments. If we are seeing with the eyes of wonder, this creature alone is enough food for thought for a very long time.
Photo and text © Keren Dibbens-Wyatt 2017
‘ “In my opinion,” the Earthworm said, “the really marvellous thing is to have no legs at all and to be able to walk just the same.” ’ (from James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl)
