Ogmin

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Nyingma, Tennessee, living on the Chickasaw cession (1816), Meso/Native American Studies, grandfather of many. Focus: quotes from Buddhist wisdom traditions.

Massive thunderhead blossoming into an open blue sky over southern-middle Tennessee
Bull Elk with a massive rack in a green field with a lighter colored female grazing in the distance. Hickman County, Tennessee. Elk antlers can grow up to an inch a day and are among the fastest growing animal tissue on the planet.
on a sunny day, a small prop plane sits on the tarmac while a man and a child, both in shorts, scrub the exterior
A cluster of purple clematis in a green field with a goat in the distance.
a band of green trees under a variety of clouds in a blue sky; first good sun in a week. looking north across Railroad Bed Rd. into the hollow where we spend our days.
drawing of three peasants carrying loads on their backs through a field of giant agave plants. a small dog accompanies them. volcanic mountains rise in the distance.
Cat named Ash sitting in a box with half his form illuminated by purple christmas lights
some clouds overhead at sunset; the higher ones still catching sun
a small buddha shrine with blue skirt and bamboo roof in the autumn woods on Turtlehill, strings of prayer flags hang between trees, a small block structure in the distance is used for fire pujas.
whole lotta smoke rising up into a blue sky coming from green branches of eastern red cedar placed on a bed of coals. this is a tantric fire puja held in a rural setting in middle tennessee. the leaves on a big oak in the background have already gone from red to brown. the coals burn in a steel pan held up by a wooden stand to almost heart-level. a man is standing next to the fire to tend it. there is a white bucket with water and more cedar in it in front of him. five other folks are gathered round, some sitting some standing.
Dude on a roof against a background of golden maples sticking fiberglass poles with a steel-wire brush down a chimney.
Three of my grandkids (15, 12 & 7) playing a board game on a blue rug. There is also a dollhouse, bins of wooden blocks and an Instapot on the margins.