January 28, 2003
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…but while wandering, you experience a kind of mysteriously organic process. It’s like a tree growing. It doesn’t know where it’s growing next. A branch may grow out this way, then that way, and then another way. If you let it be that way and don’t have pressures from outside, when you look back, you’ll see that this will have been an organic development. Excerpt from Reflections on the Art of Living, A Joseph Campbell Companion
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the image isn’t coming up???
MuSe
…Joseph Campbell is my favourite philosopher!!! Thanks so much for the introduction to a book I would find most interesting.
PS:…now it came up???
M
Wonderful. Love the picture and the quote.
In between you and VM, and all my other supporters, how can I not make it?
Just the pic and words I needed today… 
Thanks asis!
P.S. — Your tree is now up on my Wall of Motivation
Not much snow in Montreal!
Ver good contrast between the young sapling and the old tree.
You have to come to Ottawa soon with your camera and check out the ~majestic~ trees in Billings Bridge Park.
Funny how much control we think we should have over life, isn’t it? And frightening sometimes when we learn that that is not the case.
Black and white photos can be so expressive!
This is how I feel about my writing.
You can do no wrong can you? Well, photography wise at least
Take care!
Very nice! I really love the contrast between the straight slender lines of the sapling, and the gnarled twisted boughs of the other tree.
I have some Jospeh Campbell books I have yet to get around to reading, but little snippets I’ve heard have been excellent and this quote is no exception.
Are all the photographs taken by yourself?
Zar-yes, everything you see here is shot by me, mostly digital, but some traditional SLR work. I love J. Campbell. I was turned on to him a few years back when I watched “The Power of Myth” on PBS. If you get a chance you should see that – very interesting!
Nice quote and lovely photo, as always
lovely pic,, looks mighty cold though…bring your camera to NZ when youve finished in Ottawa
xx
looks like Indiana
what a wonderful quote! and i love the photo too!!
…think “happiness” is the by-product.
MuSe
…i watched that same PBS program. It is terrific! I loved particularly the story about his wife and war.
Love the art of trees! Great quote too.
Enjoy your pictures. This one is amazing. Love the trees in the snow
J.C. is one of my heros for sure. I love the heros journey.