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Welcome and thank you for visiting Poetic Aperture! I am Naomi - a mother, photographer, creative soul, and avid reader. This blog is a mix of those identities, plus whatever I stumble across that inspires me and that I think may inspire YOU. I aim to offer thought-provoking ideas that inspire creative thought and positive change and that will help you live an authentic and caring life.
"There are many things in life that will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heart. Pursue those." ~ Michael Nolan
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- “Steal Like An Artist” week: create your own world
- Grounding in this moment
- Cakestyle review: just who do you think I am?
- Thoughts on creativity and depression
- House to home: wedding song wall art
- April Life Book recap: Honoring & Grounding
- Painting with little people
- May flower challenge
- Behind the art: 3 panels of colorful whimsy
- Photo-heart connection: springtime planting
... reading in bed, candles, crisp crunchy leaves underfoot, my daughter's giggle, starting a new book, finishing a new book, organizing, writing, craft supplies, photography, poetry, a good massage, knowing smiles, singing along to the radio, getting things done, comfy bedding, hot chocolate, paying attention to the details, libraries and bookstores, campfires, astronomy, finding beauty in the everyday, connections, art supplies, road trips, craft projects, quiet, details, journaling, waking up and staying in bed, home, interesting flowers, affection, warm chamomile tea, capturing a moment in time with my camera, true laughter, soft rain
Category Archives: Poetry
Be filled with light and shine
Mary Oliver could be said to be America’s best-selling poet. She has won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize and been given many, many awards and honors. Ever since I spotted a greeting card with her words on … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Creativity, Poetry, Quotations, Spirituality, Writing
Tagged collage, Mary Oliver, nature poetry, poetry, Thirst Poems
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Photo-Heart Connection, journal love, and Weekly Photo Challenge
This is a catch-all post for three different fun projects: the Photo-Heart Connection, some journal photos that a group of friends and I are all posting and sharing, and the WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge. I hope it doesn’t get too … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Mindfulness, Photo Friday, Photo-Heart Connection, Photography, Poetry, Quotations, Writing
Tagged Art, Brigid Lowry, clouds, Diary, Guitar Highway Rose, journals, macrophotography, Magic, photo-heart connection, postaday, Purple, sepia, Travel journal, tulips, weekly photo challenge, Wordpress
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6 months of books: 6 categories
Oh how I love lists! Inspired by Bellezza of Dolce Bellezza, a beautiful book blog, (here is her 6/6 post), here are some lists about my reading from the first half of this year: Six books I read most recently: … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Mindfulness, Motherhood, Poetry
Tagged Book, Eloisa James, Fifty Shades Darker, paris, poetry
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A little poetry
Love After Love The time will come when, with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror and each will smile at the other’s welcome, and say, sit here. Eat. You will love again … Continue reading
Posted in Mindfulness, Photography, Poetry, Quotations
Tagged David Whyte, Derek Walcott, Inner Excavation, Now You, poetry
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The beauty of you: self-portraiture
you are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. and whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. … Continue reading
Inner Excavate-along: I gather and I see me
On to Chapters 3 and 4 of Liz Lamoreux’s Inner Excavation: Exploring Your Self Through Photography, Poetry and Mixed Media. Liz is leading a couple hundred of her friends through seven weeks of inner excavation on Flickr, on her blog, and through … Continue reading
Inner Excavate-along: I seek
On to Chapter 2 of Liz Lamoreux’s Inner Excavation: Exploring Your Self Through Photography, Poetry and Mixed Media. Liz is leading a couple hundred of her friends through seven weeks of inner excavation on Flickr, on her blog, and through subscribed posts. … Continue reading
Weekly Photo Challenge: Close
The WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge is CLOSE. Close. It’s a feeling, it’s a proximity…it’s people, it’s a place, it’s objects. They’re close. “they do not kiss but they both want to instead their feet touch and so do their arms it is … Continue reading
Posted in Mindfulness, Photography, Poetry, Quotations
Tagged Brigid Lowry, Guitar Highway Rose, macrophotography, Magic, postaday, sepia, tulips, weekly photo challenge, Wordpress
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Photo Friday: textured flower images
“I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows, Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine.” ~ William Shakespeare, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream“ “People from a planet without flowers would … Continue reading
Posted in Photo Friday, Photography, Poetry, Quotations
Tagged A Midsummer Night's Dream, Afternoon on a Hill, Book Of Tea, Edna St. Vincent Millay, flower, Iris Murdoch, Kakuzo Okakura, Knock Out Roses, Midsummer Night's Dream, strawberry, Susan Polis Schutz, tomato plant, William Shakespeare, World Literature
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“In the end” by Tara Sophia Mohr
In the end you won’t be known for the things you did or what you built, or what you said. You won’t even be known for the love given or the hearts saved, because in the end you won’t be … Continue reading
