The Grapevine Art & Soul Salon
Katherine Miller
Katherine Miller, already known to our Facebook friends as a major resource for posts on nature, wilderness, and animals, both wild and tame, is joining our team to do regular posting on subjects that matter so much to us.
Among Kathy's interests are reading and libraries, photography, exercise and wellness, animal welfare, birdwatching and nature, organic foods and cooking, historic preservation, traveling and music. Learning and promoting literacy are high on her list as well.
Kathy is trained and experienced in library science and online research. Perhaps equally important for her work with us is her eye for finding images that range from striking to serene. Knowing how pictures sometimes speak more eloquently than words, we have invited her to join us as a regular contributor to our Facebook page, where her thoughtfully chosen and heartfelt selections, as well as some of her own photographs, will appear as postings from Katherine's Corner.
Kathy Miller shares many tones and moods that reflect the themes of The Grapevine, both in her own Facebook posts and those images that she posts directly to The Grapevine Facebook page. She also keeps her camera ready to catch important moments as she moves through her sensory world. For this issue, we have asked her to share a particular group of moonshots taken recently at the time of the full moon looking down on our earth filled with turmoil and reminding us of our ongoing fascination with the night and the moon and stars and clouds and darkness and light.
Only a few weeks after these views of the moon were captured by Kathy, CNN announced this week that space junk may be about to crash into the back of the moon.
Juxtapose with current world news this encouraging poem by D. H. Lawrence, written a century or so ago.
Moonrise
And who has seen the moon, who has not seen
Her rise from out the chamber of the deep,
Flushed and grand and naked, as from the chamber
Of finished bridegroom, seen her rise and throw
Confession of delight upon the wave,
Littering the waves with her own superscription
Of bliss, till all her lambent beauty shakes toward us
Spread out and known at last, and we are sure
That beauty is a thing beyond the grave,
That perfect, bright experience never falls
To nothingness, and time will dim the moon
Sooner than our full consummation here
In this odd life will tarnish or pass away.
You may also find comfort in Kathy's Facebook posts, her own and the ones she contributes to The Grapevine page. Here are some samples:
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