https://www.beckyjaffephotography.com/urbanabstracts daily 0.75 2020-12-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1557446455661-QV0T2CR2HBB3SKCC1A5K/Jazz+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpeg Urban Abstracts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1557446455661-QV0T2CR2HBB3SKCC1A5K/Jazz+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpeg Urban Abstracts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1523339223537-PBDBP3GAI63BQLTOLHHG/Guggenheim+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpg Urban Abstracts - Guggenheim https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1527406066681-J99YSJQDTNS1ELAI398Z/IMG_6749.JPG Urban Abstracts - Escheresque https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1524429031755-GFGT2OA455GSL9T29XSD/Overarching+Structures+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpg Urban Abstracts - Overarching Structures https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1568587606149-KPKO1QT3JM86BSHA7JCI/Shadowy+figure+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpeg Urban Abstracts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1597293522058-2D0I3FQ3E7P41FXIE0JT/117413231_1383892265142044_8867830656782579417_n.jpg Urban Abstracts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1569172386240-2G7DF49CMTEYY5OSYTYN/Wheee+by+Becky+Jaffe.JPG Urban Abstracts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1569173015711-ZV9YT4AXMCLPDTYPFR0O/Wormhole+by+Becky+Jaffe.JPG Urban Abstracts If you stand in one spot at the Buck Institute, designed by IM Pei, and look down and take a photograph, then look up and take a photograph, and if you then compress the two images of looking up and looking down into one image, you get this wormhole into Euclidean geometry. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1527406649178-GDNRZV02025MPONV9G9C/17103276_603903876474224_1054916836103868306_n.jpg Urban Abstracts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1566672543313-SLH032BHSJZGUIMV9KIN/Buck+Institute+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpeg Urban Abstracts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1583631935685-TE4RO2AR7EKK3FW9PAIH/IMG_3424.JPG Urban Abstracts - Inside the Sydney Opera House https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1524419333337-QWW7CEYK582VJEWAHEG4/Cathedral+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpg Urban Abstracts - Cathedral by Becky Jaffe The San Francisco Public Library is a cathedral. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1609393328560-92Q84O04J8TLBOOU153X/132819449_1509393329258603_7921852405789926849_n.jpg Urban Abstracts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1569172626833-SGONT0EORFQPFZ7XD8V6/Vanishing+Point+by+Becky+Jaffe.JPG Urban Abstracts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1571158096478-I2AHB7D6II5177OBO5HC/Bird+on+a+wire+by+Becky+Jaffe.JPG Urban Abstracts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1524418036094-NYUE8KZHJS0BNS80NR9G/Kaiser+Abstract+by+Becky+Jaffe.JPG Urban Abstracts - Kaiser Abstract This view of the Kaiser building from the parking lot elevator makes me think the city is a beehive. I suspect we have more in common with the social species like termites and wasps than we care to admit. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1575222536315-334FKCHFOTKNFNCGN4VJ/Our+Hive+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpeg Urban Abstracts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1575222590866-3EB3GG4M4SEKJL1I0WV5/NY+by+Becky+Jaffe.JPG Urban Abstracts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1557446651597-4UVIRPLU8Y5G83UZISZY/Easy+come+easy+go+by+Becky+JaffeJPG.JPG Urban Abstracts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1575222873449-LL8W9FEQD3UGJFS43MRV/Stairway+to+Heaven+by+Becky+Jaffe.JPG Urban Abstracts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1558388096479-RPRF9JXVKPHN8N7537XX/Higgledy+by+Becky+Jaffe.JPG Urban Abstracts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1523312050916-BCU3JB90V0U2ZSRAQ9I8/BART+Abstract.jpeg Urban Abstracts - 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Ed Roberts Campus https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1568590377337-QVE71Z3ELLS5D4RHIX9T/67334183_1070914033106537_1352087019387355136_o.jpg Urban Abstracts The carwash is the cheapest thrill in town https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1539067448721-4FZ4NZBZ7C3HQT9DUDJJ/Telephone+Pole+Abstract+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpeg Urban Abstracts - Telephone Pole Abstract https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1523311727556-PNYL236J1ILOZPX035KL/Dumpster+Canvas.jpeg Urban Abstracts - Dumpster Canvas https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1523312797012-8FON0HT0WYJ1QLO9X4HI/High+Voltage+Blues.jpeg Urban Abstracts - High Voltage Blues https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1523312508694-T5LPG1VK3K653022FPZS/Sidewalk+Rothko.jpeg Urban Abstracts - Sidewalk Rothko https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1524505691410-M122URLQFBHAWYAOQQXY/Concrete+Landscape+by+Becky+Jaffe.JPG Urban Abstracts - 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Outside is a palimpsest. Yet another reminder to not judge a book by its cover. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1529359701267-FU8A861UPF42K27RFZMN/Urban+Exegesis+by+Becky+Jaffe.JPG Urban Abstracts - Urban Exegesis https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1530159207746-1I2SJTQ1N7JOB06TXWEJ/Trying+to+Make+Sense+of+Nonsense+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpeg Urban Abstracts - The Writing is on the Wall https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1523312187650-Z6RYJEZR4M7O580AS7HS/XO.JPG Urban Abstracts - XO https://www.beckyjaffephotography.com/through-the-looking-glass daily 0.75 2021-04-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1557207890349-B7Q6W6JRS6XU2XMCMAKR/Comparative+architecures+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpeg Through the Looking Glass - Nature and Nurture https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1557207890349-B7Q6W6JRS6XU2XMCMAKR/Comparative+architecures+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpeg Through the Looking Glass - Nature and Nurture https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1609391506680-QYRYCXDM7SI3V9UMGD04/IMG_3866.JPG Through the Looking Glass https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1548746888336-RPV96WQG8YJPULDXKFTH/The+House+of+the+Rising+Sun+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpeg Through the Looking Glass - The House of the Rising Sun https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1537545783281-M2QDY6BGNH2OF1STXH5S/Quietude+by+Becky+Jaffe.JPG Through the Looking Glass - Quietude Quietude would like to have a word or two. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1602025332297-5SCMZBMG9I8E6M5VMGW4/IMG_2142.JPG Through the Looking Glass https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1541656909020-RKXXSMDN28PB6HJJL4GH/Climb+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpeg Through the Looking Glass - Climb https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1551749575029-SGLT524YY4ERJWCD7ODF/Inside+Out+by+Becky+Jaffe.JPG Through the Looking Glass https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1524419551473-IRJXIMMAPCRKQQEGI7Q9/Haiku+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpg Through the Looking Glass - Haiku https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1581788736430-E1PIQDBQN1I1M705CT9D/Plant+Selfie+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpeg Through the Looking Glass - If plants took selifes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1524341166947-X9M385JO1CNW0B79DJLC/Higgledy+Piggledy+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpg Through the Looking Glass - Higgledy Piggledy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1558389054340-7ZSIO8ZPI5F4DK5QJZPB/Diptych+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpeg Through the Looking Glass https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1548737651966-NF54HVNRQAU6HWLOQYRD/Cathedral+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpeg Through the Looking Glass - Cathedral https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1524420238020-JUNTOPCBQRKF1NL122TK/Pitcher+perfect+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpeg Through the Looking Glass - Pitcher Perfect The UC Botanical garden is a soft place to rest the eyes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1524433609386-G8MC6XJ5VNNX4ATFPP8V/Greenhouse+Diptych+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpg Through the Looking Glass - Greenhouse Diptych https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1524437287492-HVBC8SESKXYR2SS88SN1/Banana+Trees+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpg Through the Looking Glass - Banana Trees https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1524435915960-537VFP4SSGBCHFP1RIAM/Window+into+Opacity+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpg Through the Looking Glass - Window into Opacity https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1524437389155-SE78PQAIFAPLSYMAZJT3/Papyrus+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpg Through the Looking Glass - Papyrus https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1524433455171-4WF8W2HFN78JYV42V9KT/Window+Into+Industrial+Agriculture+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpg Through the Looking Glass - Window Into Industrial Agriculture https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1524421966701-8XAFB1N7BIO9OX0H54CH/Veil+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpeg Through the Looking Glass - Veil https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1537286712330-PAD83X8ANOC1B6EWCF8C/Grief+and+Joy+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpeg Through the Looking Glass - the Mourning window Grief closes the curtains on the day. But joy, like sunlight, will have its say. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1523337574516-ZE8THLDSN22WAHD89NPE/Chapel+of+the+Chimes+6++by+Becky+Jaffe.jpeg Through the Looking Glass - Cloudscape https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1615272781144-XU5SVWXCVJRA3BTRR8EJ/146505358_1541573952707207_8768728018553364208_o.jpg Through the Looking Glass https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1619398186608-WVGNXH4VPLEJVXHHYCAE/IMG_7817.JPG Through the Looking Glass https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1523343346823-HI84TWVZTMJEMEVV1A0C/Filoli+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpg Through the Looking Glass - Filoli https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1557208086035-B6XL54HQ50VSAEYYEY8K/IMG_1725.JPG Through the Looking Glass https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1555671119760-MQ52NQEL4OKLMEQBVBQS/Screen+Time+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpeg Through the Looking Glass - in discretion https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1541221939681-GXOEGLK7PRG3L6OS7ILS/Screen+Time+by+Becky+Jaffe.JPG Through the Looking Glass - Screen Time The bamboo shade makes the trees look like a wood block print. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1524439413424-27716812CCLUOAVCQ9QF/The+Quiet+Corner+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpg Through the Looking Glass - The Quiet Corner https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1523337478840-1I4J9ESKWDIKWRVNU0PE/Chapel+of+the+Chimes+2+by+Becky+Jaffe.JPG Through the Looking Glass - Chapel of the Chimes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1528001650444-ONGMXXE1MPO1VNRLGV3V/Julia+Morgan+window+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpeg Through the Looking Glass - Julia Morgan Window https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1524418263328-RKLRMIAX5CTDO779ZITU/Bay+Bridge+Abstract+by+Becky+Jaffe.JPG Through the Looking Glass - Bay Bridge Abstract https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1523313361273-CJ97A4LXZN36HMTQ226T/Rainy+day+blues.jpg Through the Looking Glass - Rainy day blues https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1523313550382-AMZH7M5DAUXVWNG392QB/Petrichor.JPG Through the Looking Glass - Petrichor https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1523338011907-640843ZES6SPDIEAHYQL/Pluviophile+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpg Through the Looking Glass - Pluviophile https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1528745896526-HMOB6QV7O9RGHOWGSAT5/Tableau.jpeg Through the Looking Glass - Tableau https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1530763202450-REBAYC7R2UHEHM85L9C3/A+Room+With+a+View.jpeg Through the Looking Glass - window into contentment https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1523313476293-QD6B8W1U19GYXAGIDRY4/Humanist+Hall.jpeg Through the Looking Glass - Humanist Hall https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1537726858849-ID82JQ1FDKNVG701NJDY/Palette+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpeg Through the Looking Glass - Palette When I hold my camera up to the church window, the world turns into an artist’s palette. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1557672754615-92SR2R5JOP6LCBS9DFUA/Icy+Glare+by+Becky+Jaffe.JPG Through the Looking Glass - Icy Glare https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1529011292270-NTGDGWCWFLXZGGFDKVZY/Window+into+Friendship+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpeg Through the Looking Glass - Window into Friendship This is my view as I wash dishes in my friend’s kitchen. One thing I have learned about friendship is that labor is love. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1619398014152-MDGT4Q0E4W1T2U3XLDWV/Attachment-1+-+2021-04-25T141520.014.jpeg Through the Looking Glass https://www.beckyjaffephotography.com/nature-in-vision-and-verse daily 0.75 2024-06-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1523313668549-OQ8BQQZ61PZHRMI4FRG9/BJaffe_SavingGrace_3.JPG Praise Be - Saving Grace https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1523313668549-OQ8BQQZ61PZHRMI4FRG9/BJaffe_SavingGrace_3.JPG Praise Be - Saving Grace https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1523317076137-2Z75SRCCZAZ5KDPZ5OQN/Jaffe_Transience.JPG Praise Be - Transience https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1523317283335-YFR5OYG37IW6K7T0ERIT/Jaffe_Reflections.JPG Praise Be - Reflection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1524594637229-XJXA2V8BCWB2JA2OCZNX/Pipevine+Swallowtail+Caterpillars+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpg Praise Be - Potential Energy Pipevine Swallowtail Caterpillars https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1523313709789-VZ6DVZ462A26B1L1NJS4/Becky_Jaffe_Treble_Clef.JPG Praise Be - Treble Clef https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1523317337778-R7X516BIHZ12RM3K55GY/Treble+Clef+by+Becky+Jaffe.JPG Praise Be - Pipevine Swallowtail Caterpillar https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1524438218849-ABUV0JMTMVTSGFT70CBO/Holding+On+Letting+Go+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpg Praise Be - Holding On, Letting Go https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1524426766788-OR7YWFF0JO131SIVQEVV/The+Nature+of+Immigration+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpg Praise Be - The Nature of Immigration https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1523317191153-ZDER2U8NF9JWFJT6K6J5/Royalty+by+Becky+Jaffe.JPG Praise Be - Royalty https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1524432330642-7IJZHC7W5E87MSGAZKV5/Wildebeest+at+the+Watering+Hole+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpg Praise Be - Wildebeest at the Watering Hole I placed a drop of liquid brown sugar on the counter. Word spread quickly, pheromone trails were forged. In no time the sisters had circled around like wildebeest at a watering hole. Each ant has two stomachs: an individual stomach for her own survival, and a social stomach for collective survival. Life is sweet. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1523313841852-9M7D2ML4AQ0CKCWDMGRT/Leaf+Litter+by+Becky+Jaffe.JPG Praise Be - Chaos Theory https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1609392478755-4LR0UJGF1SR0XKLTBJWF/131639544_1502580266606576_1899038753300723228_o.jpg Praise Be Stumbling over beauty as if Mother Nature tied my shoelaces together before rushing me outside. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1523317105404-8CKQFUA4UKKDMJUR1HD7/Jaffe_Flit.JPG Praise Be - Flit https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1524428729804-X3R1NUZLECTUA178Q8XT/Peace+Egret+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpg Praise Be - Heaven above, Hell below https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1619398326170-7Q08ARRVDKN273O419A4/Attachment-1+-+2021-04-25T143358.202.jpeg Praise Be https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1609393011213-8VUL9EQOXYH8PT873K3U/133568481_1510884415776161_2599411670821076755_n.jpg Praise Be When the peregrine falcon hunts starlings on the wing, tens of thousands — perhaps hundreds of thousands — of starlings cooperate like schooling fish to confuse the sky shark. During these murmurations, the group functions like a superorganism, like a hive of bees or a city of humans operating collectively as one organism with larger emergent properties. Here the birds seem to form one larger bird, intimidating to a predator (and thrilling to us congregants at Bird Church). I do think Darwin was mistaken in over-emphasizing competition and under-emphasizing cooperation as the driving force of evolution, as Lynn Margulis has explained. What could we humans achieve if we recognized that cooperation is more valuable than competition? It’s written in the sky: cooperation is a beautiful way to survive. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1523341944491-WU9RKXRBWR8ZT2F26OPY/Blustery+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpg Praise Be - Blustery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1524592338713-WODMFE4FPWB83SF36JJP/Introvert+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpg Praise Be - Introvert https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1524592582853-3TG1ZZKF89HZTA42T59C/Extrovert+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpg Praise Be - Extrovert https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1524428390879-BCVEFJJY5MLAHNNXJ8TQ/Birds+of+a+Feather+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpg Praise Be - Birds of a Feather https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1524421494682-QCURNIKAARNYV9I3KOVB/Intertwined+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpg Praise Be - Intertwined https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1528739585638-QZWKYN238Q0UVAQK382I/Nocturne+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpg Praise Be - Nocturne https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1524431451839-OQ0F6J3Y4UBEDUV7DQ46/Pterodactyl+punkrockius+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpg Praise Be - Pterodactyl punkrockius https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1719208171901-O6R3MO10BLPMAOXD628T/IMG_1005+2.JPG Praise Be https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1524592210684-PSLXAAFS61ROKESHIZZY/Sentry+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpg Praise Be - Sentry https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1532489916053-0JUY756NR1XH2LPSHPOL/Art+Appreciation+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpeg Praise Be - Grampa Dragonfly has been here for 300 million years, which is 280 million years longer than humans. I don't mind saying that I look up to Dragonfly the way a child looks up to a great grandparent. Our ancestors are flitting about in the reeds! Grampa looks beautiful today. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1524436264770-5QNRWVWO01YJNA22TMOF/Night+Bloom+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpg Praise Be - Night Bloom The beauty of the world stubbornly persists. Some flowers only bloom in the dead of night. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1524434393689-09G8KUSTPOIWOYLKFE9Q/Magnolia+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpg Praise Be - Magnolia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1545117012949-JDZD51AF7G8VX95JYF52/Roses+for+my+grandmother+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpeg Praise Be - Roses for my Grandmother A grandmother who passed before I was born raised roses competitively. She coaxed perfumes out of manure and alchemized dirt into forms that I imagine would make Georgia O’Keefe blush, for which she was rewarded with ribbons and prizes and the admiration of a granddaughter she would never meet who inherited her love for roses. Although I never set eyes on my grandmother, I see her glow in every rose I meet. Although I own nothing her hands touched, I walk the world wearing her hand-me-down pair of rose-colored glasses. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1563555018277-GFHVD15067BQHPMIIUNN/Banana+b+y+Becky+Jaffe.JPG Praise Be https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1567917920530-LLB6KBTN52EQ4UBBAHWL/Born+Yesterday+by+Becky+Jaffe.JPG Praise Be - Born Yesterday https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1565229997682-3J4W2YQ5N06KIZQLQQ6K/The+Kitchen+Diaries+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpeg Praise Be https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1531363645073-XD9I3OJRHRBYHVVGCQXG/Radial+Symmetry+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpeg Praise Be - Radial Symmetry The underbrush is giving a leafy lecture on the evolutionary advantages of radial symmetry and other mathematically efficient beauty. Classes are ongoing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1524431785323-4ZCCZR0E6OMWPX1CO5W8/Peacock+Backside+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpg Praise Be - Aft https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1524431744257-4492IJ4XPI3LFW1DSOZG/Peacock+Frontside+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpg Praise Be - Fore https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1572632449559-9O484OK00I0PUVLDD87E/IMG_9456+%281%29.JPG Praise Be When you are sheltering in place due to climate-change-induced fires, it is a good time to break out the emergency tulips and photograph them through a glass of bubbly water. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1542955043137-ZJSVZJXY4FNUYPJCJCAE/The+Good+Earth+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpeg Praise Be https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/44212/the-love-song-of-j-alfred-prufrock https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1544475379394-UHG890QV3WD6JDLHWGJ6/Our+Good+Earth+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpeg Praise Be - Our Good Earth https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1524418993849-U0042AF5MPS0UTNHSBYJ/Breathing+Room+by+Becky+Jaffe.JPG Praise Be - Breathing Room "Listen, are you breathing just a little and calling it a life?" - Mary Oliver https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1523317037288-246HJUXLK15DGFII18Y8/Jaffe_CalligraphyofGeese.JPG Praise Be - Calligraphy of Geese https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1524432126031-WNKFCJBCM286WDLGM6PF/Domesticity+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpg Praise Be - Domesticity https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1524592092460-FE60B96TRMTX5X1NM15R/Wildebeest+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpg Praise Be - Wildebeest https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1575223741100-QBCR4RYDL98XR21KN4YR/Dear+Family+by+Becky+Jaffe.JPG Praise Be - Dear Family https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1566888229905-41SUL6S5ZJA1KRKG4F9P/Suffused+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpeg Praise Be https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1566000648276-SIWUNJKJJIDOFJFOOUCT/Goodness+Gracious+by+Becky+Jaffe.JPG Praise Be - Goodness Gracious https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1528740095777-YABXU8CK9EK65HYI7T73/Provider+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpg Praise Be - Provider https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1527405899218-SYKT8XGCZZP4CZAPD70O/7928067280_2b02947d4b_o.jpg Praise Be - Evidence: Gesture V https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1528744483937-FMAA1DM8Y5TR8JLEOAG1/Form+and+Function+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpg Praise Be - Form and Function https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1524594504553-2ZDH27MR79LBLJM8PPPR/Great+Great+Great+Horned+Owl+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpg Praise Be - Great Great Great Horned Owl https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1523317463109-IZ8URDBQ0DQJQLF04CHZ/Jaffe_Reach.JPG Praise Be - Reach https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1524445962080-MRJJ18ZLNBH3JSEWJAAC/Wildlife_Becky+Jaffe_Avocet+Duet.jpg Praise Be - Avocet Duet https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1523313771861-92FIY480GQGC31ZAK86T/Jaffe_AniseSwallowtailMetamorphosis.JPG Praise Be - Anise Swallowtail Metamorphosis https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1615271203214-922XMG8VF01F7MPBITX5/Attachment-1+-+2021-03-08T222551.382.jpeg Praise Be https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1569862346182-LFVM0NOUM5NMSZL4JBL1/Phun+With+Photons+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpeg Praise Be “There is no knowing for a fact. The only dependable things are humility and looking.” ― Richard Powers, The Overstory https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1530245597597-OG1ZK4SF6057URDIMD2I/Live+Streaming+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpeg Praise Be - Live Stream https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1571034984144-SU2R1E05RYI46UZJM8QW/A+gentle+reminder+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpeg Praise Be https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1569779915578-0N68BEBJ4WGAB1WDHF2H/Centerfold+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpeg Praise Be Inside the unfolding: more unfolding. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1541443338218-998JZT4AU8W7WZ5ILADF/For+Imogen+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpeg Praise Be - For Imogen I took this photograph for my patron saint, Imogen Cunningham. I think she would find this undulating form highly caressable. https://www.imogencunningham.com/plants/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1543337571414-8YRGIVCTF18G282MET4M/The+Boulevard+of+Giant+Bonsai+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpeg Praise Be - The Boulevard of Giant Bonsai https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1546051115385-LY7DNV0QU2EHFCPYCVZ5/The+water+does+my+thinking+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpeg Praise Be “walking with the river the water does my thinking” - Boldman https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1524434252495-2N1AFHSG7QAW75T4J2YG/Pine+Cone+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpg Praise Be - Pine Cone I woke up this morning intending to do Responsible Purposeful Things, but I got sidetracked and accidentally fell in love with a pine cone playing with a beam of light. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1548571676752-5CWLUK356P5II2ZFBR65/Fishrise+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpeg Praise Be - Fishrise Meet me under the pine tree at fishrise. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1615270802190-STA4PN52EZLTCEX844YJ/Attachment-1+-+2021-03-02T223428.260.jpeg Praise Be https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1545116674339-I0P2MNYEMXBM0JMVLI0U/View+from+the+Skunk+Train+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpg Praise Be - View from the Skunk Train https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1562515946194-TZYSFEPN67POACY8V3QL/Fog+and+other+blessings+by+Becky+Jaffe.JPG Praise Be https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1563555454189-WFNWTPCK7PXYXBVMFWHI/Delta+by+Becky+Jaffe.JPG Praise Be https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1609394158948-P6K3NNBSJREQ6TSGADQR/129104531_1495447533986516_4510409014529191835_n.jpg Praise Be https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1615272007252-60SSQ6RJI4KSBALPOCS6/155809292_1558908700973732_5072311436788549373_n.jpg Praise Be https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1619397638880-4D1ZZJVWJYO5VR3DQBX8/IMG_8211.JPG Praise Be https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1615272958719-8VWIRY88IVD8O0ZWPUKL/153698749_1553227738208495_7664443721522694644_n.jpg Praise Be https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1619467251530-YM1MMEGJXU435O8V9R9L/IMG_9956+%281%29.JPG Praise Be https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1619397525489-WN2KM84MJAIQ99HP3IAN/Attachment-1+-+2021-04-25T143456.507.jpeg Praise Be https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1571700602006-73IATVIFM64B93QA1PR3/Every+landscape+a+poem+by+Becky+Jaffe.JPG Praise Be https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1541354991058-YCHELEEGUIH0ZNC3UAN4/For+the+Love+of+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpeg Praise Be - For the love of https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1548784951924-R7BW2VC81X3LSOL2IA34/Hoi+polloi+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpeg Praise Be - Hoi Polloi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1574144669703-A3BDZSX6KN85XFKRTQ0H/Treasure+Trove+by+Becky+Jaffe.JPG Praise Be - Treasure Trove https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1530807776701-JEHU1Q7SFSA6SW2VANEV/Buckwheat+in+the+Serpentine.jpeg Praise Be - Buckwheat in the Serpentine The humility of the buckwheat gives me pause as I stride importantly along. There are lessons blooming in the underbrush. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1532975570358-5JSXP1CIYR0WW9280LTY/Scripture+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpeg Praise Be - Scripture https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1573374249351-W03WE5RU83TZ7871Z0GX/Attachment-1+-+2019-11-10T002357.664.jpeg Praise Be Petrified wood. We’re all a little petrified. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1524421820396-3U3CH723SQDAUS2TYQD1/Bark+abstract+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpg Praise Be - Bark Abstract https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1523340934986-7ZXOQFFIFBFDUHWICORF/Festooned+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpg Praise Be - Festooned https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1541788115733-JUK66BA9XLIGUY1RK5LQ/In+the+Flow+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpeg Praise Be - Flux Can anyone use a bit of beauty today? Here are some aquatic plants that are submerged but not drowning, bending but not breaking in the flux and flow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1544548772181-6TQ5E4I8MNIGMVDBCIE3/Tule+6+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpeg Praise Be https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1533873528974-36ZTBIWTPJ41W8I89WC9/Scrappyscape+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpeg Praise Be - Scragglescape Ours is a scrappy planet. We must be rugged creatures for such terrain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1575222969685-UE4LJKPLDPFS1R3TJ0WV/Wind+water+sky+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpeg Praise Be https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1619398863237-45EEOOA6NSFBB4YYBXGC/IMG_9707.JPG Praise Be https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1615272122746-3LN5A2MV6OYUD8FAGO29/150927504_1549405505257385_2463660230998981845_n.jpg Praise Be https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1535507861689-M48RW2V2MYDX4KBV8ZJD/Hydrologic+by+Becky+Jaffe.JPG Praise Be - Hydrologic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1576357958293-39E8V3V88847JUGKRPRX/Oz+from+a+Distance+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpeg Praise Be https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1533346502889-NST96XJ3SUO78FZ9O25B/If+Anyone+Can+Do+It%2C+The+Pelican+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpeg Praise Be - If anyone can do it, the Pelican. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1552888484357-5P22VGKOIPO1SG1EBV7L/Grace+notes+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpeg Praise Be - Grace notes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1619398590243-0N98GZ1E0HRWHJB7J56J/IMG_8944.JPG Praise Be https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1619398669549-P8O4FYEBVTI81PQE7Y4L/IMG_2427+%281%29.JPG Praise Be https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1523340989071-APPEFMK63YXJI9S1T9VY/Yellow+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpg Praise Be - Yellow There is the heaven we enter through institutional grace and there are the yellow finches bathing and singing in the lowly puddle. - from Yellow by Mary Oliver (This is a yellow warbler, not a finch, but the sentiment stands.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1527406208740-XD1KFAE5YTMMM43BGTTN/IMG_2700.JPG Praise Be - Bucolic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1523317734962-YHWIEY0CVC0DV0QF7KF4/All+paths+lead+to+Spring.jpeg Praise Be - All Paths Lead to Spring https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1574706365409-LRA1ITO0IWC867LA4PPH/My+aunt+brings+me+the+first+persimmons+of+the+season+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpeg Praise Be My aunt brings me the first persimmons of the season, still on the branch. She arranges them in a blue ceramic bowl and leaves them on my kitchen table, a sweet reminder: we are fruits of the same tree. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1524426451887-ARRLIW7QSFR3NDSVDC69/Papaya+Leaf+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpg Praise Be - Papaya Leaf https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1563555234619-5ADBG6V7GKQDI7AKOYM3/From+Dust+to+Dust+by+Becky+Jaffe.JPG Praise Be https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1524436631809-0BO48FTF1SCELSFKW44P/Irrepressible+Irrepressible+Exuberance+of+Photosynthesis+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpg Praise Be - Irrepressible Exuberance of Photosynthesis https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1524436744203-2QPWDSZWPAPSQJDPI9GN/Nigella+and+Leaf+Insect+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpg Praise Be - Nigella and Leaf Insect https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1524594207622-WAL2GGJ3HAJQUKRVMIQF/Gesture+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpg Praise Be - Gesture https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1524594319402-7S8T69SSR5VPWCFCPO5I/Hum+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpg Praise Be - Hum “The humming is always there, even at rest.” - The Mincing Mockingbird https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1549610560358-ZWAPDYE3EONS1AMPILO4/Carte+Blanche+2+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpeg Praise Be - Carte Blanche https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1524437503592-WJL2FU1N488VVCQ8BOEQ/Fractal+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpg Praise Be - Fractal https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1524432639309-ZH0YMRTEYZNGIUN3TXGQ/Fractal+Fern+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpg Praise Be - Fractal Fern https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1541657087657-8IGYHHBLWWJB945ST7PB/Life+and+Death+by+Becky+Jaffe.JPG Praise Be - Wanted, Dead or Alive https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1523317656475-LTT3CZA362CE444XN03R/Psithurism+by+Becky+Jaffe.JPG Praise Be - Psithurism https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1523313747645-F0IQQN37V3N3PJGYJD20/Natural+Order+by+Becky+Jaffe.JPG Praise Be - Natural Order https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1562540036319-TMTCBZSNXKYKTZERI0E7/This+katydid+has+new+wings+by.+Becky+Jaffe.JPG Praise Be - Web of Life https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1563555624404-Y1QD8FSAQTRSN8A103B8/Palm+oil+plantation+by+Becky+Jaffe.JPG Praise Be https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1523317143105-813TL3K66SUWR43GKBFE/Nymph+by+Becky+Jaffe.JPG Praise Be - Nymph https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1523317503973-O1CJHDCCG9HVUMDE8JIT/Shadow+Theater+by+Becky+Jaffe.JPG Praise Be - Shadow Theater https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1523342147126-FN1ZMUS057DPB1DJRVY8/BeckyJaffe_LubberLovin.jpg Praise Be - Lubber Lovin' https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1524425571075-J7U6AKTGFWX3DPF4NH8L/Tete+a+Tete+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpg Praise Be - Tete-a-Tete https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1523339487270-M6GRZQQISP10HP1I1QGC/BeckyJaffe_Appetizer.jpg Praise Be - Appetizer https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1523340358626-RAM8BAF1AS214GRYWUOM/Madonna+and+child+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpg Praise Be - Madonna and Child https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1524593592112-LGXHO0WD408E14V495QM/Madonna+and+Child+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpg Praise Be - Madonna and Child https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1523342096170-X6OGP1K11OVEL7XXMDXH/BeckyJaffe_Balance.jpg Praise Be - Balance https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1524427883871-39EKOL9I9YFSFGFZ5JPC/Magnificent+Frigates+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpg Praise Be - Magnificent Frigates I felt these birds before I saw them, a rustle of wind and a presence over my shoulder. When I looked up, I didn't have a name for them, so I broke out into a full-body sweat, as if my every pore were calling out to them. I dubbed them the Goosebumps Birds, but later I learned that their real name is the Magnificent Frigatebirds, a worthy title for a beast whose very Is-ness can make an otherwise solid human go liquid. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1523317867952-N3SDDGXZHHV3KH2WGHXT/Monarch+and+Lily.jpeg Praise Be https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1529350652594-7DBQ12A5M0TCPLW6F9M5/Bramble+by+Becky+Jaffe.JPG Praise Be - Bramble https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1561317160300-JS3WHBLI7DEZZJMQ2J77/Periwinkle+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpeg Praise Be - Periwinkle https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1528744761943-Z8F3O75AB8W9G4PAEC3S/Two+by+Two+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpg Praise Be - Two by Two https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1524591952985-MNNJPAOHMIQDUQO6U3EK/Blue+Jean+Frog+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpg Praise Be - Blue Jean Frog Several of nature's people I know, and they know me; I feel for them a transport Of cordiality - Emily Dickinson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1523342194858-ZMOU113AO5LG00T6GNT9/BeckyJaffe_KindredSpirit.jpg Praise Be - Kindred Spirit https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1524437762399-3UZMY2UZJGXZV3QI3TQ0/Bejeweled+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpg Praise Be - Bejeweled https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1524426161130-HPUNUMW5UXYEWJWBRWHV/Dayenu+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpg Praise Be - Dayenu https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1523340966402-U7T4YUHGFCA2L10OLQVE/Spiderworks+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpg Praise Be - Spiderworks A fun thing to do is to watch how spider webs turn raindrops into fireworks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1524593997475-8D7989IZYFB7BE6PDMZW/Animated+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpg Praise Be - Animated https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1535508095716-I27GHDTJNR3B2RI8WI7B/Forest+Facebook+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpg Praise Be - Forest Facebook Do trees have consciousness? I don’t know, but I suspect their root system is the original internet. Here’s a profile pic I took for Cedar to post on Forest Facebook. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1528747157740-4E7KP9LG1FPKVBB09977/The+Book+of+Barely+Imagined+Beings+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpg Praise Be - The Book of Barely Imagined Beings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1535508269585-114T611BYAGNX7LMQH1S/Womens+Wellness+2018+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpeg Praise Be - Stellar The source of all energy on our planet, our Sun deserves a standing ovation. The stellar members of Women’s Wellness 2018 rise to the occasion. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1541262708695-2IIXFS0FP1B2ZD3QDWBJ/Beckon+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpeg Praise Be - Beckoning https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1569780623985-OPBRUNBCDSZ442L5S3Y7/Gratitude+Etude+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpeg Praise Be - Gratitude Etude "I cannot pretend I am without fear. But my predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved; I have been given much, and I have given something in return; I have read and traveled and thought and written. I have had an intercourse with the world, the special intercourse of writers and readers. Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure." - Oliver Sacks https://www.beckyjaffephotography.com/facing-myself daily 0.75 2021-03-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1524435524597-27S5PRDQV728E2AA6M6J/Bookish+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpg Facing Myself - Bookish https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1524435524597-27S5PRDQV728E2AA6M6J/Bookish+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpg Facing Myself - Bookish https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1615269974085-6VP6UYXJ66MUQWZB1EDS/IMG_3187+%281%29.JPG Facing Myself - This grasshopper https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1615269958225-F5FP2UXQAMJX57NGGTUN/IMG_3667.JPG Facing Myself https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1524434857401-10LP4R4ZIFZL1MGW70BX/Facing+Myself+1.jpg Facing Myself https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1523339838584-3QEYZNJGWN18E2V6LSDV/Jaffe_CaliforniaDreaming.JPG Facing Myself - California Dreaming https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1524435728412-02KNODU6QJOT8F0OVBLC/Botanist+by+Becky+Jaffe.JPG Facing Myself https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1524435468690-CO3SHCTWOUXWLLGW59ND/Carbon-based+Life+Form+by+Becky+Jaffe.JPG Facing Myself - Carbon-Based Life Form https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1615270185650-ZK7869GTDDB04W31M3YJ/IMG_0696.JPG Facing Myself https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1524435428210-MP8COPBTFIX27I87UQP5/Focus+by+Becky+Jaffe.JPG Facing Myself - Foci https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1523343274217-7QVLHSZ499YHF8WQ0YQS/Open+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpg Facing Myself - Aspirational Selfie https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1615269986823-ZHLMK3CD5NB551YGQ6Q6/IMG_0698+%281%29.JPG Facing Myself https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1615270372109-ROZ76HQLP4OMW3YH078L/IMG_4437.JPG Facing Myself - Monkey Mind https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1615270010819-Y7GCBPPJ9FV9DTT555BF/IMG_9801.JPG Facing Myself https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1615270515048-URGT8UBIMCU7Y9G9CCG9/IMG_9696.JPG Facing Myself https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1550128698642-3LE4VA6KLV70LUPXLNA1/A+Passing+Glance+by+Becky+Jaffe.JPG Facing Myself Between the ephemeral and the impermanent: a passing glance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1615269997515-WQIBUBHZEPR7CPF127FG/IMG_9725.JPG Facing Myself https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1524435650775-ENAFJYBINPY2WSLNLRS5/Reverent+by+Becky+Jaffe.JPG Facing Myself - Reverent https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1523339753094-ATT093H0SN9IDKEYB199/Becky_Jaffe_Ethnobotany.JPG Facing Myself - Ethnobotany https://www.beckyjaffephotography.com/homo-sapiens daily 0.75 2025-03-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1574706080845-XPS4LMSLKWBQVL43GI80/Free+as+a+bird+by+Becky+Jaffe.JPG Pan narrans Jon Jackson brings joy to my life https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1574706080845-XPS4LMSLKWBQVL43GI80/Free+as+a+bird+by+Becky+Jaffe.JPG Pan narrans Jon Jackson brings joy to my life https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1533873283476-UED9RIOLUO7FC6V4U8GL/Hank+Moon+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpeg Pan narrans Lanell Dike brings depth to my life https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1533881651571-E5P1FAK4LHKJ7KEY43UX/Aaron+on+kayak+at+Chabot+.jpeg Pan narrans Aaron Abrams brings brilliance to my life https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1609398715988-4PK04OK9Z23A5SRMLZE6/120301162_1434304073434196_5531288991367219432_n+%282%29.jpg Pan narrans Karen brings compassion to my life https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1624593243101-WT92D15I9KQ53BGQ1BKM/185425139_1607606279437307_6920201195177807123_n.jpeg Pan narrans Eli Jenkins brings wonder to my life https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1568607097807-E1XVJ1X3FTCK36K26P25/69703590_1102558583275415_8473181854587944960_o.jpg Pan narrans Tom Trippe and Kirsten Berg bring kindness to my life https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1609396925038-42CV5EG8PQ6AT0CJ6H6S/78066731_1172578916273381_5171551395056189440_n.jpg Pan narrans Cathy O’Neil brings soul to my life https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1559790773169-THXITXNRUA0KOQAIPVRV/Elaine+by+Becky+Jaffe.JPG Pan narrans Elaine Poon brings a passion for justice to my life https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1524425930073-VTQD2TEU5LCDU60QYYU3/Gina+Laughing+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpg Pan narrans Gina Madrid brings music to my life https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1609397153820-7APBI7HAJIWRIKO1E4AO/120233727_1432335900297680_3320403187181239711_n+%283%29.jpg Pan narrans Nancy Rubin brings joie de vivre to my life https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1619396803850-EC6EIEY1EPJHV2ZFEEFV/IMG_9557.JPG Pan narrans Shoji brings equanimity to my life https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1569172733564-PCNORJK5RMHBYR163XST/Vanishing+Point+by+Becky+Jaffe.JPG Pan narrans David Edgar brings artistry to my life https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1565581120947-NJARM1T7MH1EKBJ87Y55/Meta+Selfie+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpeg Pan narrans Sam Lopez brings meta-metacognition to my life https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1524418435599-1J9VE5FNGVKVC8RS9VMO/Seedlings+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpeg Pan narrans - The next generation brings responsibility to my life https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1529511328719-PIRPB6K2HM2Z5EXEPK2L/Lovingkindness+in+Bronze+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpeg Pan narrans - Lovingkindness You bring God to my life, even if I didn’t name you here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1609399681432-OR8FH98L22NZ5C98ZVY0/123763269_1467462700118333_7461466582078947696_n.jpg Pan narrans https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1619397400415-MHG6VYOAZM84GH8K2F1P/IMG_8206.JPG Pan narrans https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1609397060534-6PJORHZ03CH0ABP6LFV2/120181823_1433886546809282_2732227134817972248_n+%283%29.jpg Pan narrans https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1615271019100-FX8MUEQ19S8CDDZV3E34/Becky_Jaffe_Reverie.JPG Pan narrans https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1619396811790-6EB77F2DG8LC9RVBU6T2/Attachment-1+-+2021-04-25T143950.573.jpeg Pan narrans https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1548875032093-LEFPGKLSEZLDCB1WWKVH/High+Priestess+by+Becky+Jaffe.JPG Pan narrans https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1523342697861-8F7TJUIN6UVY8D9T3ZCL/Woman+on+Earth+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpg Pan narrans - 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Properties of Water at Arts Benicia , November 18 - December 17, 2023 https://artsbenicia.org/properties-of-water-exhibition/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1730593061739-6QGC8VKODL1NET7KA78I/Screen+Shot+2024-11-02+at+5.17.17+PM.png Current & Upcoming Exhibits - https://prestoncastle.org/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1744782395921-RASU8ZQG015O3DF2XLZX/2025+AOC++MARKETING+POSTCARD+-+FRONT.jpg Current & Upcoming Exhibits https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1663565143769-S0HO3ODCKL2JAKI6GTKV/Screen+Shot+2022-09-18+at+10.21.50+PM.png Current & Upcoming Exhibits https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1744782401389-9P7CRWBZYUJ7MBESLSNU/2025+AOC+MARKETING+POSTCARD+-+BACK+%282%29.jpg Current & Upcoming Exhibits https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1719719367995-LSCC35RLP8ETJXLJAS95/Letter%2Bfrom%2Bthe%2BNetwork_IG_slide%2B1.png Current & Upcoming Exhibits https://www.berkeleyartcenter.org/letter-from-the-network https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1641681268445-QV9EKXXIW1Z2PXE6F3OG/271591414_5101631073189606_5202632665162900258_n.jpeg Current & Upcoming Exhibits - Once in Japan Photo Contest at the Consulate General in San Francisco, January 10th through mid-March https://www.facebook.com/cgjsf1/posts/5101644193188294 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1618726161659-NPRCH33OGJ5ACTGRJGHE/Screen+Shot+2021-04-17+at+11.08.42+PM.png Current & Upcoming Exhibits I have the good fortune of serving as a Lecturer for Cal Discoveries Travel. If you would like to join me on a boat trip through the Panama Canal from January 30th-February 7th, 2022, please see details here: https://alumni.berkeley.edu/travel/cal-discoveries/central-and-south-america/passage-through-panama-canal-and-costa-rica https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1673154390590-WKD3ZSCYDXZA218ZR34E/317086298_10160724126968641_4187046084946708332_n.jpg Current & Upcoming Exhibits https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1674676064225-UL3TNKIURL1TBFHI3H1D/Screen+Shot+2023-01-25+at+11.46.06+AM.png Current & Upcoming Exhibits - Women by Women at the SE Center for Photography March 3 - March 25, 2023 https://www.sec4p.com/women-23-online-exhibition?mc_cid=ae5a00fece&mc_eid=e9a2a4324f https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1576738653111-OHRW5O76ZXOLTXXSZ5IZ/The+Book+of+Life+a+Photographic+Bibliography+by+Becky+Jaffe.png Current & Upcoming Exhibits https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1541741509827-FMB5329EE0O1307S3VW4/Visions+of+Democracy.jpg Current & Upcoming Exhibits https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/5add2ff90e2e722020226394/5dae7349338bae2be5f60f86/1744781817718/73322775_2789682401051163_6707079895039606784_o.jpg Current & Upcoming Exhibits https://www.facebook.com/pg/cgjsf1/photos/?tab=album&album_id=2789681511051252 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1527197516950-J6SKR9X3F1Z93MPLJW0X/30171364_1900826246628160_6536785308317134546_o.jpg Current & Upcoming Exhibits https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1529348999609-26SY8EW5IDJAEI9RB4XP/aig_selected_final_logo.620x465.jpg Current & Upcoming Exhibits - Art in the Gardens at the Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens Please join me Saturday, August 4th, 2018 for a day of art and other sensory delights in the fuchsia-filled Mendocino Botanical Coast Garden. I will be exhibiting prints of my nature photography alongside many talented nature-inspired artists. For more information: https://www.gardenbythesea.org/calendar/art-in-the-gardens-2018/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1545078557779-XL4WAXPZADDIN7YEEFLY/Screen+Shot+2018-12-17+at+12.27.40+PM.png Current & Upcoming Exhibits I have two prints in the 2019 Wild & Scenic Art Exhibition. https://www.beckyjaffephotography.com/gathering-together-the-ohlone-tule-boat-project daily 0.75 2018-07-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1530559634118-4CZC2SD22UZR1IWQQTAX/Ohlone.jpeg Gathering Together: the Ohlone Tule Boat Project - Ohlone https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1530559634118-4CZC2SD22UZR1IWQQTAX/Ohlone.jpeg Gathering Together: the Ohlone Tule Boat Project - Ohlone https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1530734833269-0KFSRLXPPF2L6YF8C0VJ/Sacred+Sage.jpeg Gathering Together: the Ohlone Tule Boat Project - Sacred Sage https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1530565049886-AFN0NHFY2L4C495WIEP4/Casting+aside+the+tumbleweeds.jpeg Gathering Together: the Ohlone Tule Boat Project - Casting Aside the Tumbleweeds https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1530562563438-KTL1SPH0KR40T86IW3GJ/Tinker+in+the+Tule.jpeg Gathering Together: the Ohlone Tule Boat Project - Harvesting Joy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1530560270779-WN5SFSIUY86DY07EKQ63/Seedlings.jpeg Gathering Together: the Ohlone Tule Boat Project - Seedlings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1530562274064-9YECF160RICW1H1J0O3H/Shoots+and+Roots.jpeg Gathering Together: the Ohlone Tule Boat Project - Shoots and Roots https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1530564183811-OYGOCWF05AO5EQ5YXM31/Mother+Nature%27s+Daughter.jpeg Gathering Together: the Ohlone Tule Boat Project - Mother Nature's Daughter https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1530729968812-TQOPGENR60BA5E2QVGCY/Natural+Habitat.jpeg Gathering Together: the Ohlone Tule Boat Project - Natural Habitat https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1530727978489-ZANBE8JFAIRNEO1ZLF6F/Willowy.jpeg Gathering Together: the Ohlone Tule Boat Project - Willowy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1530565513491-C6MQOT2UA9PEYT4UL8FA/Each+one+teach+one.jpeg Gathering Together: the Ohlone Tule Boat Project - Braided Together https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1530850046162-PBB5JC3GJ6P9SWLCKFZZ/Returning+Seeds+to+the+Earth.jpeg Gathering Together: the Ohlone Tule Boat Project - Returning the Seeds to the Earth https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1530566614466-6T8ZMRZJ4EGQFL0LFZ6B/Work+and+Play.jpeg Gathering Together: the Ohlone Tule Boat Project - Work and Play https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1530569566986-RCXPH19LHONO6YLXJPH5/Working+Together.jpeg Gathering Together: the Ohlone Tule Boat Project - Coevolution https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1530565968014-JC6HVAH1WFQKZOP2G16H/Habitat.jpeg Gathering Together: the Ohlone Tule Boat Project - Camouflage https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1530735194273-CHT84DP8CDHUICNZ6ESO/Wonder.jpeg Gathering Together: the Ohlone Tule Boat Project - Wonder https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1530804935635-PJZ3GOPFZGL28KWIS97T/Integration.jpeg Gathering Together: the Ohlone Tule Boat Project - Integration https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1530850892531-UQ53UHVO1ZNZXRRSXEGF/Son+of+the+Sun.jpeg Gathering Together: the Ohlone Tule Boat Project - Son of the Sun https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1530733110922-Z4EAASFOFO2SWUKWKY8F/Big+Time.jpeg Gathering Together: the Ohlone Tule Boat Project - Big Time https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1530833458244-V8043X4N3EGF2Z6D8X8F/AIM+High.jpeg Gathering Together: the Ohlone Tule Boat Project - AIM High https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1530850752534-UCM1R276V3XLQE8ENTZP/Rites+of+Passage.jpeg Gathering Together: the Ohlone Tule Boat Project - Rites of Passage https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1530563127019-9V394X3KJ4TK21420CW0/Gatherer.jpeg Gathering Together: the Ohlone Tule Boat Project - Gatherer https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1530852028678-Q1XI2JPYGJ7ALBCJR2VG/Tule+Processional.jpeg Gathering Together: the Ohlone Tule Boat Project - Tule Processional https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1530560566219-5FYUP04WELSAHVYZPZYF/Carrying+the+tule+up+the+ridge.jpeg Gathering Together: the Ohlone Tule Boat Project - Carrying the Tule Up the Ridge https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1530557037271-0QNRD0QR20UAWO46J96U/Ohlone.jpeg Gathering Together: the Ohlone Tule Boat Project - Ohlone https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1530559363455-B99Z39GLFCC5R5KQLJEO/Interwoven.jpeg Gathering Together: the Ohlone Tule Boat Project - Interwoven https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1530727879712-E0TADK1EVJAWV2175N9Y/Bear+Hugging+the+Bundles.jpeg Gathering Together: the Ohlone Tule Boat Project - Bear Hugging the Bundles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1530563695858-SV1QOI9K29M542PEBN0J/Bear+Kin.jpeg Gathering Together: the Ohlone Tule Boat Project - Bear Kin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1530570383260-2OSEZMQRA2VX3KA9GENM/Us+vs+Them.jpeg Gathering Together: the Ohlone Tule Boat Project - Us vs Them https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1530732506437-U8P4GC5KR05EZVVA9DWU/the+7th+Generation.jpeg Gathering Together: the Ohlone Tule Boat Project - The 7th Generation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1530567080232-7EBLGDHPASBVAAPS13PI/Bear+Paw.jpeg Gathering Together: the Ohlone Tule Boat Project - Bear Paw https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1530728968328-4D7RJSC7A7SCTNKXEVSA/Carla%27s+nails+title+Handiwork.jpeg Gathering Together: the Ohlone Tule Boat Project - Handiwork https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1530573410162-5W52IY5YS0RNTKKO58VL/Weaving+the+Boat.jpeg Gathering Together: the Ohlone Tule Boat Project - Weaving the Boat https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1530730538544-7Q9EL3FTMB3412U0RHAC/Deer+Bone+Blade.jpeg Gathering Together: the Ohlone Tule Boat Project - Deer Bone Blade in Grandfather's Hand https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1530574285697-PBHTD07N7O8BMHN5P8Z6/Handiwork.jpeg Gathering Together: the Ohlone Tule Boat Project - Original Dice https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1530561018445-MA6UOEYKEGFS4WFSA1HR/Valuables.jpeg Gathering Together: the Ohlone Tule Boat Project - Valuables https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1530559969905-XU99Q908LN06QWO83UC8/Labor+of+Love.jpeg Gathering Together: the Ohlone Tule Boat Project - Labor of Love https://www.beckyjaffephotography.com/uc-botanical-garden-artist-residency daily 0.75 2021-06-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1624657868861-PV2BB2DMJJXCND631BRW/The+Book+of+Life+A+Photographic+Bibliography+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpg The Book of Life: A Photographic Bibliography https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1624657868861-PV2BB2DMJJXCND631BRW/The+Book+of+Life+A+Photographic+Bibliography+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpg The Book of Life: A Photographic Bibliography https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1560537711433-WDXH3AD9CZGKEL2WY8TP/Good+morning+Sunshine+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpeg The Book of Life: A Photographic Bibliography - Stellar “First there was nothing. Then there was everything. Then in a park above a western city after dusk, the air is raining messages. A woman sits on the ground, leaning against a pine. Its bark presses hard against her back, as hard as life. Its needles scent the air and force hums in the heart of the wood. Her ears tune down to the lowest frequencies. The tree is saying things, in words before words. It says: Sun and water are questions endlessly worth answering.” ~ Richard Powers, The Overstory https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1565987694634-Y9S16ZOUZN8MAN7WP3HK/Redwood+Grove+Concert+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpeg The Book of Life: A Photographic Bibliography - Wood Wide Web “As a writer, I find gardens essential to the creative process; as a physician, I take my patients to gardens whenever possible. All of us have had the experience of wandering through a lush garden or a timeless desert, walking by a river or an ocean, or climbing a mountain and finding ourselves simultaneously calmed and reinvigorated, engaged in mind, refreshed in body and spirit. The importance of these physiological states on individual and community health is fundamental and wide-ranging. In forty years of medical practice, I have found only two types of non-pharmaceutical ‘therapy’ to be vitally important for patients with chronic neurological diseases: music and gardens.” ~ Oliver Sacks, author of Gratitude https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1559444781649-1RPAQKV6D6PC0D22UM4Q/Eden+Engineered+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpeg The Book of Life: A Photographic Bibliography - The Great Indoors “The leaves of the world comprise countless billion elaborations of a single, simple machine designed for one job only – a job upon which hinges humankind. Leaves make sugar. Plants are the only things in the universe that can make sugar out of nonliving inorganic matter. All the sugar that you have ever eaten was first made within a leaf. Without a constant supply of glucose to your brain, you will die. Period. Under duress, your liver can make glucose out of protein or fat – but that protein or fat was originally constructed from a plant sugar within some other animal. It’s inescapable: at this very moment, within the synapses of your brain, leaves are fueling thoughts of leaves.” ~ Hope Jahren, Lab Girl https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1624642135672-5ND3XQRN10TTNUS36JDY/Flit+by+Becky+Jaffe+for+DPI.jpg The Book of Life: A Photographic Bibliography - Flit How little note is taken of the deeds of Nature! What paper publishes her reports? .... Who publishes the sheet-music of the winds, or the written music of water written in river-lines? Who reports and works and ways of the clouds, those wondrous creations coming into being every day like freshly upheaved mountains? And what record is kept of Nature's colors - - the clothes she wears - of her birds, her beasts - her live-stock? ~ John Muir, John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1624664512105-AQC8V1VKJOHL16Q4ADGH/Grace+notes+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpeg The Book of Life: A Photographic Bibliography - Grace Notes “The most beautiful art is that which makes the world appear richer, deeper, and more meaningful, making nature seem ever more intricate, interesting, and deserving of our attention and love. There is meaning in nature far beyond use; there is form and beauty far beyond function.” ~ David Rothenberg, Survival of the Beautiful: Art, Science, and Evolution https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1624661534823-2SURP41AMJKUA5X0E5BT/175157332_1590663521131583_5075777965578002784_n.jpeg The Book of Life: A Photographic Bibliography - The Temple Bell “The temple bell stops, but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.” - Matsuo Basho https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1624661567108-OJ8ZLBIKMPXX7BL8EEHY/185526920_1608348149363120_2866423876256328814_n.jpeg The Book of Life: A Photographic Bibliography - Radiant “It was a fruit we had never seen before, larger than an apple, about the size of a grapefruit. It was round and yellow like the leaves of a neglected book.” ~ Mai Al-Nakib, The Hidden Light of Objects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1624642539049-FADRR37MI8G1ZJCSUU6A/Jaffe_Becky_TheNaturalOrder.jpg The Book of Life: A Photographic Bibliography - The Natural Order “You are what what you eat eats.” ~ Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1624650433646-EBF85F74HEUHIEYPLJFG/25924825676_a2b11d9249_o.jpg The Book of Life: A Photographic Bibliography - The Book of Barely Imagined Beings “Microbes dominated the Proterozoic and arguably they still largely determine the course of life today. They are, as the microbiologist John Ingraham puts it, ‘our inventors, progenitors and keepers’. (They are also our disposers: death is not the end, it’s just a case of being metabolically different.) In the big picture – the cycles of life on Earth – microbes are the beginning and end of all. Or, as the palaeontologist Andrew Knoll asserts, ‘eukaryotes are the icing and prokaryotes are the cake’.” ~ Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings: A 21st Century Bestiary https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1624643557881-R5GLJL3FSGH2IGE8G9OS/Wildebeest+at+the+Watering+Hole+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpg The Book of Life: A Photographic Bibliography - Glucose and Its Servants “It appears that nutrient exchange and helping neighbors in times of need is the rule, and this leads to the conclusion that forests are superorganisms with interconnections much like ant colonies.” ~ Peter Wohlleben, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate – Discoveries from a Secret World https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1624644675550-BI1M2QF7PTDLZXGGCJWD/Anise+Swallowtail+Metamorphosis+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpg The Book of Life: A Photographic Bibliography - Anise Swallowtail Metamorphosis https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1624661431845-CDYGYCAPKJ7UQUBF5IUD/Anise+Swallowtail+Metamorphosis.jpg The Book of Life: A Photographic Bibliography https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1624650931865-1DO4TN8TN37F0IMDG5FD/Treble_Clef.jpg The Book of Life: A Photographic Bibliography - Treble Clef “I am intrigued by the possibility that what humans hear in choruses of synchronizing crickets or hocketing katydids is not an enjoyment of the random, the unplanned, the chance caprices of nature, but glimmers of order in disorder that come as we listen to layers of tiny creatures playing by simple musical or mathematical rules.” ~ David Rothenberg, Bug Music: How Insects Gave Us Rhythm and Noise https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1624645059007-G6V5W6FCXIV7IJVW60BL/Pipevine+Swallowtail+Caterpillars+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpg The Book of Life: A Photographic Bibliography - Pipevine Swallowtail Metamorphosis “We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.” ~ Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1624650299939-V6J8ZADI5JZX617Q6TZR/pipevine+swallowtail+metamorphosis.JPG The Book of Life: A Photographic Bibliography - Aposematism “We cannot win this battle to save species and environments without forging an emotional bond between ourselves and nature as well – for we will not fight to save what we do not love.” ~ Stephen Jay Gould, author of The Flamingo’s Smile https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1624645466220-MU8RBYWQELP5D2O5TUOG/Holding+On+Letting+Go+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpg The Book of Life: A Photographic Bibliography - Holding On, Letting Go https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1624648029445-QYUQLTV0PFFQDCINDB6O/Caption+for+Holding+On+Letting+Go.jpg The Book of Life: A Photographic Bibliography https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1624832174673-UUSYV4ZGD5N4M1WXUMEA/IMG_9553.JPG The Book of Life: A Photographic Bibliography “Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” ~ Robert Louis Stevenson, Admiral Guinea https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1541789632958-YKXASNHZ6M5IXT0BIG8F/Welwitschia+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpeg The Book of Life: A Photographic Bibliography - Welwitschia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1624650078919-OGRRN2DWCYDAHPF8DAFK/26843988926_0dd42347d8_o.jpg The Book of Life: A Photographic Bibliography - Spathe & Spadix https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1624650582122-SA86G0MWOR9ED71S0TG4/24326422875_2c11697ca9_o+%281%29.jpg The Book of Life: A Photographic Bibliography - Becoming “We were planting seeds of change, the fruit of which we might never see. We had to be patient.” ~ Michelle Obama, Becoming https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1541788715055-D0KX1K0KJJHILOOZPGV7/Scale+Exercises+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpeg The Book of Life: A Photographic Bibliography - Undulations “The great affair, the love affair with life, is to live as variously as possible, to groom one’s curiosity like a high-spirited thoroughbred, climb aboard, and gallp over the the thick, sun-struck hills every day. Where there is no risk, the emotional terrain is flat and unyielding, and, despite all its dimensions, valleys, pinnacles, and detours, life will seem to have none of its magnificent geography, only a length. It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.” ~ Diane Ackerman, A Natural History of the Senses https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1569780113437-7KVHZGUCOSZBWIC3YXQ6/Centerfold+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpeg The Book of Life: A Photographic Bibliography - Praise Be thank you zinnia, and gooseberry, rudbeckia and pawpaw, Ashmead’s kernel, cockscomb and scarlet runner, feverfew and lemonbalm; thank you knitbone and sweetgrass and sunchoke and false indigo whose petals stammered apart by bumblebees good lord please give me a minute… and moonglow and catkin and crookneck and painted tongue and seedpod and johnny jump-up; thank you what in us rackets glad what gladrackets us; ~ from the catalogue of unabashed gratitude by ross gay https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1541790978399-RWC7XQPC299FIU79SALG/Live+Streaming+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpeg The Book of Life: A Photographic Bibliography - Live Streaming https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1624660105553-DYKHM0RO1NA371GYSZZE/Live+Streaming.jpg The Book of Life: A Photographic Bibliography https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1624659985950-B57Z0IE9OUXPJ26E1EWR/Spiderworks+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpg The Book of Life: A Photographic Bibliography “Light is thus nothing more than a rapid vibration of the spiderweb of Faraday's lines, which ripple like the surface of a lake as the wind blows. It isn't true that we "do not see" Faraday lines. To "see" is to perceive light, and light is the movement of the Faraday lines. Nothing leaps from one location in space to another without something transporting it. If we see a child playing on the beach, it is only because between him and ourselves there is this lake of vibrating lines that transport his image to us. Is the world not marvelous?” ~ Carlo Rovelli, Quantum Gravity https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1559452876417-B1RO5E37T16UTJL7DIJ5/IMG_3111.JPG The Book of Life: A Photographic Bibliography - Made in the Shade “The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quite alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature. As longs as this exists, and it certainly always will, I know that then there will always be comfort for every sorrow, whatever the circumstances may be. And I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles.” ~ Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1559452780690-2QWGGFC12FQ14S4GNJE3/IMG_3092.JPG The Book of Life: A Photographic Bibliography - Toro “Look! A trickle of water running through some dirt! I'd say our afternoon just got booked solid!” ~ Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1541790168404-J0L4HM8UB69KF4G00QRM/Leaf+Litter+by+Becky+Jaffe.JPG The Book of Life: A Photographic Bibliography - Chaos Theory “I try to rely less and less on controlling nature. Instead I am learning to live with it's chaos.” ― David Mas Masumoto, Epitaph for a Peach: Four Seasons on My Family Farm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1548008467112-IYG3941MUL1GXL92P3O4/The+Ponds+are+Frothing+at+the+Mouth+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpeg The Book of Life: A Photographic Bibliography - Water, the Solvent of Life “It has always been a happy thought to me that the creek runs on all night, new every minute, whether I wish it or know it or care, as a closed book on a shelf continues to whisper to itself its own inexhaustible tale.” ― Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1541788703730-665LR9I7T715MIGHPVU2/In+the+Flow+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpeg The Book of Life: A Photographic Bibliography - Flux and Flow “We carry into our future at least as many responsibilities as we do rights. This is our charge. We have the right to extract, but we have the responsibility to replenish. We have the right to develop, but we have the responsibility to restore. We have the right to inhabit, but we have the responsibility to set aside. Stewardship is the active management of leaving the more-than-human world to its own functioning devices.” ~ Obi Kaufman , The State of Water: Understanding California’s Most Precious Resource https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1624837886494-AEWDKN8GYT3VWU2G059F/IMG_1149.JPG The Book of Life: A Photographic Bibliography - Networkers “Life lines are entangled: candy cane and matsutake; matsutake and its host trees; host trees and herbs, mosses, insects, soil bacteria, and forest animals; heaving bumps and mushroom pickers. Matsutake pickers are alert to life lines in the forest; searching with all the senses creates this alertness. It is a form of forest knowledge and appreciation without the completeness of classification. Instead, searching brings us to the liveliness of beings experienced as subjects rather than objects.” ~ Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1581788906468-V0RI2R2CUR8Q03BKN2RA/Plant+Selfie+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpeg The Book of Life: A Photographic Bibliography - A Deep Weirdness “In that sense, the creek is a reminder that we do not live in a simulation—a streamlined world of products, results, experiences, reviews—but rather on a giant rock whose other life-forms operate according to an ancient, oozing, almost chthonic logic. Snaking through the midst of the banal everyday is a deep weirdness, a world of flowerings, decompositions, and seepages, of a million crawling things, of spores and lacy fungal filaments, of minerals reacting and things being eaten away—all just on the other side of the chain-link fence.” ~ Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1615272382651-0SAP6S5K5JUZ2WXZIUAW/139227020_1527811144083488_8497364340650857852_n+%281%29.jpg The Book of Life: A Photographic Bibliography - Beingness “It was as though the plants wanted me to write a different kind of book and sent gentle roots deep into my brain. They wanted me to fully acknowledge their importance in human history, their amazing powers of healing, the nourishment they provide, their ability to harm if we misused them, and, ultimately, our dependence on the plant kingdom. The plants seemed to want me to share with the world my own understanding of their beingness, so that people might better honor them as important partners in so many of our endeavors.” ~ Jane Goodall, Seeds of Hope: Wisdom and Wonder from the World of Plants https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1624659639322-I3TX9UONX86FXVDXQB60/Blue+Jean+Frog+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpg The Book of Life: A Photographic Bibliography - Denizen “For most of the year, the Mojave River is hidden. Retreating underground only to rise in a few protected canyons, the Mojave, like most of the residents who live in ecosystems supported by its waters, is a survivor. For all of its apparent desolation, if you stand chest high among the reeds of Afton Canyon, deep in Mojave Trails National Monument, on a cool spring evening and listen to the frogs sing to the sunset, you’ll forget what all the survival fuss is about.” ~ Obi Kaufman, The California Field Atlas https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1560564690782-K4B6IYX3KBGEGZN38IXE/Welcome+Committee+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpg The Book of Life: A Photographic Bibliography - Flourish https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1561316390500-JEZPNTXSGSL36PRP1GWV/Puya+by+Becky+Jaffe.JPG The Book of Life: A Photographic Bibliography - Puya chilensis “Eternity can be found in the minuscule, in the place where earthworms, along with billions of unseen soil-dwelling microorganisms, engage in a complex and little-understood dance with the tangle of plant roots that make up their gardens, their cities.” ~ Amy Stewart, author of Wicked Plants https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1541802396672-J0S1931SMKYC4KFBKFD4/Papyrus+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpg The Book of Life: A Photographic Bibliography - Papyrus “Pause in your reading. Forget the words, the font, and the images, and run your fingers down the page. Feel the paper. What you feel are trees, shipped across the world, then chipped, pulped, bleached, layered, and delivered, ink-ready to the printer. These fine, smooth sheets represent 5,000 years of development since Cyperus papyrus was first turned into paper…The Egyptians began writing on papyrus about 4,000 years ago, marking our transition from prehistoric to historic. ~ Bill Laws, Fifty Plants that Changed the Course of History https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1541802601423-0XJ13QVVM0LS91RA386V/Haiku+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpg The Book of Life: A Photographic Bibliography - Haiku “Weeds – even many intrusive aliens – give something back. They green over the dereliction we have created. They move in to replace more sensitive plants that we have endangered. Their willingness to grow in the most hostile environments – a bombed city, a crack in a wall – means that they insinuate the idea of wild nature into places otherwise quite shorn of it. They are, in this sense, paradoxical. Although they follow and are dependent on human activities, their cussedness and refusal to play by our rules makes them subversive, and the very essence of wildness.” ~ Richard Mabey, Weeds: In Defense of Nature’s Most Unloved Plants https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1624660653105-HESH4IG3RWHRXEHH5U3S/51782152_974355312762410_3642838110523359232_n.jpeg The Book of Life: A Photographic Bibliography - Quietude Would Like to Have a Word or Two “Silence is not the absence of something but the presence of everything . . . It is the presence of time, undisturbed. It can be felt within the chest. Silence nurtures our nature, our human nature, and lets us know who we are. Left with a more receptive mind and a more attuned ear, we become better listeners not only to nature but to each other. Silence can be carried like embers from a fire. Silence can be found, and silence can find you. Silence can be lost and also recovered. But silence cannot be imagined, although most people think so. To experience the soul-swelling wonder of silence, you must hear it.” ~ Gordon Hempton , One Square Inch of Silence: One Man’s Quest to Preserve Quiet https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1572217424994-FH7TH2DCF8V9ERJYITTL/IMG_3693.JPG The Book of Life: A Photographic Bibliography - Stairway to Heaven https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1624651792990-EWJPJNUL76QI1RGZO9OD/Stairway+to+Heaven.jpg The Book of Life: A Photographic Bibliography https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1624649521276-L9ORJJAU3XY4Y0POCSIZ/67225966_1075286686002605_1985223279660498944_n.jpeg The Book of Life: A Photographic Bibliography - Impermanence https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1624656602892-V0J1XLCNTS1PWIOAZ0NC/Impermanence.jpg The Book of Life: A Photographic Bibliography https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1541803494051-IA1BZJFRD5XCK7U0VZPQ/Bejeweled+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpg The Book of Life: A Photographic Bibliography - Bejeweled https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1624662483436-TMY18RZYGEDAHVKLM8EQ/38247860_856070491257560_7366935516228354048_n.jpeg The Book of Life: A Photographic Bibliography - Scripture “Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery, like the idle curved tunnels of leaf miners on the face of a leaf. We must somehow take a wider view, look at the whole landscape, really see it, and describe what's going on here. Then we can at least wail the right question into the swaddling band of darkness, or, if it comes to that, choir the proper praise.” ~ Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1560021200313-884IFZQ8I990JBBJHP0G/RIP+by+Becky+Jaffe.JPG The Book of Life: A Photographic Bibliography - Coevolution “The view of evolution as a chronic bloody competition among individuals and species, a popular distortion of Darwin’s notion of "survival of the fittest," dissolves before a new view of continual cooperation, strong interaction, and mutual dependence among life forms. Life did not take over the globe by combat, but by networking. Life forms multiplied and complexified by co-opting others, not just by killing them.” ~ Lynn Margulis, What Is Life? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1565992186169-JWU18IPEAT2LX2HU472D/Walk+this+way+by+Becky+Jaffe.JPG The Book of Life: A Photographic Bibliography - Walk This Way https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1624651519743-BEGHCJ7TB1277K73ZPFS/Walk+This+Way.jpg The Book of Life: A Photographic Bibliography https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1560916298843-P369ZFF0K5OY8XKA847S/Respite+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpg The Book of Life: A Photographic Bibliography - Respite “Through attention and curiosity, we can suspend our tendency toward instrumental understanding—seeing things or people one-dimensionally as the products of their functions—and instead sit with the unfathomable fact of their existence, which opens up toward us but can never be fully grasped or known.” ~ Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1560566005487-FECR9IVDPHD061Y6QEAP/Sit+a+Spell+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpg The Book of Life: A Photographic Bibliography https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1547832277733-S61S70WMQ70BULG9WQJ5/Cycads+for+Mary+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpeg The Book of Life: A Photographic Bibliography - Salad for Stegosaurus https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1624656230528-903T6FE3MVQGJGRV9B1Y/Salad+for+Stegosaurus.jpg The Book of Life: A Photographic Bibliography https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1624836757430-K7YFNSFOAI3Z2ZM1G4I6/IMG_7713.JPG The Book of Life: A Photographic Bibliography “Parasites make up the majority of species on Earth. According to one estimate, parasites may outnumber free-living species four to one. In other words, the study of life is, for the most part, parasitology.” ~ Carl Zimmer, Parasite Rex: Inside the Bizarre World of Nature’s Most Dangerous Creatures https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1541802379659-PAVLYRHWUMNHPNP1C59S/Banana+Trees+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpg The Book of Life: A Photographic Bibliography - Gone Bananas “We did not domesticate wheat. It domesticated us.” ~ Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1624646958499-6Z989U9WX3HQIUGI6Z1R/Animated+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpg The Book of Life: A Photographic Bibliography - Animated https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1624657054320-XECZUDTJOQ4Z606XMN0Y/Animated.jpg The Book of Life: A Photographic Bibliography https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1541790736217-2EQ5C4HQNPJ5LTZQ8MUG/Alice+in+Wonderland+by+Becky+Jaffe+%282%29.jpeg The Book of Life: A Photographic Bibliography “Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.” ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1624647615414-ASDANLYFT3WQ2DXTNZUL/84715363_1235653039965968_2420816565013315584_n+%281%29.jpeg The Book of Life: A Photographic Bibliography - Bookish Late Fragment And did you get what you wanted from this life, even so? I did. And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth. ~ Raymond Carver, Beloved on the Earth https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1624644143267-M1Z66MYK50S3XH2QJLTY/Becky_Jaffe_Ethnobotany.JPG The Book of Life: A Photographic Bibliography - Ethnobotany “Is the land a source of belongings, or a source of belonging?” ~ Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1541788868252-MPTHD07LFOALVLJONAEQ/Seedlings+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpeg The Book of Life: A Photographic Bibliography - Seedlings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1624665867559-TRHQHZFD7DRNLM0IZYXX/Making+contact+by+Becky+Jaffe.JPG The Book of Life: A Photographic Bibliography - Interconnected “And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in running brooks, sermons in stone, and good in everything.” ~ William Shakespeare, As You Like It https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1624642433484-Q3RMJEHP6QGFWS35A3AA/Reading+List+for+The+Book+of+Life+by+Becky+Jaffe+copy.jpg The Book of Life: A Photographic Bibliography https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1624643001962-VES3VV4QO6RZS7WC4KXX/Reading+List+for+The+Book+of+Life+by+Becky+Jaffe+copy2.jpg The Book of Life: A Photographic Bibliography https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1624643090876-K303JH3B3PDBKBI73JMV/Reading+List+for+The+Book+of+Life+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpg The Book of Life: A Photographic Bibliography https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1624643155026-TXMZDDQKWLWJYO2JS586/Reading+List+for+The+Book+of+Life+by+Becky+Jaffe4.jpg The Book of Life: A Photographic Bibliography https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1624658082681-8P02L7VJ6CF3EM39FD0V/_DSF0179.jpeg The Book of Life: A Photographic Bibliography Ada Endress viewing the Book of Life exhibit at Julia Morgan Hall Photo by Bill Johnston Jr. https://www.beckyjaffephotography.com/japan daily 0.75 2019-06-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1557151550568-J2C8PDCLNK6LVTKIPDP8/Shinto+Kami+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpeg Japan - Kami https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1557151550568-J2C8PDCLNK6LVTKIPDP8/Shinto+Kami+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpeg Japan - Kami https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1557151159122-DOPGLC2TM6PFDGZQKULJ/Matsu+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpeg Japan - Kenrokuen https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1557152560677-3JMXE46FX68UXCDJ4DHZ/A+Teacup+Full+of+Light+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpg Japan - Shoji https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1557150930678-D6E2IFT5C6O94FAJMRI0/Attachment-1+-+2019-04-23T063044.414.jpeg Japan - A koi fish is an exclamation point on an enthusiastic landscape https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1558381882180-OISCJB902Q4POLYB75W2/IMG_2527.JPG Japan - Tōrō https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1557207710982-MN72TAL3GV35N49C0X54/Algae+Sediment+and+Sentiment+by+Becky+Jaffe.JPG Japan - Sediment and Sentiment https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1557152114295-RWLCX6ZOHKLFEK9T5OU7/Peony+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpg Japan Before we lament the end of cherry blossoms the peonies bloom https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1557151283999-AYBY1YX8V5HDYOSYYNBV/Ripple+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpeg Japan - Just a ripple in the pond, like you and me https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1557152252190-XM47NDSAXCJUQY8PI64C/Sakura+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpeg Japan - Sakura https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1558372725425-JU6LEY7D9KVO9TOWV3D5/Nunobiki+Falls+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpeg Japan - Nunobiki https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1560361842447-9UV7SYQE3X84HMAX35C6/Bowing+Bough+by+Becky+Jaffe.JPG Japan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1557212099729-JUXN3TJNK9VULQLPVU8T/Beauty+Swims+Toward+You+by+Becky+Jaffe.JPG Japan Sometimes beauty swims toward you, and it is all you can do to stand there on the bridge, your mouth opening and closing like a koi fish gasping for air. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1558388577276-IJO8D2F7AY47FQX6QJ3O/Suijin+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpeg Japan - Suijin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1558390473653-R36R4QP9XDYDJ7J8JZEU/Philosophers+Path+by+Becky+Jaffe.JPG Japan - The Philosopher's Path, as seen through an accidental umbrella https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1557151488895-SRPU8VY9MT5I2DQD32E4/Where+there+is+willow%2C+there+is+a+way+by+Becky+Jaffe.JPG Japan - Where there's a willow, there's a way https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1557241252648-BH1XRAIS30WMWQYZM899/Many+Lanterns+Light+the+Way+by+Becky+Jaffe.JPG Japan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1558382750341-WCFM8U6CHFV2934731DC/Tori+by+Becky+Jaffe.JPG Japan - Tori https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1557151069223-42FXUAJPYH0BRJYC2VZP/IMG_0981.JPG Japan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1557674244946-FSF169GP2TX18U9OMBFQ/Mercy+by+Becky+Jaffe.JPG Japan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1558206627276-D85FVSVY0X80SSKCNRXC/Golden+Pavilion+by+Becky+Jaffe.JPG Japan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1558382287126-NGUM8452HEQRGURVGWSP/Jizo+by+Becky+Jaffe.JPG Japan - 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Let us wrap every molecule with holy ribbon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1557151009732-7D4Y8T479BVIZU7AXP9Q/Daffodils+at+the+shogunate+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpeg Japan - Daffodils at the Shogunate https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1558383202481-KF8144DNSVHSJI3EDMZ2/Linear+by+Becky+Jaffe.JPG Japan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1558382997282-JOHAME7GJCZV55YHM96V/Nature+Was+Framed+by+Becky+Jaffe.JPG Japan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1557152960255-YR50JMYHU1T4RV4K0817/Fandom+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpeg Japan - Fandom https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1557212647526-7EYPOGHB1RZXN67EVIJN/Apprentice+by+Becky+Jaffe.JPG Japan “I have drawn things since I was 6. All that I made before the age of 70 is not worth counting. At 75 I began to understand the true construction of nature. At 90 I will enter into the secret of things. At 110, everything--every dot, every dash--will live” - Hokusai (1760-1849) One of the things I admire about Japanese culture is the widely held worldview that we do not achieve competence as artists and craftspeople until we have had a lifetime of practice. Old age is when we are in our prime as artists, a hopeful notion for us younger apprentices eager to walk the art path for life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1558387366720-LHFRMGUCYDZMNBGNCX65/Spirited+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpeg Japan - Spirited https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1557243262628-OEMENAZSHGCD1ARPAL1F/One+thousand+paper+cranes+folded+for+the+1995+earthquake+memorial+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpeg Japan - 1,000 Paper Cranes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1557672560893-HFQ9F05X34OIIUPT8SMM/Icy+Glare+by+Becky+Jaffe.JPG Japan - Icy Glare https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1557672639600-ZQ739UJJF0QJGT14BGKK/Open+stomached+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpeg Japan - Tako https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1557150898391-UEDHTHDEWZJN0GX3URAU/Easy+come+easy+go+by+Becky+JaffeJPG.JPG Japan - Transitory https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1558384460111-A6SZF71F7C2X9RI628BC/Transitory+Figures+at+the+Train+Station+by+Becky+Jaffe.JPG Japan - Tokyo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1557151302521-440518AJY2OMP1J25U2H/Vanishing+Points+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpeg Japan - Vanishing Points https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1557151182599-ETV6ZX8NQTDF0N1QDB91/Places+to+Go+Photons+to+See+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpeg Japan - Places to go, photons to see https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1558387980505-4VFEGD4PWDG4AFUPQJIP/Higgledy+by+Becky+Jaffe.JPG Japan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1557151108195-JK154CX02S213QFSUY97/Dancing+about+architecture+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpeg Japan - Hiroshi Hara https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1558389454590-OAUZGPIATEBG6Q8A3IL1/16+kinds+of+Silence+by+Becky+Jaffe.JPG Japan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1558797976573-BDKI9PFJPCR062PT8N4Y/Gondola+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpeg Japan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1558390161181-9I8T7VGD0Z6YUGT07JT3/Gondola+over+Kobe+by+Becky+Jaffe.GIF Japan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1558384169215-O4G0CNEELMJPHQX09PVP/Osaka+Water+Clock+with+Aaron.GIF Japan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1558384175051-06VWPA1QPZJ3B0OI39AD/Osaka+Water+Clock+with+Elaine.GIF Japan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1557151895208-I8E10UMA7ZKS7DGSJYUU/Tale+of+Two+Cities+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpg Japan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1557151643617-AN4KILPBXF8V1GAI9QV5/Attachment-1+-+2019-04-23T061906.686.jpeg Japan Leaving Japan with a deep bow of respect. Photo by Al Urban https://www.beckyjaffephotography.com/kindred-spirits-photographic-odes-to-our-wild-family daily 0.75 2021-06-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1624831732065-RR8O377LW6O99OTGRZLC/Kindred+Spirits+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpg Kindred Spirits: Photographic Odes to Our Wild Family https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1624831732065-RR8O377LW6O99OTGRZLC/Kindred+Spirits+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpg Kindred Spirits: Photographic Odes to Our Wild Family https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1624820773977-6FJ247XF54Z9QMIZHHIR/Becky_Jaffe_Treble_Clef.JPG Kindred Spirits: Photographic Odes to Our Wild Family - Wetlands Jazz Morning has broken like the first morning Blackbird has spoken like the first bird Praise for the singing Praise for the morning Praise for them springing fresh from the world. ~ from Morning Has Broken by Yusuf Islam https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1624820855623-G129A1LBS5LUSR2PLGW9/Jaffe_Becky_TrebleClef.jpg Kindred Spirits: Photographic Odes to Our Wild Family - Treble Clef When no one is in my room I become sprightly Smile to myself And dance a silence with the stillness We spin in secret, easy wildness ~ from A Silence by Leib Kvitko https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1624839453694-UOPXV2CLS6W4GGER5KOK/Jaffe_Reflections.JPG Kindred Spirits: Photographic Odes to Our Wild Family From now on, It’s all clear profit, every sky. ~ Robert Hass https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1624820932609-D6K44R8XYS41XCGABSC4/Pipevine+Swallowtail+Caterpillars+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpg Kindred Spirits: Photographic Odes to Our Wild Family - Pipevine Swallowtail Metamorphosis See “Your Heart Is Fine” by Joanne Kyger https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1624821284844-A1JZCET0KYETQWXL2CC9/Your+Heart+Is+Fine.jpg Kindred Spirits: Photographic Odes to Our Wild Family https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1624824771364-XAWSEWJXP9PM723BR3YD/BJaffe_SavingGrace_3.JPG Kindred Spirits: Photographic Odes to Our Wild Family - Saving Grace See “Swan and Shadow” by John Hollander https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1624824782664-Y0WCTMGDIQBZ095RBMIY/SwanPoem.jpg Kindred Spirits: Photographic Odes to Our Wild Family https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1624822170657-G9HXGVFIVK0LZWXYRA4W/Free+as+a+bird+by+Becky+Jaffe.JPG Kindred Spirits: Photographic Odes to Our Wild Family - To Be Alive Advice by Langston Hughes Folks, I'm telling you, birthing is hard and dying is mean – so get yourself a little loving in between. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1624826471529-OU9ATGSMFV3EE1RH7RF4/71209077_1120889941442279_1079286747038220288_n.jpeg Kindred Spirits: Photographic Odes to Our Wild Family - The Scent of Light Like a great starving beast My body is quivering Fixed On the scent of Light. ~ Hafiz https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1624823703609-KJL2W38N8GRNA2N7U07B/Becky_Jaffe_Dayenu.jpg Kindred Spirits: Photographic Odes to Our Wild Family - Silence as a Survival Strategy On the Nature of Understanding by Kay Ryan Say you hoped to tame something wild and stayed calm and inched up day by day. Or even not tame it but meet it halfway. Things went along. You made progress, understanding it would be a lengthy process, sensing changes in your hair and nails. So it's strange when it attacks: you thought you had a deal https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1624824827229-X8HN7BL4J34KWLRIYG4W/Becky_Jaffe_DaffodilsattheShogunate.jpg Kindred Spirits: Photographic Odes to Our Wild Family - Daffodils at the Shogunate See “I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud” by William Wordsworth https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1624825769399-QQT34QN7JKSR4360QGBG/I+Wandered+Lonely+As+A+Cloud.jpg Kindred Spirits: Photographic Odes to Our Wild Family https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1624822284388-EM0DXE1Z9092CJJXVDG6/Web_of_Life.jpg Kindred Spirits: Photographic Odes to Our Wild Family - The Web of Being “...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?” ~ Vincent van Gogh https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1624822450899-6GW88AE05750V4FE1MEK/Nymph+by+Becky+Jaffe.JPG Kindred Spirits: Photographic Odes to Our Wild Family - Nymph "My dear young fellow,' the Old-Green-Grasshopper said gently, 'there are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven't started wondering about yet." ~ from James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1624823034044-LMWYTLYI7JHGN5CHA106/IMG_5740.JPG Kindred Spirits: Photographic Odes to Our Wild Family - Survival of the Beautiful Praise by Robert Hass We asked the captain what course of action he proposed to take toward a beast so large, terrifying, and unpredictable. He hesitated to answer, and then said judiciously: 'I think I shall praise it.' https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1624831920516-8QOKN6P8SU3DC5SJM282/BeckyJaffe_KindredSpirit.jpg Kindred Spirits: Photographic Odes to Our Wild Family - Ancestor Threadsuns above the grayblack wastes. A tree- high thought grasps the light-tone: there are still songs to sing beyond mankind. ~ by Paul Celan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1624831880060-FTJGWYUF65WQA5ZFVG8J/67260665_1069401676591106_6774810253692239872_n+%281%29.jpeg Kindred Spirits: Photographic Odes to Our Wild Family https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1624822509444-FUNTZVK66FQ6M0WSDGYM/Pterodactyl+punkrockius+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpg Kindred Spirits: Photographic Odes to Our Wild Family - Pterodactyl punkrockius "The first duty is to assume a pose. What the second is, no one has yet discovered. ~ Oscar Wilde https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1624827331999-83G3CXXK1X3FPSQMNZTO/Great+Great+Great+Horned+Owl+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpg Kindred Spirits: Photographic Odes to Our Wild Family - Great Great Great Great Horned Owl See “You’re” by Sylvia Plath https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1624827913238-1MN1S8G5YT03J3SJX7F7/You%27re.jpg Kindred Spirits: Photographic Odes to Our Wild Family https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1624820469526-4PHMYIDXX2DUZR0BBU9Y/Madonna+and+child+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpg Kindred Spirits: Photographic Odes to Our Wild Family - Madonna & Child https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1624821447870-N91JXA28IK1134F21EVT/Madonna+and+Child.jpg Kindred Spirits: Photographic Odes to Our Wild Family https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1624822784938-5G6TOH1SSX807D1O333Z/Icy+Glare+by+Becky+Jaffe.JPG Kindred Spirits: Photographic Odes to Our Wild Family - Icy Glare See “The Fish” by Mary Oliver https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1624822825198-PGY1QGZKYXV9IQLQ0E5Y/The+Fish.jpg Kindred Spirits: Photographic Odes to Our Wild Family https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1624823021547-RKT63V89NZACXRW2ZGTT/Nature+feeds+me+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpeg Kindred Spirits: Photographic Odes to Our Wild Family - Nature Feeds Us See “cutting greens” by Lucille Clifton https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1624823336581-IL354CLM92I363COVVT4/cutting+greens.jpg Kindred Spirits: Photographic Odes to Our Wild Family https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1624823425516-ANGRDGVY62CHQL9YXWUE/Peace+Egret+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpg Kindred Spirits: Photographic Odes to Our Wild Family - Heaven Above, Hell Below Today, like every other day, we wake up empty and frightened. Don't open the door to the study and begin reading. Take down the dulcimer. Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground. ~ Jelalludin Rumi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1624826219114-ORFSW4MH96G483IUV1M0/Magnificent+Frigates+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpg Kindred Spirits: Photographic Odes to Our Wild Family - Transients Transients By Deborah Gordon Cooper We are just passing through these bones, the way this wind inhabits the ravine, the way this light, in its allotted time, illuminates the hollow. We are just passing through these bones, folding and opening these limbs. We work these hands, making our sandwiches and love; look out at one another from these faces, watch a raven trace the sky. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1624824056887-OR7OGBL8E48ZRP5HC6LG/68898285_1094822724049001_7393946642862309376_n+%281%29.jpeg Kindred Spirits: Photographic Odes to Our Wild Family See “The Pale Blue Dot” by Carl Sagan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1624824080312-BQOU8WQ05RNU59WL5MT6/Pale+Blue+Dot.jpg Kindred Spirits: Photographic Odes to Our Wild Family https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1624824890098-MQW3LECHBDNIRUYJG5I5/Blustery+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpg Kindred Spirits: Photographic Odes to Our Wild Family - Blustery See Praise the Rain by Joy Harjo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1624825424589-ZE7CK03QR045L1ZN9OUE/Praise+the+Rain.jpg Kindred Spirits: Photographic Odes to Our Wild Family https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1624839138931-U4BWD3ADVPX2CEJPI8RL/Fishrise+by+Becky+Jaffe.jpeg Kindred Spirits: Photographic Odes to Our Wild Family - Fishrise walking with the river the water does my thinking ~ Bob Boldman https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1624839223596-JK1QLHJOK997N7UZH4HZ/JaffeBecky_Constellations_Photography_275.jpg Kindred Spirits: Photographic Odes to Our Wild Family - Constellations When I heard the learn’d astronomer, When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me, When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them, When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room, How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick, Till rising and gliding out I wander’d off by myself, In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time, Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars. ~ Walt Whitman https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1624824233652-L4DE4GT1WU4BZT682RT1/79416623_1183009315230341_7416867852528910336_n.jpeg Kindred Spirits: Photographic Odes to Our Wild Family - The Egg Sings to the Sperm See “In the Month of May” by Robert Bly https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1624824288478-HDND3AL2GZD4LK46BDCU/In+the+Month+of+May.jpg Kindred Spirits: Photographic Odes to Our Wild Family https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1624824439658-QEVJRLULYS62MTDRVT7D/Peacock%2BBackside%2Bby%2BBecky%2BJaffe.jpg Kindred Spirits: Photographic Odes to Our Wild Family - Aft I tried on the summer sun Felt good Nice and warm -- knew it would Tried the grass beneath bare feet Felt neat Finally, finally felt well dressed Nature's clothes fit me best. ~ from Tryin’ On Clothes by Shel Silverstein https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1624826963299-GV9P96JQLS5WLQKI8PX1/67770530_1077873059077301_5488247908207689728_n.jpeg Kindred Spirits: Photographic Odes to Our Wild Family - A Noiseless Patient Spider by Walt Whitman A noiseless patient spider, I mark’d where on a little promontory it stood isolated, Mark’d how to explore the vacant vast surrounding, It launch’d forth filament, filament, filament, out of itself, Ever unreeling them, ever tirelessly speeding them. And you O my soul where you stand, Surrounded, detached, in measureless oceans of space, Ceaselessly musing, venturing, throwing, seeking the spheres to connect them, Till the bridge you will need be form’d, till the ductile anchor hold, Till the gossamer thread you fling catch somewhere, O my soul. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1624838741653-64F7UW4W24MRM972RJB3/60178565_1027210064143601_3299673315949412352_n.jpeg Kindred Spirits: Photographic Odes to Our Wild Family - Any Morning by William Stafford Just lying on the couch and being happy. Only humming a little, the quiet sound in the head. Trouble is busy elsewhere at the moment, it has so much to do in the world. People who might judge are mostly asleep; they can’t monitor you all the time, and sometimes they forget. When dawn flows over the hedge you can get up and act busy. Little corners like this, pieces of Heaven left lying around, can be picked up and saved. 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There was only one thing to do: build a pyramid to unite Heaven and Earth, a staircase to the Gods. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1679507439503-RATDT6EG3KY3DI2G7Y5A/IMG_5111.JPG مصر There are more colors of dust than I realized. “From dust to dust” takes on new meaning in the Giza Plateau. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1680985189203-8PF2RFRIHAH3R9SX4XWR/image+3.JPG مصر - Bombax https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1679507253802-C0MSEFCZZZ32FOAMYDQQ/IMG_5096.JPG مصر - Curvilinear https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1679507340102-D5YBS4B10I695R3H42PJ/IMG_5095.JPG مصر The Iron Age meets the Stone Age https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1679507644312-QANNF322URUIG7KWBU0P/IMG_5109.JPG مصر https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1680991203894-ZQKOFB696WC4PN3GD1NA/IMG_5110+2.JPG مصر It is good to wander. It is good to come home. There are terrains to map, outer and inner. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1679509509720-AL8BZKLT2RE7MUPMIYOY/IMG_5546+2.JPG مصر There is a love of geometry here that shines through in both the ancient and the modern architecture. It’s not just a shade structure, it’s a tesselation and a de-light. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1681004842302-FPLDF4JORYVNWKOUN2UU/IMG_6300.JPG مصر We are standing in the shadows of our ancestors, listening with age-old longing as they speak in tongues of stone and sand. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1679507052114-B35QCN94XXWM9FD5IK1U/IMG_4926.JPG مصر It is difficult to tell the difference between waiting and praying. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1679509238078-SE9FV0TYZ01K82K7R8PB/IMG_6125.JPG مصر Workers restore the Temple of Karnak. The Gods are under renovation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1679507361913-QRI74VB0CYQHDFJPX4LL/IMG_4930.JPG مصر Scorpion is the first animal in the fossil record to migrate from the ocean and adapt to living on land, some 437 million years ago. Humans are among the most recent innovations of the planet, evolving around 300,000 years ago. The “ancient” Egyptians honored the scorpion God Selqet, Goddess of Death and also healing. If you can’t beat them, worship them. — at New Wadi es-Sebua. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1679507816754-4XSUG8Z6CQ82F74SAM24/IMG_4929.JPG مصر A Nubian man and his pit viper. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1679507188126-JDGSEBOQR0JOM783RA3I/IMG_5070.JPG مصر Observing my keen interest in birds, Mohamed gave me an impromptu tour of his dovecote. Many Egyptians raise pigeons on the roofs of their buildings for food. I am hoping to try it. When in Abu Simbel… — at Abu Simbel Temple. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1679507899426-9JFRAIS6E763895YSR4O/IMG_4931.JPG مصر A temple attendant and his Nile crocodile. The ancient Egyptians honored the crocodile God Sobek. It’s a thin line between awful (awe-full) and awesome (awe-some). — at New Wadi es-Sebua. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1679507605261-EKA2EF6JO2PQGBEK6X15/IMG_5292+2.JPG مصر https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1679508052847-WHJ6ES0DYXQZELFOKD61/IMG_5286+3.JPG مصر https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1679509111178-NXWFMPT2VSUF0PQJDSY7/IMG_6058.JPG مصر https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1679509085110-X38RD01XIFHKSE8V8CCZ/IMG_6054.JPG مصر https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1681006025111-FE87NUZRMCOKK4WOVX5O/IMG_6061+2.JPG مصر https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1680984391999-49GJQADFVOZXXEDKPONO/IMG_5702+2.JPG مصر “To be surrounded by beautiful, curious, breathing, laughing flesh is enough” - excerpt from I Sing the Body Electric by Walt Whitman https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1681005955894-HLBZAIG3Q2OI489B4V8J/IMG_6473.JPG مصر https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1679507167151-6VEIEMOSDHAY1S7MLDPH/IMG_5072+2.JPG مصر A temple attendant holding an Ankh, the key to eternal life. As challenging as Life is, we want infinitely more of it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1680984405231-5YY2SHHW0IJWF30WAVJM/IMG_6055.JPG مصر https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1679507325678-IPVNDYLPT2PK13TAC8W9/IMG_5315.JPG مصر Reading may be the best way to access the mysterious interiority of others. I think of each of us as a library whose bibliography I would like to read. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1680986694747-9HOC3ABA19E22INOUMXP/IMG_6299+2.JPG مصر https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1680984690622-L5E3446JD1JX7H5BE411/IMG_6087+2.JPG مصر https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1679509576425-N3WYHR3P5RW4LPSEUPKH/IMG_6173.JPG مصر https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1680984706266-286SOWEW71QPMNZ8EI6R/IMG_6062.JPG مصر https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1679507019356-CZZR74K10D84QN7G0I7L/IMG_4792.JPG مصر - Bastet There are many Gods at the Temple of Philae. Some of them have fur. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1680985655166-GS092VQIZS77P15L4WIR/IMG_6148.JPG مصر To touch the Nile is to feel the jugular vein of human civilization, sensing the pulse of time flowing through our fingers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1679508029522-0UFWBG9Q5XDKQEQLIYP8/IMG_4932.JPG مصر https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1680986127827-KGU2H0EBX1C5L8NKNT85/IMG_5089.JPG مصر https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1680986422869-RMRT05PHGSRWVUSE1DYS/IMG_5074.JPG مصر https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1679508160682-074ZTCGAXMPQ3O4NZWJH/IMG_4933.JPG مصر https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1679512908181-V3RDHESI3TXGA30157H7/IMG_6060+2.JPG مصر In the vast expanse of harsh Nothing that is the Sahara, there lives the audacity of jumping spiders, scorpions, and humans determined to make a mark on barren rock, erecting temples in the name of Something. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1679514205984-IB2ILOJ9C1OGTANVBQ0I/IMG_6105.JPG مصر Is the maximalism of the bazaar an antidote to the minimalism of the Sahara? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1679508716602-D9WUXYU737QKNMMLMUXP/IMG_6083.JPG مصر The bazaar is the sistine chapel of tchotchkes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1679508590016-4OV2YP8QYFHM9X9MGQ9V/IMG_6076.JPG مصر https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1680984819735-GYXYKDQ3PHF0HJWW4ZE0/IMG_6089.JPG مصر https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1679508670120-QTGBHKWV4QJEM8SZ4JWY/IMG_6039.JPG مصر - On sale: cognitive dissonance https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1679509073278-Q90XFRJXRV6221L2W3E6/IMG_6038.JPG مصر - The Female Gaze https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1679509034308-KRNTLOJVSAW5CN1D3F8S/IMG_6057.JPG مصر - Tea and Chains https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1679509353160-UGYBMOBDUGDU8D2NGJ35/IMG_6082.JPG مصر - Lasso https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1679508750615-1WH5J0U62ZEB7V9TJZ9W/IMG_6086.JPG مصر - Manikins https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1679508856213-8DB87N9UEZBVEBS2HGMX/IMG_6110+2.JPG مصر - I See You I See You https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1680984890173-HBYERN5XJ7PD42VYIKN0/IMG_6079.JPG مصر - Hide and Seek https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1679512923274-AVOSHE7SG39FDE1VXFX7/IMG_6053.JPG مصر - Out of the Shadows https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1679508485998-17PG03HRK2EJ3NOEO1LS/IMG_6117.JPG مصر - Effacement https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1679512758952-QWH28JK30BKK8JPTNWXU/IMG_6111.JPG مصر https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1679508288677-YVZWRDHSPY7HLA19J4PD/IMG_6158.JPG مصر - The Squab Squad https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1679508644423-6W78SFZAB607PJT79W3E/IMG_6092.JPG مصر https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1679508559339-UJQ1AT6LAII5E2J2DMBW/IMG_6120+2.JPG مصر https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1679509240157-R6MXPJX0728R33Q2C5GF/IMG_6167.JPG مصر - Global Genome How clever of the date palm to first recruit the wind, and then human hand-pollination to spread its genome around the entire globe. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1679512973071-4D4R0L1AD5BDAADMR645/IMG_6063.JPG مصر https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1679512994538-OPFYYYIBMABWC2B422W2/IMG_6144.JPG مصر - Aswan Botanical Garden First came the Nile, flowing South to North. Then came Acacia nilotica, whose sap oozes gum arabic, harvested by a young upstart species to stabilize pigments in order to write down the story of the Nile, flowing South to North, ink spilling from a great Scribe’s pen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1680989277601-ZC5G2GLR6HOBAKNSSCS1/IMG_6178.JPG مصر https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1679508238547-BBI2S38POK130G3EWU5Q/IMG_6224.jpg مصر You can see and feel the devotion of the people who created the Mosque of Muhammad Ali in Cairo. This architecture is spirited. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1679508328039-6RXJECHPUEAD1FIT2R4G/IMG_6072.JPG مصر - Leavening All over the world, “strangers” have embraced me with hospitality. The people who have the least to give often give the most, like this Egyptian woman sprinkling yeast into every interaction so the sweetest parts of us rise. This portfolio is a way of breaking bread, with gratitude to the Egyptian people. https://www.beckyjaffephotography.com/fish-out-of-water daily 0.75 2023-12-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1701712169926-LO2XEDAJ8QMZBJVCZZSM/Bees+Of+A+FeatherJPG.JPG Fish Out of Water https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1701712169926-LO2XEDAJ8QMZBJVCZZSM/Bees+Of+A+FeatherJPG.JPG Fish Out of Water https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1701712476711-AL52ODOOBFESWKNPH1UD/Fish+Out+Of+Water.JPG Fish Out of Water - Fish Out Of Water https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1701712417037-EN4IBVAT0KGNGEBDLX2L/Bodies+Like+Commas+Fleshy+Pauses.JPG Fish Out of Water - Bodies Like Commas https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1701712620827-JSMBDVNXCKEHQY154P6X/Stop+And+Swim+The+Flowers.JPG Fish Out of Water - Stop and Swim the Flowers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1701712367142-90QU8SFB57SH3CAVWT02/Bees+Of+A+FeatherJPG.JPG Fish Out of Water - Bees of a Feather https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1701712679104-YKCL93TJI74UXXMRKV4T/Overneath.JPG Fish Out of Water - Overneath https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1701712526489-HYM0ED9VE0SMQKYL7DLZ/Ripple+Effects.JPG Fish Out of Water - Ripple Effects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1701712456237-HBN1RJ9GQ9PQR8GOFL8O/Drowning+in+Buoyance.JPG Fish Out of Water - Drowning in Buoyancy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1701712541832-757ZGB0D49JLWT5NGQXM/River+of+Reverie.JPG Fish Out of Water - River of Reverie https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1701713838038-Z0KWPGFNJ6NS1LBLB5Y1/Water+Cooler.JPG Fish Out of Water - Water Cooler https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1701712573185-BG4Q9B3YY4LWYY0ZI4K1/Fruit+of+the+Vine.JPG Fish Out of Water - Hybrid Zone https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1701712603288-Y8OJ06N5BQQ47RFEZ13E/Schrodingers+Fish.JPG Fish Out of Water - Schrodinger's Fish https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1701712650544-L93DLBJ5M9GSUH160YXD/Postmordial+Ooze.JPG Fish Out of Water - Postmordial Ooze https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1701712750579-1TZSVHA67CKCTGRY97QW/Strange+Pollinators.JPG Fish Out of Water - Strange Pollinators https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1701712427567-R51OAN7UBDANPQNR1G11/Contagious+Daydreams.JPG Fish Out of Water - Contagious Daydreams https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1701713094969-9J5RNFFOJJBMHJG2L161/Gasp.JPG Fish Out of Water - Gasp https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1701712727685-SPYC0SV2L9N0ICTHZ5CO/Wave+Forms.JPG Fish Out of Water - Bait and Swish https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1701713158386-FINQHSZBFUH62P6DG593/Switched.JPG Fish Out of Water - Wave Forms https://www.beckyjaffephotography.com/frozen-impermanence daily 1.0 2025-04-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1710789189029-4WF9XXHMAK3ZZVFQ2V35/Frozen+Impermanence.JPG Frozen Impermanence - Frozen Impermanence Photography is an effort to freeze time, to flout that most immutable rule we are governed by: Impermanence. By freezing spring flowers, I am futilely attempting to dilate time, to hold on to each fleeting ephemeral form and linger over the iced grace that is already beginning to thaw, just now. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1710789189029-4WF9XXHMAK3ZZVFQ2V35/Frozen+Impermanence.JPG Frozen Impermanence - Frozen Impermanence Photography is an effort to freeze time, to flout that most immutable rule we are governed by: Impermanence. By freezing spring flowers, I am futilely attempting to dilate time, to hold on to each fleeting ephemeral form and linger over the iced grace that is already beginning to thaw, just now. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1711000783360-6Z3S45O20Y0ZOEXOZWMH/IMG_8807.JPG Frozen Impermanence - Iced jasmine on blue silk https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1712730173555-2K89VXMBOS53HOY5KXJK/IMG_9118+2.JPG Frozen Impermanence https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1722492913011-JA27SO2X6X71WO71ETNP/IMG_2284.JPG Frozen Impermanence Black-eyed susans, frozen clouds, Cathy on the fiddle, and Betty’s bubbling laughter: iced Catskills summer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1744781035804-IWX3CF1NIM9H44JW0EAS/BeckyJaffe_IcedRoadsideGrace.JPG Frozen Impermanence - Iced Roadside Grace Now on view at the Gray Loft Gallery in Oakland, California https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1719207552381-VIL3S3W9JX9IWEWVA2ZJ/IMG_1407.JPG Frozen Impermanence - Iced Matiljas https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1744782116921-WNHT61ANYIVSN476M9WP/IMG_0304.JPG Frozen Impermanence https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1711655143355-240W6ZKLVA17GUBZ5486/IMG_8986.JPG Frozen Impermanence - Iced poppies, dusted gold powder, dimpled glass, unfolded laundry, spinning vinyl, 1 AM bliss. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1711655213015-84EZNEI6C93F992PYLZA/IMG_8954+2.JPG Frozen Impermanence https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1711000530218-1Z0IXEEMF5SC56UM1XQK/IMG_8834+4.JPG Frozen Impermanence iced jasmine, gold leaf, textured glass, wonder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1711000638363-401RCET9XBHQ52YDKWOY/IMG_8814.JPG Frozen Impermanence https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1711000858172-ZKG9QF0E9M8KME2DY35A/IMG_8803.JPG Frozen Impermanence https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1711655042879-MEXFW2IDAHJ8AE7HUFBN/IMG_8991.JPG Frozen Impermanence - Roadside weeds dusted in gold https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1716609511552-5JW2HC07MFJLIB0U4JX1/Umstructure.JPG Frozen Impermanence - Even to be a scribble in the textbook of life! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1716778436596-FDZMUJRYJCH9SU8RDCZ1/IMG_0674.JPG Frozen Impermanence I froze my biology textbook into a block of ice and photographed it, hoping to retain the information, which is one way to study. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1712730698966-AOHJZ04MBIV5NK1JAHAB/IMG_9068.JPG Frozen Impermanence https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1719209160440-OJFK4Z2SPUIFI0OVR5GX/IMG_0757+2.JPG Frozen Impermanence - Iced love-in-a-mist https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1712730710960-94GTWM4H8EGRP54SN6QT/IMG_9077.JPG Frozen Impermanence https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1712730771114-XJWQNYXETM0AQ8XW3QTS/IMG_9043+2.JPG Frozen Impermanence - Iced Translucence https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1715466399727-2F8HQPO44969WQMTKTNV/IMG_0237.JPG Frozen Impermanence https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1715467637074-ZPR8SKK5NS2GW1QRFGLG/IMG_0183.JPG Frozen Impermanence - Smeared blossoms and smudged plum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1710789593735-RGCQYSKPX88HCVMJ8CQP/IMG_8232.JPG Frozen Impermanence There is not so much food in my freezer-museum as there are tiny icy canvases filled with frozen Spring. Beauty is another kind of food. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1714973687461-OOYNKM6TF2FPUHUFE7OW/IMG_0148.JPG Frozen Impermanence Frozen roses in cracked glass https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1710789222783-459D5YF7B9HQBHH29LFV/IMG_8588.JPG Frozen Impermanence https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1713931417703-M6YU270M7PTG2R8AVR5A/IMG_9784.JPG Frozen Impermanence https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1711654963067-SJA3DJOVF6H3WRDRD9BC/IMG_9043.JPG Frozen Impermanence https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1710789191472-URT6W84OE0BAJQZHPCUR/Frozen+Spring.JPG Frozen Impermanence https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1710789206229-FZ7O2W5AGGWY6YJTKGUL/IMG_8311.JPG Frozen Impermanence https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1710789232018-WMQMQUYHWD6YHL76RU70/IMG_8163.JPG Frozen Impermanence https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1710789178712-YQM3HPW2819531WD5WZ6/Cherry+Blossoms+on+Ice+by+Becky+Jaffe.JPG Frozen Impermanence https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1710789850134-76U7FMP1CVVV09HD2GQZ/IMG_8192.JPG Frozen Impermanence https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1710789628068-NS55PG0C9WO3MGMMKAET/IMG_8050.JPG Frozen Impermanence https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1716609814735-AS4101OFJY5SLK2LCGLM/Exhale.JPG Frozen Impermanence - These tiny bubbles are oxygen gas suspended in ice, the leaf's frozen exhale. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1720131907760-C7QVDAI9QWBJQWCLQ0BC/IMG_1724+2.JPG Frozen Impermanence Iced oleander, scratched fog, frozen fireworks https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1720132396007-YDXKCBYWQU2GBTO2QC9M/IMG_1542+2.JPG Frozen Impermanence https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1719207565808-Y7M3CDVVC804SPBH9JPO/IMG_1176+2.JPG Frozen Impermanence https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1719208562864-J361G09FCSHJLD9VASU3/IMG_0656.JPG Frozen Impermanence A child I love gave me this flower, so I sprayed it with mica powder and froze it into a block of ice and photographed it, savoring it like iced nectar. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1713931512172-A09DKOINN14IKL0R83T9/IMG_9743.JPG Frozen Impermanence https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1716610258448-3VCZFMAK0U5RMDNFSH67/maythecirclebeunbroken.JPG Frozen Impermanence https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1715467607314-RK11H2M22ZKTSGCM7S9U/IMG_9589.JPG Frozen Impermanence - Frozen iris https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1712730321241-67I7XRJEW7Q7HC3UKW1H/IMG_9265.JPG Frozen Impermanence https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1710789226871-FBCWL2Y5HLKQXTZBOE0M/IMG_8619.JPG Frozen Impermanence https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1719208879418-JOGBCSDN4Y72L0OHVNZK/IMG_0772.JPG Frozen Impermanence This is a photograph of a long exposure I took on my iPhone of irises that I froze into a block of ice, infused with powdered violet mica, thawed by spraying boiling water over the surface, refroze, rethawed, and illuminated from beneath to highlight the translucence. Which is to say: the camera can be every bit as expressive as a paintbrush. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1712729858237-ENIFXRAJUGC0FV0W4LA5/IMG_9559.JPG Frozen Impermanence - Wisteria ampersand & an ice moon https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1719207900266-3EWT4RKCI93AEQBT1ZRX/IMG_1110.JPG Frozen Impermanence Glass on gold ice on glass and a radish https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1715466605096-DLBBROTAGF0RS4KAMBKB/IMG_9881.JPG Frozen Impermanence - Frozen memories https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1734764512344-IR327OTWY1AFN7UF1W9E/Jaffe_Becly_IFrozeTheBouquetYouSentMe.JPG Frozen Impermanence - I froze the bouquet you sent me https://www.beckyjaffephotography.com/new-gallery-1 daily 0.75 2024-06-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1719206785046-BX5FYWJ37T026R3XT627/IMG_1245+%281%29.JPG The Earth is a Textbook Materials: ecology textbook, iron mordant, smooshed blackberries, Japanese maple, sweet onion skins, liquid amber, smokebush, steam, and concentrated Earthlust. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1719206785046-BX5FYWJ37T026R3XT627/IMG_1245+%281%29.JPG The Earth is a Textbook Materials: ecology textbook, iron mordant, smooshed blackberries, Japanese maple, sweet onion skins, liquid amber, smokebush, steam, and concentrated Earthlust. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1719448276203-77KI842OXYTOVSYB4C5X/IMG_1533.JPG The Earth is a Textbook https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1719448208537-MU0UKLYAQOKHG884PM62/IMG_1522.JPG The Earth is a Textbook https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1719206761648-BCNL0YRH7LA32KH0H7MM/Butterflies+Moths+Bees+and+Birds.JPG The Earth is a Textbook https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1719206918441-D7EVXOD93LEDD6JWCI7E/Wind+Beetles+and+Flies+by+Becky+Jaffe.JPG The Earth is a Textbook https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1719207518637-0TPEPRE2GONB3LO8C8W3/IMG_1319.JPG The Earth is a Textbook I pressed maple leaves into iron-infused botany textbook pages and bound them in linen around a dowel that I steamed in a turkey pot with onion skin for a couple of hours and then I photographed the pigment print on a light table through textured glass, which I’m pretty sure is how you make maple syrup. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1719448262302-R9VDOB3GBYUKSMT4VEQ1/IMG_1527.JPG The Earth is a Textbook https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1719448541518-ODIYBOE5YBN2AFCX9U3M/IMG_1530.JPG The Earth is a Textbook https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1719448513668-2WHG8HB0J23BHUMGY8CG/IMG_1526.JPG The Earth is a Textbook https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1719449211941-9AU8ZQLLJIJW4WPPDL9T/IMG_1487.JPG The Earth is a Textbook https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1719558254652-EX6Z0WCEABPB7DJTUOXA/IMG_1596+2.JPG The Earth is a Textbook https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1719556276854-8NGLTWW1HLMS7HRJJFPZ/IMG_1602+2.JPG The Earth is a Textbook https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1719556540672-YUFWP3JMLA04M44GTQMC/IMG_1599+2.JPG The Earth is a Textbook https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1719558467792-APLBHAVAAL79834HUWTL/IMG_1591+2.JPG The Earth is a Textbook https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1719557374230-54C0BAC6ZK9VUWD1WZIZ/IMG_1588.JPG The Earth is a Textbook https://www.beckyjaffephotography.com/life-cycles daily 0.75 2025-04-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1745789494488-RDAR3JDNY8SYGP2AAYZ3/IMG_9752+2.JPG Children of Rust: photomontage dreamscapes - Moonbound https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1745789494488-RDAR3JDNY8SYGP2AAYZ3/IMG_9752+2.JPG Children of Rust: photomontage dreamscapes - Moonbound https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acbe187b27e3910337dbe81/1734121053892-QL9W3AYOWOOXJGP5PO07/The+day+the+volcano+gave+birth+to+the+sun+by+Becky+Jaffe.JPG Children of Rust: photomontage dreamscapes - The day a volcano gave birth to the sun, scratching it into place in the sky. Children of Rust is a portfolio of double and triple photographic exposures meditating on our bittersweet inheritance of time, erosion, entropy, and impermanence. 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