Botanical, Floral, Scenic and Macro photography evoking the Seasons of Life as well as the transitional and transformational powers found in nature are the teachers that ground my Zen focused counseling and life practice. The creative arts to include poetry, haiku and photography are the brushstrokes and expressions of celebration, assurance, promise, hope, awakening and enlightenment. 

A key teaching of the Buddha noted in Eckhart Tolle’s work, A New Earth points to the lesson of the presentation of the single lotus flower. “If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change”

Suggesting that if we looked deeply at the simple and profound lessons taught by our natural world we could understand the entire life and spiritual cycle of birth to enlightenment; perceived death, dormancy and the perpetual renewal, resurrection and reincarnation found in the Spring Awakening.

Michael Gerard Mele
www.ClearPathPhotography.com
Orcas Island Home and Studio (360) 376-7160