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Austen Hayes


Morning Sounds
"To love another person (creature), is to see the face of God." ~ Victor Hugo 4:30AM. The day begins with the familiar sounds of birds...
Austen Hayes
Sep 14, 20205 min read
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Walking: Where The Mind Is Free To Wander
"...have space to spread my mind out in." ~Virginia Woolf When we want answers we head to Google. We sit at computers, sit on the train,...
Austen Hayes
Feb 17, 20191 min read
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Dose #9: Must We Be So Afraid?
A Holiday Note. In this year of 2018 we watched as the world trembled with sorrow and destruction. At the same time, we've been witness...
Austen Hayes
Dec 16, 20183 min read
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Taking Time
"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished." ~Lao Tzu We love going "to the country", leaving the confines and bustle of city...
Austen Hayes
May 4, 20184 min read
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Do No Harm
"Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but...
Austen Hayes
Apr 15, 20183 min read
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This Extraordinary Day
Faced with death, people come alive, seeing everything as if for the first time...an expression they will no longer see, words they will...
Austen Hayes
Apr 7, 20182 min read
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Sense and Sensitivities
"Information is not knowledge." ~ Albert Einstein Freud and Erickson wrote of life stages - focus and purpose changing with experience...
Austen Hayes
Apr 2, 20183 min read
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Winter-Ending Walk
"When all the world appears to be in a tumult, and nature itself is feeling the assault of climate change, the seasons retain their...
Austen Hayes
Mar 24, 20182 min read
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Your Time, Your Life; How Do You Spend It?
It seems the less time spent with t.v., social media, magazines, the more we have to give. Our quality of connecting improves...less...
Austen Hayes
Mar 17, 20182 min read
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Accepting the self as nature
"You must not know too much, or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and water-craft; a certain free margin,...
Austen Hayes
Mar 10, 20182 min read
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Meeting the house finch
"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all." ~ Emily...
Austen Hayes
Mar 3, 20182 min read
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Merely to Be With Nature
I watched the other day as a small red fox walked into the yard, perched on the stone wall, looking towards the house as he groomed...
Austen Hayes
Feb 10, 20181 min read
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Beauty in the ordinary
"Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary." ~Blaise Pascal A simple setting allows the human eye...
Austen Hayes
Jan 19, 20181 min read
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Best Friend
When I photograph Beale I generally take a side or back shot...he's completely blind. I almost feel I'm protecting his dignity to not...
Austen Hayes
Jan 12, 20181 min read
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