I have often pondered the question “What would I believe if I had not been taught what to believe?” By that I mean, are there core truths that are essentially part of me?
My list is really quite short.
1. Earth is a garden, wide in diversity and deep in beauty, with constant echoes and rhythms of knowledge and wisdom.
2. All creatures are singularly both immeasurably small and infinitely large while being interconnected with and through nature.
3. Actionable love is both the beginning and the end and it is the answer to all in between.
4. The Creator is in the Created. This Great Mystery is revealed continuously and increasingly through many ways including the prior three statements.
Not much theology in those innate beliefs of mine.
Another Picture On The Wall 
Beautiful images. I, too, have a primary set of beliefs that over the years have become the values that I hold myself to. It is my sub-beliefs, for lack of a better description that have been challenged. I used to believe that when I was honest with someone, they would be honest with me, through a myriad of situations, I realized that’s not anywhere close to the truth. Hence, my newly created life of time only with my best friend, me, in what I like to think of as a sanctuary with nature. I somehow cannot change that belief that integrity should always be present.
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Those photos were from a quick trip through the Sacramento National Refuge to see if the geese have arrived yet….
Ah, yes, that trust thing we briefly mentioned before… This being human is not easy. The yin and yang of it all, finding that place in balance, in the middle of it all. I understand what you are saying though.
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Loving that wide open sky! So are the snow geese back?
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Yes, but many more yet to arrive. The sky is wide open, so different from where we grew up, Grass Valley, and lived, Paradise. I love driving about and looking at that painted sky.
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