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Scot Quaranda's avatar

This is mesmerizing, thank you for sharing. This feels like a written journey of what it means to be in the moment... true presence.

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SydneyMichalski🌿NatureMoments's avatar

Thanks so much, Scot! Great point, icicles are excellent vessels for drawing you into one present moment 🙏🏼

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Dave Karpowicz's avatar

Sydney, This is amazing work. I am going to file it as a reminder to request submission to the winter version of The Zest of the Lemon. D

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SydneyMichalski🌿NatureMoments's avatar

Thank you so much, Dave, that is so encouraging! Winter holds a special place in my heart and I always enjoy writing about it :)

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Pamela Schifano's avatar

SO ABSOLUTELY MESMERIZING, Namaste 🙏 MUCH love to you ❤️

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SydneyMichalski🌿NatureMoments's avatar

Thank you, Pamela!💕

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Sarah Savage's avatar

Lovely! I know your point was about the tiny space between, space you only notice when you really pay attention. However, I was taken with the idea of icicles as artists, something that interprets their surroundings in their own way.

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SydneyMichalski🌿NatureMoments's avatar

Ooooh, I like this idea so much! The icicles collect materials from their surroundings, and present them to us in new forms! Thanks for this, Sarah 💕

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Lindsay Hounslow (Light)'s avatar

Beautiful - ideas and photos

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SydneyMichalski🌿NatureMoments's avatar

Thank you so much, Lindsay!

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Ben Ulansey's avatar

Liminal is one of my alltime favorite words. Great piece, Sydney!

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SydneyMichalski🌿NatureMoments's avatar

Same here, Ben, thanks so much!

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Davor Katusic's avatar

Beautiful!

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SydneyMichalski🌿NatureMoments's avatar

Thank you so much, Davor!

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Davor Katusic's avatar

👍👍

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Mohika Mudgal's avatar

Your posts are what i call reading meditations. I'm always zapped into the now.

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SydneyMichalski🌿NatureMoments's avatar

Thank you, Mohika! Nature is so good for that 🌱 And thank you for sharing :)

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Sarah Moorcroft's avatar

Fabulous, mesmerising descriptions and photographs, I feel calmed just reading about the icicles,

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SydneyMichalski🌿NatureMoments's avatar

Thanks so much, Sarah, so honored to have brought a little peace!

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Pamela Leavey's avatar

Beautiful photos and essay Sydney. I had to giggle a little reading because I had one break off outside of my front door and bonk me on the head. Beware of these beauties!

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SydneyMichalski🌿NatureMoments's avatar

That is hilarious, Pamela! I'll remember that just in case I'm getting a little too serious about all these meditative contemplations, nature might send a playful smack to remind me to also lighten up 🤣 (Honestly, this happens to me frequently, like I'm all concentrated in my camera and a bug flies up my nose.)

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Kimberly Warner's avatar

This is stunning Sydney! A powerful meditation, almost reads like a zen koan, an invitation to pause understanding and enter an intuitive, more liminal state. I will forever redefine the in between state between reason/form and awareness/formlessness as liminal and interstitial. Thank you for this!

“The space between an icicle and its droplet is meditation.” 🙏

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SydneyMichalski🌿NatureMoments's avatar

Thank you so much, Kimberly! So glad to have shared this moment with you. What a perfect way to describe it - "an invitation to pause understanding and enter an intuitive, more liminal state."

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Mary Pierce's avatar

Exquisite!

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SydneyMichalski🌿NatureMoments's avatar

Thank you, Mary!

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Beth T (BethOfAus)'s avatar

Stunning. Yet again.

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SydneyMichalski🌿NatureMoments's avatar

Thanks so much, Beth! Hugs!

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Neil Barker's avatar

Really beautiful images and message, Sydney.

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SydneyMichalski🌿NatureMoments's avatar

Thank you so much, Neil, and thanks for sharing!

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Neil Barker's avatar

You're welcome Sydney!

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Ian Haycroft's avatar

Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful...not just the incredible images you caught, but the space you point to that is so important for our lives. Thank you Sydney. Magic.🙏🏼

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SydneyMichalski🌿NatureMoments's avatar

Thanks so much, Ian, so happy to have shared this moment with you!

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Heidi Zawelevsky's avatar

A beautiful and mindful post, Sydney. I really like the meditation that exists between the ice and the drop.

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SydneyMichalski🌿NatureMoments's avatar

Thank you, Heidi! Isn't that fun? I sort of realized it as I was writing it, looking for words to describe the way I feel when I'm watching and waiting for one drop follow another - so it was a fun discovery for me as well :)

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Heidi Zawelevsky's avatar

It seems Zen, Sydney. I love the whole exploration of the space in-between.

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SydneyMichalski🌿NatureMoments's avatar

Exactly! There's such a world of further contemplation there, looking around the world and pondering the unique qualities of all these different spaces in between. When I think of the Critters, I am suddenly imagining the space in-between toe beans 🤣

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Heidi Zawelevsky's avatar

Yes! Toebeans and the interstitial space!

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