dylan tweney

if you're bored, you're not paying attention

Year: 2020


  • I hope this old grandmother/grandfather oak doesn’t mind me sharing this image where their roots are showing. It’s such a perfect illustration that, for trees, as much is going on belowground as above… more, actually, for the roots are where the tree does their thinking.… Story continues … “”


  • there’s a Moon among the persimmons
    https://www.instagram.com/p/CIjSmgXpo1_/?igshid=u6b01r53woo2

  • A stern insistence upon courtesy to the living creatures that share our world with us in common to the most diverse religious traditions.

    “Man as Viceroy” – an essay by Gai Eaton


  • It was the persimmons clinging to the leafless branches of a modest sized tree that first made me fall in love with this house. Now, 23 years later, I’m still no closer to getting used to their exuberant abundance.

    early sunset
    a flock of crows winging homeward
    https://www.instagram.com/p/CIenCWKJkRm/?igshid=1lv2mqb7dnqw1


  • one leaf
    returns to where it came from
    .
    .
    .
    San Mateo, 2020
    https://www.instagram.com/p/CIeYuxhJbxl/?igshid=1jn6rkvs1r282


  • It’s Thich Nhat Hanh’s 94th birthday. We spent a good part of it with @sit.walk.listen in Oakland, meditating, walking, and listening for change and for hope. #blacklivesmatter✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿 #rememberbreonnataylor (at Downtown Oakland)
    https://www.instagram.com/p/CGOUYzEJVab/?igshid=10e0s1o6kbha4

  • They are cutting down the pine tree on the corner. It was maybe 80’ tall and almost three feet in diameter, perfectly healthy, an old tree full of years. And now it’s mostly wood chips. Today, for the first time in weeks, the sky is blue, and there is more of it than before.

    … Story continues … “”
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    This is the University of Chicago “Great Books of the Western World” collection, edited by Mortimer Adler and published in the 1950s. My grandmother, a single mom on a budget, scrimped and saved for months to buy this for my father when he was quite young, maybe 12, and it shaped the rest of his life.… Story continues … “”

  • The word “apocalyptic” is overused. Seriously, it’s just a dark, smoky orange sky. Elsewhere, fires are blazing and firefighters are crawling out of emergency shelters. That’s where the word applies. Here, it’s actually quite peaceful.


  • 10:30am. A layer of smoke overhead so thick it has plunged us back into darkness. The streetlights are on, but no one is out.

    midday darkness
    what the raven will tell its children
    about this day
    #haiku #haibun #california #smoke
    https://www.instagram.com/p/CE7K6FzJRwT/?igshid=19jkwj1se9paj