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Robert J Schout @robertschoutphotos.bsky.social · 22d

Art in motion.
#flamenco #madrid

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Robert J Schout @robertschoutphotos.bsky.social · Sep 20

We take for granted that these will always be. But they will only be with the help of “we”.

Do your part to plant pollinators around your neighborhood and home this fall so there will be food in the spring.

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Robert J Schout @robertschoutphotos.bsky.social · Sep 13

This is not my photo but I love it and hope you do too.

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Robert J Schout @robertschoutphotos.bsky.social · Sep 8

Allow yourself to accept…
- Protection and good fortune.
- Transformation and change.
- Intuition and wisdom.
- Health and healing.
…all that you need and are willing to receive.

#ginger #pieceofheaven collection #wisdomphoto #robertschoutphotography #flower #naturephoto #gardenphoto

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Robert J Schout @robertschoutphotos.bsky.social · Sep 8

The times call for us to put on some nice clothes and just lounge around the house. Sometimes we dress up because we want to treat ourselves with dignity and relaxation because we rock and know that we deserve it.
#streetart #chalkartphoto #sandiego #streetartcollection #robertschoutphotography

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Robert J Schout @robertschoutphotos.bsky.social · Aug 25

Sometimes we need to learn from other sentient beings. We often think that we’re the Intelligent beings on the planet but they know when to rest. They know how to reflect. They know how to simply be.

Robert J Schout @robertschoutphotos.bsky.social · Aug 21

“Why are you looking at me and taking a photo of me running errands? The transport is different than yours. The satchels to carry food are different than yours. The road might even look different than yours, but it is still ‘running errands’.”
#boipebabrazil #robertschoutphotos #culturephoto

Robert J Schout @robertschoutphotos.bsky.social · Aug 20

Being happy and seeing beauty all depends on how you look at life. Some people see a few flowers and lots of clutter-some leaves. While others see a mural from nature: grass, flowers, leaves…an impressionistic landscape.
See beauty in everything and be happy.
#robertschoutphotos #landscape

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Robert J Schout @robertschoutphotos.bsky.social · Aug 7

Hold me close as we stroll through life. There are paths that will be familiar and foreign. Hold me along the way. Days will begin early and last past twilight. Hold me. Life will be brief and you’ll be gone before too long. Please hold me for a time.
#robertschoutphotos #inmemory #seattle #friends

Robert J Schout @robertschoutphotos.bsky.social · Aug 7

Let the sun shine through.

We don’t think we are as delicate, beautiful, or translucent as a cosmo, but we are cosmic. Made of stardust. The light of the sun gives us life and the light of joy lives within us. We must let it shine through. When we do, our true colors show.
#robertschoutphotos

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Robert J Schout @robertschoutphotos.bsky.social · Aug 4

Awaken to dawn.
Her warm breath strokes gentle skin
beckoning it, “awake”.
Missed by sunlight
the world begins to rise
and touch a brand new day.
#robertschoutphotos #pieceofheavencollection #flowerpoetry

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Lena - Poet and Questioner @lena1370.bsky.social · Aug 2

The side eye
That #scowl look
Used to control
Feels like a
Death stare

Then back to their
Smiley face in public
So no one notices
What their putting you through

Behind the closed doors
A withering flower
With no water
Or sunlight
To bring it life

Trapped
Alone
With another

#vss365 #poetry #poem

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Robert J Schout @robertschoutphotos.bsky.social · Aug 3

I’ve always felt disconcerted when someone has said, “your photos capture nature so well.” Nature cannot be captured. There is too much life, unrevealed and at play, to be captured in a frame. A photo is merely a window that opens to imagine the nature of life. #robertschoutphotos #wisdomphoto

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Lena - Poet and Questioner @lena1370.bsky.social · Aug 3

Sometimes #charm escapes us
The mind cluttered
With every day pressures
Bluntness is our tone
Telling us it is time
To leave the chaos of life

Let the mind
Rewind, heal
And breathe

Let the sunset
Wipe away the day
And let the night
Bring peace

#vss365 #poetry #poem #writing

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Robert J Schout @robertschoutphotos.bsky.social · Aug 3

You think I’m gone, dead.
Never to live again.
Because my skin is dry,
my limbs wilted,
you think I’m finished.
Don’t you realize that
one must expend oneself,
and only having done so
will new seeds appear.
Just wait. A new me will appear
in time for spring.
#robertschoutphotos #wisdomphoto

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Robert J Schout @robertschoutphotos.bsky.social · Jul 31

Looking up to the sky I wonder why
I must look through a matrix a constructed reality.
Am I trapped on a terrace?
Is there a trapeze that I can grasp
to swing through, and climb to, the top?
#robertschoutphotos #publicartphoto

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Robert J Schout @robertschoutphotos.bsky.social · Jul 30

Locks of love may last for years on a bridge but lovers walk away. Many lovers walk away from love, each other, and dreams of happiness. Where do they go? Why do they leave while the locks of a momentary fantasied commitment remain on the bridge?
#robertschoutphotos

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Robert J Schout @robertschoutphotos.bsky.social · Jul 28

Your country is BEAUTIFUL. I’ve travelled to Norway 3 times. I was there last winter for Christmas. I will be there next June to visit my family in Moss. I’ve travelled from Bergen across to Sweden by car. I want to travel to the north.

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davincisfumato.bsky.social @davincisfumato.bsky.social · Jul 27

#Stunday #JuliArty #sleepy #photography #nature #flowers
Let your eyes be sleepy, tilt your head and let your imagination decide what you see.

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Robert J Schout @robertschoutphotos.bsky.social · Jul 28

Envy the frog and dragon fly
who can escape to their own pad,
a place at arms length from people.
Envy the minnow and coy
who can seek shelter and safety
from prying eyes beneath a canopy.
Envy the lotus submerged
who can rise from the mud
unfurl, accept and share its beauty.
#robertschoutphotos

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Robert J Schout @robertschoutphotos.bsky.social · Jul 28

I don’t know how I became tethered.
A faint memory from birth reminds me
I was free
in time and space.
Unshackled from conventions.
Unbound in possibility.
So distant, this remembrance.
A whisper echoing across my universe.
But I remember and untie each day.
#robertschoutphotos #Tallinn #estonia

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Robert J Schout @robertschoutphotos.bsky.social · Jul 27

No roads. Happiness index off the chart. Small village. Off the coast from BR. Life is simple. Nature is supreme. I call this civil. Some call this “uncivilized “ while living in noise, a divided angry society, and mounting poverty.
#boipebabrazil #boipeba #robertschoutphotos #islandlife #saudade

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Robert J Schout @robertschoutphotos.bsky.social · Jul 26

Lovely image and tranquil words.

Ray Bilcliff - Photography @raybilcliff.com · Jul 25

Golden light on the morning seas.
Whispers ride on the ocean breeze.
Waves roll soft with hush and grace.
Sunrise paints the sky’s warm face.

Peace drifts in on the silent tide.
Where day and dream in calm abide.
Here begins the soul’s release.
Cradled in the arms of peace.

Sunrise from Whitley Bay beach in the Northeast UK.

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