Image Gallery — Gail Overstreet

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In 2010, I took my first figure photography class working with nude models, mostly lithe, young women. As a woman just beginning to “age” by cultural standards, I was starting to come to grips with what this meant - and said to the instru

Dear Coronavirus -
When will you move on?
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Not that I mind laying in afternoon patches of sunlight, like a cat.
Or noticing spring emerge this year with exquisite sensitivity; the green bursts of new life, deafening.
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I am here...so much, HERE.
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“I don’t want this to end.”
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This has been my thought, every morning, as I emerge into the bright, clean air.
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Even though we live on a mountaintop, the shape of California is such that much of the pollution from the Bay Area gets

These lenticular (highly windswept) clouds were stunning last night, as they flowed over the Sierra ridges ✨
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May you find some spaciousness today —perhaps in the blue sky, or green grass, or roiling seas.
May you find beauty.
May you find p

Spring has returned.
The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
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Image: Tulip, close-up. 2014.
#aprillove2020 #ariseshinemetta #tulips

Behind your image,
below your words,
above your thoughts,
the silence of another world awaits. - John O’Donohue
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Someday soon, we will unfurl, back into the world.
As I sit in silence, my greatest wish for myself and all of humanity is to

The Bardo is what Buddhists call the “in-between” - the space between knowing and not knowing; past and future.
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May we keep our faces to the light - even though we are now in the thick of blurry uncertainty - and allow it to illuminate

Earth 🌍 - “on it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives -
on a mote of dust, suspended in a sunbeam.”
- Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot
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Back in 1999, during th

Day 3: Morning View.
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Will you be my refuge
My haven in the storm
Will you keep the embers warm
When my fire’s all but gone?
...Be my sanctuary
‘Til I can carry on
Carry on
Carry on
-Carrie Newcomer
@carrienewcomer
from her song, &ldquo

Ten years ago today, I found my person.
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A few months shy of my 46th birthday, I had officially given up that anyone would embrace my Virgo Sun and Aries Moon temperament. But Geof thinks it’s the best part of who I am.
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This image shows the

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy. ✨
- Anne Frank
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Image: California Mule Deer. Sierra National Forest - March 28, 2020.
#ariseshinemetta #aprillove2020 #sierranevada #calnat

We will endure.
We will prevail.
We will reenter the world, anew.
We will bloom once again, after the storm has passed.
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Image: Daffodil in snow. March 27, 2020.
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#ariseshinemetta #aprillove

Day 29: Something small.
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I keep this 3-inch message above my desk. And in this time of pandemic, it is frequently consulted.
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I have been angered by images of crowded outdoor spaces; of perhaps millions of people not taking this virus seriously. A

Day 26: A Good Thing.
As others enjoy the early blooms of spring - we get 6 inches of new snow overnight.
Not normal - like so much else - and yet: a good thing that will hopefully help when fire season arrives.
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If I lay here
If I just lay here
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Day 2: Soft. In this time, be soft with yourself, soft with others. ✨
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This is the time to be slow,
Lie low to the wall
Until the bitter weather passes.

Try, as best you can, not to let
The wire brush of doubt
Scrape from your heart
All sense of yo

Day 1: Through the Window.
Another weather front rolls in — this is life at cloud-level 😍
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#aprillove2020 #letitrain #sierranevada

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After a storm, the light always returns.
Always. ✨
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#hunkerdown #flattenthecurve