Welcome to Wild Poet! I’m Erin, the woman behind the camera. Photography first became an interest for me in high school when we were still learning everything in black and white film. It was the moodiest vibe I could possibly imagine, and I dreamt of shooting album covers for all my favorite artists. These days, my focus has shifted, and I find myself watching for the thin places around us.
Thin places are those moments when the space between daily and divine is barely noticeable. It’s as if we are experiencing heaven on earth. Thin places are hidden amongst the ordinary, in the flight of a bird, the smile of a child, or the birth of a new dream. I began Wild Poet to help you capture the beauty of thin places in your own life.
Thin Places
“Heaven and earth, the Celtic saying goes, are only three feet apart, but in thin places that distance is even shorter. They are places that make us feel something larger than ourselves, as though we are held in a place between worlds, beyond experience.”
Kerri Ní Dochartaigh
“The edge is a holy place, or as the Celts called it, “a thin place” and you have to be taught how to live there. To take your position on the spiritual edge of things is to learn how to move safely in and out, back and forth, across and return.”
Richard Rohr
“…The divine supposedly transcends time and space, yet we seek it in very specific places and at very specific times. If God (however defined) is everywhere and ‘everywhen,’ as the Australian aboriginals put it so wonderfully, then why are some places thin and others not? Why isn’t the whole world thin? Maybe it is but we’re too thick to recognize it. “
Eric Weiner
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