Posts in Category: Orleans
Oh very young what will you leave us this time?
Happy Birthday Jude!
You’re only dancing on this earth for a short while
And though your dreams may toss and turn you now
They will vanish away like your daddy’s best jeans
Denim blue fading up to the sky
Cat Stevens: Oh Very Young
Petrie Island
I can see why my dad enjoyed shooting slide film. You just cannot get those colours out of print film. Ive got 4 rolls of the Sensia left, then I’ll have to find something else.
Daffodil and Flame, no oiled rock.
Somewhere in this mess i oiled a rock. yes, OILED a rock. it slipped, popped out of my hands, into a perfect arc and pop down into a coffee cup. one of the coffee cups from a brand new set of dishes. so we now have 7. funny thing was, if you dont count that i decided oiling a rock was a good idea, was that i said from the outset “we cant have nice things” when we bought the dishes. im notorious for breaking dishes. im not greek, im clumsy. and the oiled rock picture didnt even work out. so no oiled rock for you…
And now, the bursting of the cat tails. Tomorrow, number 4.
he waited, without joy or sorrow, without emotion at all, for the clock to tick and the number to fall.
his life was ascribed all manner of strange notions as he looked over the wasteland and saw the small motions.
that would take him away and rend the world over, tear life from limb and lover from lover.
3 views of the clouds overhead one beautiful august afternoon in 2014
“The blue mountains are of themselves blue mountains. The white clouds are of themselves white clouds.”
Zenrin Kushû
Your everlasting summer, you can see it fading fast
So you grab a piece of something that you think is gonna last
You wouldn’t know a diamond if you held it in your hand
The things you think are precious I can’t understand.
Steely Dan: Reeling in the years
you lay in the grass and watch the planes fly high above you, make imaginary destinations if you could wish yourself aboard. you realize that while the exotic and the new are always welcome, there is nothing, absolutely nothing better than right here, right now, with the people you are with. no amount of dreams of blue turtles or koans of enlightenment will let you see what is right in front of you.
Changes
Don’t you feel the day is coming
That will stay and remain
When your children see the answers
That you saw the same
When the clouds have all gone
There will be no more rain
And the beauty of all things
Is uncovered again
Cat Stevens: Changes IV
