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It was quite a job to get the focus on the right spot (not that easy with f/2.8 and
handheld). Fortunately snails are sooo slow it works to focus just on this tiny,
little eye!
Love is the cure,
for your pain will keep giving birth to more pain
until your eyes constantly exhale love
as effortlessly as your body yields its scent.*
*Rumi
London, one camera ago.
'Coffee shops' were unknown to London when this beautiful place was built (once a tea parlour, perhaps?)... They call it Globalisation.
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Can't get enough of my beloved Gingko biloba tree...
To honour the Ginkgo, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe wrote the following poem:
GINKGO BILOBA
The leaf of this Eastern tree
Which has been entrusted to my garden
Offers a feast of secret significance,
For the edification of the initiate.
Is it one living thing
That has become divided within itself?
Are these two who have chosen each other,
So that we know them as one?
I think I have found the right answer
To these questions;
Do my songs not make you feel
That I am both one and twain?
(J.W. v. Goethe)
Y en Espanol:
GINKGO BILOBA
Las hojas de este árbol, que del Oriente
a mi jardin venido, lo adorna ahora,
un arcano sentido tienen, que al sabio
de reflexión le brindan materia obvia.
¿ Será este árbol extraño algún ser vivo
que un dia en dos mitades se dividiera?
¿ O dos seres que tanto se comprendieron,
que fundirse en un solo ser decidieran?
La clave de este enigma tan inquietante
Yo dentro de mi mismo creo haberla hallado:
¿ no adivinas tú mismo, por mis canciones,
que soy sencillo y doble como este árbol?
The anemonas in my garden are in full bloom... I think over the last years I must have taken over 100 photographs of these beautiful garden dancers... still I couldn't withstand this morning... it was difficult to limit myself to upload only four of them ;)
Wishing all of you a wonderful start in the week! I still haven't caught up with all of you after returning from my vacations... there are over 160 flickrMails waiting to be answered oder looked up (those who marked me as a contact). I feel sooo sorry I am this behind. Hopefully when school starts in a week I will have some more time to be with you!
Brevity is the soul of wit!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
La brièveté est l'âme de la sagesse!
La brevità è l'anima della saggezza!
La brevedad es el alma de la sabiduría!
Die Kürze ist die Seele der Weisheit!
краткость - душа остроумия
短暂是智慧的灵魂
A concisão é a alma da sabedoria!
Stručnost je duší důvtipu!
Korthed er åndfuldhedens sjæl!
Beknoptheid is de ziel van de wijsheid!
Tarkuse hingeks on lühidus!
Lyhyys on viisauden sielu!
η συντομία είναι η ψυχή του πνεύματος
A bölcsesség lelke a tömörség!
Korthet er viddets sjel!
Zwięzłość jest duszą mądrości!
A brevidade é a alma da sabedoria!
I begränsningen visar sig mästaren!
Kısalık esprinin özüdür!
стислість – серце мудрості
With My Beloved
With my Beloved I alone have been,
When secrets tender than evening airs
Passed, and the Vision blest
Was granted to my prayers,
That crowned me, else obscure, with endless fame;
The while amazed between
His Beauty and His Majesty
I stood in silent ecstasy
Revealing that which o'er my spirit went and came.
Lo, in His face commingled
Is every charm and grace;
The whole of Beauty singled
Into a perfect face
Beholding Him would cry,
'There is no God but He, and He is the most High. *
*Rābiʻa al-ʻAdawiyya al-Quaysiyya , Sufi saint and poet 717-801
For more information on her see: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabia_Basri
Dedicated to my dearest friend S! I am with You!
Special thanks to 'Playingwithbrushes' for the texture!
What divine drink wouldst thou have, my God, from this overflowing cup of my life?
My poet, is it thy delight to see thy creation through my eyes and to stand at the
portals of my ears silently to listen to thine own eternal harmony?
Thy world is weaving words in my mind and thy joy is adding music to them.
Thou givest thyself to me in love and then feelest thine own entire sweetness in me.
GITANJALI
The offering songs
Rabindranath Tagore