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oh... i just realized that this pic and the one i uploaded yesterday
are both brown, my photostream looks a little... dark(?).
Hm... it´s so dim at this time... maybe i should go ouside and
search some colorful autumn-trees...
but i´m not in autumn-mood, i´m in pre-christmas mood!!!
yesterday i decorated the living-room, very ample... my dad
walked into the room and said: oh....
maybe it was too christmassy for him... but not for me! :D
llac de la colomina, al fons podem veure si ens fixem bé el refugi que també porta el mateix nom, és un paratge idílic, un racó del parc nacional d'aigüestortes i Sant Maurici preciós, com tot el parc, ple de racons maravellosos que cal que conservem!!
Lago de la colomina, al fondo podemos ver si nos fijamos bien el refugio que también lleva el mismo nombre, es un paraje idílico, un rincón del parque nacional de Aigüestortes y Sant Maurici precioso, como todo el parque, lleno de rincones maravillosos que hay que conservar-los!!
Colomina lake in the background you can see if you look good also the refuge of the same name, is an idyllic spot, a corner of the Aigüestortes National Park and St. Maurici precious as the whole park full of wonderful places that need to keep!!
...those nights spent drinking wine, eating cheese and walks in the moonlight down by the sea.
sweet warm
currents floated
across our bodies
as we soaked up
night pools
of...
Words JByrne.
It's not the kind of picture I usually take, but I think this little fellow looks kinda cute ;-)
Have a great weekend!
Human tongue cannot express the lightness, the clarity, the simplicity, the wonderful harmony which completely dispels all sense of heaviness…. A sea of light pours from above and dominates all this space, enclosed and yet free …. It creates a sense of inner transparency; the weightiness and limitations of the small and suffering self disappear; the self is gone, the soul is healed of it, losing itself in these arches and merging into them. It becomes the world: I am in the world and the world is in me…. This is indeed Sophia, the real unity of the world in the Logos, the coinherence of all with all, the world of divine ideas. It is Plato baptized by the Hellenic genius of Byzantium…. How true was our ancestors’ feeling in this temple, how right they were in saying that they did not know whether they were in heaven or on earth! Indeed, they were neither in heaven nor on earth, they were in St. Sophia—between the two: this is the metaxu of Plato’s philosophical intuition. St. Sophia is the last silent testimony to the future ages of the Greek genius: a revelation in stone.
-From an autobiographical essay called “Hagia Sophia,” cited in Andrew Louth, “Wisdom and the Russians: The Sophiology of Fr. Sergei Bulgakov,” in Where Shall Wisdom Be Found? Wisdom in the Bible, the Church, and the Contemporary World, ed. Stephen C. Barton (Edinburgh: T and T Clark, 1999), 169-81, at 178.