Through the years
I’ve become used to sorrow,
There was not one spring
I didn’t leave behind
the flowers.
~Izumi Shikibu*
*cited:
The Ink Dark Moon
Trans: J Hirshfield & M Aratani
Author: brenda
life’s passages … 1
Morning haze
jewels of rain, falling
in a dream
monochrome madness – 1/3/24
Leanne Cole’s monochrome madness challenge
tuesday morning with yosano akiko
Purple butterflies
Fly at night through my dreams.
Butterflies, tell me,
have you seen in my village
the falling flowers of the wisteria? ~Yosano Akiko*
*cited: K Rexroth and Ikuko Atsumi
wednesday morning with Wang Wei
Empty mountain, no man is seen.
Only heard are echoes of men’s talk.
Reflected light enters the deep wood
And shines again on blue-green moss. ~Wang Wei*
*cited: Rafal Stepien, Jestor Daily Vol.16, No.2 (2014)
saturday morning with James Hillman
There is more in human life than our theories of it allow. Sooner or later something seems to call us onto a particular path…This what I must do, this is what I’ve got to have. This is who I am…
…the call may have been more like gentle pushings in the stream in which you drifted unknowingly…you sense that fate had a hand in it.*
cited: James Hillman, The Soul’s Code In Search of Character and Calling.
monochrome – morning’s sun
wednesday morning with Eugenia Kim
“… I realized it wasn’t the answers I was seeking all those years that mattered as much as the act of seeing itself. It was incredible, this human capacity for learning, for hope, for love, that persisted like the box of light in my cell, the waters that flowed in my dream. It was beyond my understanding. Tears came as I surrendered to this wonderment of being.”*
*cited: Eugenia Kim, The Calligrapher’s Daughter.
monochrome madness – reflection
early morning reflection submitted in response to Leanne’s monochrome madness challenge
monochrome monday
sunday morning with big panda and tiny dragon
“Are you ever mean to yourself, Big Panda?”
Big Panda watched the ripples spread across the lake.
“I see how gentle you are, Tiny Dragon,
and try to treat myself with the same kindness.”*
“cited: James Norbury, Big Panda and Tiny Dragon
monochrome
a meditative journey 
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