“It’s because I’m depressed.”
‘About what?”
“The rain. It’ll stop soon.”
“When you’re depressed, it rains?”
“Yes.”
“Then when there’s a typhoon, how depressed are you?”
“That’s not me, … the earth’s depressed.” ~Guardian: The Lonely and Great God
Sony RX-1003 … f/4 1/640s 70mm 80 ISO
isolation retreat 71st day
skycape photography: silence Nikon D750 f/8 1/20s 112mm 400 ISO edited in Capture One
self isolation 70th day
skycape photography: stairway to heaven Nikon D750 f/8 1/25s 36mm 400 ISO edited in Capture One
Led Zeppelin live … “The song remains the same” … Madison Square Garden, New York City, 1973
Stay at Home Order … day 31 plus 14 seclusion retreat day
Images and Youtube video submitted in response to Debbie’s Six Word Saturday challenge
“Thursday Morning, 9.30. On a summer’s day like this I lie in bed as if cradled in sweet arms. It makes one feel so indolent and languid. And when he sang, ‘The Linden Tree’ last time (I thought it so beautiful that I asked him to sing me a whole forest-full of linden trees), the lines on his face looked like old, age-old, tracks through a landscape as ancient as creation itself.”
(cited: E Hillesum, An Interrupted Life p. 115)
to a massive rock
grow quickly my pebble…
Ishitaro
~Issa (www.haikuguy.com
Simon & Garfunkel – I am a Rock”
Week 10 Storytelling: Hometown (Tell us the story of your hometown. It could be a famous landmark, something the town is known for, or even just your favorite place to relax.)
Image and music submitted in response to Dogwood Photography’s annual 52-week photography challenge.
“Our mind is a painter, it paints all kinds of wonderful things, which are nothing more than the objects of our imagination. We create images to love, to crave, to be angry with, and to hate. It is our mind, our perceptions, that create these images. All perceptions are wrong perceptions. If a perception is not wrong, we call it understanding or wisdom.” ~Thich Nhat Hanh (The Other Shore)
Alas! the waving moss deceived your vision.
The clear mirror* is never tarnished:
Therefore look deep. ~ Lady Sakyo (Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan)
*The mirror is the symbol of the soul of a Japanese woman
What intensity of memory clings to your heart?
That gentle shower fell on the leaves–
Only for a moment [our hearts touched]. ~The Sarashina Diary (Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan)
Scattered petals gather on the road,
more colorful than the blossoms on the
branches. ~Hatsui Shizue (K Rexroth & I Atsumi, The Burning Heart)
In the aging house,
crookedness of the door being straightened,
a spring-like winter day.
~Buson (Y Sawa & E Shiffert, Haiku Master Buson)
Walking on, walking on,
things wondered about — springtime,
where has it gone on too?
~Buson (Y Sawa & E Shiffert, Haiku Master Buson)
On the shortest path,
stepping through water to cross
in the summer rains.
~Buson (Y Sawa & E Shiffert, Haiku Master Buson)
No trail to follow
where the teacher has wandered off —
the end of autumn
~Buson (Y Sawa & E Shiffert, Haiku Master Buson)
and then… Vivaldi’s Four Seasons
An artistic journey through the seasons….a lens-artist’s challenge offered by Tina.
a meditative journey 
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