Like the comfortless plover of the beach
In the sand printing characters soon to be washed away.
Unable to leave a more enduring trace in this fleeting world.
~The Sarashina Diary, AD 1009-1059 (Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan)
The enduring qualities of art…speaking through time’s boundaries…resonating with the soul’s deep and private moments.
singing insects, too
make music
in this world
~Issa (www.haikuguy.com)
I love being drawn by the music that fills the air as one wanders about town on a Sunday afternoon. Image submitted in response to Lost in Translation’s Sunday photo challenge.
Lumix GX8 f/5.6 32mm 1/80s ISO 200
enjoy…electric daily violin
The Seers
Noontime Tunes
The Seers Band is composed of a blind and sighted duo who filled the summer air in Old Town with their blend of rock, soul, and blue music during Fort Collins’ Noontime Notes Concert Series.
Won’t you sing?
I will get up and dance.
How can I sleep
with the timeless
moon this evening?
~Ryokan*
*cited:
Sky Above, Great Wind
K. Tanahashi
One thousand peaks merge with frozen clouds;
ten thousand paths have no human trace.
Day by day just facing the wall,
at times I hear snow drift over the window.
~Ryokan*
*cited:
Sky Above, Great Wind
Kazuaki Tanahashi
a meditative journey 
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