Lucia: it was one of those afternoons that are made more silent by small sounds ... the wind pushing little waves against the dock, a bird singing for a few notes in the bushes then falling quiet ...
i am learning, too. it seems i never know what i have learned until months or even years after the lesson ... but i do try and pay attention, and sometimes i remember :-)
Liz: i like my absence :-) it seems that i exist in the day as that which is not the day. i want to make my presence as small as possible and see the landscape as it is when i cam not there. i think of this poem, by Mark Strand
Keeping Things Whole
In a field I am the absence of field. This is always the case. Wherever I am I am what is missing.
When I walk I part the air and always the air moves in to fill the spaces where my body’s been.
We all have reasons for moving. I move to keep things whole.
Beautifully silent...
ReplyDeleteYou don't know you're teaching but I keep learning James. :)
Lucia: it was one of those afternoons that are made more silent by small sounds ... the wind pushing little waves against the dock, a bird singing for a few notes in the bushes then falling quiet ...
Deletei am learning, too. it seems i never know what i have learned until months or even years after the lesson ... but i do try and pay attention, and sometimes i remember :-)
Enjoying the ripples in the water. We look for comfort in many places but not many look for comfort in their shadows, but you do :))
ReplyDeleteLiz: i like my absence :-) it seems that i exist in the day as that which is not the day. i want to make my presence as small as possible and see the landscape as it is when i cam not there. i think of this poem, by Mark Strand
DeleteKeeping Things Whole
In a field
I am the absence
of field.
This is
always the case.
Wherever I am
I am what is missing.
When I walk
I part the air
and always
the air moves in
to fill the spaces
where my body’s been.
We all have reasons
for moving.
I move
to keep things whole.
oh
ReplyDeleteShadow of the Wanderer above the Lake
(mirroring our beloved Caspar David :-)
remembering
Roxana: i remember, too :-)
ReplyDeletethis s never far from me ....
Very Scandanavian! :) (I've been watching the Norwegian and Swedish crime dramas, they're amazing)
ReplyDeleteMarion: kurt wallander?? but you can't go wrong, really :-)
ReplyDeleteoh yes, Wallander, The Bridge series, The Killing series and just last night Bergman!
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