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~ Moments of Mine ~: May 2011
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Happenings of family and nature. Monday, May 23, 2011. Cautious.Doing Well.Delighted. There have been a few intermittent days of sun between. Drenching days of rain. It has rained 18 of the past 23 days! It has been a 'VERY WET' Spring! Walking down my favorite path has been. A slippery exercise of caution! The Fern Valley Path takes me past Alivia's Treasure Tree! This is looking back from a level area to the path up the hillside. That I just traveled down.coming from the backyard. They spread and thick...
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April | 2011 | Cerrascapes
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Appreciating Nature through Gardening. Archive for April, 2011. This slideshow requires JavaScript. April 18, 2011 Categories: Miscellany. Comments Off on Hakone: Part II. Nature and Culture — the title of a presentation I’ve created about my visit to Japan — is epitomized in this photo. Taken on the shore of Lake Ashi, with Mt Fuji rising in the background, the juxtaposition of the modern Honda rider and ancient Torii gate is symbolic of my perception of Japan. A worker pulls a wire basket full of black...
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January | 2011 | Cerrascapes
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Appreciating Nature through Gardening. Archive for January, 2011. Garden Types Part I: Pleasure. Kyoto Imperial Palace Garden. Tenryu-ji Temple, Kyoto. Waka poetry garden of 1702, Rikugien, Tokyo. Typically featuring a central pond in a rolling landscape with strolling paths and scenic viewpoints, the pond and hill garden, as it came to be known, continued into modern times as an expression of wealth and taste. As family fortunes changed, a number of princely gardens became public parks in the 19. Artifi...
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March | 2011 | Cerrascapes
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Appreciating Nature through Gardening. Archive for March, 2011. My heart goes out to the people of this amazing country. A Buddhist Monk prays at Nara, November 2010. March 12, 2011 Categories: Japan. Comments Off on Prayers for Japan. Views from Other Places. A Taste of Denmark. Thomas Sayre, Sculptor. Small Scale Fruit Production. U Conn Woody Plant Database. Boboli Gardens, Florence, Italy. Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden. Hampton Court Palace UK. San Diego Zoo and Gardens. Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds.
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Shards, Sweepings, Stealings, Sayings, Secrets. A few years ago I enjoyed very much Jostein Gaarder. 8216;s philosophical bestseller. So I turned to his novel. Recently with a feeling of great expectation. In the end I was disappointed. Although Gaarder. I wonder if some of us felt a slight, uncomfortable feeling of recognition on reading this? February 25, 2013. 3 Comments to “Vanity”. February 25, 2013 at 9:43 pm. February 27, 2013 at 9:46 am. March 5, 2013 at 6:12 am. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Give ...
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Partir Pour Partir | Turnstone
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Shards, Sweepings, Stealings, Sayings, Secrets. One of the finest poems in Baudelaire. Les Fleurs Du Mal. And certainly one of my own favourites, is his poem. Writes that our travels through life, even travels to far and exotic places, ultimately leave us bored, despairing and disillusioned, and full of bitter wisdom (. We can never find the ideal in life; we can only find it in death. Yet the very beauty of Baudelaire. Translation by Joanna Richardson. February 19, 2013. February 19, 2013 at 1:48 pm.
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Wine And Hashish | Turnstone
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Shards, Sweepings, Stealings, Sayings, Secrets. 8220;It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk; get drunk without stopping! On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.” Baudelaire. Art and beauty were like wine, or the hashish he smoked with Honoré de Balzac. 8216;s life and the whole of his brilliantly innovative collection of poems,. Les Fleurs Du Mal. In his life Baudelaire vacillated between his carnal, creole mistress Jeanne Duval. Les Fleurs Du Mal. Infernal...
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Rimbaud At Twenty-Three | Turnstone
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Shards, Sweepings, Stealings, Sayings, Secrets. 8220;Situations have ended sad, relationships have all been bad; mine’ve been like Verlaine’s and Rimbaud …” Bob Dylan. You’re Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go. At the end of 1877, a twenty-three year old Rimbaud. Returned from Italy via Nice to Charleville, his home town in the French Ardennes. February 22, 2013. 2 Comments to “Rimbaud At Twenty-Three”. February 22, 2013 at 9:20 pm. February 22, 2013 at 10:40 pm. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. You are comme...
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Shards, Sweepings, Stealings, Sayings, Secrets. February 15, 2013. Central to the understanding of Chuang Tzu. And all Taoist thought is the concept of. Which means non-action or non-doing or, more exactly, the action of non-action (just as. Is the thought of non-thought and. Related to this is the recognition of the complementarity of opposites and of the constantly changing nature of life. Thomas Merton. Explains these two essential insights in. The Way Of Chuang Tzu. February 14, 2013. 8220;People wil...
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January | 2013 | Turnstone
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Shards, Sweepings, Stealings, Sayings, Secrets. Month: January, 2013. January 25, 2013. I’ve always got several books “on the go” at once. Some I take years to read, some I dip into now and then, some are my lifelong companions, some I read at one sitting and never look at again. I put down, half-read, Cees Nooteboom. 8216;s magisterial book about Spain,. Here’s the last paragraph of the chapter. For seven pesetas, and then I climb up the ancient streets of the. The Thorn Of Passion. On Partir Pour Partir.