PHOTOS
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Wantage
“Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.”
— John Betjeman -
Suffering
“Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.”
— Edgar Allan Poe -
Bristol
“As I walked out one evening,
Walking down Bristol Street,
The crowds upon the pavement
Were fields of harvest wheat.And down by the brimming river
I heard a lover sing
Under an arch of the railway:
“Love has no ending.“I’ll love you, dear, I’ll love you
Till China and Africa meet,
And the river jumps over the mountain
And the salmon sing in the street,“I’ll love till the ocean
Is folded and hung up to dry
And the seven stars go squawking
Like geese about the sky.“The years shall run like rabbits,
For in my arms I hold
The Flower of the Ages,
And the first love of the world.”But all the clocks in the city
Began to whirr and chime:
“O let not Time deceive you,
You cannot conquer Time.“In the burrows of the Nightmare
Where Justice naked is,
Time watches from the shadow
And coughs when you would kiss.“In headaches and in worry
Vaguely life leaks away,
And Time will have his fancy
Tomorrow or today.“Into many a green valley
Drifts the appalling snow;
Time breaks the threaded dances
And the diver’s brilliant bow.“O plunge your hands in water,
Plunge them in up to the wrist;
Stare, stare in the basin
And wonder what you’ve missed.“The glacier knocks in the cupboard,
The desert sighs in the bed,
And the crack in the teacup opens
A lane to the land of the dead.“Where the beggars raffle the banknotes
And the Giant is enchanting to Jack,
And the Lily-white Boy is a Roarer,
And Jill goes down on her back.“O look, look in the mirror,
O look in your distress;
Life remains a blessing
Although you cannot bless.“O stand, stand at the window
As the tears scald and start;
You shall love your crooked neighbor
With all your crooked heart.”It was late, late in the evening,
The lovers they were gone;
The clocks had ceased their chiming,
And the deep river ran on.”
― W.H. Auden -
Early autumn and new places
Early autumn welcomes me with new jobs, new places, new studies – a lot of beginnings. But nature reminds me that we are all the same and come from the same source.
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Perfection is boring
“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
― Marilyn Monroe -
Real, true love is…
“So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist -
Rain is a blessing
“Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.”
― Bob Marley -
What is life?
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde -
Singapore
Wherever I go I see circles – circles of life. Life stories.
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Circles
I am surrounded by circles nowadays. I guess mother nature knows what looks beautiful.