Something To Think About

Gosh. I haven’t updated this site for so long concentrating instead on my main blog Dreams and Escapes.  I hope I would be able to post more in the coming days.

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Today’s Quotes

It’s one of those attempted macro shots that I like.  I used to grow  American climbing roses in shades of red and pink.  This reminds me of The Little Prince, that lovely book of  Antoine de Saint-Exupery.

“It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.”

“People have forgotten this truth,” the fox said. “But you mustn’t forget it. You become responsible forever for what you’ve tamed. You’re responsible for your rose.”

 

Finding Meaning In Other People’s Thoughts

A few years ago, a photographer  friend introduced me to another writer, Naomi Shihab Nye. She was born  to a Palestinian father and an American mother.

Let me quote some of her poems that really touched me:

“Kindness

Before you know what kindness really is
you must lose things,
feel the future dissolve in a moment
like salt in a weakened broth.
What you held in your hand,
what you counted and carefully saved,
all this must go so you know
how desolate the landscape can be
between the regions of kindness.
How you ride and ride
thinking the bus will never stop,
the passengers eating maize and chicken
will stare out the window forever.

Before you learn the tender gravity of kindness,
you must travel where the Indian in a white poncho
lies dead by the side of the road.
You must see how this could be you,
how he too was someone
who journeyed through the night with plans
and the simple breath that kept him alive.

Before you know kindness as the deepest thing
inside,
you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.
You must wake up with sorrow.
You must speak to it till your voice
catches the thread of all sorrows
and you see the size of the cloth.

Then it is only kindness that makes sense anymore,
only kindness that ties your shoes
and sends you out into the day to mail letters and
purchase bread,
only kindness that raises its head
from the crowd of the world to say
It is I  you have been looking for,
and then goes with you everywhere
like a shadow or a friend. “

And here’s her thought on reading:

“I love the solitude of reading. I love the deep dive into someone else’s story, the delicious ache of a last page.”

I really could relate to her because  when I  read, I am transported to  another world –  a world of fantasy or make-belief, a world of triumph or defeat, a world of happiness or loneliness but despite all these, I am mesmerized, feeling as if I were there in one particular place, feeling as if the pain and hurts are my  own and the triumphs are a joyous celebration of life.

And here’s another line  I like:

“It is really hard to be lonely very long in a world of words. Even if you don’t have friends somewhere, you still have language, and it will find you and wrap its little syllables around you and suddenly there will be a story to live in. ”  

I agree.

Words.

Meanings.

A jumble of lovely thoughts that fills one’s  mind and feeds one’s  soul. Again I wish I could find some of her book of poems, one I could read again and again, one I could be friends with when I feel alone.

On Life

Life will throw a lot at you, so you can count on learning something new every day. I have learned to open my heart and let life teach me whatever it has to offer. Every day is a gift wrapped in the lessons of tomorrow.

– Teach Me (Amy Lynn Steele)

Silent Wednesday

Batanes

We do not remember days, we remember the moments. – cesare pavese

A blessed Holy Wednesday to all.

When The Sea Meets The Sky

“The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. To dig for treasures shows not only impatience and greed, but lack of faith. Patience, patience, patience, is what the sea teaches. Patience and faith. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach—waiting for a gift from the sea.”- anne morrow lindbergh

The silence, more palpable than it ever was before. The beauty that Nature brings.  I’ve always been in awe of these gifts – when you think of life,  grateful for the message that it brings. Sometimes, I wish I were nearer the sea and let my feet sink in the sand, listen to the sound of splashing waves and find maybe a  sea glass  or two to store in my jar of memories.

 

Today’s Quote

 

 In every walk with Nature, one receives far more than he seeks. – john muir