Year: 2015

Light, Water and Firmament

It is raining all the week: even the birds don’t want to sing any more. Everything is soaked with water. “Let’s there be light!”… There is no light, and the days a grey from morning to dusk. Not that I complain. It is a good enough time for photography.

I stop my car and take some pictures. Suddenly the hail storm begins, and in a blink of an eye the hailstones cover the front seat and dashboard while I am frantically scrolling the car window up. The hailstones are melting in my hands… My “models” run away. Oh well..

The firmament suddenly cleared and the light was restored. All the way across the pass, driving down to Clonmel, Tipperary, I had the voice of Lisa Gerrard in my head. As far as I could see, there was not a single human around. Low, heavy clouds and distant blue mountain tops; ravines filled with fog … This place is right for me.

I chose this video for my post – Gregory Colbert‘s study of interactions between humans and animals, and a beautiful song The Host of Seraphim by Dead Can Dance.

Now we walk down to the sea.

The sand trees are as fascinating as the frost flowers on the window glass.

Is it a message? I have a sinking and sobering feeling that there are countless messages of a great importance that we either miss or cannot read.

Lisa Gerrard – Seven Seas From album ‘Twilight Kingdom’

Have a peaceful weekend!

If you are feeling lonely

If you are feeling lonely like the Moon – make yourself comfortable and enjoy the space. Loneliness is not an isolation – you have never been closer to the core of all things. Loneliness is the time of your growth and evolution.

If you are feeling lost – look around. Introspect on where you stand.

Take a path and keep going. You have already done it many times in your life. You are an expert.

Just believe in yourself. And keep going.

Some things are bigger than us, so we yield to them. It is not always fair, but it is just.

A good song comes in handy when you are feeling lonely.

Til The Ocean Takes Us All – The Cat Empire

Have a good day!

Fairytale

Once upon a time there was a powerful Fairy Queen living in the Woods. She was beautiful but lonely.

Poor travelling musician touched her heart with his tunes… But there was another heart looking for love…

A girl living in the woods with a pack of wolves for a family heard him sing and fell for his voice before she ever knew him.

Love and Music walk hand in hand, you know.

So, the powerful Queen and the human girl both fell in love with the musician… It happens on a regular basis – there is nothing new under the sun.

And yet something has changed. Actually, everything has changed. Harmony was empowered with magic; magic was subdued by simplicity; poor girl married the musician and they lived happily ever after.

Have a Great Day!

It has been a year

My silence lasted too long. I have been writing this and that though… And taking pictures too. For the future. I still cannot upload them successfully to the Media folder of my dashboard most of the time, and I probably never will. But I cannot just leave a blog I was working on a whole year.

It is a year, yes. I feel so humbled thinking of all the friendship and support you have given me, dear blogger friends. It has been a wonderful year with you. I admire and love you.

I don’t feel well today, to be honest. I forget to smile. I worry about everything that has been happening in the world lately. It breaks my heart that the evil seems to be taking over. Is it taking over?

We live in a murky world of half-truth. How to navigate so that we never leave the safe half? How to beacon the others ?

I hope you all stay safe.

Have a peaceful weekend!

Faceless

The 21st century has brought two opposite trends in image culture: a “selfie” and a trend to hide, alter or mask the face. The “selfie” has a reputation of being annoying, vain, and even addictive; the obscured face is either disturbing, or fascinating and entertaining for a viewer. Depends on the circumstances.

Literally faceless creatures (like Slender Man) can be found in Mythology of many nations around the world. A mujina is a creature with no face that can shape-shift into human form. Japanese immigrants brought this folklore to Hawaii. In 1959, a woman was reported to have seen a mujina comb her hair in the women’s restroom at a drive-in theater in Kahala, and when the witness came close enough, the mujina turned, revealing her featureless face.

That must have been scary.

There is also an assortment of the hooded and cloaked beings – Faeries, Grim reapers and others. None of them is after any good.

Whomever we meet we do want to see their face. Not because we have a phobia or something. We simply want to communicate, work, have fun and just be with someone we can relate to. And we all know that faces tell more than words.

What the obscured face means for it’s owner? Erased identity, insecurity, or inviolable privacy? All of above? What if it is not their choice?