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The Knights

nobody@flickr.com (panga_ua) — Sun, 19 May 2013 09:38:10 -0700

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"Most have been forgotten. Most deserve to be forgotten. The heroes will always be remembered. The best. The best and the worst. And a few who were a bit of both."
George R.R. Martin, A Feast for Crows

Flowers Don't Tell, They Show

nobody@flickr.com (panga_ua) — Sat, 18 May 2013 12:10:45 -0700

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"Yes, just like those flowers. There's something strained, but there's beauty in that. Something like that."
Koushun Takami

"Let a thing be but a sort of punctual surprise, like the first cache of violets in March, let it be delicate, painted and gratuitous, hinting that the Creator is solely occupied with aesthetic considerations, and combines disparate objects simply because they look so well together, and that thing will admirably fill the role of a flower."
Hope Mirrlees

Los Milagros De Lilas

nobody@flickr.com (panga_ua) — Sat, 18 May 2013 12:10:24 -0700

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"Preguntaréis: Y dónde están las lilas?
Y la metafísica cubierta de amapolas?"
Pablo Neruda

We Need The Tonic Of Wildness

nobody@flickr.com (panga_ua) — Fri, 17 May 2013 13:21:27 -0700

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"We need the tonic of wildness... At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature."
Henry David Thoreau

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Detached

nobody@flickr.com (panga_ua) — Thu, 16 May 2013 13:04:05 -0700

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"Manifest plainness,
Embrace simplicity,
Reduce selfishness,
Have few desires."
Lao Tzu

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Night Falls. Or Has Fallen.

nobody@flickr.com (panga_ua) — Wed, 15 May 2013 04:50:10 -0700

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"Night falls. Or has fallen. Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn? Yet if you look east, at sunset, you can see night rising, not falling; darkness lifting into the sky, up from the horizon, like a black sun behind cloud cover. Like smoke from an unseen fire, a line of fire just below the horizon, brushfire or a burning city. Maybe night falls because it’s heavy, a thick curtain pulled up over the eyes. Wool blanket."
Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

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Les Lilas

nobody@flickr.com (panga_ua) — Tue, 14 May 2013 12:55:21 -0700

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"Je rêve et je me réveille
Dans une odeur de lilas
De quel côté du sommeil
T'ai-je ici laissé ou là
Je dormais dans ta mémoire
Et tu m'oubliais tout bas
Ou c'était l'inverse histoire
Etais-je où tu n'étais pas..."
Louis Aragon (1897-1982)

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The Lilac Triumph

nobody@flickr.com (panga_ua) — Tue, 14 May 2013 01:33:45 -0700

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Today my all time views count has reached 666,666. Thanks to all my visitors.
(1.27PM on 14th May 2013 (Tue) )

"O mois des floraisons mois des métamorphoses
Mai qui fut sans nuage et Juin poignardé
Je n’oublierai jamais les lilas ni les roses
Ni ceux que le printemps dans les plis a gardés..."
Louis Aragon

[O months of blossoming, months of transfigurations,
May without cloud and June stabbed to the heart,
I shall not ever forget the lilacs or the roses
Nor those the spring has kept ..
Louis Aragon (1897-1982), French poet. Les Lilas et les Roses
(trans. by Louis MacNeice), Le Crève-Coeur (1940).]

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Les Muguets

nobody@flickr.com (panga_ua) — Mon, 13 May 2013 07:09:12 -0700

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"C'est mon petit bouquet de fleurs
Mon petit muguet, mon porte-bonheur
Je l'ai cueilli pour la vie entière
Et je veux le porter à ma boutonnière."
Jacques Plante

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Lilac Mist

nobody@flickr.com (panga_ua) — Sun, 12 May 2013 12:21:19 -0700

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"Why is summer mist romantic and autumn mist just sad?"
Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

"...skeins of mist like translucent silk, bending and unbending in the headlight tunnels...”"
John Geddes

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Kiss The Earth

nobody@flickr.com (panga_ua) — Sat, 11 May 2013 12:51:15 -0700

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"Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet."
Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

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My Mother Loves The Lilacs

nobody@flickr.com (panga_ua) — Sat, 11 May 2013 12:49:13 -0700

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"I realized when you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know."
Mitch Albom, For One More Day

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I'm Youth, I'm Joy

nobody@flickr.com (panga_ua) — Sat, 11 May 2013 04:04:22 -0700

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"Pan, who and what art thou?" he cried huskily.
"I'm youth, I'm joy," Peter answered at a venture, "I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg."
J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

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Strawberry Drop

nobody@flickr.com (panga_ua) — Fri, 10 May 2013 13:15:32 -0700

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"Color is the fruit of life."
Guillaume Apollinaire

Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

nobody@flickr.com (panga_ua) — Thu, 09 May 2013 12:46:35 -0700

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In Memory Of My Father

"Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rage at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light."
Dylan Thomas

"Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name."
William Wordsworth

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The Lilacs Are In Bloom

nobody@flickr.com (panga_ua) — Thu, 09 May 2013 12:46:35 -0700

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“Now that the lilacs are in bloom
She has a bowl of lilacs in her room”
T.S. Eliot

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Defenceless

nobody@flickr.com (panga_ua) — Wed, 08 May 2013 13:49:00 -0700

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"How vulnerable and defenceless man is
on the ways that we daily go,
so curtailed to the border of his body and soul
always busy with the details
that is beaconing his way in life."
Gert Strydom

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Easter Present From Italy

nobody@flickr.com (panga_ua) — Tue, 07 May 2013 13:23:03 -0700

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Colomba senza canditi.

"But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,
All losses are restored and sorrows end."
William Shakespeare

Contented With Perfume

nobody@flickr.com (panga_ua) — Tue, 07 May 2013 13:23:03 -0700

panga_ua posted a photo:

"The lilac branches are bowed under the weight of the flowers: blooming is hard, and the most important thing is - to bloom."
Yevgeny Zamyatin, A Story About The Most Important Thing.

"A black cat among roses,
phlox, lilac-misted under a quarter moon,
the sweet smells of heliotrope and night-scented stock. The garden is very still.
It is dazed with moonlight,
contented with perfume..."
Amy Lowell

This Is Special

nobody@flickr.com (panga_ua) — Mon, 06 May 2013 13:26:12 -0700

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"Times like this were special. Memory builders. When something extraordinary happened to a person the kind of things remembered forever after it didn't have to be a life-changing event like a graduation or marriage or birth of a child. It more often was the small things. The sheer joy of summer sunlight on a fragrant flower. The giggle of a toddler. The brush of a lover's fingertips. And the person marks the moment with the flashing insight thinking... This is special. I should remember this."
Sandra Hill, Tall, Dark, and Cajun

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