Uploads from Esther Spektor - Computer problems, tagged reflection

Spread Your Wings...!

nobody@flickr.com (Esther Spektor - Computer problems) — Fri, 17 May 2013 23:40:41 -0700

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"Our opportunity is to Soar our Spirit.
To see Light and Joy in everything.
To spread our wings and fly boldly.
To give thanks for rainbows and butterflies -
our symbols of renewal and rebirth.
To offer daily Thanksgiving - for ourselves, our family,
our friends, our community, for the whole world."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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O Ancient Scent From Fabled Times...

nobody@flickr.com (Esther Spektor - Computer problems) — Wed, 15 May 2013 23:10:48 -0700

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"...With cheerful longing I return
to pleasure I too long neglected.
O ancient scent from fabled times,
once more you captivate me.

All of my gloom I’ve set aside:
and from my sun-encircled window
I gladly view the lovely world,
and dreams go forth to greet the distance...
O ancient scent from fabled times."
- Albert Giraud

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Embellishment of Life.

nobody@flickr.com (Esther Spektor - Computer problems) — Tue, 14 May 2013 23:10:12 -0700

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“What a lovely thing a rose is!... Our highest assurance of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and color are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Naval Treaty

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Live Out Loud.

nobody@flickr.com (Esther Spektor - Computer problems) — Mon, 13 May 2013 23:12:38 -0700

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“If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.”
― Émile Zola

“Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I’ve taken for granted.”
― Sylvia Plath

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The Pride of the Peacock.

nobody@flickr.com (Esther Spektor - Computer problems) — Sun, 12 May 2013 23:26:12 -0700

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"What's riches to him
That has made a great peacock
With the pride of his eye?
The wind-beaten, stone-grey,
And desolate Three Rock
Would nourish his whim.
Live he or die
Amid wet rocks and heather,
His ghost will be gay
Adding feather to feather
For the pride of his eye."
-- William Butler Yeats, The Peacock.

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Happy Mother's Day to All Mothers...!

nobody@flickr.com (Esther Spektor - Computer problems) — Sat, 11 May 2013 22:27:29 -0700

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"The sweetest sounds to mortals given
Are heard in Mother, Home, and Heaven."
~William Goldsmith Brown

"Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes, by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers and sisters, aunts and cousins, comrades and friends - but only one mother in the whole world."
~Kate Douglas Wiggin

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Our Dreams Are Luminous.

nobody@flickr.com (Esther Spektor - Computer problems) — Fri, 10 May 2013 23:01:10 -0700

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“In the ultimate stillness
Light penetrates the whole realm;
In the still illumination,
There pervades pure emptiness.
When I look back on the
Phenomenal world,
Everything is just
Like a dream."
― Han-shan Te-Ch'ing

“Our dreams are luminous, a cast fire upon the world.
Morning arrives and that's it.
Sunlight darkens the earth.”
― Charles Wright

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The Quiet Wonders.

nobody@flickr.com (Esther Spektor - Computer problems) — Thu, 09 May 2013 22:54:13 -0700

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“Remember the quiet wonders. The world has more need of them than it has for warriors.”
― Charles de Lint, Moonheart

“It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know the sense of wonder and humility. ”
― Rachel Carson

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Every Moment Has Its Pleasures...

nobody@flickr.com (Esther Spektor - Computer problems) — Wed, 08 May 2013 23:07:11 -0700

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“O friend, for the morrow let us not worry
This moment we have now, let us not hurry
When our time comes, we shall not tarry
With seven thousand-year-olds, our burden carry”
― Omar Khayyám, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

“Every moment has its pleasures and its hope.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

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Ecstasy of Chaos.

nobody@flickr.com (Esther Spektor - Computer problems) — Tue, 07 May 2013 23:16:16 -0700

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“When the immense drugged universe explodes
In a cascade of unendurable colour
And leaves us gasping naked,
This is no more than the ecstasy of chaos:
Hold fast, with both hands, to that royal love
Which alone, as we know certainly, restores
Fragmentation into true being."
― Robert Graves, "Ecstasy of Chaos". Poems 1965-1968

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And Sound Stopped...

nobody@flickr.com (Esther Spektor - Computer problems) — Mon, 06 May 2013 15:05:14 -0700

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“I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.”
― Arthur Rimbaud, A Season in Hell/The Drunken Boat

“As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment. And sound stopped and movement stopped for much, much more than a moment.”
― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

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We Survive by Fantasizing.

nobody@flickr.com (Esther Spektor - Computer problems) — Sat, 04 May 2013 23:05:55 -0700

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“Lovers and madmen have such seething brains
Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend
More than cool reason ever comprehends.”
― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream

“The ability to "fantasize" is the ability to survive. It's wonderful to speak about this subject because there have been so many wrong-headed people dealing with it.... The so-called realists are trying to drive us insane, and I refuse to be driven insane.... We survive by fantasizing. Take that away from us and the whole damned human race goes down the drain.”
― Ray Bradbury

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It Is Daffodil Time.

nobody@flickr.com (Esther Spektor - Computer problems) — Fri, 03 May 2013 22:50:59 -0700

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"Fair daffadils, we weep to see
You haste away so soone;
As yet the early-rising sun
Has not attained its noone. . . . .
We have short time to stay as you,
We have as short a spring;
As quick a growth to meet decay
As you or anything."
— Robert Herrick

EXPLORED - May 4, 2013.
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Queen of Blossoms.

nobody@flickr.com (Esther Spektor - Computer problems) — Thu, 02 May 2013 22:48:44 -0700

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"May, queen of blossoms,
And fulfilling flowers,
With what pretty music
Shall we charm the hours?
Wilt thou have pipe and reed,
Blown in the open mead?
Or to the lute give heed In the green bowers."
— Lord Edward Thurlow

"Among the changing months, May stands confest
The sweetest, and in fairest colors dressed."
— James Thomson

EXPLORED - May 3, 2013.
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All Things Seem Possible in May.

nobody@flickr.com (Esther Spektor - Computer problems) — Wed, 01 May 2013 23:13:31 -0700

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"But I must gather knots of flowers,
And buds and garlands gay,
For I'm to be Queen o' the May, mother,
I'm to be Queen o' the May."
- Alfred Lord Tennyson

"The world's favorite season is the spring.
All things seem possible in May."
- Edwin Way Teale

EXPLORED - May 2, 2013.
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Sunflowers of the Spring.

nobody@flickr.com (Esther Spektor - Computer problems) — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 22:39:58 -0700

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"And here the sunflower of the spring
Burns bright in morning's beam."
- Ebenezer Elliott ("The Corn Law Rhymer")

"Space for the sunflower, bright with yellow glow,
To court the sky."
- Caroline Gilman, To the Ursulines

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Madame Butterfly.

nobody@flickr.com (Esther Spektor - Computer problems) — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 23:12:08 -0700

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"The bloom is not a bloom,
The mist is not a mist.
At midnight she comes,
And goes again in dawn.
She comes like a spring dream - how long will she stay?
She goes like a morning cloud, without a trace."
- Bai Juyi

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Color Is Vibration.

nobody@flickr.com (Esther Spektor - Computer problems) — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 23:15:06 -0700

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"There is no blue without yellow and without orange."
- Vincent Van Gogh

"Color is all. When color is right, form is right. Color is everything, color is vibration like music; everything is vibration."
- Marc Chagall

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The In-Between Times.

nobody@flickr.com (Esther Spektor - Computer problems) — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 23:38:58 -0700

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“When you’re young you prefer the vulgar months, the fullness of the seasons. As you grow older you learn to like the in-between times, the months that can’t make up their minds. Perhaps it’s a way of admitting that things can’t ever bear the same certainty again.”
― Julian Barnes

"But if in your thought you must measure time into seasons, let each season encircle all the other seasons, And let today embrace the past with remembrance and the future with longing."
- Kahlil Gibran

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The Morning, Happy Thing...

nobody@flickr.com (Esther Spektor - Computer problems) — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 23:16:37 -0700

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“The sun just touched the morning;
The morning, happy thing,
Supposed that he had come to dwell,
And life would be all spring.”
- Emily Dickinson

"Every sunny morning is a great fountain; we quaff 'sweet hope' from it."
- Mehmet Murat ildan.

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