'Are you somebody? The Life and Times of Nuala O'Faolain'

Singing, a photo by pam's pics- on Flickr.

Those who wish to sing always find a song
- Swedish proverb-

'... I said to Arnold ... "why is ensemble singing so beautiful? What makes it move us so much?" And he said; "People would be like that all the time, if they could." '


https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/may/12/culture.obituaries

from 'A Conversation With A Chance Acquaintance' by Robert Rozhdestvensky

14MAY11: mist on Country Club Pond, a photo by tarboxje on Flickr.


'Look, 
             how the night is breathing
A star
             tired of glimmerng
                                                    has fallen
                                          and has burned your shoulder ...' 

'What?'

'Look,
             how ingratiatingly the mist
                                                    is clinging
                                           to young water ...'

'Where?' 

 

https://sites.bu.edu/russian-poetry/biography-robert-rozhdestvensky/
                           

honesty, forgiveness

honesty, forgiveness, a photo by davidg on Flickr.

from James Buchan, author of Frozen Desire

'... it is told of Nelson Mandela ... after much persecution, and when he was finally freed from prison ... he said to himself that he had to forgive all those who had wronged him by the time he reached the prison gates or he would never be free of them.'

from Iris Murdoch, The Sea, the Sea

'The past buries the past and must end in silence, but it can be a conscious silence that rests open-eyed. Perhaps this is the final forgiveness ...'