The Desiderata on The Selby: photography, art and people in their creative spaces.
Life’s DESIDERATA – Max Ehrman
Posted in Play, Ponder, Savour with tags Photography, Life, Poetry, Inspirational, Fashion, Living, Ingrid Sophie Schram, The Selby, Max Ehrman, The Desiderata on November 5, 2009 by RoxiBe
Posted in Play, Ponder with tags Being, Future, Growth, Introspection, Knowledge, Quotes, St Aelred of Rievaulx, The mirror of love, Thoughts on October 27, 2009 by RoxiThink carefully and often what you are, what you were, what you will be.
St Aelred of Rievaulx “The Mirror of Love”.
Slabs of color
Posted in Savour with tags Abstract landscape painting, Art, Expressionism, Nicolas de Stael, Painting on October 26, 2009 by Roxi
Nicolas de Stael “Sicile”, 1954.
Remembering Cali…
Posted in Savour with tags California, Clouds, Experience, Good times, Me, Memories, San Francisco, Travel, USA, Video, Vimeo on October 25, 2009 by RoxiAnother Cloud Reel … from Delrious on Vimeo.
Cluj at its best
Posted in Explore, Savour with tags City, Cluj Napoca, Romania on October 23, 2009 by Roxi
Cluj-Napoca, Romania, Museum’s Square. December 1st, 08
…sunny, warm and open.
Strength
Posted in Ponder with tags Ben Okri, Fight, Life, Literature, Songs of enchantment, Spirit, Strength, Writing on October 20, 2009 by RoxiThe secret of strength is in the spirit… Life is often like fighting, and sometimes you have to draw power from your eyes or toes or from your heart.
Ben Okri “Songs of Enchantment”, 1993. Jonathan Cape Limited, England.
The most wondrous thing of all…
Posted in Love with tags Corinthians, Love, Patience, Quotes, The Bible on October 20, 2009 by RoxiIf I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.
It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres…..
And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
The Bible: 1 Corinthians 13:1-7, 13
Hiding the Sun
Posted in Savour with tags Photography, Travel, Clouds, Sun, Atlantic Ocean, Ocean, Weather, United States, Airplane on October 19, 2009 by Roxi
In the airplane, over the Atlantic. September 2008
Cut grass – Phillip Larkin
Posted in Ponder with tags Cluj Napoca, Life, Beauty, Nature, Poetry, Summer, Phillip Larkin, Cut grass, Frailty, Moments, Grass, Poems on the underground, British Council on October 19, 2009 by RoxiCut grass lies frail
Brief is the breath
Many stalks exhale.Long, long the death
It dies in the white hours
of young-leafed June
with chestnut frames,
with hedges snowlike strewn
white lilac bowed.Lost laves of Queen Anne’s lace,
And that high-builded cloud
Moving at summer’s pace.Phillip Larkin “Cut grass” from the “Poems on the Underground” series, presented at the British Council Centre in Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
