What a beautiful song! too beautiful :) you can listen to it here, on Grooveshark.
You can learn more about her and her music, here! :)
Another absolute favorite of mine, from the same album (Words came back to me, 2006), is “Words”!
Happy listening!
For me, there’s few things better right now than watching spring arrive in my hometown: the place of my birth and coming into the world, the place of all my small and great departures, the place where all my profound and genuine dreams were born. You know, the ones that give meaning to your life, and purpose. The ones that give you unrest and make you curious. And courageous!…
All the familiar places and their fragrances, reignited again, all the hiding spots and walking paths, the hidden bench – witness to many moments of intellectual solitude and delight, all of them now seen in a new light: the one of maturity, introspection and constant renewal.
I am amazed how much the fragrance of the Earth is just as fresh and crisp as it was when I was a child, the after-the-rain air tastes just as sweet and with that, the flooding of the memories! myriads and myriads of feelings, ideas and moments, all brought back by just closing the eyes and seeing with the other senses!
Sunny skies
One of the entrances into the park
A leaf from last fall…
Buds on trees
One of my all time favorite thing to do at midday: to sit on a bench reading with the sun on my face… :)
Happy squirrel eating
Two baby flies resting on my leg
Natural path in the park
Colorful garage doors, ready for spring!
All these photos were taken by me in Gherla, Cluj Clounty, Romania. Late April 2012.
Pink roses in Salzburg, Austria! May, 2011.
The sun finally shone, for a little while, just enough to catch some glimpses of its tender and sparkly love with the snow…
Light and shadow in Gherla’s central park.
The river, covered by ice and snow…
The main entrance into the park.
Blue sky and the back of the Roman Catholic Church, in Gherla, Cluj County, Romania. Photos taken by me, February, 2012
Just some glimpses of the upcoming winter, from my hometown…:)
Photos taken in Gherla, Cluj County, Romania. November, 2011
The winter is approaching. November is a quiet and still month. Perfect to retrospect and introspect. Just like this season, it’s also time for us to draw back and be still within ourselves; to be silent and calm. Nature goes back to itself to restore its powers and reborn in spring. We can use these months in the same way.
Chopins’s music (many of his nocturnes and piano sonatas) manage to convey this so beautifully. I can almost feel the stillness of nature and her calm composure in them. Peace and serenity, finally, after many months of spring and summer when all was maddeningly alive, vibrant and bursting with life. There is happiness and contentment in quietness, but of a different kind, and it has its purposes.
November it’s also bringing us closer to the end of the year: a moment to look back, with acceptance, on all that we have accomplished, have not and why, over the past months. Mostly, where do we want to stand, another year from now on. With what kind of people, feelings or accomplishments.
So, let us enjoy this beautiful piece of music, as well as all the benefits of the season! what do you love about it? :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejQnsAp-ex0&list=PL1CBBC68D90DAABDC&index=7&feature=plpp_video
Hey guys,
For the past week, I’ve been delighting myself with little documentaries from Metropolitan Museum of Art. They bind together, in a thoughtful and original thread, art pieces hosted at the museum with poetry, literature, history and personal tales.
You can check them all out and subscribe here.
One of my favorite, for the serene and beautiful feeling it gives me, as well as for the tribute if pays to the natural landscapes, is The Country :)
Photos taken around Nowy Gierałtów, Silesia, Poland. Oct. 2011
Viehofen Lake, Sankt Polten, Austria. End of May, 2011
Summer is here! yaaaayyy!! :) we had a wonderful weather so far. Sunny, filled with a creamy light, a bit of wind but, not harsh and bitter as during the winter. Anaaand, the swimming season is officially open! Everyone was at the lake this past week and I enjoyed my first swim. Austrian winters, as I’ve learned this past year, can be very cold and dark, but the spring and summer are really making it up for it by giving us so many wonderful days of sun, cool breezes, green parks… joyful and smiling people on the streets.
