These Days - Nico

i stole this...and i find it quite beautiful and ...frightening,
and i know why, for me.

I've been out walking
I don't do too much talking
These days, these days
These days I seem to think a lot
About the things that I forgot to do
And all the times I had the chance to.

I've stopped my rambling
I don't do too much gambling
These days, these days
These days I seem to think about
How all the changes came about my ways
And I wonder if I'd see another highway

I had a lover
I don't think I'll risk another
These days, these days
And if I seem to be afraid
To live the life that I have made in song
It's just that I've been losing so long

I've stopped my dreaming
I won't do too much scheming
These days, these days
These days I sit on corner stones
And count the time in quarter tones to ten
Please don't confront me with my failures
I had not forgotten them

Patti Smith - Pastime Paradise

of course, not bad at all, no. by all means, live now, try to find joy in what you have and not in "ideas" you may miss. but if you know a person and not an idea, why not try to find the best what can be done and experienced  together? it is impossible not to 'miss'....

why hide and play at keeping away? why run and run, why no rest?

Patti Smith - Wing

cannot be like that...not all the time

Siddharta, I am a boat on the other shore

Siddhartha said:
 "I am a boat to the other shore. One who reaches the other shore does not walk around with the boat on his head"...


But this was Siddharta... i would tie it to a bush or to roots on the shore. 
The other side is not where i want to be, maybe.
Just exploring, travelling.
No way to be closed to me, please.

Leonard Cohen - 07 - Joan Of Arc (Berlin 1974)

and i always, always loved this...can hear it all my life

Folk Alley Sessions: Elephant Revival - "Birds and Stars"

Schubert Ständchen : Camille Thomas and Beatrice Berrut

Schubert :Ständchen (Schwanengesang, D 957: no 4)

Albinoni : Adagio

Tomoya Naka - Rainy Song

Pat Metheny & Brad Mehldau - Make Peace

When two people want different things, explanations will only widen the gap.

peace is not simple, it is complex.

Only Lovers Left Alive OST - 11 Our Hearts Condemn Us

could be me

and this could be me...

A Ute boy. ca. 1900. Photo by C.R. Savage. Source - Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Chopin - Sonata for Cello & Piano, Op.65, III. Largo

J.S.Bach: Adagio ~ 'Cello: Jacqueline du Pré'

on....purification (quotes)

quotes from another blog, see link

http://zenyogagurdjieff.blogspot.de/

"The aim of inner work is not freedom from suffering. The aim is purification through it. These are two different things."

from another post there:

"Thought has no real flavor or substance next to it; it is like a picture of food, as opposed to the eating of it.

Gurdjieff explained in some detail that there are three being foods: the regular food we eat and digest with our stomach, air, and impressions. In a certain sense, all of these foods qualify as impressions; so there is a hierarchy of being-food which is presided over by impressions, with air and what we digest acting as subordinate entities.

Yet it is also possible to formulate the entirety; that is, the food of life as it flows into us, which is called impressions, is a whole thing consisting of all its parts, each one of which has deeply sacred aspects. The more that we participate in the action of our three centers, as opposed to the action of individual ones — each one of which is, on its own, quite muscular — the more we take in this whole food of life itself, which is closely and powerfully related to the divine inflow, and fed by the impressions of the food of one's whole life.

The process of feeding here is reciprocal: life and Being feed on the divine inflow, and the divine inflow feeds life and Being. Although we experience these things separately — and generally don't experience the divine inflow much at all, if ever — they are actually part of one great cycle of inward and outward breath of the divine into the material, and then back out of it. So life itself is an active manifestation of inhalation and exhalation of the divine into the material. "

...something to keep in mind and digest...

"My Eyes" - Laurie Anderson

Laurie Anderson KOKOKU

and maybe not the world...

Lee Soo Dong.

ואולי, לא היו הדברים מעולם...

und vielleicht nicht die Welt..
and maybe not the world...

source:Sivan Parnass, facebook page

now sitting here

now sitting here
waiting for my tub
to fill with hot water
i watch the snow falling

and dropping from trees
across from my window.
and yesterday's turmoil
slides to the ground

giving way to be calm
and enjoy my morning
together with my cat
who watches my every move

as if to tell me:
don't leave, stay.
but i wish, i wish,
i would hear this

now and then, enough,
from another one
who is not a cat, for sure,
now i looked behind my house

and all the icicles
melted away.
now, now,
i will take my bath.

As to me, Walt Whitman

“As to me, I know of nothing but miracles.”

― Walt Whitman

o, i have a friend, and he inspires me from very far away, Israel...