LIGHT....

YOUR LIGHT, MY LIGHT by Rabindranath Tagore ( 1861-1941)

Your light, my light, world filling light,

the dancing centre of my life

the sky breaks forth, the wind runs wild...

and laughter passes over the earth.

the butterflies have spread their sails to glide

Up on the seas of light,

The lilies and the jasmine flowers surge...

on the crest of waves of light.

Now heaven's river drowns its banks.......

and floods of joy

have run abroad,

now mirth has spread

from leaf to leaf, 

and gladness.......

without measure comes............

"Faith is the bird that feels the light, when the dawn is still dark.."

                                                              - Tagore

Photographs 2024
 

FROM the THRESHOLD.....

"Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.." -Rumi

            "It is never too late to be what you might have been." -George Eliot

"Anyone can start today and make a new ending.." " -Maria Robinson

                "Fear not for the future. Weep not for the past.." -Shelley

                         "Before you quit.....Try..." - William Ward

           "Find the goodness that is within you..." -Eckhart Tolle

"The magic in new beginnings is truly the most powerful of them all.." -Josiyah Martin

               "Every moment is a fresh beginning. " - T.S. Eliot

"Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering....'It will be happier'...." -Tennyson

         "You are never too old to dream a new dream..." -C.S. Lewis

"New Year's most glorious light is sweet hope! " -Mehmet Muran Idan

"Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be? " -Charles Bukowski

"The future is literally in our hands to mold as we like.But we cannot wait till tomorrow. Tomorrow is now! " -Eleanor Roosevelt

"And now we welcome the New Year. Full of things that have never been..."  -Rainer Maria Rilke

"We will open the book. Its pages are blank. The book is called Opportunity, and it's first chapter is New Year's Day!" -Edith Lovejoy Pierce

       "I close my eyes to old ends. And open my heart to new beginnings.."  -Nick Frederickson

 Photographs 2023. 

AUGUST LIGHT.....

AUGUST MOONRISE by Sara Teasdale  (excerpts)

The sun was gone, and the moon was coming over the blue hills

The west was rosy, the east was flushed...swallows rushed this way and that.

The maples stamped against the west 

were black and stately 

and full of rest...

And the hazy orange moon grew up and slowly changed to yellow gold

While the hills were darkened, fold on fold

to a deeper blue than a flower could hold.

For night scents, heady, and damp and cool 

On the brink of a shining pool

O Beauty, out of many a cup  you have made me drunk and wild

Ever since I was a child.

And no sorrow wholly bow one who loves you to the end?

And my eyes through which joy came

And my heart, a wavering flame

If all must leave me and go back

Along a blind and fearful track, so that you can make anew,

Something nearer your desire....

Photographs 2023. Sunsets, sunrises with smoke from forest fires....