Each Little Dream

The tune is the same as in Marcos Valle's song 'Samba de Verão' (1964). Next to that it's just one of many covers of a song with different lyrics, focus and connotation from Norman Gimbel. Anyway I like Stacey Kent's interpretation of 'So Nice' best: here.

It would be so nice. You and me. Someone to understand each little dream in me. Someone to sing to me.

P.S. Original lyrics of 'Samba de Verão' and translation into English: here.

And A Few More

Understood & Gently

Nor Vashti Bunyan (born 1945) nor Sibylle Baier (born in the 50s?) opted for pursuing a singing career in the 70s. They made one album with lovely folk music and that was it. They concentrated on raising a family. How cool!

Listen to this lovely song 'Tonight' from Sibylle Baier. Music: here 

"tonight when I came home from work 

there he unforeseen changed in the lazy chair 

and said "what's that sorrow you bear?" 

and I could tell him, he understood 

he gently took my arm 

he listened to my tears till dawn 

I dedicate this song to you 

tonight we had change of the moon 

we had change of the moon" 

P.S. The picture above is Sibylle with her son Robby. The source is probably the website www.sibyllebaier.com that no longer exists.

P.P.S. More info on her: here

A Comment

Give it up! Gibs auf! Desistir!

It's the title Max Brod give to a short, unpublished story of Frans Kafka (1883-1924). In the original papers of Kafka the title of this "story" was 'A Comment' (German 'Ein Kommentar').

The story in German (original) and English (translation):

And You've Just Gotta

A lovely song I discovered yesterday:

"I don't want to wait anymore I'm tired of looking for answers

Take me some place where there's music and there's laughter

I don't know if I'm scared of dying but I'm scared of living too fast, too slow

Regret, remorse, hold on, oh no I've got to go

There’s no starting over, no new beginnings, time races on

And you've just gotta keep on keeping on

Gotta keep on going, looking straight out on the road"

Singer and song? Here.

Follow

I've been searching for it for 15 minutes but I can't find it as yet. The quote I was looking for reads something like this: "What a woman may expect from a men is food and a roof above her head. All the other things she is looking for is for her self-unrolling." If I remember well there was a negative connotation connected to it too - or was it me?

Yesterday I realized that the man who spoke these words is "trapped" in Maslow's 'physiological' level and could or didn't want to follow his love into her being on the level of 'self-actualization'.

P.S. I wrote on Maslow before: 'On Cincinnatus and Julius Caesar. Do selfish genes feel by definition: the chosen ones?' (2010) and 'One Definition Fits None' (2012).

Hard to Explain?

During the past six weeks I read only one book. Better: I "chewed" on the pictures (this is a metaphor) and let the not so many words "shine" on my mind like the sun warms my skin (this is a metaphor too).

Book? Mark Reibstein, 'Wabi Sabi' (2008).

What is Wabi Sabi? Hard to explain! Hard? It's embracing the fact that nothing is perfect. Embrace!

The rays of sunlight

in my face this morning 

a day full of promise ahead

P.S. Of course this is another Chinese Garden and an invitation to ...

P.P.S. I found lemma on wikipedia on Chinese and Japanese gardens. It made me so happy to discover that someone took the time to write them down and they are ready to be digested by ... me, you and everyone else.
P.P.P.S. Source image: here

Offline

Offline for the next six weeks. Holiday! I'll walk the 'International Four Days Marches Nijmegen' next week. My 5th.

After that at home. We are not going abroad this year. In the morning (7-13) I'll work on my Hessel Gerritsz translation of his routebook on the Cabo Verde Islands (1629). Remember my post 'Right in the Middle'?  Rest of the day I'll enjoy the kids and my wife. Read a little, swim a little, walk a little, sleep a little. Just enjoy ... not working.

Apex. A Hero's Heroes

Chuck Yeager was the best of the best in the 1950s. As Tom Wolfe puts it - in 'The Right Stuff' (1979):

"For every militairy pilot knew where the apex of the great ziggurat was located. You could point it out on a map. The place was Edwards Air Force Base in the high desert. 150 miles northeast of Los Angeles. Everyone knew who resided there, everyone knew the name of the individual who ranked foremost in the Olympus, the ace of all the aces, as it were, among the true brothers of the right stuff."

On which shoulders did Chuck stand on? Who are his heroes? He gave an answer to this question on facebook (May 6th, 2015):

P.S. "Col Boyd" is Albert Boyd (1906-1976). He was Chuck's commanding officer at Edwards and a test pilot too. Not John Boyd (1927-1997) of whom I wrote before: here 

50 Words For ...

The Sami languages have as many as 300 different words for types of snow, tracks in snow and conditions of the use of snow (source).

The people of the Cook islands have many words for the age, freshness and use of coconuts (Frisbie, 'The book of Puka-Puka' (1929)). More than 50 words?

The Ma'aza have more names for watercourses than any other topographical features (Hobbs, 'Bedouin Life in the Egyptian Wilderness' (1989)). More than 50 words?

What words are #top1 for
... Farmer in 8,000 BC? Different for the 20th Century farmer? Different 21th Century?
... Sailor in the 17th Century? Different for the 21st Century sailor?
... Singer?
... Writer? Different for a songwriter?
... Hooker?
... Soldier?
... Historian?
... Greek in year 2015? Different than in year 2005?
... Someone who loves listening to 'fado menor' music (listen: here)? Different for the singer?
... Lovers?
... Earthworm?
... Egyptologist?
... Bookreader?
... Someone who lives on the back of the Moon?
... Glider pilot? Different from a fighter pilot?
... Individual 'homo sapiens'? Different from species 'homo sapiens'?
... Oak (tree)? Different from a poppy (flower)?
... Blogger?
... Virtual assistent (VA)?
... Trapper who lives for 10 months a year in a lodge and makes use of a canoe?
... 'Poeta' or 'poetisa'? In Europe? In South America? In Australia?