When I Least Expect

 Two Brooke Hampton quotes I like very much (source: here; I added the color 'blue'):

P.S. Picture on the background is not from Brooke. I added the ancient Egyptian goddess Nut because she is the mother of the sky (I wrote about her before in 7-2017 in post 'Stars That Know No Rest'). Image: an individual homo sapiens on planet Earth looking at the sky on a clear night. Everything on planet Earth takes place under her wings and body of stars. She makes the sun rise every day by giving birth to it. And she makes the sun go down by swallowing it in the evening. And at night? Then the sun travels through her body. She is the mother of everything in the sky.

Linger Into Dawn

 

P.S. Song 'You Dream' (2022) by Isobel Waller-Bridge and Tara Nome Doyle: here.

Black Fly in Your Chardonnay

Sometimes - only sometimes - I receive a response to one of my Wedneyday blogposts.  A thank you for something well written or an angle (s)he had never thought of before. But mostly a reply because my post brought up a good memory.

You are gone. Now that you are gone. Isn't it ironic that no one will ever read the most beautiful, most honest, most revealing, most horney, most close, most … - there must be more - letters that I wrote to you? Isn't it ironic ... don't you think?

P.S. Song 'Ironic' by Alanis Morissette: here.

Comprehensive

For the next five (5) weeks no letter from me. Summer holiday!

My reading list for this summer:

• Kahn (revised and updated 1996) #history #cryptology
• Tavares (2012). Original title 'Aprender a rezar na Era da Técnica' (2007). #culturalcritic
• Purcell (2017) #countryhouses #books
• Fresco (2022) #history #russia

 

Something else. I loved watching these Going Dutch videos with a mix of shame, being proud, and recognition. Does your country have videos like these too?

• DUTCH humour: FUNNY or NOT? The last still is pointing at "Was sich liebt, das neckt sich." It's a saying in German. Freely translated: when you love each other then you tease each other.
  
• HOW to DEAL with the DUTCH?
  
• Culture SHOCK: a DUTCH PARTNER !?

Simplicity

  

 

P.S. Art from Julian Merrow-Smith from Bédoin (Vaucluse), France. His website: here.

Vineyard of Bliss

   

Poem 'from In the Garden of Joy' from Túbọ̀sún Ọládàpọ̀. Source: here.

Very Much

Song 'Lost Stars' from Keira Knightly:

 

"We're searching for meaning
But are we all lost stars
Trying to light up the dark?

 

Who are we?
Just a speck of dust within the galaxy
Woe is me
If we're not careful turns into reality

Don't you dare let our best memories bring you sorrow
Yesterday I saw a lion kiss a deer
Turn the page, maybe we'll find a brand new ending"

Nourishment

Oleg Vladimirovich An, 'The Grail' (2006). This work of art is on display at the Embassy of Free Mind in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Commissioned by the Ritman family.

Scene 'Joseph of Arimathea arrives in France with the Grail'. According to a Provencal legend Mary Magdalena and Joseph of Arimathea wanted to secure the holy grail, after Jesus' death, by setting sail to Marseille, France. The Grail was said to have supernatural healing power and to be an infinite source of nourishment.

Try to Build Something, Out on My Own

  

 Music: Elephant, 'Calling' (from Album 'Big Thing' 2022) here

"Well I don't mind if the money's no good
I don't mind if I'm misunderstood
Well I can't be sure that I know what it takes
But I'll take the shot and take my foot off the brakes

Sure, I'll work as hard as I can in this life
For a house, a car, a kid and a wife
But I'll try to build something, out on my own
That can't be torn down, after I'm gone

I think that I have found my calling
I tried to make it disappear
You fear it only leaves me falling
But I don't want to get away from here

Sure, I'll work as hard as I can in this life
For a house, a car, a kid and a wife
But I'll try to build something, out on my own
That can't be torn down, after I'm gone

I think that I have found my calling
I tried to make it disappear
You fear it only leaves me falling
But I don't want to get away from here

I think that I have found my calling
I tried to make it disappear
You fear it only leaves me falling
But I don't want to get away from here

I think that I have found my calling
I tried to make it disappear
You fear it only leaves me falling
But I don't want to get away from here

I think that I have found my calling
I tried to make it disappear
You fear it only leaves me falling
But I don't want to get away from here"

P.S. More lessons of elephant calling: here.

Mondscheinsonate

 A moonlight sonate 

... in music: here.

... in paintings:

 

... in a picture:

P.S. First painting: Homer, 'Sailing by Moonlight' (1880). Second painting: Kawase Hasui, 'Tsuki no Matsushima' (1919). Picture: Rui Telmo Romão, 'As noites já estão frescas, mas o céu alentejano continua limpo para nos maravilhar. Última lua cheia do Verão' (2021).