30-Sep-2021
Sleepy angel
What on earth do angels dream of when they fall asleep?
Maybe they don't dream of anything, and they don't even sleep.
Maybe they just close their eyes, not to see what they can't change.
Perhaps even the angels are, at times, too tired to think.
The month of September ends today and this series of random and erratic photos also ends.
Thanks to everyone who took a look at them.
29-Sep-2021
The vineyards after the storm
In times of crisis, different people react in different ways.
Some might try to escape. Others might attempt to batten down the hatches and ride out the storm in a safe haven.
Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass...
Life is about learning to dance in the rain.
28-Sep-2021
Dilemma...
When we happen to admire someone's specific talent, in whatever field it manifests itself, we often want to imitate it, even knowing from the beginning that this talent does not belong to us and that we could never be able to match it.
At the same time, by striving to learn and to be inspired by those who do best what we try to do, with questionable results, we always have a hope of improving our skills.
The dilemma is to decide whether mere imitation can make sense when one is aware of not knowing how to go beyond it.
All this reasoning, quite useless, is just an attempt to motivate the reason that prompted me to take some pictures quite different from my usual ones.
There is a very good photographer who has been posting the most beautiful photos of cars I have ever seen on PBase for some time. Even if cars don't fascinate me that much, I am always enchanted to admire what he can do with them in photography. The way in which he knows how to enhance the details, use the light reflected on the bodywork, emphasize the shapes fascinates me and fills me with admiration.
Today, returning from one of my walks, I found myself in front of a rather peculiar car, with only three wheels and suddenly I thought about the photos of Dan Greenberg and what he would be able to do.
That's all.
I wanted to try.
27-Sep-2020
Time wasted at the lake is time well spent.
The sound of water balances us, takes our discomfort, and energizes our lives, allowing us to feel peace and tranquillity.
“She listened silently to the water, which to her was not just water, but the voice of life, the voice of Being, the voice of perpetual Becoming.”
(Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha)
26-Sep-2021
Meditation
Meditation is not evasion; it is a serene encounter with reality.
The best mediation is effortless.
The best meditation is a gentle awareness.
I believe that reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found.
By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well.
This to me is a miracle.
25-Sep-2021
Every morning is a fresh beginning.
There will come a time when we believe everything is finished; that will be the beginning.
Sometimes we can only find our true direction when we let the wind of change carry us.
24-Sep-2021
Encounter with a silent blackbird
"Saying nothing sometimes says the most."
(Emily Dickinson)
When you have nothing to say, say nothing...
23-Sep-2021
Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one
“Everything you look at can become a fairy tale and you can get a story from everything you touch.”
(Hans Christian Andersen)
“When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking.”
(Albert Einstein)
22-Sep-2021
The last sunflowers...
These can be defined as the last sunflowers of the summer, although, in a way, they are also the first sunflowers of autumn.
Almost everything is relative, very few things have an absolute dimension.
Then, as always, there are unpredictable exceptions that do not always confirm the rules.
The vision of our reality depends, at least in large part, on the perspective in which we place ourselves.
The first breath of autumn is in the air, a prodigal feeling, a feeling of wanting, taking, and keeping before it is too late.
21-Sep-2021
An unpretentious butterfly...
Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
-Nathaniel Hawthorne-
Just as not all butterflies produce a hurricane, not all outbreaks of bubonic plague produce a Renaissance.
Every day, during this month of September, I will try to share with the visitors of this photo gallery some pictures and some little stories of my daily life.
In case you are curious to also see the images of the previous days, instead of taking a look only at the most recently posted photo
20-Sep-2021
Illusion...
For me, serendipity, coincidence and chance are more interesting than any preconceived construct of our human encounters.
Coincidence may be described as the chance encounter of two unrelated causal chains which - miraculously, it seems - merge into a significant event.
Illusion is an anodyne, bred by the gap between wish and reality.
Illusion is often based on reality. The boundary between the two can be very thin when we are aware of it.
19-Sep-2021
Maybe...
Some see a hopeless end, while others see an endless hope.
“All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honour, duty, mercy, hope.”
(Winston Churchill)
“Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it.”
(Thomas Woodrow Wilson)
