After a crazy opening week, its time to relax:
“Journeys bring power and love
Back into you. If you can’t go somewhere,
Move in the passageways of the self.
They are like shafts of light,
Always changing, and you change
When you explore them.”
- Rumi
[via Whiskey River]
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Thanks everyone for sending news tips and pictures on the Canton store opening. We really appreciate it. Have a great weekend. See you all on Monday!
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Sometimes we just need to pause and appreciate the beauty of the people and things around us.
“If I had a pen
I’d draw in the morning
I’d draw in the evening … all over this land,
I’d draw out danger
I’d draw out a warning
I’d draw out love between all of my brothers and my sisters
All over this land….”
A snapshot of Songlines’ daughter sketching.
“Little Working Hands” @ FLICKR.
© 2006 Songlines. All rights reserved. Used with permission.
Crossposted at Moleskinerie.com
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“Renowned for their beauty, Japanese gardens have been retreats for people to rediscover the natural world and themselves for more than 1,000 years. For the film’s producers, an intimate look at the gardens provided an unusual opportunity to shed new light on Japanese culture.
Japanese garden design may seem sparse to many Westerners. But if you look at the basic purpose of the garden, you can begin to understand why. For the Japanese, gardens are meccas of meditation and repose where the senses are free from distractions.
To accomplish this, the Japanese replicate nature, using very specific materials.”
“Dream Window”
Reflections on the Japanese Garden
Smithsonian Productions
LINK
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Its winter jasmine season!
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Shishi odoshi (ししおどし, 鹿威し, Shishi odoshi?) literally means “deer scarer” in
Japanese. It is a water fountain used in Japanese gardens. Usually made of
bamboo, it contains one or more uprights with a hollow pivoting arm attached
into which water pours from a tube or pipe above it. When the arm gets full, the
weight of the water causes it to tip over and empty, making a sharp sound when
it hits a hard surface below it. This noise is intended to startle any deer
which may be grazing on the plants in the garden. The empty arm is then free to
swing back up into position and refill. The rhythmic clacking sound reminds
visitors to the garden of the passage of time. Although simple in design, it is
highly effective, and safer than most modern deer repellers. Some people collect
them as antiques.
Wikipedia
Listen.
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View from a lazy Sunday morning in bed.
Image: ABF
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A little quiet time after the holidays…
Beginning Again
“If I could stop talking, completely
cease talking for a year, I might begin
to get well,” he muttered.
Off alone again performing
brain surgery on himself
in a small badly lit
room with no mirror. A room
whose floor ceiling and walls
are all mirrors, what a mess
oh my God -
And still
it stands,
the question
not how begin
again, but rather
Why?
So we sit there
together
the mountain
and me, Li Po
said, until only the mountain
remains.
- Franz Wright
LINK
Image: ABF
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“With the new resurgence of the ‘70s, portrayed in part by the hugely
popular, live musical production of “Mamma Mia”, the music of ABBA is finding
its way back into the hearts of those who lived it then and taking over the
hearts of those who are experiencing it for the first time now…”
“adbacadabra”
The ultimate ABBA tribute.
VISIT.
…
From our friend Curtis:
“It’s a little known fact that the group ABBA sought and obtained permission from ABBA, the seafood company, to use that name. Permission was granted and the company has benefited ever since (the only artists to sell more albums worldwide are the Beatles and Elvis).”
Related link: “The Official Caviar of the Dancing Queens”
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“He gives his harness bells a shake,
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound’s the sweep,
Of easy wind and downy flake.
The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.”
From “Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening”
by Robert Frost
…
“The Carolers”
Image © 2002 A.B.F. All Rights Reserved/Also posted at Moleskinerie.com
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