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Muhammad and Aisha

Posted by Maverick ~ on January 28, 2018
Posted in: Flowers, Inspiration, Music, Photography. Tagged: A Romantic Story, Aisha, Inshad 3, knot, Mishary Rashid Alafasy, Muhammad, Red roses.


A Romantic Story

If you want to read the perfect love story, I recommend that you don’t read “Romeo and Juliet” but read the story of Muhammad and Aisha, in the very words of Aisha herself explaining how beautiful this relationship was between her and Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him).

The Prophet was a loving husband. Aisha talked about the times when she enjoyed meals with him. He enjoyed his meals only when she sat next to him. They drank from one cup and he watched where she placed her lips so that he could place his lips on the same area. He ate from a bone after she ate and placed his mouth where she had eaten. She also said that he placed morsels of food into her mouth and she would do the same.

‘Aisha and the Prophet would use code language with each other denoting their love. She asked the Prophet how he would describe his love for her. The Prophet Muhammad answered, saying: “Like a strong binding knot.” The more you tug, the stronger it gets, in other words.

Every so often ‘Aisha would playfully ask, “How is the knot?” The Prophet would answer, “As strong as the first day (you asked).”


When she was asked: “What did the Prophet use to do in his house?” She replied, “He used to keep himself busy serving his family.” When one of his companions asked him “who is the most beloved to your heart?” he answered instantly “Aisha”.

Before his death, Prophet Muhammad’s very last words to his companions were: “Treat women with kindness, treat women with kindness! Have fear of God in relation to them and make sure you want well for them”.

These were his last public words concerning women which responded to the meaning of the following revealed verse regarding the life of a couple:

And of His signs is that he created for you, of yourselves, spouses, that you might repose in them, and He has set between you love and mercy. Surely in that are signs for people who consider” (The Holy Quran, 30:21)

Dignity vs Despair

Posted by Maverick ~ on January 27, 2018
Posted in: Art, Music, Photography, Video. Tagged: 1936, California, Depression, Dignity vs Despair, Dorothea Lange, Listen to the Lion, Migrant Mother, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Nipoma, René Aubry - Dérives, Van Morrison.


Migrant Mother
Nipomo, California, 1936
Dorothea Lange
American, 1895-1965
Gelatin silver print (printed early 1960s)

Dorothea Lange began as a professional portrait photographer in the early 1920s. The social calamity of the Depression prodded her to leave the studio to document the nation’s dispossessed. In her work for the Farm Security Administration in 1936, she recorded this migrant pea-picker, 32-year-old Florence Thompson, with three of her children. Lange had the uncanny ability to see people as both individuals and as representative types: to recognize the iconic in the ordinary. Lange’s migrant mother becomes a symbol of both strife and fortitude in the face of adversity, suggesting the condition of millions of her fellow Americans.

“Dignity vs Despair: Dorothea Lange and Depression-Era Photographers, 1933-19…

“Dignity vs Despair: Dorothea Lange and Depression-Era Photographers, 1933-19…

Train Dreams

Posted by Maverick ~ on January 26, 2018
Posted in: Music, Photography. Tagged: Denis Johnson, railroad depot, tracks, Train Dreams, Train Song, Vashti Bunyan.

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“Now he slept soundly through the nights, and often he dreamed of trains, and often of one particular train: He was on it; he could smell the coal smoke; a world went by. And then he was standing in that world as the sound of the train died away. A frail familiarity in these scenes hinted to him that they came from his childhood. Sometimes he woke to hear the sound of the Spokane International fading up the valley and realized he’d been hearing the locomotive as he dreamed.”                       ― Denis Johnson, Train Dreams

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WPC: Variations on a Theme

Posted by Maverick ~ on January 25, 2018
Posted in: Art, Music, Photography, Weekly Photo Challenge. Tagged: Andy Warhol, DPchallenge, John Lennon, Magdalena Abakanowicz, Marion Bloch, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Only You, portrait, postaday, Standing Figures, Variations on a Theme, Weekly Photo Challenge.


“There are only a few notes. Just variations on a theme.” ― John Lennon 


Weekly Photo Challenge: Variations on a Theme

Cattle Pasture in the Touraine

Posted by Maverick ~ on January 24, 2018
Posted in: Art, Music, Nature, Photography. Tagged: 1800's, Blues Brothers, Cattle Pasture in the Touraine, Constant Troyon, French, Industrial Revolution, Rawhide.

Cattle Pasture in the Touraine, 1853
Constant Troyon
French, 1810–1865

Parisian middle-class audiences greatly admired the realism of Constant Troyon’s representations of cows and his rendering of light and shifting cloud formations. Inspired by Dutch animal painters of the 1600s, Troyon captured France’s diverse farm animals in the naturalistic style associated with the Barbizon School. These idyllic scenes emphasizing traditional agrarian life were popular in the 1800s, a time when the Industrial Revolution was driving peasants off the land to find work in the city.

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Rain ~

Posted by Maverick ~ on January 23, 2018
Posted in: Music, Nature, Photography, Poetry. Tagged: Foy Vance, love, Make it Rain, Pablo Neruda, Rain, Rapa Nui, Reflections, trees.

“At night I dream that you and I are two plants
that grew together, roots entwined,
and that you know the earth and the rain like my mouth,
since we are made of earth and rain.” 
― Pablo Neruda, Rain

Water Deity Headdress

Posted by Maverick ~ on January 22, 2018
Posted in: Art, Music, Photography. Tagged: Etim Abassi Ekpenyong, I Be Your Water, Nigeria, Sweet Honey In The Rock, Water Deity Headdress.

Water Deity Headdress
Etim Abassi Ekpenyong
Nigerian, Efut peoples, active early 20th century
Wood, goatskin and pigment

This headdress combines the spiral hairstyle of a newly initiated maiden with a crocodile's gaping jaws. It represents a distinctive masquerade form attributed to early-20th-century master carver Etim Abassi Ekpenyong.  Although skin-covered headdresses inspired by maidens with spiral coiffures were a well-established form, Ekpenyong's innovation was to combine it with a menacing crocodile, creating a new, visually arresting image of beauty allied to wilderness power. This headdress is associated with masquerades honoring water deities who were thought capable of transforming themselves into powerful water snakes or crocodiles.    🐊

A Moment Of Happiness

Posted by Maverick ~ on January 21, 2018
Posted in: Music, Nature, Photography, Poetry. Tagged: A Moment Of Happiness, love, Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, Miten with Deva Premal, moon, sun, Through the Eyes of an Angel.

A Moment Of Happiness
Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi

A moment of happiness,
you and I sitting on the verandah,
apparently two, but one in soul, you and I.
We feel the flowing water of life here,
you and I, with the garden’s beauty
and the birds singing.
The stars will be watching us,
and we will show them
what it is to be a thin crescent moon.
You and I unselfed, will be together,
indifferent to idle speculation, you and I.
The parrots of heaven will be cracking sugar
as we laugh together, you and I.
In one form upon this earth,
and in another form in a timeless sweet land.

Thank You Zebra

Posted by Maverick ~ on January 20, 2018
Posted in: Music, Nature, Photography, Poetry. Tagged: Chihota’s clan, HBDL, Oliver Mtukudzi, Shona Praise-Poem, Svovi yangu, Zebra, Zimbabwe.

Thank you, Zebra,
Adorned with your own stripes,
Iridescent and glittering creature,
Whose skin is as soft as girls’ is;
One on which the eye dwells all day,
as on the solitary cow of a poor man;
Creature that makes the forests beautiful,
Weaver of lines
Who wear your skin for display,
Drawn with lines so clearly defined;
You who thread beads in patterns,
Dappled fish
Hatching round the neck of a pot;
Beauty spots cut to rise in a crescent on the forehead,
A patterned belt for the waist;
Light reflected,
Dazzling the eyes.
It is its own instinct, the Zebra’s,
Adorned as if with strings of beads around the waist as women are;
Wild creature without anger or any grudge,
Lineage with a totem that is nowhere a stranger,
Line that stretches everywhere,
Owners of the land.
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An extract from a Shona Praise-Poem from Zimbabwe, the clan praise of Chihota’s clan.
For Chilota’s people the zebra is a symbol, and the sparkling description
of the zebra is a metaphor for the qualities of the clan.

Hôtel de France

Posted by Maverick ~ on January 19, 2018
Posted in: Art, Music, Photography. Tagged: Black Beauty, Call Me Darling, Cavaliers, French Cubism, Hôtel de France, Jazz, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Stuart Davis.


Hôtel de France, 1928

Stuart Davis

Hôtel de France is the first painting Stuart Davis completed during a 14-month stay in Paris beginning in 1928. The bright palette, jaunty composition and picturesque street scene convey the American artist's delight in the city's unique sights, particularly in the area of Montparnasse, where he settled. Vertically oriented, the composition calls particular attention to the white hotel façade, red pissotière (public urinal), green advertising kiosk and black lamppost. Signs of the influence of French Cubism are evident in the interplay between two-dimensional shapes and three-dimensional space as well as in the inclusion of prominent textured forms. The visual rhythms of Davis' work approximate the syncopation of American jazz, which enjoyed international popularity for its rebellious and youthful spirit.

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