"We are, each of us, our own prisoner.
We are locked up in our own story." - Maxine Kumin
"The picture alone, without the written word,
leaves half the story untold." - James Lafferty
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“Jade suits were the most important of the jade burial goods used in the Han dynasty. This suit is the earliest and most elaborate one discovered. It is formed of 4,248 pieces of jade knotted together with gold wire. Unlike other jade suits, which typically use inferior jade, this one was created with high-quality jade polished to a glossy sheen. The suit was constructed in parts corresponding to the parts of the body, which were then sewn together using red silk. The suit was found in pieces and has been reconstructed using modern silk and gold.”
Jade burial suit with gold thread. Excavated in 1994- 1995 from the tomb of a king of Chu at Lion Mountain.
“Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?” ― Pablo Picasso
“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose
by any other name would smell as sweet.”
— William Shakespeare
I live near Powell Gardens which is a 970-acre (3.9 km2) botanical garden about 30 miles east of Kansas City, Missouri. This is where I enjoy my weekend nature walks amongst the flowers.
Kansas City Union Station is one of the icons of downtown Kansas City, Missouri, having opened in 1914. Once a booming rail station and also noted for the Kansas City Massacre, it still serves public transportation as an Amtrak station while also hosting theaters, museum exhibits, and other attractions. As a small child I unintentionally let go of my helium balloon and watched it float to the top of the 95 foot ceiling. Click on the photo for other views of downtown Kansas City posted previously.
And this is the place I’ll be most evenings working on blog, photos, and mischief.
“My Beloved
Know that my beloved is hidden from everyone
Know that she is beyond the belief of all beliefs
Know that in my heart she is as clear as the moon
Know that she is the life in my body and in my soul”
― Jalaluddin Mevlana Rumi – مولوی
Woman is a ray of God. She is not that earthly beloved: she is creative, not created. — Rumi
“There are only a few notes. Just variations on a theme.” ― John Lennon
! Rumi’s Silence
Michael Shepherd
Rumi wrote much about silence.
Does that seem strange?
Poets live with silence:
the silence before the poem;
the silence whence the poem comes; .
the silence in between the words, as you
drink the words, watch them glide through your mind,
feel them slide down your throat
towards your heart;
the silence which you share with the poet
when the poem ends, sitting side by side,
feeling one another being one heart;
the silence after the poem,
when you are a different person
from the person who started reading the poem,
think differently, move differently,
act differently; know Rumi a little better
as a friend; know yourself a little more
as a friend.
Rumi was asked, why do you
talk, talk, talk, so much
about silence?
He said, the radiant one inside me
has said nothing.
And that’s the silence which we listen to
and hear in Rumi’s heart,
here, sitting in the cool shade
which the scent of roses seems to love,
while the fountain gently plays like a poet
with sound and silence.
“Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.” — Frank Lloyd Wright
The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay. Wendell Berry
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