Expectations

“I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.”

Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

Ianuarie

Amurg de iarna

Winter Dusk – by George Bacovia

Sombre and metallic, dusk in winter,
The white plain – vast and round –
A raven comes rowing from the background,
Cutting the skyline at the diameter.

Occasional trees like crystal in their snow.
Longings for disappearance sip at me,
While the same raven goes back silently,
Cutting the skyline at the diameter.

Translation from : http://www.aboutromania.com/bacovia20.html

Amurg de iarna, sumbru, de metal,
Campia alba – un imens rotund –
Vaslind, un corb incet vine din fund,
Taind orizontul, diametral.

Copacii rari si ninsi par de cristal.
Chemari de disparitie ma sorb,
Pe cand, tacut, se-ntoarce-acelasi corb,
Taind orizontul, diametral.

Sunset fire

“Durerea este focul purificator prin care orice suflet este indreptat de la pamant la cer.”

Vasile Parvan

The pain is the purifying fire through which every soul is guided from the earth to the sky.

November

Octombrie

October

Hope

Once you choose hope anything’s possible.

Christopher Reeve

Puffer’s Pond at Sunset, Amherst MA

Iulie

A morning walk in the Berkshires, Beautiful so far. No rain.

July 2nd, 2020

Slide

“Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.”
Victor Hugo

via Slide