tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9018985237438196013.post3237201544574911414..comments2024-01-04T08:15:33.342+01:00Comments on Big Fun in a Tiny Pueblo: Long View from the Tiny PuebloRebrites@yahoo.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11827625656760747239noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9018985237438196013.post-44475446305300012612011-12-13T02:36:36.622+01:002011-12-13T02:36:36.622+01:00Oh, thanks for this Rebekah. I´ve been spotting yo...Oh, thanks for this Rebekah. I´ve been spotting your blogposts in the chaos of FB..and planning a trip here. And this was just reward for making it today. You brought a favorite Frost poem back to this long-ago New Englandah. <br />On Looking Up By Chance at the Constellations<br /><br />You'll wait a long, long time for anything much <br />To happen in heaven beyond the floats of cloud <br />And the Northern Lights that run like tingling nerves. <br />The sun and moon get crossed, but they never touch, <br />Nor strike out fire from each other nor crash out loud. <br />The planets seem to interfere in their curves - <br />But nothing ever happens, no harm is done. <br />We may as well go patiently on with our life, <br />And look elsewhere than to stars and moon and sun <br />For the shocks and changes we need to keep us sane. <br />It is true the longest drought will end in rain, <br />The longest peace in China will end in strife. <br />Still it wouldn't reward the watcher to stay awake <br />In hopes of seeing the calm of heaven break <br />On his particular time and personal sight. <br />That calm seems certainly safe to last to-night.<br /><br />A pleasure to join you here tonight, in Moratinos from chllly Chicago where we can forgot there ARE constellations...Erinhttp://www.wandering-woman.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9018985237438196013.post-31951287882888512252011-12-07T22:44:57.817+01:002011-12-07T22:44:57.817+01:00This is my second comment on this post. I just ca...This is my second comment on this post. I just came in from spending time with the donkeys in the moonlight. Cold here tonight on the Costa Blanca but the donkeys are warm. The two months of daily physical contact with the foals has paid off: they quietly lick my ears while I sit looking at the stars.FrereRabithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11164077376680047600noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9018985237438196013.post-67699890548558065392011-12-03T23:37:49.945+01:002011-12-03T23:37:49.945+01:00Breathtaking. I have a habit of waking at 3am (I m...Breathtaking. I have a habit of waking at 3am (I mistakenly cued our stovetop light to turn on from 3:00 -3:30am. Since I can't fix it, I use it as my cue for my erstaz Trappist awakenings.) <br /><br />Last night, I went out the backdoor and gasped, it was so spiky with starlight. Who needs diamonds with all that natural glitter. I think the night is more honest than daylight. Daylight makes us feel parochial, but at night, distance isn't hidden from us. and we see our tiny place in this multiverse.Kerryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15608537410771441075noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9018985237438196013.post-56843733358610095152011-12-01T20:30:38.692+01:002011-12-01T20:30:38.692+01:00Looking up at the stars, I know quite well
That, f...Looking up at the stars, I know quite well<br />That, for all they care, I can go to hell, <br />But on earth indifference is the least<br />We have to dread from man or beast.<br /><br />How should we like it were stars to burn<br />With a passion for us we could not return? <br />If equal affection cannot be, <br />Let the more loving one be me.<br /><br /><br />Admirer as I think I am<br />Of stars that do not give a damn,<br />I cannot, now I see them, say<br />I missed one terribly all day.<br /><br /><br />Were all stars to disappear or die, <br />I should learn to look at an empty sky<br />And feel its total darkness sublime, <br />Though this might take me a little time.<br /><br /><br /><i>Auden,1957 Posted by Toad.</i>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9018985237438196013.post-85567237904323159802011-11-30T01:09:46.398+01:002011-11-30T01:09:46.398+01:00Having just spent a long holiday weekend with fami...Having just spent a long holiday weekend with family, some of whom are quite taken with things and stuff and money, this was medicinal! Gracias. We are so small! I rather like it. Here today, gone tomorrow.ksamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01998231466478015431noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9018985237438196013.post-45457525144369604852011-11-28T22:27:30.355+01:002011-11-28T22:27:30.355+01:00I have just returned from the stable with the donk...I have just returned from the stable with the donkey foals, and their mothers, all calm at night. Up there above the stable, the great whirling mass of stars. Yes, we will be gone in an instant. Our moment of cuddling fluffy two month old foals is precious, finite, and not news-worthy!FrereRabithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11164077376680047600noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9018985237438196013.post-68713490722959563162011-11-28T19:42:57.329+01:002011-11-28T19:42:57.329+01:00It is pure philosophy from any perspective. Or som...It is pure philosophy from any perspective. Or some may even say pure speculation on what one thinks in ones own mind about their personal beliefs and opinions, but a wonderful and awe-inspiring place this earth and the universe is!<br />i still can't shake the mixed emotions i get from watching this. The Earth truly is our home. No matter what we think, feel or believe. Cheers! :~)Fallahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02431174635009423822noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9018985237438196013.post-58475188408329618512011-11-28T17:03:22.145+01:002011-11-28T17:03:22.145+01:00I don't know why but I expect the planet enjoy...I don't know why but I expect the planet enjoys to be loved, as we all do. <br /><br />Your walking with Julia and your dog and enjoying the paths and lanes around Moratinos, giving a massage to the earth with your feet (to quote Sil) must be thoroughly pleasant to the planet, which otherwise can be so poorly handled when not straight out raped.<br /><br />Somehow when I stop and think about it I feel at one with the cosmos and I really like that :-)claire bangasserhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12380558962103134334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9018985237438196013.post-26532580303787772022011-11-28T14:15:36.966+01:002011-11-28T14:15:36.966+01:00this has gone a long way to help me in what was a ...this has gone a long way to help me in what was a very upsetting morning trying to teach a woman watercolour painting who is pretty well unteachable and also rather rude! thankyou.Gerry Snapehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07269492251928362799noreply@blogger.com