from impossible blossom to impossible sweet blossom

At the moment I dream of visiting Japan and as the cherry blossom season starts in Japan, I thought this beautiful poetry could lighten up Monday for all of us:

From Blossoms

BY LI-YOUNG LEE

From blossoms comes

this brown paper bag of peaches

we bought from the boy

at the bend in the road where we turned toward

signs painted Peaches.

From laden boughs, from hands,

from sweet fellowship in the bins,

comes nectar at the roadside, succulent

peaches we devour, dusty skin and all,

comes the familiar dust of summer, dust we eat.

O, to take what we love inside,

to carry within us an orchard, to eat

not only the skin, but the shade,

not only the sugar, but the days, to hold

the fruit in our hands, adore it, then bite into

the round jubilance of peach.

There are days we live

as if death were nowhere

in the background; from joy

to joy to joy, from wing to wing,

from blossom to blossom to

impossible blossom, to sweet impossible blossom.

PS. I recently watched a really great movie, Cherry Blossoms (original German title Kirschblüten – Hanami), that really moved me – it made me look at my life differently.

ONE

As an artist I seek inspiration all the time. I dream of being in the presence of my muse…. Sometimes it is high tide and other times I maybe have one idea. The problem with having one idea is that there is just ONE. And according to this wise person:

“Nothing is more dangerous than an IDEA when it is the only one you have” – Emile Chartier

Whilst respectfully waiting for Madame Muse to invite me over, I am looking into my ONE idea:

ONE as ITSELF

Neatly nestled in between “oncoming” and “one another” in the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English.

one adj. 1. Being a single entity, unit, object, or living being.                                                     -The Free Dictionary

ONE as a DAY

Today. There’s just one.

“A life lived for tomorrow is crappy today” – Chris Baréz-Brown (author of How to have kick-ass ideas)

ONE as a GIFT

“You’re gorgeous, you old hag, and if I could give you just one gift ever for the rest of your life it would be this. Confidence. It would be the gift of confidence. Either that or a scented candle”

– David Nicholls, One Day

ONE as a SONG

One from the album It all starts with one by Ane Brun

REVOLUTION FROM DREAMS! (from the song)

ONE as the ROOT OF UNITY

Now, technically this is a mathematical term, but don’t you like the ring that it has to it? Among us are those that already realized that making change happen is rooted in unity. When we stand as one, we can make a difference.

ONE to look out for

A lot of you have met the Bhoomies. Now, just to warn you, there is ONE. She has fallen. Don’t let her trick you. The mark of the Bhoomie that she is carrying, is interchangeable. What happened to her is almost unspeakable – she became ugly on the inside!

Should you come across her, it might help her when you switch your inner light to its brightest emergency setting.

So, as the saying goes: “One for all, all for one!”