This world is so wide that, even if you flitted around and around it, you would never reach the end of it. This blog is a collage of more or less literary and humorous, outlandish or sometimes even serious glimpses at this great wide world.
Believe it or not – this started out as a blot according to the instructions at Inspire Me Thursday. Not in ink, but in acrylic. I then enhanced it with a black ink pen. It looked like a dog's face with gigantic fuzzy ears. I did not find it esthetically pleasing but scanned it anyway and then tried out various effects, eventually settling for the kaleidoscope one shown here. The dog is gone; what's left looks like some Swedish folklore motif perhaps. And is easy on my eyes.
A bunch of us were waiting for the youth hostel doors to open
An Italian youth (but I was a youth myself then) tried to explain to me in English why he loved the music of Jimi Hendrix so much
Sometimes he threw in French words when English failed him (because I’d told him I spoke some French)
With a mounting degree of desperation he kept telling dense me that Jimi’s guitar playing was the opposite of "sale" (he didn’t exactly pronounce it the French way)
That is "dirty" in French
So Jimi’s music was "clean"
It has stayed that way for me ever since ca. 1974 when that Italian youth told me in front of the Geneva youth hostel in summer
The numbness began with the apartment. It turned into numbness between us within a few months. Now she has become so numb she never leaves anymore. And I’m hardly ever there.
– Leonard Blumfeld
Written for 3WW using today's 3 words: apartment – began – numb.
A. Like the plague, there are enough of those useless things. B. Why not, count me in.
If your answer is A., then please proceed with whatever you wanted to do in the first place. If your answer is B., then please be invited to participate in Ruby Tuesday.
What are the rules?
A. Create a post that has the word or color RUBY or something else RUBY-related or TUESDAY-related in it. B. In your post, create a link to this Ruby Tuesday meme invitation. C. Leave a comment here. D. That's all!
How'd I come up with the idea for this meme? That's simple:
A. Today is Tuesday. B. I was thinking of participating in some meme – preferably a Tuesday one since today is Tuesday. C. Somehow, in my always musical head, the Rolling Stones song Ruby Tuesday started playing:
Ruby Tuesday
She would never say where she came from Yesterday don't matter because it's gone While the sun is bright Or in the darkest night No one knows, she comes and then she goes
Goodbye Ruby Tuesday Who is gonna hang a name on you? When you change with every new day Still I'm gonna miss you
Don't ask her why she needs to be so free She's gonna tell you it's the only way to be She just can't be chained To a life where nothing's gained And nothing's lost, but such a cost
Goodbye Ruby Tuesday Who is gonna hang a name on you? When you change with every new day Still I'm gonna miss you
"There's no time to lose", I heard her say You gotta catch your dreams before they slip away Dying all the time Lose your dreams and you may lose your mind Is life unkind?
Goodbye Ruby Tuesday Who is gonna hang a name on you? When you change with every new day Still I'm gonna miss you
Goodbye Ruby Tuesday Who is gonna hang a name on you? When you change with every new day Still I'm gonna miss you
Goodbye Ruby Tuesday
– Written in 1966 by Keith Richards (and possibly Brian Jones)
For added inspiration, here's a clip of Melanie performing the song:
Lady, three white leopards sat under a juniper tree in the cool of the day – T. S. Eliot
And now four Blumfeld variations, to be accompanied by lute and shawm:
Leopard: three white ladies sat under a juniper tree in the cool of the day Juniper: three white days sat under a leopard tree in the cool of the ladies Cool tree: three juniper trees sat under a leopard in the white of the day Cool ladies: a juniper tree sat under the leopard in three whites of the day
T. S. Eliot, when asked the meaning of the line 'Lady, three white leopards sat under a juniper tree in the cool of the day...' from Ash Wednesday (1927), said "It means 'Lady, three white leopards sat under a juniper tree in the cool of the day...'".
Questions as to the meaning of the Blumfeld variations are welcome.
Photo courtesy of Snow Leopard Trust, an organization that has been helping to save the Asian snow leopard for 25 years.
It's all about kitchens in Inspire Me Thursday this time around. My contribution is a razor-edge-of-time snapshot of my kitchen's current but no so unusual state (messy).
What you see are primarily the yet unwashed containers of last night's and today's foods and drinks and some utentils. The pièce de résistance, however, is my grandma's flowered coffee pot in the background.
And yes, it was takeout last night. My daughter came over, and we ooled* Chinese while watching a rental DVD - Because I said so with Diane Keaton as the high-strung and meddling mother of three girls. The movie has its moments but isn't the greatest ever made.
* To "ool" - family speak ever since we watched Ringo Starr's Caveman way back when the kids were little. Even our dog knows what the word means. One of our all-time family cult movies.
I should not be writing this, I should be working. That is the message of this fib. In fact, you should prob- ably not be read- ing this.
– Leonard “Reluctant Workhorse” Blumfeld
Nothing terribly new or revolutionary, I'm afraid. More along the lines of same old.
For those relatively few of you who've read this before and are surprised that it has changed shape: I added the lower half of the diamond just now, feeling that something was missing.
Believe it or not – this started out as a blot according to the instructions at Inspire Me Thursday. Not in ink, but in acrylic. I then enhanced it with a black ink pen. It looked like a dog's face with gigantic fuzzy ears. I did not find it esthetically pleasing but scanned it anyway and then tried out various effects, eventually settling for the kaleidoscope one shown here. The dog is gone; what's left looks like some Swedish folklore motif perhaps. And is easy on my eyes.
Introductory question:
... and yet so different.
It's all about kitchens in Inspire Me Thursday this time around. My contribution is a razor-edge-of-time snapshot of my kitchen's current but no so unusual state (messy).
