Lessons of a cloudy day

I saw a blind girl walk today.

I watched as she took all her steps with great conviction.

Sure of all her moves.

She had her cane and I imagine heightened senses.

She smiled; it must be a song we both heard as we walked by.  

I am going to change rhythm.

This is how I will take all my figurative steps now.

What a great lesson to learn on a cloudy day.

-Nolundi Walaza

This song is about you

Gotye performing "Somebody That I Used To Know" on KCRW

Dear Amsterdam

If you are ever in Amsterdam have lunch at La Place it will change the way you eat food

There so many unsaid things about Amsterdam - among them, are all the loaded sighs you get when you announce your visit. I heard that rules bend, break and stretch and naturally I was intrigued. I was not disappointed. The city is gorgeous, charming, quaint and untamed, I fell for her quickly and madly. I spent the most joyous weekend crossing rivers, eating and Loving.  I would tell you about the notorious side of this city and how the night falls into all shades of a morally ambiguous grey. But those stories I will save for a cup of hot chocolate and rainy days.

Amsterdam 20-24 April 2012

Full of questions and quest

"For indeed my life is a perpetual question mark

 – my thirst for books, my observations of people, all tend to satisfy a great, overwhelming desire to know, to understand, to find an answer to a million questions.

 And gradually the answers are revealed, many things are explained, and above all, many things are given names and described, and my restlessness is subdued. 

Then I become an exclamatory person, clapping my hands to the immense surprises the world holds for me, and falling from one ecstasy into another. 

I have the habit of peeping and prying and listening and seeking – passionate curiosity and expectation. But I have also the habit of being surprised, the habit of being filled with wonder and satisfaction each time I stumble on some wondrous thing." 

— Anaïs Nin

Call us by our names.

"Give your daughters difficult names. Give your daughters names that command the full use of tongue. My name makes you want to tell me the truth. My name doesn’t allow me to trust anyone that cannot pronounce it right"

- warsan shire

A higher Love

 

Every so often I come across music that speaks my heart. Here, James Vincent McMorrow, Irish folk music singer-songwriter does a brilliant rendition of  "Higher Love".