Monday Morning Wake-Up Call

~ Live & Learn

Notes:

  • Daybreak. August 31, 2020. 5:59 to 6:08 am. 60° F. Humidity 70%. Wind: 6 mph. Gusts: 7 mph. Cloud Cover: 32%. The Cove, Stamford, CT
  • Inspired (again) by Helen Macdonald: “I kept trying to find the right words to describe certain experiences and failing. My secular lexicon didn’t capture what they were like. You’ve probably had such experiences yourself – times in which the world stutters, turns and fills with unexpected meaning. When rapturousness claims a moment and transfigures it. The deep hush before an oncoming storm; the clapping of wings as a flock of doves rises to wheel against low sun; a briar stem in the sun glittering with blades of hoarfrost. Love, beauty, mystery. Epiphanies, I suppose. Occasions of grace. — Helen Macdonald, Vesper Flights (Grove Press, August 25, 2020)

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    2. I kept trying to find the right words to describe certain experiences and failing. My secular lexicon didn’t capture what they were like. You’ve probably had such experiences yourself – times in which the world stutters, turns and fills with unexpected meaning. When rapturousness claims a moment and transfigures it. The deep hush before an oncoming storm; the clapping of wings as a flock of doves rises to wheel against low sun; a briar stem in the sun glittering with blades of hoarfrost. Love, beauty, mystery. Epiphanies, I suppose. Occasions of grace.

      — Helen Macdonald, Vesper Flights (Grove Press, August 25, 2020)

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      1. Didn’t you include this above in your notes? Or did you add to your notes after including this here? Just curious coz you know we read every part of your posts, right?

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      3. why twice? ….. you put it in above. Never mind – it’s so beautiful that it doesn’t matter to read it twice.
        Sometimes I don’t comment because I go and search for ‘stuff’ you mentionnend. Then I lose myself in those texts, sometimes videos, articles, etc and I’ll never make it back to you. Sorry for that – BUT – you know you’re the best and even if you don’t hear from me for a while, you know that I’m there, lurking in a corner, either licking some wounds, writing cards, letters, doing phone calls and making visits, or I’m just lazy and prefer to read my books, cook for guests, walk along the little lake nearby.

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  5. Reblogged this on It Is What It Is and commented:
    Monday monday daybreak … ” The deep hush before an oncoming storm; the clapping of wings as a flock of doves rises to wheel against low sun; a briar stem in the sun glittering with blades of hoarfrost. Love, beauty, mystery. Epiphanies, I suppose. Occasions of grace.” — Helen Macdonald, Vesper Flights (Grove Press, August 25, 2020).

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      1. David, you literally just made my entire week! I was thinking I need to up my photography game in a major way! Your work is sublime! Thank YOU, and coming from you, that means a lot to me, David! Cher xoxo

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  10. Here, the word epiphany is rightfully placed. Sometimes I wonder just how much this expression has had a wander since its humble beginning. It used to be used only for the bibical ‘visit of the mages’ on January 6th – and now everybody uses it for having a moment of clarity, enlightment, wonder, a sudden realisation, etc…. The language freak in me is delighted to find so many references and I agree that your photos of the sunrise, combined with those marvellous words of prose, rank pretty high on my list of LIKES.
    Have a great week!

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  12. Absolutely spectacular…and when I arrive late to your post, I love reading the interplay you have with your friends – it’s almost as warming as the feelings your photos evoke.

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  14. I’ll just say thank you for sharing because no words can describe what this makes me feel .The closest I come to is DIVINE .I try to welcome the Sun everyday .I feel that moment is complete in itself nothing else is needed.

    “The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you.
    Don’t go back to sleep.

    You must ask for what you really want.
    Don’t go back to sleep.

    People are going back and forth across the doorsill
    where the two worlds touch.

    The door is round and open.
    Don’t go back to sleep.”
    RUMI

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