Tag: Izumi Shikibu

Sunday Morning

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What colour is this blowing autumn wind, that it can stain my body with its touch?

— Izumi Shikibu & Edwin A Cranston, The Izumi Shikibu Diary. (Harvard University Press, 1969)

DK Photo @ 7:30 am. this morning. More photos here: Time Lapse (90 minutes of Twilight to Sunrise in 17 seconds) and Sunrise.

Lightly Child, Lightly

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What is it
about this twilight hour?
Even the sound
of a barely perceptible breeze
pierces the heart.

– Izumi Shikibu, (976 A.D. – 1030) from The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems

 

Notes:

  • Photo: DK – Moon @ Daybreak. 7:10 a.m. Wednesday, October 31, 2021. Cove Island Park, Stamford, CT.
  • Quote via Memory’s Landscape
  • Post Title & Inspiration: Aldous Huxley: “It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them.”