Breathe and just be.

Work, illness, life getting too busy….  So many explanations are available for being absent from my blog these two weeks… the reality is, none of these really fit me. I was absent due to no particular reason other than that life shifted its pace and I didn’t do anything about it.  I was reminded of a poem learned long ago in school…somehow through the years it stuck to me.

Leisure

What is this life if, full of care,

We have no time to stand and stare.

No time to stand beneath the boughs

And stare as long as sheep or cows.

No time to see, when woods we pass,

Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass.

No time to see, in broad daylight,

Streams full of stars, like skies at night.

No time to turn at Beauty's glance,

And watch her feet, how they can dance.

No time to wait till her mouth can

Enrich that smile her eyes began.

A poor life this if, full of care,

We have no time to stand and stare.

William Henry Davies

I had ample time to stare out of my train window as it sped across rain drenched, impossibly green countryside. Though I live quite close to rail lines and see trains daily, chugging away to lands far and near, the last time I traveled on a train was years ago. So this journey was like a breath of new life as I left my urban landscape far behind. Surrounded by the cloud covered mountains, forests, paddy fields, palm trees and rivers flowing unstoppably my heart was washed clean.  I immersed myself in the fresh green around me.

Pictures taken from the train…

 

From the train.

Through the window.

The sage and sepia prompt on SoC, for which I am hopelessly late, I know, was such a journey. 

The image of an inward looking figure midst the swirls evoked some reservoir of stillness deep within.

A moment to breathe and just be.

acrylic on canvas

I must show you the newest thing I learned from a friend. I learned how to make earrings and these are some of the earrings I made. 

I also made this bracelet by experimenting with some copper wire I had.

What do you think of them? It is very interesting and I am definitely going to make more.

 Wishing all of you a happy week ahead.

PPF , AJED , CED