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December 7, 2013 | Categories: Uncategorized | 9 Comments
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Picture taken at sunrise: Kopua Monastery
October 30, 2013 | Categories: dawn | Tags: Hildegard von Bingen , Kopua Cistercian Monastery , New Zealand | Leave a comment
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Picture taken from Southern Star Abbey, Kopua, New Zealand
October 29, 2013 | Categories: dawn | Tags: Hildegard von Bingen , Kopua Cistercian Monastery , Sunrise | Leave a comment
Up with the lark..
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Picture taken at Southern Cross Abbey, Kopua, New Zealand
October 20, 2013 | Categories: dawn | Tags: Kopua Cistercian Monastery , Sunrise | 4 Comments
Another sunrise..
Picture taken at Kopua Monastery, New Zealand
October 13, 2013 | Categories: sunrise | Tags: Dawn , Kopua Cistercian Monastery | 8 Comments
Sunset’s dying light.
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Picture taken in the grounds of Kopua Monastery, New Zealand
October 11, 2013 | Categories: monastery | Tags: Hildegard von Bingen , Kopua Cistercian Monastery , Sunset | 2 Comments
Afternoon: sun shines through rain; the wonder of a timeless covenant.
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Picture taken at Kopua Monastery
September 28, 2013 | Categories: afternoon , rain , rainbow , sunshine | Tags: Hildegard von Bingen , Kopua Monastery , New Zealand , Rainbow , Trappists | Leave a comment
Sunlight burns through the early morning mists..
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Picture of early morning light taken at Kopua Monastery
September 27, 2013 | Categories: light , mist , morning | Tags: Hildegard von Bingen , Kopua Cistercian Monastery | 2 Comments
A certain stillness..
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Picture taken shortly after sunrise at Kopua Cistercian Monastery
September 27, 2013 | Categories: light , mist , morning | Tags: Hildegard von Bingen , Kopua Monastery , Southern Star Abbey , Trappists | Leave a comment
“..the dark divinity of our plight…”
(The Contemplative Heart, by James Finley*)
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“..a time to be silent..”
(from Ecclesiastes 3:1 – 8)
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Picture taken in Chennai
Hat-tip to Beth at louie, louie for the quote*
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September 18, 2013 | Categories: darkness , silence | Tags: Ecclesiastes , James Finley , Let all mortal flesh keep silence - Bairstow , Simon & Garfunkel , Sir Edward Barstow , The Great Silence , The Sound of Silence | 4 Comments
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Picture taken on Payyambalam beach, Kannur
September 18, 2013 | Categories: childhood , sea , sky | Tags: Bizet "Chants du Rhin" , Kannur , Maria Grinberg , Payyambalam Beach | 1 Comment
“For whatever we lose (like a you or a me)
it’s always ourselves we find in the sea.”
From “maggie and minnie and molly and may” by e e cummings
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Picture taken on Payyambalam beach, Kannur
September 17, 2013 | Categories: found , lost , sea | Tags: e e cummings , Kannur , Kreisler "Liebesleid" , maggie and millie and molly and may , Maria Grinberg , Payyambalam Beach , Rachmaninov | 4 Comments
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Picture taken on Payyambalam beach, Kannur.
September 16, 2013 | Categories: sea | Tags: Family Business , Fishermen , Kannur , Payyambalam Beach , Ravel: Daphnis and Chloe | 4 Comments
One of the fishing party adjusts the line.
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Picture taken on Payyambalam beach, Kannur
September 15, 2013 | Categories: sea | Tags: Fishermen , Kannur , Maurice Ravel - Une barque sur l'océan , Payyambalam Beach | 1 Comment
Setting out with nets
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Picture taken on Payyambalam beach in Kannur, Kerala
September 14, 2013 | Categories: together | Tags: Family Business , Kannur , LEONARD BERNSTEIN - Britten - Four Interludes - Sunday , Payyambalam Beach | 4 Comments
Contemplating the ocean
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Picture taken on Payyambalam beach Kannur in Kerala
September 13, 2013 | Categories: alone , beyond | Tags: Benjamin Britten: Sea Interludes - Moonlight , Kannur , Payyambalam Beach | 3 Comments
Braving the sea’s boiling waters to feed his family.
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Picture taken on Payyambalam beach Kannur in Kerala
Despite being familiar with both pieces of music for many years, I have only just noticed the similarities between the opening of the storm interlude In Benjamin Britten’s “Peter Grimes” and Leonard Bernstein’s “A boy like that ” from Westside Story.
September 12, 2013 | Categories: alone , danger , sea | Tags: Benjamin Britten , Fishermen , Kannur , Kerala , Leonard Bernstein , Peter Grimes , Westside Story: A boy like that | 2 Comments
His nets set, a fisherman heads for home.
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Picture taken on Payyambalam beach, Kannur in Kerala
September 11, 2013 | Categories: sea | Tags: Britten's Sea Interludes: Dawn , Fishermen , Kannur , Leonard Bernstein , Light , Payyambalam Beach | Leave a comment
The fisherman comes ashore.
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Picture taken on Payyambalam beach, Kerala
September 10, 2013 | Categories: alone , sea | Tags: Fishermen , Kannur , Payyambalam Beach , Rain Raga | 4 Comments
..and now you don’t:
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Picture of a solitary fisherman taken on Payyambalam beach, Kannur
September 9, 2013 | Categories: light , loneliness , sea | Tags: Evening light , Evening Ragas , Fisherman , Kannur , Pandit Jasraj , Raga Darbari | 4 Comments
Extreme fishing
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Picture taken, slightly beyond the borderline of my camera’s zoom capability, on Payyambalam beach Kannur, in Kerala
September 8, 2013 | Categories: sea | Tags: Fishing , Kannur , Kerala , Payyambalam Beach | 4 Comments
Picture taken in Fort Cochin
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September 5, 2013 | Categories: childhood , drink | Tags: 7 Up , Kerala | 2 Comments
The glow of evening light on a festive stone chariot
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Picture taken in Chennai
September 4, 2013 | Categories: evening | Tags: Chennai , Evening sun , Stonework | 2 Comments
A dog takes shelter from the afternoon heat
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Picture taken in Chennai
September 3, 2013 | Categories: afternoon , heat | Tags: Chennai , Dog , Nikhil Banerjee - Bhimpalasi - Alap , Statue | Leave a comment