miracles happen in small moments by serendipity and continue echoing in eternity.
The perspectives change with speed and height. You can suddenly move from selective contemplation to finding yourself on a meta-level in a matter of seconds, like when the plane’s wheels stop touching the tarmac and you are elevated to another space. Each speed carries a different experience. The slowest way…
The high tide is slowly taking up space on the beach. The sun is already set and sharing its last brush strokes on a charmingly mellow sky. The sound of waves is crashing on the adjacent temple’s steps and, by no sheer coincidence, rumbles among the tables of people taking…
SAUDADE
reminders keep showing up
drawing more attention
not minding the time
and calling out
significance
gratitude
memories
longing
values
grief.
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listen
the messages almost sent
the words almost spoken
the conversations that
never happened
the feelings
never felt
endings.
visible or seen,
fearless or fear less,
idle or present.
coincidental encounters
to be hugged require
attention instead of
thought
seeing instead of
wanting
experiencing instead of
insisting
The blurriness comes when the shades are down and the mind is rushing. Clarity comes from light being shed on what is underneath that rush.
I’m sitting on the 16th floor of a hotel in Jakarta. I have a thin slice of the city on the palm of my hand. In each corner or a nook wherever I look I find life and a short story. It’s evening. The city takes few last short breaths…
Saudade is a feeling that recently dominates my imaginative landscape and parts of my heart. It reminds me of the locations and people I met.
For those curious of the meaning, the word itself comes from Portugese language and cannot be translated directly.
Wikipedia makes an effort, to my liking,…
Start killing your darlings.
One of the rules in photography, when preparing your material, during the selection phase is not to be afraid to kill your darlings. Darlings being all the photographs that you love, and probably only you understand.
In a professional setting, personal preference does not matter (with…
The night comes
with anxiety
and anxiety
brings friends
when ignored
“Where there is a shadow there is also a souce of light” - said a friend of mine while referring to the work of Carl Gustav Jung. Our conversation concerned the ways of how our subconscious mind can hold us back in certain moments. How past and present…
I see the nooks, rocks, tiny sand peninsulas formed, as if accidentally, by the ocean. Walking, I notice the footsteps of others before me. The water evaporates on the hot as hell black beach sand. It creates a misty vail on the horizon. It’s soothing. It resets my internal systems.…
Note to self.
Make space for new by going cart blanche. No reading, writing, free from thoughts of others.