"…Living only for the moment, turning our full attention to the pleasures of the moon, the snow, the cherry blossoms and the maple leaves; singing songs, drinking wine, diverting ourselves just floating, floating….refusing to be disheartened, like a gourd floating along with the river current; this is what we call the floating world…” Asai Ryoi, in Ukiyo Monogatari (Tales of the Floating World, 1661)
Thursday, June 26, 2008
Orange Sky
The sun has broken the horizon line. The sky is brown from the California fires so the sun is an orange ball arcing into the sky. Terrible beauty. The Indigo Girls are singing in my car as I linger over the commute cup of coffee. This is the lyric that sticks in my brain this morning. "If I were leaving, I don't know what I'd do. The more I go the less I know, and the fires still burn on my return...".
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