"…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)
Friday, August 29, 2008
A Handful Of Last Thoughts
Cooling down enough to sleep. Window open, fan blowing. Dinner was crab stuffed sole, with baked potato. Night time reading is "The Sword of Lies" one of the comics in The Red Star series by Archangel Studios and "The Good Fairies of New York" by Martin Millar. Both are excellent. Thoughts still lingering in silken imaginings, soft voices still whisper at the edge of sleep. I dream of doors and gates and of figures in silk and of powerful horses. Sheets are cotton and cool and comforting. Tomorrow is the Highland Games, one of my favorite weekends. Friends and family are traveling and are in my thoughts and prayers. Storms blow in from the Gulf of Mexico and I think of those who evacuate and those who do not and wish them all the best. The end of a good day, all in all.
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