Prayers and offerings, Swayambhunath Temple, Kathmandu, Nepal. Click photo to view detail.
Optimism
"More and more I have come to admire resilience.
Not the simple resistance of a pillow, whose foam
returns over and over to the same shape, but the sinuous
tenacity of a tree: finding the light newly blocked on one side,
it turns in another. A blind intelligence, true.
But out of such persistence arose turtles, rivers,
mitochondria, figs -- all this resinous, unretractable earth."
- Jane Hirshfield
Fine words to remember, an image that is stunning.
Posted by: jeanie | 02 February 2013 at 17:13
A spectacular photo and I did have to look more closely. The color just jump into my heart. Also the words, thinking about the evolution of time to the fig and on. I could just picture the light on the side of the tree so strongly that I thought I must have seen a picture there.
Posted by: Marilyn | 31 January 2013 at 01:46
That image of prayers and offerings takes my breath away.
Posted by: Relyn | 30 January 2013 at 20:07