Wednesday, December 09, 2009
News From a Distant Star
This video was made by Roxana.
Occasionally a pigeon will fly too close to the earth and then the human being will take evasive action by instinctively raising his arm towards his head; some of them duck their heads, others hold their arms so that their forearms shield them, as if they were protecting themselves from an overbearing sun.
Sometimes when the human being is walking thoughtlessly and aimlessly he will cross the space of a pigeon unknowingly; in such cases the birds become startled and suddenly take flight. The human is amazed by this and very often laughs. More often than not he will hop about and enter a cosmic dance with the pigeon...this helps him rediscover his animal soul.
Children, on the other hand, have not forgotten the ancient rituals and stomp their feet on the ground when they approach the space of the pigeons-giving them ample warning.
A white bird floats effortlessly in open skies; both marvel at the generosity of the other. She follows love's trackless way, guided by her instincts, her upward movement like a solitary intuition in the mind of the universe. At a distance cloud and bird merge into one.
Crow was white. Once.
And...
Beauty of woman and of wise hearts, and gentle knights in armour; the song of birds and the discourse of love; bright ships moving swiftly on the sea; clear air when the dawn appears, and white snow falling without wind; stream of water and meadow with every flower; gold, silver, azure in ornaments.
Everything depends on our capacity for lightness, for the openness that is 'and'...as if our reality was the strength of our desire to join, to connect.
Each pigeon is unique-in colour, temperament, outlook, in tenor of voice and style of walking (unique within a range of given possibilities, that is). Their patterned being, flecked wings, emblems of their individual dream. But the ways of pigeons are all the same, whether here, or on a distant star; each coos for their lost love with the same, soft murmuring heart, the same gentle gurgling of her name.
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4 comments:
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thank you.
i have to run to my class now and can only see this on my laptop, but are you sure you embedded it the right way? it has a square shape while the video is 16:9, rectangular. here the image is cut.
more later.
thanks? what for? don't be silly! I've tried to fix it. hope it works now.
This camera business is becoming very confusing ..now someone i met swears by the canon d 450 and says it's the best for beginners. I think i'll end up with one of those portable , throw-away cameras the way things are going!
got to run. off to see a documentary on Hiroshima (made by my sister's friend) and then-cross your fingers-to listen to Sain Zahur..I hope he's there.
Ciao,
b.
yes, now it is fine, thank you again (how silly of me :-)
yes, it'a a complicated matter, now you know why i hesitated so long before recommending - but as it is with computers, you will hear a thousand different opinions from thousand people, but in the end you have to just make a decision. Canon EOS 450 has a pretty good fame, but it is 100 pounds more expensive than the Canon1000, that is why i didn't recommend it. though if you are willing to pay that much, then why don't you go for a Nikon D60, it's the same price? have you tried to find the Nikon D40 i told you about? i would still go for that, if only you could find it. but any of these cameras are good, so just go ahead and buy something, Christmas is almost here and you deserve such a nice present :-)
hello, r.
Err..don't know about "deserve" but that's very kind of you to offer...I'll e-mail you my postal address later. Make sure you pack it well just in case the postman nicks the lenses. Danke, danke.
But what you say is interesting: if I converted to Christianity would I get more presents.
anyways,
Take care,
b.
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