... ~ “In order to see birds it is necessary to become a part of the silence.” ~ ✍️ Robert Lynd 🎵 Birdy || " Wings" youtu.be/eBKfy0FwUC8?...

"~Hymn to Time~ (exc.) Time says “Let there be” every moment and instantly there is space... Time is being and being time, it is all one thing, the shining, the seeing, the dark abounding." ~ ✍️ Ursula K. Le Guin, from "Late in the Day" 🎵 Hans Zimmer || "Time" youtu.be/IQj8e60USMM?...

... 🕊️ "Get yourself grounded and you can navigate even the stormiest roads in peace." ~ ✍️ Steve Goodier 🎵 Joe Bonamassa || "So Many Roads" youtu.be/Yh9vR7cKfEg?...

~ Em total brancura a invenção do silêncio: recreio da alma ~ 🎵 Norah Jones || "Wintertime" youtu.be/gwwfEgF2lmU?...

... ☀️ ... ~ Ao sol de Janeiro, doce como a tarde em Maio, mar azul luzindo ~ ✍️ & 📷: m. m. 🎵 Above & Beyond Acoustic || "Sirens Of The Sea" [Live from Porchester Hall] youtu.be/aRhEoY3V_0c?...

... "To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself." ~ ✍️ Søren Kierkegaard 🎵 Alexi Murdoch || "All My Days" youtu.be/Fv2PyVmwRlo?...

... ✨ ~ Com fios de orvalho aranhas tecem a madrugada." ~ ✍️ Manoel de Barros 🎵 The Moody Blues || "Dawn Is a Feeling" youtu.be/VhW0C28dmD0?...

glistening gold

~ Nem cor nem perfume de passados ou futuros_ ela apenas é... ~ ✍️ & 📷 m. m. 🎵 Jeff Buckley & Elizabeth Fraser || "All Flowers In Time Bend Towards The Sun" youtu.be/cJLq_K45Ro8?...

“I can’t make every minute holy. I want to be with those who know Secret things or else alone. I want to unfold. ... like children, we begin again: to fall, patiently to trust our heaviness. Even a bird has to do that before he can fly.” ~ Rainer M. Rilke ✂️Bronia Sawyer 🎵 youtu.be/eBKfy0FwUC8?...

~ dia sem sol sem linha de horizonte tudo céu o resto mar ~ 🎵 Birds of Passage || "Pray For A Sunny Day" youtu.be/PBsOmSSeDoI?...

"Tell yourself as it gets cold and gray falls from the air that you will go on walking, no matter where you find yourself— And you will be able for once to lie down under the small fire of winter stars. (...)" ~ ✍️Mark Strand 🎨Kay Nielsen 🎵London Grammar | "Under The Stars" youtu.be/IofXihcMavk?...

"Whatever you do today,let it be a new beginning. If the old year is truly over, and it is,then let all that you regret die with it. If the new year is truly beginning, and it is,then let all that you cherish grow with it." ~ ✍️Deng Ming-Dao 🎵Paul Weller || "Brand New Start" youtu.be/5ClTktEf4CA?...

... "Where we have come with our age our knowledge such as it is and our hopes such as they are invisible before us untouched and still possible" ~ ✍️ W.S. Merwin 📷 m. m. 🎵 HAEVN || "New Year's Resolution" youtu.be/DCk_msH_1qY?...

... ✨ ... ~ "The art of living is the ability to live the ordinary in an extraordinary way and to live the extraordinary as an ordinary way." ~ ✍️ Charles Williams 🎵 Jeff Buckley || "New Year's Prayer" youtu.be/e4ohxpv5CQs?...

"We grow accustomed to the Dark — When Light is put away — (...) And sometimes hit a Tree ... But as they learn to see — Either the Darkness alters — Or something in the sight Adjusts itself — And Life steps almost straight." ~ ✍️Emily Dickinson 🎵"Light a Candle"||Neil Young youtu.be/Dh3y2GyQxog?...

... "The world knows many religions, but Nature has but one truth." ~ Manly P. Hall 🎵 Norah Jones || "Peace" youtu.be/fiY5QGpP2QQ?...

... ✨ ~ "The poet lights the light and fades away. But the light goes on and on." ~ ✍️ Emily Dickinson 📷 m. m. 🎵 Sting || "Christmas At Sea" (Live from Durham Cathedral) youtu.be/lxZNTZhloiQ?...

... ✨ ~ Entre frio e chuva A descida acabou Já sonha a semente ~ ✍️ & 📷: m. m. 🎵 Mazzy Star || "Flowers In December" youtu.be/uMUxweTjFKE?...

"At winter solstice, the darkest point of the year, light begins its journey of reemergence. This great cosmological rhythm sets our internal clocks, our biorhythms, to the subtle flow of slowly increasing light."(...) ~ ✍️ Shiva Rea 📷 m. m. 🎵 Ólafur Arnalds | "Near Light" youtu.be/UHVh_L_kv1Q?...

... "I heard a bird sing In the dark of December A magical thing And sweet to remember. 'We are nearer to Spring Than we were in September', I heard a bird sing In the dark of December" ~ ✍️ Oliver Herford 🎵 "Blackbird" || Sarah McLachlan (The Beatles) youtu.be/4J5FPNitDc8?...

"A vida é uma dança, connosco ou sem nós. As pedras dançam tão certamente quanto as estrelas. Uma pedra é uma dança lenta; uma flor é um pouco mais rápida. A escolha é nossa: dançar com o rápido ou juntar-nos à procissão do morto.(...)" ~ Michel Adam 🩰Lico /🎵Steve Reich youtu.be/ZoQ3QPNSqm0?...

... ✨ ... Winter Verse Deep in the ground of the human soul Of victory assured The Spirit-Sun is living All through the winter of the inner life, The faithful heart divines it. ~ Rudolf Steiner,'Anthroposophy' 🎨 Julia Pavlova (UA) 🎵 "Ring Out Solstice Bells" | Jethro Tull youtu.be/2Jx3mDHcvWs?...

... ~ Um longo Outono; e a luz descai, azul: o último dia ~ m. m. - 25 📷 John Cannell, 'last day of fall' - 25 🎵 Counting Crows || "A Long December" youtu.be/1D5PtyrewSs?...

... ~ "May my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living whatever they sing is better than to know and if men should not hear them men are old (...) ~ ✍️ e. e. cummings 🎵 "Spirit Bird" || Xavier Rudd youtu.be/RoVj6zBAkAM?...

~ "Pode um homem enriquecer a natureza com sua incompletude ?" ~ ✍️ Manoel de Barros 📷 Florian Breuer 🎵 London Grammar || "Under The Stars" youtu.be/IofXihcMavk?...

... ✨ ... 🎵 Jonsi || "Stars In Still Water" youtu.be/4Ck4xn7PtlQ?...

~ "No sun outlasts its sunset, but will rise again and bring the dawn." ~ ✍️ Maya Angelou 🎵 Over The Ocean || "I Will Be Silent" youtu.be/xWWrY7fO3S4?...

~ "E em cada onda que dança a teimosia da esperança cada degrau tem a marca do sonho do homem ~ ✍️ José Mário Branco 🎵 "Coastline" || Hollow Coves youtu.be/DAE1NbKstqk?...

... "Entre o sono e sonho, Entre mim e o que em mim É o quem eu me suponho Corre um rio sem fim. (...) E quem me sinto e morre No que me liga a mim Dorme onde o rio corre — Esse rio sem fim." ~ ✍️ Fernando Pessoa 🎵 Melody Gardot || "Love Me Like a River Does" youtu.be/IOdAy2PW8Mw?...

... "The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible." ~ ✍️ Oscar Wilde 🎵 Sweeping Logic || "The Whole Beauty Of This World Smashed In Your Face" youtu.be/vguHmt-X7cs?...

~ "Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams." ~ ✍️ Ralph Waldo Emerson 🎵 "House By The Sea" || Moddi youtu.be/lX5FpPP4TSA?...

~ Indolente e pálida a Lua aguarda deitada para vir reinar ~ m. m. - 10 📷 Inga Nielsen 🎵 "Moonlight And Gold" || Gerry Rafferty youtu.be/fWXJzm3LW9g?...

~ "Beauty perishes in life, but is immortal in art." ~ Leonardo Da Vinci ~ [“Beauty is not a luxury but a strategy for survival.” ~ Terry T. Williams, "Finding Beauty in a Broken World"] 🎵 Craig Armstrong || "Finding Beauty" youtu.be/C2d3_qbhKBw?...

~ Emily Dickinson ~ [Born: December 10, 1830] " “Hope” is the thing with feathers - That perches in the soul - And sings the tune without the words - And never stops - at all - And sweetest - in the Gale - is heard - (...) 🎵 "Bird" || Billie Marten youtu.be/smX6xCPDbrE?...

~ "Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity." ~ ✍️ Lucius Annaeus Seneca 🎵 Vaults || "One Day I'll Fly Away" youtu.be/1bLKCLnM1Co?...

... ✨ ~ "Quando a manhã brilhar refloriremos E a alma possuirá esse esplendor Prometido nas formas que perdemos." ~ ✍️ Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen 🎵 "Hold On To The Light" || Jack Johnson youtu.be/Pmud5up0My0?...

"I am a being of Heaven and Earth, of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies..." ~ ✍️ Eden Ahbez 🎵 Kitaro || "Heaven and Earth" youtu.be/qzi7zl4670Y?...

... "The days are short, The sun a spark Hung thin between The dark and dark" ~ ✍️ John Updike 🎵 HAEVN || "Caught A Light" youtu.be/99To2W_4TYg?...

~ "Nada se parece tanto: poente e amanhecer. Defeitos na tela do firmamento? Instantâneas aves, andorinheiras, pedras que se despoentam. A noite acende o escuro. Tudo semelha tudo. Só a coruja atrapalha a eternidade." ~ ✍️ Mia Couto 🎵 "Dawn To Dusk" || Xavier Rudd youtu.be/VAlaqkKap-o?...

... "and i and all the day nights that matter knocked by sun moon jabbed jerked with ecstasy ….tremble (not knowing how much better than me will you like the rain’s face and the rich improbable hands of the Wind)" ~ ✍️ e e cummings 🎵 Brian Crain || "Rain" youtu.be/VnNxapRIsm0?...

~ "All human life is likened to evening dew and morning frost, considered something quite fragile and ephemeral." ~ ✍️ Daidoji Yuzan 🎵 "Fragile" || Sting, Chris Botti, Yo Yo Ma, Dominic Miller youtu.be/uQGkzqtQiOI?...

~ "What birds plunge through is not the intimate space, in which you see all Forms intensified. (In the Open, denied, you would lose yourself...) ... shaped in your renouncing, it becomes fully tree." ~ Rainer M. Rilke (born on this day in 1875) 🎵 Em. Torrini | "Birds" youtu.be/110nVTF26-U?...

... ~ "Just because we have birds inside us, we don't have to be cages." ~ ✍️ Dean Young, ("Fall Higher") 🎵 "Big Bird In A Small Cage" || Patrick Watson youtu.be/SOeTTQXLAbo?...

"Alheias e nossas as palavras voam. Bando de borboletas multicores, as palavras voam. Bando azul de andorinhas, bando de gaivotas brancas, as palavras voam. Viam as palavras como águias imensas. (...) E às vezes pousam." ~ ✍️ Cecília Meireles 🎵 "Words" || Skylar Grey youtu.be/fWpfTtZae_s?...

~ Over the clouds a warm light within music in silence ~ m. m. - 12 📷 Roberto Bertero 🎵 Aurora - "It Happened Quiet" youtu.be/9U-N6LqzdIM?...

... ✨ ... ~ "I believe a leaf (of grass) is no less than the journey work of the stars." ~ Walt Whitman 🎵 Jonsi || "Stars In Still Water" youtu.be/4Ck4xn7PtlQ?...

~ O sol uma pérola / Na casca fosca do dia / __ breve que ele é! ~ 🎵 "November Sun" || Susanna Hoffs youtu.be/TKJK4HKsB2k?...

"aprendo a ser árvore enquanto iludo a morte na folha tombada do tempo." ~ Mia Couto 🎵 Passenger || "Golden Leaves" youtu.be/7UfNgmQzMr0?...