2001: A Space Odyssey youtu.be/GPKg2c_bRCs Guten Morgen mit ein wenig Filmmusik von György Ligeti (28. Mai 1923 – 12. Juni 2006)

Languages are not strangers to one another. ~Walter Benjamin

acoustic Ph. Harf Zimmerman

tiny bubbles of air and water

Ivana Mašitová is a contemporary Czech glass artist who creates cast glass sculptures #WomensArt

Italian ceramics artist Clara Holt, who decorates her work with images of ancient myths #WomensArt

just this small moment and it‘s all coming back

out into the blue or into the green

A fascinating and illuminating essay about the essence of black in Japanese lacquer.

realizing the importance of this fleeting moment

It's hard to tell the difference between sea and sky, between voyager and sea. Between reality and the workings of the heart. Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

on foggy april days we recede into gardens, unseen

feather clouds of mist from this flowering forest

in every bud another word

to write this in a box of words

words are not what it takes

this glint of glimmer a sparkling shimmer

Samstagabend um halb acht ist (aus Gründen) Frank-Lepold-Gedächtnisstunde „Poem / Blackbird“, Animation youtu.be/tGO8j1vhVB4 (© fflepp 2019) #inmemoriamfflepp

A Pair of Peacocks in Spring, 1901, Japan, by artist Imao Keinen color on silk.

a veil over the windswept lake

"There is a soft moonlight that gives us peace, and one that inspires a kind of awe. There is a cold, austere moonlight that tells the soul of its loneliness and isolation, and one prompting love, not only for an individual, but a whole universe." www.themarginalian.org/2024/03/06/moonlight/?s=09

misty weather serene and moody hibiscus sky Basho

some thoughts and volatile ideas and finally some flocks of words

silhouettes filled with between-the-lines

words waiting to be magnetically assembled

Japanese umbrellas, Wagasa. Japan. Photography by Chajimori on Ganref

there is this flow, there is this river and finding it again and again

from the beginning always forever

I moonbathed diligently, as others sunbathe. Denise Levertov

And he beholds the moon; like a rounded fragment of ice filled with motionless light. Gustave Flaubert

Ahoi mit Minimalismus und Poesie. 🌊🌊🌊🐬🐬☀️🩵☮️ #FokussiereWasGutTut #Mixedmedia #Collage #assemblage #LifeIsABeach #cleanupthebeach #Scherbenbringenglück #Meerliebe #DerBlauePlanet

Max Ernst, Sea and Moon, 1925

the balance between moon and sun on a rainy winter day

soul cracks through ice

song at dawn Ph. Laura Makabresku

Once upon a time, when women were birds, there was the simple understanding that to sing at dawn and to sing at dusk was to heal the world through joy. Terry Tempest Williams

All he could do was wait like this, patiently, until it grew light out and the birds awoke and began their day. All he could do was trust in the birds, in all the birds, with their wings and beaks. Haruki Murakami

this whole universe in a galaxy of starfish

once upon a time a red suitcase

Vietnamese artist Vu Bach Lien, Snow path, 2014, woodcut print #WomensArt

Dirk Schulte Winterstillleben mit Schirmträgerin 2024

thinking flowing drifting in this cloud of snowy air

Never are voices so beautiful as on a winter's evening, when dusk almost hides the body, and they seem to issue from nothingness with a note of intimacy seldom heard by day. Virginia Woolf, Night and Day

sometimes all of a sudden

unusual moments of solitude solitude in unusual moments

Since I find myself missing the sea today— A thread of writing published in 2025, beginning with the latest: excerpts in Socrates on the Beach @greggerkesocrates.bsky.social from An Absence of Sea, forthcoming in April 2026 with @erratumpress.bsky.social socratesonthebeach.com/christina-an...

Geometric sculpture by Japanese glass artist Ikuta Niyoko #WomensArt

emotional topography landscapes and cities

and still the rain

To write something that will be worthy of that rising moon, that pale light. Katherine Mansfield, Katherine Mansfield Notebooks