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 |  Look around. Let Nature nurture your Soul. I record images I sense and share them here. |
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NURTURE your NATURE  Nature can nurture our writing, can nurture our soul. What is the language of Nature? And how do we learn it? We look at the natural wonders around us and do not see them, hear, taste nor smell them. They do not touch us anymore than we dare touch them. And then we wonder why we feel so dead. To breathe in and live like a child again opens the Land of Wonderment. It's still there after all these years.   |
| I have embraced the bittersweet since an early age. The observations of the Great Japanese writers: Matsuo Bashō (1644-1694), Yosa no Buson (1716-1783), and Kobayashi Issa (1763-1826) informed me that Nature could be sweet, even as it was juxtaposed with the bitterness of my upbringing. I was 11 when this song became #1 on the music charts. It was called "Sukiyaki" in America but I learned the real words, and although it is a beautiful uplifting song its roots are firmly planted in the bittersweet soils of reality. Kyu Sakamoto (10 December 1941 – 12 August 1985)) joined those who died young and left a haunting memory when he and others were killed in a tragic airplane crash. May we remember him and this beautiful gift he gave us. Ue o muite arukō Namida ga koborenai youni Omoidasu haruno hi Hitoribocchi no yoru... I look up while I walk So the tears won't fall Remembering those spring days But tonight I'm all alone... Complete lyrics in Japanese and English ▼ |
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