Werther, the poet and Werther the Opera
The cinema is the best place to watch an opera - close-up and personal. No more are the stars able to hide behind distance from the audience. How wonderful to see their eyes as they show joy or their tears when they weep.
But back to Jonas Kaufman who played the tragic and passionate Werther.
As a gardener, his words stuck with me - there is a lot of snow on the ground still and only a year ago, it was warm and wee flowers were blooming...
Werther said in his sultry voice; "Oh Nature, full of grace, Queen of Time and Space."
Nature is working hard at being full of grace right now, but what really shows, is that she truly is the queen of time and space. I cannot wait for her to let go her passive-agressive relationship with winter.
Sunday, 16 March 2014
Sunday, 13 October 2013
Lately I have been craving new books to read. I read a lot .. but I'm fussy. If a book does not keep me from nodding off by the end of the first chapter - maybe the second if it came recommended by a trusty reader, I have no compunctions about closing it forever.
I got to wondering why I choose certain books. Perhaps it is not the reading I crave, but what I learn from it and how it makes me think, or changes how I think.
So this is a bit of a journal about what I have read and why.
Perhaps one of the books I read many years ago that started me thinking about my life and how I live it is called:
'Simple Abundance" by Sarah ban Breathnach (pronounced bon-brannack).
By now, most everyone has read it for its really simple wisdom, or not read it because of it. I need to be reminded now and then, that life really is simple and it is abundant and I am grateful. Maybe that today is the day we Canadians mark as Thanksgiving, is a reminder just how much I have to be grateful.
Sure, there are days when the bills aren't paid because the money won't stretch, but the cupboard is never bare, no matter what I wish was there that isn't. And there are other days when I miss my far-away friends and family. But then I remember I have a pen or two, some paper and enough small change for a stamp.... a few minutes, a few words and I forget how far away they are.
Sarah wrote many books - each more profoundly simple than the last, but more poignant and more relevant with each one.
Her last and most moving book, is called:
'Peace and Plenty"....about how much she had, how much she loved and how much she lost.
In the midst of it all, she lived her own lessons, picked herself up and began to put the pieces together... one step at a time.
She wrote my latest tragedy - she probably wrote yours... she is one of us and she makes the reader live the good, the bad, the ugly and the beautiful... one day, one step and one minute at time.
Worth the time to read it.... it might be your story too and make it easier for you to take that first step.
I got to wondering why I choose certain books. Perhaps it is not the reading I crave, but what I learn from it and how it makes me think, or changes how I think.
So this is a bit of a journal about what I have read and why.
Perhaps one of the books I read many years ago that started me thinking about my life and how I live it is called:
'Simple Abundance" by Sarah ban Breathnach (pronounced bon-brannack).
By now, most everyone has read it for its really simple wisdom, or not read it because of it. I need to be reminded now and then, that life really is simple and it is abundant and I am grateful. Maybe that today is the day we Canadians mark as Thanksgiving, is a reminder just how much I have to be grateful.
Sure, there are days when the bills aren't paid because the money won't stretch, but the cupboard is never bare, no matter what I wish was there that isn't. And there are other days when I miss my far-away friends and family. But then I remember I have a pen or two, some paper and enough small change for a stamp.... a few minutes, a few words and I forget how far away they are.
Sarah wrote many books - each more profoundly simple than the last, but more poignant and more relevant with each one.
Her last and most moving book, is called:
'Peace and Plenty"....about how much she had, how much she loved and how much she lost.
In the midst of it all, she lived her own lessons, picked herself up and began to put the pieces together... one step at a time.
She wrote my latest tragedy - she probably wrote yours... she is one of us and she makes the reader live the good, the bad, the ugly and the beautiful... one day, one step and one minute at time.
Worth the time to read it.... it might be your story too and make it easier for you to take that first step.
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