something I learned

there are so many ways to feel love

IF safety

In the newspaper this morning: a case of too much safety. 
The family protection dog protects so well 
that no one can come to visit the family 
and the family can not leave the premises. 
Oh boy!

 

Lola la ola

Lola la ola was a very special wave. She could think. She thought about life on the beach, about people sun bathing and children playing. She wanted to see all that, be there, stay. But waves are always in a hurry, always pushing and pulling to reach the shore and to break into spume.  

Once she was so close. She could feel the warm sand and she reached out for some sweet little toes. She wanted to play around the feet of that little boy.
But high waves came rolling over her and low waves took her back into the ocean.

Lola flaoted near the coast of India. She heard beautiful music and smelled delicious smells. She felt light and happy.
And then she started to practise yoga. Reaching and rolling, stretching and bowing, untill she could control her every move. 

 
When she went back to the open sea she was not bored as waves normally are. They want only one thing and that is to breach on the land and shatter into a fountain of spume.
Lola kept herself busy. She would drift on the surface or sink to the deep, float backwards and forwards. Finally she learned to be still. Even her thoughts would stop.

One day she saw the shore again. The waves around her were growing bigger and roaring furiously, trying to be the first on the beach. But Lola slowed down and felt very calm. She reached the sand like water that is spilled on the floor. She made no noise and no spume. She disappeared, absorbed in the ground.

Lola the wave stayed on the beach forever. Do you know how you can find her? She is the water that appears when you dig a hole in the sand and that crumbles your walls.

Story: Roberto Marín

Illustrations: Hedwig Meischke

 

IF sailor

IF mind

The wounded soul doesn't mind
when festivity appears
the happiness of birds
... a song just hurts
the sun so kind
but how to stop the tears? 

IF mother

Nobody was ever so pleased to see me
I miss you, mom

 

IF shoe

Good morning, my dear sailor
although an ocean apart
our love is pure and true
I, always in your heart
you, safely in my wooden shoe

IF fable

The fable of the easter hare

When the chicken goes 
salute the sun
a stranger tip toes 
and smells the bun

the chicken stands mindless in sunny stare
while on his hindlegs speeds away the hare 

Eggs are known to be full of surprises
but the easter hare is never the wisest

IF umbrella

IF heroic and scoop

An heroic act
without thinking
scoop her up
stop her sinking

IF talk

IF sound

              Awake by the sound of sleeping

 

IF aquatic

IF steam

IF kiss

IF harvest

the harvester of smiles

 

IF weapon

Two sharp weapons but a bigger heart :)

 

IF nest 2

How do you know that you are ready 
to leave the nest?
When a special friend shows up
to lift and support you
keeping his distance
but you know he is there  
Such friend is the most precious gift

IF nest

IF rain

IF orange

A Chinese legend:

In the ancient past, there was a hero named Hou Yi who was an excellent archer. His wife was Chang'e. One year, the ten suns rose in the sky together, causing great disaster to people. Yi shot down nine of the suns and left only one to provide light. A god admired Yi and sent him the elixir of immortality. Yi did not want to leave Chang'e and be immortal without her, so he let Chang'e keep the elixir. But Peng Meng, one of his apprentices, knew this secret. So, on the 15th day of the 8th month in the lunar calendar, when Yi went hunting, Peng Meng broke into Yi's house and forced Chang'e to give the elixir to him. Chang'e refused to do so. Instead, she swallowed it and flew into the sky. Since she loved very much her husband and hoped to live nearby, she chose the moon for her residence. When Yi came back and learned what had happened, he felt so sad that he displayed the fruits and cakes Chang'e liked in the yard and gave sacrifices to his wife. People soon learned about these activities, and since they also were sympathetic to Chang'e they participated in these sacrifices with Yi.

This is now the Chinese Mid Autumn festival on september 15.

swift

 



On a wagon bound for market
there's a calf with a mournful eye
High above him there's a swallow
winging swiftly through the sky (song)

IF tiny

Hey! Big Dutch farm girl! Watch your wooden shoe! Don't step on something tiny!!!!!!!!!!!

If you have something tiny you must be very careful and good

and then it can grow into big love

IF trapped

 

 

                                     Sometimes you feel trapped, lost and alone
                                     but when someone finds you,
                                     you get unlost, unalone and untrapped.
                                     It's not a miracle, it just happens.

IF party

IF teeth

IF nose