Whenever there is a new place you like
You end up wondering
Whether or not a mysterious reason
Has anything to do with you liking the place
Perhaps the stones...?
Or perhaps that wall...?
That roof...?
That window...?
You search for a reason
You imagine reasons
You end up wondering
If any reason is needed at all
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[Picture: Café, Place des Deux Écus by reading_is_dangerous] (May 12, 2008)
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ReplyDeleteThe atmosphere? The taste of it?
ReplyDeleteIt's the convergence of harmonies we can't quite put our finger on. Your atoms flow comfortably there. You're just meant to find it.
I can't think of a reason either. It looks like a great place though - it's always a wonderful find, these places.
It's great knowing you're photographing again too. :)
Ditto to all the above. I think it's like magnetism--some places have a particular affinity to our individual set-up. Oh, to be in Paris with a camera!! Have Fun! Your photos are wonderful!
ReplyDeleteThe stones, I think. The shades, textures, temperature of the stones. Stones are a feast for the senses. They laying together of stones to create structures is an art form. As an artist, you're appreciating the medium. That's my opinion anyway. Always happy to share it! :)
ReplyDeletedeB
Interesting question. It would be revealing, if the exercise doesn't create a wave of disgust, to actually write a short collection of places you visited and separating them in two groups: the places you liked and the places that didn't like you. Places you liked are easy to remember, but I'm more curious of the places that didn't like you, the places that felt like you didn't belong there, the places that made you feel foreign, or unsafe.
ReplyDeleteit might be: it has long been there in one corner of you, primitive and solid but undiscovered until one day you come across it?
ReplyDeletej.
I remembered reading someone else asking this of themselves and made a note of it to add to my own thoughts. Here it is:
ReplyDeleteQuoted from the book, 'The Worlds of Tangier' by Paul Bowles ( 1958 )"...busily trying to work out the relationship between Tangier and myself. If you don't know why you like a thing, it is usually worth your while to find out..."
LoisH from 360*
@ Edita
ReplyDelete//inner mood // I will be searching for my outer mood, in the hope that it could be easier to deal with.
@ djeseru
//it's always a wonderful find, these places// next comes the question: To leave or not to leave the wonderful place?
@ aimless joy
//individual set-up//
What an incredible combination of words! Like... personal parameters or the "settings" of the soul. Thank you!
@ deB
//Stones are a feast for the senses.// They would be so happy to know that! :-)
@ denisM
//I'm more curious of the places that didn't like you//
just places? or time-places? Let me see... I remember a shower in Greenland that really didn't like me.
@ j
//primitive and solid but undiscovered until one day you come across it//
like love?
@ loisH
//If you don't know why you like a thing, it is usually worth your while to find out...//
good quote. Now I think I know why I liked the place...
and why I left.
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