one more wish on its way to the skies
Posted by harafish | Filed under swirling thoughts and moonbeams
I’m quite sure that one more wish of mine will surely come true.
This night is a lucky one. I’ve just seen a falling star. It was so brief, but very majestic.
The clear starlit sky never fails to keep me spellbound. The stars, moon, and streaks of meteors every now and then bring back the sense of wonder I thought I’ve lost when I leave my childhood behind.
I also want to share one of my favorite poems. Everytime I look at the sky, I always remember this poem by Walt Whitman.
WHEN I heard the learn’d astronomer;
When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me;
When I was shown the charts and the diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them;
When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room,
How soon, unaccountable, I became tired and sick;
Till rising and gliding out, I wander’d off by myself,
In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,
Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.
perpetually lost somewhere in time
Posted by harafish | Filed under thougths from the pages of my mind
I love things long gone and even forgotten. Those things can titillate one’s imagination. Aside from that, old things always give us the chance to take a glimpse of the past, of what we still want to have, but would never ever have again.
It’s not everyday that I get the chance to stumble upon a person who shares my passion. I count myself lucky to have stumbled upon this site. Check this out….if you’re like us — perpetually lost somewhere in time.
it’s been a long while…
Posted by harafish | Filed under swirling thoughts and moonbeams
It’s been a long while since I have written something on this site. I was so busy these past few weeks (busy with a lot of things…working, reading, socializing, daydreaming).
Anyway, here are the links to some very interesting articles I’ve stumbled upon recently:
Check these out.
This is scary, “what is” isn’t really what it is.
Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds is more than just the Beatle’s song.
castles in the air
Posted by harafish | Filed under music
Keith is simply amazing as he sings his own Don McLean with his sexy Irish brogue
Tags: music
Great People Born on September 18
Posted by harafish | Filed under tribute
Jada Pinkett Smith 1971
An African-American actress. She was a regular in the NBC sitcom “A Different World.” She married the actor/rapper Will Smith in 1997.
Kristina Santos circa 1980
(I bet she doesn’t want to reveal her age…part of the mystery package of stardom)
Kristina, a.k.a KAT (yeah, the meowing one) DOST scholar, achiever, business tycoon in the making, taga-UP, Atenista, rakista (she rocks!) and a lot more. She’s currently grooming herself to be the next CEO of blahblah Corporation (company still unidentified).
Leon Foucault 1819-1868
A French physicist who invented the Foucault Pendulum, a device showing the earth’s rotation. He invented the gyroscope and discovered eddy currents. He also made an early attempt to measure the speed of light. Because of his contribution to science, a moon’s crater is named after him, the Foucault crater.
Murtaza Bhutto 1954-1996
A Pakistani Politician. He graduated from Harvard Magna Cum Laude. He was the eldest son of the former Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and a brother to Benazir Bhutto. Murtaza was one of the primary critics of his sister’s regime.
Mark Shuttleworth 1973
South African entrepreneur.He obtained a Business Science degree in Finance and Information Systems. In 2002, he boarded the Russian Soyuz TM-34 as a civilian cosmonaut, making him the first African in Space. He purchased a 65% stake of ImpiLinux in 2005.
Samuel Johnson 1709-1784
Samuel Johnson or Dr Johnson was one of England’s greatest literary figures. He was a lexicographer, biographer, essayist, and poet. He was one of the best literary critics in English. His famous works include “A Dictionary of the English Language” and the “Lives of the English Poets.”
Trajan 53- 117
The Roman Emperor who was considered as the second of the so-called “Five Good Roman Emperors of the Empire.” His popularity earned him the honorific of optimus or “the best”.
poem of the day
Posted by harafish | Filed under thougths from the pages of my mind
To see a world in a grain of sand,
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour.
from William Blake's "Auguries of Innocence"
Blake wrote this poem in 1803, but it was only in 1863 that this poem was published.
The "Auguries of Innocence" like many of Blake's poem is full of paradoxes.
In this poem, Blake juxtaposed innocence with social evils.
The best thing I like about Blake is his subtlety.
The poem talks about the rotting of morality without sounding like a trite moralizing.
Dot in the Universe
Posted by harafish | Filed under thougths from the pages of my mind
“Dot thinks she’s perfect, with her blond hair, pointy nose, and pink skin. She lives on the east coast of England with her magnificent hubby, cooking him gourmet meals and crashing the car. So one day she decides to End It All. But-Dot BLOWS it!
Why did Dot want to end it all? That’s because she was bored. She was bored and darn tired of her all too perfect life. I think she’s tired of the endless cycle of ups and downs in her life. She’s beginning to realize that everything is actually nothing.
But Dot was doomed to continue existing, but this time in the underworld. There, Dot struggled for a chance to go back to the living world. She was then reincarnated as a possum. When her short possum life ended, she was reincarnated as a little girl in Ohio. Later in the novel, it was revealed that Dot could never really escape the endless cycle of birth and rebirths for that little girl grew up to be the Dot that we know in the beginning of the story.
Dot’s life is full of glitz and glam. Her life is full of ups and downs. But it was actually nothing if measured through the yardstick which is eternity. Dot, a woman who had it all and who experienced it all, was nothing but a blot in the vastness of the universe.
Lucy Ellmann’s “Dot in the Universe” emphasizes the banality of what many of us deem important — fame, glamour,relationships, money, and power. In the face of endless death and eternal rebirth, nothing would really count. For no matter how massive our vanity is, like Dot, we’re nothing but a speck, a dot in the universe.
Tags: bored, dot, novel, universe
blank mind, blank stare, and a blank page
Posted by harafish | Filed under thoughts and thoughts and thoughts
Inspiration is what motivates us to write something worth showing to the world. But this isn’t always true. In some cases, rare cases I must say, boredom and disappointments are the engines that could render power to the mind. Some say that strong emotions are the driving force behind productivity. Love, joy, rage, and hate are among the most oft quoted diesel that could empower the mind.
In this entry, I pay homage to boredom.
I once thought that being dead is better than being bored. I even told a dear friend that I consider suicide a friendlier option than having to live a life that would drag me with boredom. But I realized I was wrong.
Boredom like rage and love is an emotion. I guess, seeing boredom as something akin to helplessness and nothingness is a misconception. Boredom may not be as fiery as love or as icy cold as hate but it is still a strong emotion.
I believe that the best thing that we should do about boredom is to channel it or redirect it to something productive…like what I am doing right now.
Tags: boredom, emotion, productivity
