It's been a tough week and I'm afraid the challenge has become bigger then me. Why I can't just rant and rave with simple irate phrases like, "I'm getting really tired of all this %#$&," I don't know.
Instead I'd rather let myself ramble and it would come out like a riddle something to the effect of........Something tells me I've been here before, it doesn't mean I can approve, I could scream, because I wanted too, but something tells me I've been here before. All I can see is what I fight, why won't what I fight, let me be. I know what I have to do, to make it real. Something tells me I've been here before..........
So, rather then lose myself in another "moment" of expose' ........I'd rather lose myself in something a friend gave me in a card a while ago. When all else fails, borrow someone else's goods.........
Problems of Interpretation
Of the Natural Scene
The world of stone and space
and sky of simple
growing things of antiquities of man
and the antiquities of nature reveals to all
people the patterns of eternity.
He who knows the jubilance of mornings and the quietness
of dusk, the flash of waters in the sun,
the solemnity of storm, the rigor of the sky
and the endurance of the arid lands attends the rituals of spring,
the living fires of autumn, the quietness of winter and becomes one with the world
Ansel Adams
Ansel Adams photography. What mere words could compete. I won't even try. But within the branches of this tree I see myself right now. Frozen, resting, waiting for the revival of spring, the touch of sun, new beginnings and growth.
I took a drive today, for when all else fails and one needs to hide, freeze to death fishing, or drive to a Mountain top, music blaring as loud as my stock stereo can be pushed. Today I choose the drive. I think I found a song I would like to write my timeline too. That piano song I'd like to set the tone with, if only I could compose, I wrote of earlier.........So again, when all else fails, I'll borrow the likes of another. David Lanz, Cristofori's Dream, it's perfect. It has the perfect blend of ebb and flow, circles around inside itself, calm moments, dramatic strokes of the keys, almost silent pauses and then bursts of musical notes ending with a soft finale I only hope my end will be.......perfection.

9 comments:
Sorry things are rough, Rebecca. Hang in and let the music and the mountains move you,
Vicky
Ansel Adams captured light, preserving it for us, that we might enjoy it on grey days. His work reminds us there is a better place for us, a place of wonder within us that sustains us as we travel through the "vale of tears", as my sainted grandmother called it. Bruce
hang it there, there always lessons to learn from the rough spots, I know you already know that though but sometimes it helps to be reminded~
Man did Adams have a mastery of manipulating contrast. I love looking at his work.
-Paul
http://journals.aol.ca/plittle/AuroraWalkingVacation/
(the two big words in the middle should be italicised... 'cause they're important)
Rebecca, I do not know what adversity you face, but whenever I am faced with adversity, I ask what has it come to teach me or what has it come to remind me of that I already know but have somehow forgotten -- Then I search for how to bring light to the darkness, how can I make something good come of this adversity. In my belief that each of us is here to learn to teach to serve to heal, I try to see all things this way. I do not know if this will help you, but that is how I have worked adversity out for myself, this approach. Plus remember always, you are not alone, none of us is ever alone. Dalene of AHH at http://journals.aol.com/ahhliving/AHH
amen. judi
Hey, get off that frozen tree! You can vent in your journal, that is what it is for. Use the language you are comfortable with but let it out. We all have issues so who we are to judge you if you let loose every now and then and unleash? Not me, I am a work in progress and I make a lot blunders. Hang on, R! XOXO. http://journals.aol.com/dcmeyer420/DearDiary/
HI!!!!!!!!!!!! I am still around,lol....Just havent been inspired to post lately. I have had a lot going on personally/as well as professionally(the career and the writing)...just trending lightly...I will post tonight I think.....
Jodi
Your journal is wonderful and VERY inspiring to me.....I have really enjoyed reading it and will continue to check back for updates. One of my New Year's resolutions was to look more deeply into myself.....to try to find what's missing and better myself so that I can better my life. Not only for me but the people in my life. Thank You! - Jessica
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