Spring Forward

Spring Forward, a photo by TomRaven on Flickr.

"I want
To do with you what spring does with the cherry trees."
— Pablo Neruda (Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair)

Spring has arrived, here in the UK, and the clocks go forward 1 hour this weekend...

In Infinite Eternity

In Infinite Eternity, a photo by TomRaven on Flickr.

"If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present."
— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Golden Rays

Golden Rays, a photo by TomRaven on Flickr.

"A lonely sail gleams in the morning
A lonely stranger in the sea
What does he seek in country foreign,
What kind of trouble does he flee?

The waves are swelling, wind is whistling
The mast is bending with a creak
It is not happiness he's seeking
And it's not happiness he flees

The stream beneath is bright as azure
Above the sun sends golden rays...
Yet he, the rebel, seeks a tempest
As if the tempest brings him peace."
— M. Lermontov

Somehwere in the Caribbean Sea between Cuba and Haiti...

Island Freedom

Island Freedom, a photo by TomRaven on Flickr.

"The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first."
— Jim Morrison

Listen: The Doors - Universal Mind

Thunderhead

Thunderhead, a photo by TomRaven on Flickr.

"The sun, an hour above the horizon, is poised like a bloody egg upon a crest of thunderheads; the light has turned copper: in the eye portentous, in the nose sulphurous, smelling of lightning."
— William Faulkner

Somewhere in the Caribbean Sea between Panama and Jamaica...

Horizon Line

Horizon Line, a photo by TomRaven on Flickr.

"You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore. "
— William Faulkner

Storm Glyphs

Storm Glyphs, a photo by TomRaven on Flickr.

"No one expects the rug to be yanked out from underneath them; life-changing events usually don’t announce themselves. While instinct and intuition can help provide some warning signs, they can do little to prepare you for the feeling of rootlessness that follows when fate flips your world upside down. Anger, confusion, sadness, and frustration are shaken up together inside you like a snow globe. It takes years for the emotional dust to settle as you do your best to see through the storm."
— Slash (Slash)

after the storm...