№ 751. Paris Flea Market at Saint Ouen

 

№ 720. Happy Feet: Paris

№ 453. Paris 2012

№ 321. Paris Through Square Lenses 2

Here's more from under the hood of the digital chest. It's good to remember happy memories. Makes the rainy days more fun and sunny.

№ 320. Paris Through Square Lenses

Spring 2014. Three years ago, we revisited the City of Lights. Still charming and, yes, expensive. But worth the visit, nonetheless.

A few of the Instagram pix I was able to dig up from my digital treasure chest / memory box.

№ 232. Evil is Ordinary

Every Angel is terror. And yet,
ah, knowing you, I invoke you, almost deadly
birds of the soul.
Where are the days of Tobias,
when one of the most radiant of you stood at the simple threshold,
disguised somewhat for the journey and already no longer awesome
(Like a youth, to the youth looking out curiously).
Let the Archangel now, the dangerous one, from behind the stars,
take a single step down and toward us: our own heart,
beating on high would beat us down. What are you?
(from The Second Elegy, The Duino Elegies, Rainer Maria Rilke)



Bento Box:

That image of a concert venue turned slaughterhouse on Friday, Nov. 13, in the storied capital of France, captures the random carnage that was the primary objective of the terrorists. It could only have been terrorism—the concept of asymmetrical warfare is only analytical, the framework of an anti-Western backlash mostly rhetorical. Above all, the declaration of an Islamic holy struggle is a perversion of religion.

№ 202. Happy Feet

Eiffel Tower, Paris, France, May 2014

Restless, happy feet

Roam sleepy, sunny shores.

Masada National Park, Israel, May 2014

№ 182. Two Violins

Sitting on the bench of the iconic Shakespeare & Co.,
just before the concert at the nearby church, Eglise San Julien de Pauvre,
Paris, May 2014

Two violins strain
To crack free
A sky dead shut dark.