Ailsa at Where’s My Backpack? wants us to show some symbols... This one has a funny story – at least for me. The thing is, that when you often see a certain symbol for something you easily get ”stuck” with its meaning. Everybody knows what this sign means. In Scarborough I was told another one…a much more funny and inventive one. Maybe you all knew it before, but I certainly did not. This is, a man struggling with an umbrella.
Ailsa has given us a new brilliant task – to show Sky. The sky is the limit and the inspiration. Constantly changing and enigmatic.
Light and lights are essential to almost all living beings. And, the play of light is fascinating. It cathes the eye and holds our imagination alive.
My choices for this challenge about Lights are all from Spain. The first one from an early morning outside the great palace, when the sun lets its rays play with the lamp post making us believe it’s being lit up from inside… The second photo from a gallery, is also lit up naturally by the sun.
The third photo and the fourth are both from Gaudí – The lamp from the ceiling in his house, lit up from inside as well as from the natural light through the side windows and the figure of Christ bathing in light – also from above.
So I returned to this Island In the Sun after 15 years. Once visited when the children were small – now back for almost only one reason – Puerto Mogan. I hope you understand why.
Cee’s task for us this week is all about numbers or letters. Well, the most fun ever I’ve had with numbers and letters was on New Zealand – and surely I made a post of it somewhere…but here are some of them again! Love, love love their humour down under! Letters instead of numbers…and the reverse…
Direction is what Ese points out to us this week…as usual a delightful challenge – why don’t you join in?
Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!
John Muir
Spread is the word from Ese this week. Being a book lover that just had to be IT didn’t it?
May books spread the world over!
Yann Martel
I had some days off…and that’s when I always read a good book – or try to find a good book to read. This October week I was lucky, because I brought Lloyd Jones’s Hand Me Down World.
A woman washes ashore in Sicily. She has come from north Africa to find her son, stolen from her by his father when the boy was just days old and taken to Berlin. With nothing but her maid’s uniform and a knife in a plastic bag, she relies on strangers— some generous, some exploiting—to guide her passage north.
These strangers all tell their story about her, and each account gives a different view of the truth, just like the versions of truth we all create to accomodate our lives. These fragments of a life piece together to create a spellbinding story of her, this woman and mother, who crosses continents searching for her missing child. Not until towards the end, we also get her own version of the story.
It’s haunting and beautiful, because ”Sometimes a person passes through your world and you don’t forget them.” She is one of them, and this is her story. I suggest you read it.
Ese’s challenge this time is about being Intricate. My daughter used to draw portraits of her friends – even on dogs and whatever people wanted to be portrayed. This is the photo and a scanning of one ordered portrait.
Drawings help people to work out intricate relationships between parts.
Christopher Alexander
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