Many times I've walked through Budapest being struck by something I wanted to share. Here, I do just that. What follows are glimpses along life's path that had touched my heart. Enjoy! Budapest Daily Photos recently moved to its own home. The photos here may be enlarged by clicking on them unlike BudapestResources.com website, its previous home.
A closer look at the facade of the building with statues of famous composers lining the upper balcony. They look as though they will step off of there and join the audience.
The Invitation
It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living.
I want to know what you ache for
and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing.
It doesn’t interest me how old you are.
I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool
for love
for your dream
for the adventure of being alive.
It doesn’t interest me what planets are squaring your moon...
I want to know if you have touched the centre of your own sorrow
if you have been opened by life’s betrayals
or have become shrivelled and closed
from fear of further pain.
I want to know if you can sit with pain
mine or your own
without moving to hide it
or fade it
or fix it.
I want to know if you can be with joy
mine or your own
if you can dance with wildness
and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes
without cautioning us
to be careful
to be realistic
to remember the limitations of being human.
It doesn’t interest me if the story you are telling me
is true.
I want to know if you can
disappoint another
to be true to yourself.
If you can bear the accusation of betrayal
and not betray your own soul.
If you can be faithless
and therefore trustworthy.
I want to know if you can see Beauty
even when it is not pretty
every day.
And if you can source your own life
from its presence.
I want to know if you can live with failure
yours and mine
and still stand at the edge of the lake
and shout to the silver of the full moon,
“Yes.”
It doesn’t interest me
to know where you live or how much money you have.
I want to know if you can get up
after the night of grief and despair
weary and bruised to the bone
and do what needs to be done
to feed the children.
It doesn’t interest me who you know
or how you came to be here.
I want to know if you will stand
in the centre of the fire
with me
and not shrink back.
It doesn’t interest me where or what or with whom
you have studied.
I want to know what sustains you
from the inside
when all else falls away.
I want to know if you can be alone
with yourself
and if you truly like the company you keep
in the empty moments.
14 comments:
beautiful Isadora.
Looking forward to the Xmas decorated Opera House. Can we have a peek inside as well.
"DON'T JUMP, guys! We love your music! Honest!"
Nice to see the artistically designed opera house, it's lovely.
Beautiful variety of curved and straight elements and detail in the facade. Looks as if the composers' figures also echo the two lines of pilasters (colonnades?) on the first two floors.
Great building, grat architecture. I likr photos like this one.
Lovely blog, Isadora!
I visited Budapest with my mom (on a shopping spree!) many moons ago...
Wow, the architecture there is amazing. I would never come inside.
~Oswegan
Do you think the city will restore the exterior sometime soon?
Opera, ah, I'd love to be there!
wow, an impressive building!, nice shots!
What a beautiful building and probably more lovely inside! I love all those statues on top.
Fenix - would you believe it was sand blasted within the last 10 years? As was the parliament, and other landmark structures. The Opera also enjoyed an interior revaming - will try to get some photos although I've given the link to the Opera and they should have professional photos. Air pollution is getting better, but it is almost to the extent that by the time they removed the last of the scaffolding from one side of the parliament they could go back to the initial side and start again.
Isabella - the best bargains here are still the health and beauty industry. The city virtually sits on a hot water pond and there are medicinal waters throughout the city and even the countryside. (That's why the name spa city)
Cosmetic surgery is a big boon as the surgeons are skilled and one can recuperate in 5* luxury and still walk away paying less than in the west.
Did you know that you share your name with Isabella Zwack - the daughter of the Zwack heir (of UNICUM fame).
Thank you all for coming by and especially for the comments. Christmas decorated Opera - I've simply not had the courage to take the photo although I do by the building at least twice a day. To me it is simply horrid but then - different tastes...
I would love to explore all the little places in that building behind those windows at the top. It's a magnificent building. I'm really enjoying this blog.
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