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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.
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Apples and Women
Women are like apples on trees. The best ones are at the top of the tree. Most men don't want to reach for the good ones because they are afraid of falling and getting hurt. Instead, they sometimes take the apples from the ground that aren't as good, but easy. The apples at the top think something is wrong with them. In reality, they're amazing. They just have to wait for the right person to come along, the one who is brave enough to climb all the way to the top of the tree.
Ferko, Gigi, Matyi
my wonderful furry friends
The Invitation by Oriah Mountain Dreamer
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.
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- * Ikea Hacker
- * Menonite Girls Can Cook
- * Naked Pastor
- * Out and About in New York City
- * PestiSide
- * Photos City Mine
- * Raw Foods with Jessica
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- * Roma
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- * Small Glass Planet
- * Something Nice to Talk About
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- * The Food Whore
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24 comments:
That's interesting! You can sit next to him and have your photo taken with his arm around you. :)
Isn't that sompin', Annie?
>8@
Anyway, Wiki has a neat entry on Kalman and now I have a question for you: why do words like Tatárjárás require so many accents?
That's a great sculpture. I'm ashamed to say that I've never heard of him. Interesting.
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Even in stone, he looks to be an animated figure.
That's an amazing statue. And what a cool shot you snapped, with the rain drops all over it, glittering like diamonds or fairy dust!
Thanks,
Wayne
Interesting sculpture.
~Oswegan
I like the entire sculpture and the way the iron bench juts out from the stone.
cool statue! nice shot!
Thank you all for visiting - I guess I'm pretty much alone with my love for operetta. It must be a cultural thing, I grew up on it and can pretty much sing all the famous numbers.
Fenix - the accent marks make the letters a, e, u', u" and even u: into a different letter. You can get a visual at the link.
There are statues all over town similar to this, and if you remember Zsolt's post of a few weeks ago in Buda where there is a group of adults with umbrellas. I've seen similar statues in DC also.
Mr. Kalman (born by the lake Balaton and passed away in Paris) is one of the best known Hungarian operetta composers.
OK, so the first a sounds different than the other three. Got that. Now, how do you pronounce the a without an accent and the a with the accent?
Or, better yet, how do you pronounce Tatárjárás?
A happy Thanksgiving to you and your loved ones.
Great photo of an interesting statue. Do people sit there to be photographed with him?
Hope you can soon find brussels sprouts without the added protein!
Fenix - being an aquarian precision is so remote from me that I can't explain to you how and why these sounds are different. How about a live sound test in the spring while visiting all these great restaurants?
Lynette :) for sure. I'm suspicious of the little buggers now.
This is just so cool! A seat and a statue - bargain!!!
Hi Isadora, Just a quick note to say thank you for visiting my blog.I just love your photos too.
Budapest is fantastic a lot of Indian movies are being shot there.
Yes I know the scanned photos go faster than the uploaded ones , it the slow connection.
Annie - yes, it is a public bench and you can sit there with him and watch the world go by or have your lunch or just be inspired.
Fenix - finally, how in the world did you come up with TATARJARAS? Do you know what it means :) Pretty tragic phase of Hungary's history it means 'raids by the Tatars' Around 1240 we were invaded by the Mongols for a time - although not as long as the 150 years the Turkish were our beloved guests, then the Austro empire and finally our very red 'liberators' :)
Cool pictue!
I like the bench (it has no legs), and the statue is nice (and has legs). The closest I've cpme to enjoying operetta is when my little granddaughter and I, sing/talk to each other. But, when trying to enjoy a live opera - I find myself struggling to understand what they are saying.
I love operetta since they are mostly shorter and less "heavy" than regular operas.
I will look Kalman up on Wiki, like fenix said.
Sculpture adds nice visual to the street scene.
Ming - one of the most famous, traditional New Years eve operetta is Johann Strauss' Die Fledermouse or THE BAT. It is a comedy with amazingly ear tickling music that lets your heart soar. The Kennedy Center started producing it for New Years in recent years so I was able to continue my tradition of attending a performance on Dec. 31st. :)
G'day from Australia,
Yes, I've heard of him. I love the way the bench/ statue protrudes from the rock.
And the mellow tones of the image are beautiful.
Isadora, nice to meet you, I've just read your comment on old Madrid DP I give up months ago. I see you've just started a month and half ago and you're having a great success. Dailyphotoblogging is such a great experience, I really enjoyed it and you'll meet wonderful people everyday and learn sooo much about a huge looot of different cities, I'm missing it already but I don't have the time to post everyday , so I have the other blog and try to keep in touch with this amazing community.
Interesting thing about the women and apples, I like it very much!
Your pics are great, keep going like that!
Huges from Madrid :)
Poor guy, he's getting wet!
Nice statue and story.
I like so so operetta but the statue is fine, the idea is great and the capture is nice !
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