Showing posts with label an essay on man. Show all posts
Showing posts with label an essay on man. Show all posts

Friday, 29 May 2009

Photostory Friday - a man and his dog


One man and his dog

 
wait for me...


by the River Eden


totally oblivious

I was there too, obviously!

low water under the Eden bridge 

btw this is the dead centre of the city, the Park runs along side the Eden, including Park, football pitches, tennis courts, cows abound or not, Playgrounds, criket and sports open arena.


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Monday, 23 March 2009

Hope springs...

There has been much expounding of the virtues of spring 
on the human psyche  (you see I have been lurking a little).
I have been mulling over spring for three weeks now 
and I have been too encumbered 
by the domestic travails of moving house and home, 
as you know - you would have had to be
 living in outer Mongolia to miss this titbit.

However all I want to say on Spring is encompassed in these few words ...


Hope springs eternal in the human breast;
Man never Is, but always To be blest:
The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home,
Rests and expatiates in a life to come.

-Alexander Pope,
An Essay on Man, Epistle I, 1733

Like a moth to a flame...

Everything changes, nothing stays the same, so the saying goes, and yet here I am in a space where nothing has seemingly changed; it is just...