furniture - the fleeting world; bubbles in a stream

August 16, 2023 Landscapes

Bromfiets- en Rijwielstalling

“Gestern abend in der stillen Ruh’,
Sah ich im Wald einer Amsel zu;
Als ich da so saß,
Meiner ganz vergaß:
Kommt mein Schatz und schleichet sich um mich
Und küsset mich.”

(Folksong Waldeinsamkeit)
Wijlre (NL)

June 14, 2023 Religious objects

The church as a breeding ground for the Holy Spirit

“Herr, unser Gott! erhöre unser Flehen,
Die sehnend auf zu dir, zu dir, Allgüt’ger, sehen;
Herab auf uns sieh’, Tröster du,
In unser Herz leg’ Himmelsruh'”

(F.P. Schubert in the song Hymnus an den heiligen Geist)
Orp-Jauche (B)

May 20, 2023 What has been left

Relaxing at the Red Cross is long gone

“As I listened from a beach-chair in the shade
To all the noises that my garden made,
It seemed to me only proper that words
Should be withheld from vegetables and birds.”

(W.H. Auden in Their Lonely Betters)
Liège (B)

April 20, 2023 Street Scenes

A place for a weary head

“I just need some place where I can lay my head.
“Hey, mister, can you tell me where a man might find a bed?”
He just grinned and shook my hand, and “No!”, was all he said.”

(Bob Dylan in The weight)
Liège (B)

April 15, 2023 Street Scenes

It is here where we will meet again

“When shall we three meet again,
in Thunder, Lightning, or in Rain?

When the Hurley-burley’s done,
when the Battle’s lost and won,
that will be e’er set of Sun,
where the place?”

(W. Shakespeare in Macbeth)
‘s-Hertogenbosch (NL)

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Bromfiets- en Rijwielstalling

The church as a breeding ground for the Holy Spirit

Relaxing at the Red Cross is long gone

A place for a weary head

It is here where we will meet again