A few words from me
Hello my name is Andreas. I write this blog with no fixed audience. I have no idea who reads this blog, or indeed if anybody does at all. It isn’t about writing to an audience and yet it is. I share things I find beautiful and sometimes I write things that I feel expresses that which emerges from my most authentic self; that which explores and communes with that energy.
As strange as it sounds from a ‘stranger:’ I wish to share this publicly with you because I love you. I don’t know who you are, but I value your existence and I thank you for sharing with me; for taking a moment to share with me in whatever way you do. From whatever distance that may separate us, know that in the space that connects us I have sent you blessings. So with you I join and say: thank you for this day.
cavafy / the city
you said: “I’ll go to some other land, I’ll go to some other sea.
there’s bound to be another city that’s better by far.
my every effort has been ill-fated from the start;
my heart – like something dead – lies buried away;
how long will my mind endure this slow decay?
wherever I look, wherever I cast my eyes,
I see all round me the black rubble of my life
where I’ve spent so many ruined and wasted years.”
you’ll find no new places, you won’t find other shores.
the city will follow you. the streets in which you pace
will be the same, you’ll haunt the same familiar places,
and inside those same houses you’ll grow old.
you’ll always end up in this city. don’t bother to hope
for a ship, a route, to take you somewhere else; they don’t exist.
just as you’ve destroyed your life, here in this
small corner, so you’ve wasted it through all the world.
