66 Square Feet: Message in a window

Thursday, March 17, 2011

Message in a window

Everything will be OK.

10 comments:

Sigrid said...: Oh thank you. What a perfect screen background for today and the rest of the week. Wonderful photo. MEANINGFUL photo.; March 17, 2011 7:26 AM
Monica said...: A resounding Yes.; March 17, 2011 8:40 AM
AutumnSkyRanch said...: I LOVE this photo. Simply beautiful.; March 17, 2011 10:20 AM
moreidlethoughts said...: "More meaningful than threadbare hope."

Thankyou,Marie; March 17, 2011 2:20 PM
David said...: I'm a reader from Yokohama, Japan. This post helped me face things today. Thank you.; March 17, 2011 6:37 PM
blissfulsally said...: Behind the daffodils, is that a dog? Well, dogs love spring too!; March 17, 2011 7:17 PM
Marie said...: Well, it's the daffodils' message, anyway.

David - I don't know what to say. You are very much in my thoughts.

blissfulsally - really, a dog? It might be...; March 17, 2011 10:09 PM
Carol Wexell Wayne said...: yes it will....eventually...thank you for the photo; March 17, 2011 10:55 PM
Val said...: I want to run out immediately and buy some daffs... 'and Spring shall come'... it always does. Thanks for this Marie.; March 17, 2011 11:20 PM
arcadia said...: Dit is waar.; March 19, 2011 1:45 AM

Manifesto

What is 66 Square Feet About?

It's about gardening in tight spaces. It's about how to live with a man and a cat in a tiny apartment with a tiny terrace. It's about photos, and friends, and inspiration and blackspot on the roses. It's about food and cooking over an open flame. It's about wine. And water. And watering...And picnics. It's about seasons without and within. It's about New York, and about South Africa. It's about where I go, and what I come back to: a terrace twelve-and-three-quarters by five-and-a-quarter feet wide.

Afterwards in the street, she looks around the neighborhood. "Yes, it is certified now."

She refers to a phenomenon of moviegoing which I have called certification. Nowadays when a person lives somewhere, in a neighborhood, the place is not certified for him. More than likely he will live there sadly and the emptiness which is inside him will expand until it evacuates the entire neighborhood. But if he sees a movie which shows his very neighborhood, it becomes possible for him to live, for a time at least, as a person who is Somewhere and not Anywhere."

The Moviegoer, Walker Percy

"Die kierie kom uit Indonisie, gesny van 'n tak wat van jongs af omslinger was deur a wildevy se rank. Hulle het saam grootgeword, en die rank het sy spoor op die tak gelos. Daarom is die slinger ook oneweredig, en hier,"se hy, "by die punt van die kierie moes daar iets gebeur het - die slinger en die tak het inmekaar gevleg en 'n knoop gemaak. Die natuur het die kierie so gemaak."

"n Kieriemaker sou dit eweredig gedoen het," se ek.

"My kind," se meneer Boje, "vermy die reguit lyn."

Petra Muller, Koendoes