The blue of the hyacinths

The blue of the hyacinths

beauty, colour, enchantment, moments, sharing

The poet Rilke, writing to Elisabeth Ephrussi, told her to: ‘Look into the blue of the hyacinths.  And the spring!’  Well?  What are we waiting for?  Let’s go and find a hyacinth and then inhale its heady perfume! And meet their wild cousins, the...
I sing therefore I am?

I sing therefore I am?

happiness, inspiration

Does this line from one of Rilke’s sonnets mean we can say ‘I sing therefore I am’?  Easier for gods than humans, Rilke tells us, but let’s give it a go, I am sure the gods rejoice when we try.    Gesang ist Dasein. Für den Gott ein...
Dance the orange

Dance the orange

colour

You may have noticed that orange is the signature colour of this website. Why orange?  Because its sensory spectrum stretches from brightness to warmth, sunrise to sunset, summer marigolds to autumn leaves to winter persimmons to the saffron gold of the spring crocus....

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