There are pauses between the showers of the outer world,
But there is no time when my sleeves, wet with tears, are dry.
~Murasaki Shikibu*
Lost in Translation’s theme for the Black and White Sunday is… natural
*cited:
Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan
Trans: A Omori & K Doi
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/omori/court/court.html
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I have told you this before, but I am so floored by the wonderful photos you match to the equally wonderful poetry you select.
thank you… Murasaki Shikibu’s poem speaks to me about the tendency to be held prisoner by suffering…and the leaf in the lower right is like a hand…a silent and compassionate presence to the water drop (her tear)