Tag: blooms

• Thinking About the Floating Dead

  

  The painting above is a depiction of Shakespeare’s Ophelia from Hamlet. The haunting scene describes how Ophelia, driven out of her mind when her father is murdered by her lover Hamlet, falls into a stream and drowns: There, on the pendent boughs her coronet weeds Clambering to hang, an envious sliver broke; When down her weedy…

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  16 Jan 2019

  Art, Film, Gender, Read, Story

  Adrienne Rich, art, baptism, blooms, bodies, corporeal, drown, drowning, faith, floating, floral, flowers, foetal, Ghazal, hamlet, image, john everett millais, kumbh mela, letting go, longreads, membrane, mermaid like, metaphor, millais, mindscape, mrs dalloway, ophelia, painting, shakespeare, symbol, tate, the american ghazal, the body, the body remembers, thoughts, virginia woolf, visceral

• Oh, Stop It Holland!

  

  Oh, Stop It Holland! Just stop being so very gorgeous all the time. We drove to Keukenhof on a rainy morning. The pitter patter of drops and a chilly wind gathering speed. Having been to the famous garden ten years ago, and then repeatedly with various visitors, I wondered if it would hold its irrepressible appeal…

  Diligent Candy

  1 May 2018

  Apoorva, Audience, Customer Review, Photography, Story, Travel

  amsterdam, beauty, blooms, bulb flowers, bulbs, colors, daffodils, drive from amsterdam, exhale, fields, flowers, gardens, going away, green, holland, keukenhof, lisse, mindful, mindfulness, nature, nature’s bounty, rainy day, South Holland, spring, tourism, tulips, zen

• Cherry Blossoms in Amsterdamse Bos

  

  Bambi (resident 10yo) and I put on our walking shoes, strapped on our backpacks, grabbed our picnic lunch, and headed off to see the Cherry Blossoms at the Kersenbloesempark located in the forest or the Amsterdamse Bos. The trek from Amsterdam, via Metro and two bus changes, to the Amstelveen side of the Bos was confusing…

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  18 Apr 2018

  Art, Parenting, Photography, Story, Travel

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