“A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.”
– Lao Tzu
Taking a step or two at the Barbican, London, November 2018
I’m back again with my weekly quotation-inspired image.
If the quote inspires a pictorial or wordy post from you, do feel free to link in or to pop your URL in the comments.
Copyright Debbie Smyth, 28 November 2018
True -one step at a time….here’s mine – https://myheart2heart.blog/2018/11/29/ill-soon-bounce-back/
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In the same spirit, one of a friend wich was looking for a new “significant relationship” on the internet was answering to a redundant question : “Darling boy, love for all day in life begins at first night”.
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Thank you for this – the sailor in the song sees every woman as a challenge, with more focus on calamity than paradise! And Brasses looks quite nervous as he sings it! Although I knew of Brassens I had never heard him sing – I can see I need to investigate him more.
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Well – Brassens was always anxious as he sang.
The song is a variation on the carpe diem theme, from a sailor man point of view : it says that love of one day is still love, with everything, at least for a sailor man and his girlfriend. Life is too short.
Of course the mother point of view – consequences of love are of that matter – it can be hard to endure, as the sailor men die of shore too. “femme de marin”.
Anyway Georges Brassens is a great poet , he also composed music on great poem of the past – another variation on the carpe diem from middle age , don’t worry if you do not understand most of ffrench locutors do not :
Villon enumerates past figures, to evocate the fugacity of existences in a sarcastic manner.
Ok I have made my wikipedia enough for today ! 😉
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Ahhh… time to fish out some old records and get the record player hooked up. I used to listen to Brassens throughout my teenage years (and felt very adult about it 😀 ). Thank you.
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A great quote, Debbie. I’ve always associated it with children and the start of their journey through the world. But of course, old people can start long journeys, too. But I stuck with young: https://picturesimperfectblog.wordpress.com/2018/11/28/a-small-step-for-a-child/
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Oh yes, of course – funnily enough I’d never thought of it that way. I think I must see everything in life as a challenge requiring a first step. I love your photographic interpretation
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yes, and then keep going…
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