Thousand Leaves 2.0

This photo gives me an impression it’s going to be a colourful one, fills with hopes and bright colours. Somehow, the painter focused on the new brush, as “another victim” to come. the focus sends another message which I didn’t see, or couldn’t see, from the photo, after a few times. I wonder why.

A nice quote follows:

“Often while reading a book one feels that the author would have preferred to paint rather than write; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors.”

Pablo Picasso

At the local city hall just two blocks from the house, there was some event going on last week, which I can’t remember what it was all about. Anyway, we went for lunch, on the way back home, we saw the event, so we went in.

There comes the postcard.

There was this booth used the recycled paper from used milk carton to make postcards. Let the kids experienced it. It didn’t talke long. But, it didn’t make the kids really understand the concept. Perhaps this is for primary school kids more than for kindergardeners.

Is this called filtering?

I tried to read John Arving’s The fourth Hand, but never get to finish it. I do like his sentences. As most of the people do, I think I know him only through movies, not through his books.

The only book that I finished was The World According to Garp, which I used it for my website quite some time ago. The World According to Ken Loo. I read it in Japanese version though.

From my local library, I found a book of his, in Japanese again, A Widow for One Year. The first few pages came to me as a surprise, the sceen where a girl heard the noices while her mother having sex with someone, not her father. Though I didn’t manage to finish the book, the sceen keeps spinning in my head for quite a while.

When I picked up the DVD of The Door in The Floor, I have no idea that it in fact was from the above-mentioned book. When I saw the “sceen,” it struck me, and I looked at the details, then I realised, oh dear John, there you are!

The title comes from the picture book in the movie, which is very impressive one. A scary one too.

Those hero/ine’s in Irving’s movie, make their decisions that come from a deep thought. It is of course the best solution for them after all, but it leaves a sense of hopelessness behind the determination. I am not sure you could call such a sadness, perhaps not. It is a kind of final decision from a thorough thinking.

If you want to know the answer, open the door yourself. But, you got the bare the consequences.

My secondary schoolmate was also online, who I have not seen him online for almost ages.

He moved to the States for quite a while, working there as an SAP expert. Got two kids now, and working on freelance basis. We were talking about how the lives of ours in each country, and recalled some of the things we forgot. At the end, we landed on family matters and career expectations. It’s nice to meet old friends. It seems to make you feel “at home.”