Psalm Of David Of This Age 1

Psalm Of David Of This Age 1

In the direction to the greatest I couldn’t reach its limits, in the direction to the smallest I found a universe. In the direction to the past I found an eternity, no beginning, in the direction to the future I also found an eternity, no end, in the direction towards the middle, (where is the middle?) again an eternity.

I seem to be lost. I don’t know when, which age am I in eternity? Where is East, where is West and North or South? What is front, what behind, what is above and what below in the universe?

Yet am I  happy, though only present as a tiny spot in His magnificent unimaginable creation.

How happy is even the fern, moss, … though having no voice, no flowers, no defenses, no feet, wings and fixed for life to the same place.

1973

May 2011

Just Lucky To Be Born In This Age

Just Lucky To Be Born In This Age

All my fond thoughts which I wrote, the beautiful, valuable things I encounter, recorded, shot with my camera. they’re alive in my blog, in my picture’s blog, in You Tube. And I still want to write in Wikipedia about classified Volley Ball, bring back to “life” all my old valuable  recordings on tape and CD in You Tube.

What a joy and share this with you. Just open my blogs or You Tube, anywhere you are, whenever, whatever you want. We don’t need a player or a place to store them.

I don’t have to write with pen and ink in note-books, or type them on the type-machine, post them to a news paper anymore. It is even better than having them in books, in albums, on tape, CD, VCD, DVD. How lucky, happy, how grateful I am to be born in this age. And I thought of people who lived generations before me who haven’t access to what we have got now, what this age provides and I think of those, my grand-grand ... -children what they would have and enjoy in the future.

May 2011

On Being Earthly

On Being Earthly

Isn’t it a joy, a happiness, a heavenly gift, to be earthly-bound?

Be attached to my dog, my cat, my fighting cock,

Be attached to my choir, an old servant, a food stall vendor,

Be bound to my bed, my home, the environment, my country, my people,

Forgetting myself in a hobby, my “art”, my “philosophy”,

A mother, child-bound,

I, myself a man, bound to you MM, a woman and  vice-versa 

And to hunger, to thirst

After enjoyment, warmth, love and freedom

And all wishes, longings of being human

And all the dear things that bind, draw us to the earth.

Should I choose the happiness of being freed of desires, wishes, suffering,

As is the sage, the wise or those in Nirvana?

I don’t repent the suffering that accompanies it. 

Buda  forgive me my foolishness.

1975

May 2011

Study In Harmony

Study In Harmony

I would never have found these lovely chord progressions – You Tube: Study In Harmony 2 - were I to study harmony as educated according to the formal, accepted standards, rules, ways. How happy I am. It’s a precious gift to myself.

May 2011

Plus & Minus

Plus & Minus

Solomon had a lot of pluses that favored him. He was a king, handsome, young, rich, intelligent, wise. He certainly would be loved, liked especially by women because of his pluses. But suppose he became poor, sick, a prisoner, perhaps he would be left alone as what was liked, loved of him were his pluses.  

A vagrant, has a lot of minuses. He is poor, dirty, not handsome, has no proper education, has his home and sleeps under a bridge. Who would have him as a friend, like or marry him? But  if there was one who still would like or love him then he certainly must have some thing very good, special, at least recognize him as a human being, not observed, seen by others. And I think of Subandrio who had so many minuses as he was prisoner with a death sentence, shunned by the community and old, yet was chosen among all men by a loving woman to be her husband. That would be an invaluable  credit to them as they were loved, liked despite so many minuses.     

Suppose there was a painting with a plus of being extraordinary costly. Than there’s no credit to the painting as the owner treasures it because it was of a high money value. When it’s value drops, he might throw it away. And so is a flower, a fruit, a job, a sport, a hobby, …  with many pluses. When the pluses fall so will their eagerness for it, also fall, drop, flop, then leave it, stop, throw or go away.

That’s the drawback, disadvantage, weakness behind a lot of pluses as it was pursued because of the pluses, on the other hand, there’s the advantage, strength behind many minuses since it was pursued, achieved despite the minuses. A man with a big minus of being blind could still “see”, read and write.

May 2011

Remember This Is Leisurely Reading

Remember, This Is Leisurely Reading

I’ve no pretension to be complete, to be right, to be scientific,  historic, theological, artistic, to write good English, Dutch, Indonesian, to clever talk, except playful thoughts, talks for leisured pastime.  

May 2011

Musing On Shooting Pictures

Musing On Shooting Pictures

Sitting, enjoying my picnic with the “Gunung Salak” Mountain in front of me, I couldn’t desire, command the clouds the sky as I wanted to be. Any other time it will be different.  You should wait for just the right time and it might be a very long time to see the most beautiful scene, besides to have your camera with you and be trained to shoot well.

I once saw such a beautiful valley somewhere while picnicking near Sentul, so delightful, charming that I felt I would refuse visiting Europe, America were the opportunity offered me. But at that time I didn’t have  a camera yet.

Could you command, order a beautiful sunset?

I’m happy, content with what I’ve got. I’m lucky enough when I can get one really good, beautiful picture. 

May 2011