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[asakiyume]

My current job requires a bit of concentration, so I printed out some pages and worked on it manually, away from the computer and the temptations of the Internet. I found a great patch of light and sat in it, my back against the stove.

But you know, the mind is very good at coming up with distractions. I decided I had to take a picture of how the light looked. At least I waited until today to post. (The job's ongoing, though, so maybe I'll choose that spot again...)

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[wuweibaby.livejournal.com]

<3<3<3

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

:-)

[sovay]

I decided I had to take a picture of how the light looked.

I love that first picture. The reflection in the tabletop looks like a seventeenth-century still life.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

And it really looked that way to the eye too, when I was sitting there (it's not just a trick of the camera).

[oiktirmos.livejournal.com]

The top photo reminds me of the Monolith in 2001: A Space Odyssey, and so does the bottom photo.
Did any insights come to mind? I mean, beyond smashing the skull of a wild boar with a bone? ;)

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Well sometimes when I'm editing I do get the urge to smash something with a big bone, as a matter of fact, but as for deeper insights, hmmmm.... (and the light coming in the door's window really does look like the monolith!)

[greylistening.livejournal.com]

Ahhhhh.... the light.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

It was quite Good.

[xjenavivex.livejournal.com]

Thanks for sharing your light.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Always my pleasure.

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

Lovely light! So very northerly still, though, up there, eh?

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

oh yes. the wind came up and the temperatures are dropping... the heating's going great guns.

[duccio.livejournal.com]

I like the second one best. My eye moves around the picture to examine many kinds of light effects and nostalgia producing objects.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

What are the nostalgia-producing objects?

[duccio.livejournal.com]

The simple pine leg of the stool or table, and the patterned material, maybe a bedspread, that looks kind of old-fashioned. That kind of misty light in the upper part, and the bright light source: sunlight coming in through a small window into this small quiet room illuminating a section of the papers at the bottom, left in the midst of being read. No?

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, absolutely! I just wondered if you remembered them from my having posted them before--if they were nostalgic in that sense--but yes, in the more general sense, I absolutely agree.

[khiemtran.livejournal.com]

Gorgeous light! I went to see an exhibition recently and one of the paintings was Jan Lieven's Young man in yellow, on loan from the Scottish National Gallery. What really struck me was how the selection of light made earthly imperfection into ethereal beauty. It was as though the painter (and hundreds like him of that era) was saying "Look here! Yes, there is dust and clutter and probably fleas as well down here, but there is breathtaking beauty too, if you can see it..."

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

That realization that there is great beauty in the everyday is so freeing. When you're surrounded by beauty, it means you don't have to feel bereft.

... I think it's easy to twist what I've said up above as some sort of justification for keeping people down. "There's beauty/happiness/good things to be had anywhere, so no need for you to have a chance at a better living situation--why, the sun on an oil slick can be beautiful, right? Well then: you get the oil slick and we'll have the sparkling water." <--something like that. But that's not what I mean: I mean that beauty and other good things will barge their way in to anywhere, and that this can bring joy and strength.

... ouf, that seems heavy in response to your very lovely comment...

[dudeshoes.livejournal.com]

I don't think its possible (or if it were possible, it wouldn't ultimately be efficient) to concentrate nonstop. That is one reason twitter is so great. You relax your brain by thinking about something else interesting for two minutes -- and return to work refreshed.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I agree, though I find that having access to something like Twitter tends to distract me more than I probably need...

[mnfaure.livejournal.com]

xI picture you, catlike, curled in your spot of warmth and light. ˆ-x-ˆ

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Love your ASCII cat face!