The water you touch in a river

[ellenkushner]

From the blog (2/24/10) of NYC composer Eve Beglarian , River Project: Up and Down the Mississippi:


L’acqua che tochi de fiumi, è l’ultima di quella che andò, e la prima di quelle che viene; così il tempo presente. La vita bene spesa lunga è.

                                                               -- Leonardo da Vinci, Note 1174

here’s my translation:

The water you touch in a river
is the last that has passed
and the first that is coming;
so with the present moment.

The well-spent life is long.


(I really like Eve's work; used a bit of her piece “Landscaping for Privacy" in my Sound & Spirit show on Cities.)

Comments

[wildwose.livejournal.com]

Lovely, lovely, lovely.

Rivers, waters, flowing streams, these are resonating with me deeply lately. Listening to the work of Tom Wisner, "Bard of the Chesapeake", thinking that the water molecules in my blood, have passed through all the worlds seas, been in the belly of goose on the wing, have been raindrops on the side of a mountain, and the juice of an apple. We are river ourselves.

I will be posting a song by Wisner soon, if you aren't familar with his work...you aught to be.

[themaskmaker.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

That's lovely. Thank you.