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.)