It’s Tuesday once more, and as per usual, we are joining Frizztext’s Photo A-Z Photo Challenge. Letter this week is T. As such, I chose the theme Touch, Threads, Transcendence as inspired by the pictures of our featured Photographer, my soul sister, Elena Yamamoto Flores. The quotes found here are also selected by Ms. Flores.
T is for Touch
“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.” – Plato
T is for Threads
An aged man is but a paltry thing,
A tattered coat upon a stick, unless
Soul clasp its hands and sing, and louder sing
For every tatter in its mortal dress.
~William Butler Yeats, Sailing to Byzantium
T is for Transcendence
“It is different for us mortals. We are the ones who become old and grey. We are the ones who become worn at the seams and disappear. But not our dreams. They can live on in other people even after we have gone.”
― Jostein Gaarder, The Solitaire MysteryExcept for the picture of the hand under “Touch”, the two other pictures were part of the photo exhibit entitled “Sulyap sa Buhay nina Lolo at Lola” [A Peek in the Life of Grandma and Grandpa] organized by Institutional Network for Social Action (INSA) and the Social Sciences Department of Miriam College. The exhibit, held on February 17, 2010, was part of the Health and Wellness for the Elderly program created for the improvement of the condition of the elderly specifically among Miriam College’s partner communities in Quezon City. For more information, click here.
How about you? What is your T photo this week? Do leave a link in the Comments Section and I would love to visit your post.
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Yamamoto Flores is a good photographer and I like all the three photos and topics and quotations – especially the last one (maybe because I’m old?):
“It is different for us mortals. We are the ones who become old and grey. We are the ones who become worn at the seams and disappear. But not our dreams. They can live on in other people even after we have gone.”
― Jostein Gaarder, The Solitaire Mystery
P.S.: I read some philosophical books of Jostein Gaarder too – in German language …
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Hi frizztext, you never fail to amaze me. I don’t know any German, except perhaps Danke Schon and Guten Morgen. 🙂 Jostein Gaarder is also a favorite. I read his Sophie’s World and enjoyed it – but I read it in English. 🙂
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Great entry…I can’t decide with photo or quote I like the best. All of them speak volumes in their own way. Excellent!
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Hi TBM, I’m very glad that you enjoyed it. 🙂
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Fascinating photos and congratulations to your featured photographer for capturing the details of the faces so well. Interesting poetry too – I remember ‘Sailing to Byzantium’. I had the privilige of attending the UK premiere of Sir Michael Tippett’s work Byzantium which was based around the Yeats poem – an experience that I will never forget 🙂
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While I love Sailing to Byzantium, it’s really The Second Coming which gets to me. Sir Michael Tippett’s work sounds fascinating, I am sure it must have been an unforgettable experience. 🙂
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Thank you for this post. I am reminded of my great-aunt and my grandmother. They are not in this world anymore, but what they taught me is still with me. 🙂
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Hi Claudia, I am glad that the photos have resonated with you. 🙂
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