2021-12-11 SD Writing / Creativity Group in Zoom
Eva selected a book about Tarot cards. A lady picked the number 72. Eva opened page 72 with the Queen of Wand. And I know nothing about Tarot. I will start learning, after I wrote this.
If you have the time and energy to read more of these texts you find them in blog order on this website. Let me know what you associate with them, what you like, what you dislike, what you read in them, how they make you feel …
This is my translation of a Russian poem by Yuri Davidovich Levitansky (Ю́рий Дави́дович Левита́нский). For Russian readers, the original is below. I am still working on the English translation; the poems beautiful simplicity and my thinking about the lyrical sujet pose some challenges. So for the time being, here is the Google translation from the German:
Everyone determines for himself
the consort, his god, wherever he goes.
Serve the idol or follow the prophet
Everyone’s determined for themselves.
Everyone makes a decision on their own initiative
the rapier for the duel, the sword for the battle.
Words of love and power of prayer
everyone determines on their own initiative.
Everyone makes a decision on their own initiative
Visor and armor, walking stick and patch.
And in the end his time in happiness
everyone determines on their own initiative.
Everyone determines for himself
I also choose as best I can
I’m not making a claim to anyone
Everyone determines for themselves
“My life will not make me happy, happiness will make my life.”
Tonight, I watched a movie to relax a little. These were the words said when the film ended. No use going down the road of etymology, assembling the word family, or consulting dictionaries. The word happiness just stands and means. And I am grateful, I can write it down.
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