Too Much In The Sun

Posted in: Environment, Featured by Catalina Toma | March 24th 2011 | no comments

Turn off the lights please! Make it day time! And there came the day with its breaking dawns and its bright sun… What if I end up wishing I could turn off and on in whatever moment pleases me the light of the sun or the light of the moon? If you had a button that would [...]

How Is Your Nose?

By Catalina Toma | April 14th 2011 | no comments

“Only the nose knows, / Where the nose goes, / When the door close.” (Muhammad Ali) The nose goes wherever you take it…this being applicable in the case of humans and animals as well, mainly because the same nose has made up its mind to [...]

Trees Growing Old

By Catalina Toma | April 4th 2011 | no comments

“Today I have grown taller from walking with the trees.”-Karle Wilson Baker There still happen to be plenty of trees out there, as many as we allow them to be at times, yet those which happen to survive do it in their [...]

Never Do A Tango With An Eskimo

By Catalina Toma | March 28th 2011 | no comments

“Time for the weather report. It’s cold out folks. Bonecrushing cold. The kind of cold which will wrench the spirit out of a young man, or forge it into steel.”- (Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, [...]

Beyond The Hour

By Catalina Toma | March 26th 2011 | no comments

“Take nothing but pictures. / Leave nothing but footprints. / Kill nothing but time.”- This gets to be known as the Motto of the Baltimore Grotto, a caving society, yet it [...]

Life As Dust

By Catalina Toma | March 26th 2011 | no comments

“One life- a little gleam of time between two eternities.”(Thomas Carlyle) Once I read this line I started wondering if life in fact was nothing else but a “gleam of time” between two tiny dust particles, [...]

Primitive Light-II

By Catalina Toma | March 25th 2011 | no comments

“It’s the night that makes the dawning. / It’s the depths that make the heights. / It’s the roots that make the branches / It’s the darkness that gives birth to Light.” (Joel Heathcote, The Architect of [...]

Primitive Light

By Catalina Toma | March 25th 2011 | no comments

“In the beginning there was nothing. God said, ‘Let there be light!’ And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better.” (Ellen DeGeneres) The scene of nature must have looked [...]

Too Much In The Sun -II

By Catalina Toma | March 24th 2011 | no comments

“Busy old full, unruly sun, / Why dost thou thus / Through windows, and through curtains call on us?”- John Donne once asked this question yet it may as well end up being a question on almost each and everyone’s lips when [...]

Asphalt Tango Jungle

By Catalina Toma | March 22nd 2011 | no comments

It happens to me mostly in the middle of the week, mainly because in the first days following the weekend I happen to feel somehow more relaxed and ready to face a new week…Right there in the middle of the [...]

Enslaving Web -II

By Catalina Toma | March 21st 2011 | no comments

“Will you walk into my parlor?” said the spider to the fly; / “’Tis the prettiest little parlor that ever you did spy. / The way into my parlor is up a winding stair, / And I have [...]

Enslaving Web-I

By Catalina Toma | March 21st 2011 | no comments

“Sorry I’m not home right now / I’m walking into spider webs” Some call it a junction of threads, others may see in it only as a crossing point one spared by the  coming and going of cars, others may only interpret it as a [...]

Migration And Songs-II

By Catalina Toma | March 18th 2011 | no comments

Have you ever wondered how many migrating routes can one take? First there is the path of silence, then there is the path of adventure and last but not least important I guess there come the watery path and the [...]

Migration And Songs

By Catalina Toma | March 18th 2011 | no comments

“Migration. Isn’t that what it’s all about? We’re all, by the standard definition of the word, migrating, moving from place to place, hither and yon. Atoms migrate within molecules. Teeth migrate within mouths (though we’d [...]

Shaking The Unpredictable

By Catalina Toma | March 14th 2011 | no comments

Shake, shook, shaken...is this just a completely aleatory verb? Is it a dance movement, perhaps one executed by those enchanting belly dancers some watch with unhidden fascination or perhaps it is just some [...]

The Feathered Painter In Me-II

By Catalina Toma | March 11th 2011 | no comments

“Once upon a time, there was a bird. He was adorned with two perfect wings and with glossy, colorful, marvelous feathers. In short, he was a creature made to fly about freely in the sky, bringing joy to [...]

The Feathered Painter In Me-I

By Catalina Toma | March 11th 2011 | no comments

« Hear how the birds, on ev’ry blooming spray, / With joyous musick wake the dawning day. » Alexander Pope was the one who said this, yet I tend to think that though the birds make the music of the first hours of the morning, [...]

Dancing On The Waves

By Catalina Toma | March 10th 2011 | no comments

“Sit in reverie, and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.”- I wish these words belonged to me yet they belong to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. I decided to make waves today so let there be plenty of [...]

The Equation Of Flying-II

By Catalina Toma | March 9th 2011 | no comments

I guess most of you have already had the chance to watch the by now famous movie entitled 88 minutes. A matter of life or death gets to be debated within 88 minutes. Either envisaged as a short or a [...]