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 [...]

The Equation Of Flying-I

By Catalina Toma | March 9th 2011 | no comments

“When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.” Leonardo [...]

The Mystery Of A Triangle

By Catalina Toma | March 4th 2011 | no comments

Nature welcomes us with rather magnificent landscapes, offering us just wonderful views on the surrounding world. If it wasn’t for the many splendid sunrises, colorful sunsets we [...]

Plundering The Seas

By Catalina Toma | March 2nd 2011 | no comments

As Joseph Conrad once said “There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.” There are people out there who only dream about spending more time down there in the middle of the sea, being carried across the [...]

Dancing On Velvet Grass

By Catalina Toma | March 1st 2011 | no comments

“There was a young lady of Leeds / Who swallowed six packets of seeds / In a month, silly lass / She was covered in grass / And she couldn’t sit down for the weeds!” Despite the weeds, the green grass keeps on making our spring and [...]

The Dance Of Fireflies

By Catalina Toma | February 26th 2011 | no comments

Let there be light to lighten up the forest paths, let there be light to just enjoy them more, let there be light. Just like Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe once rather imperiously uttered such words as “More light!” I [...]

Brothers Into Sleep

By Catalina Toma | February 25th 2011 | no comments

“Sleep, dear Sleep, sweet harlot of the senses, / Delilah of the spirit.” (Christopher Morley)-you may choose to utter these words to whomever you come to consider being your Delilah, yet these words may equally [...]

Going Wild, Wild…Flowers

By Catalina Toma | February 23rd 2011 | no comments

As John Muir once said “Wilderness is not only a haven for native plants and animals but it is also a refuge from society. It’s a place to go to hear the wind and little else, see the stars and the galaxies, smell the pine [...]

Head In The Clouds

By Catalina Toma | February 22nd 2011 | no comments

“What’s fluffy white and floats up high, / Like a pile of cotton in the sky? / And when the wind blows hard and strong, / What very gently floats along? / What brings the rain, what brings the snow, / That showers down on us [...]

Windy, Rainy Mood

By Catalina Toma | February 18th 2011 | no comments

We all have our windy and stormy days. Today I happen to have one such day, a day in which it rains over me and in which the wind keeps on fluttering my hair and my whole being. After all I guess we all carry our own wind and rain within us, letting them [...]

Life At Slow Pace

By Catalina Toma | February 17th 2011 | no comments

They carry their house with them and do almost everything at a slow pace, a very slow pace, enjoying each and every step they take and taking things very easy. This must be the reason why they live [...]

Dance Me To The End Of Love. Artists Belonging To The Animal Kingdom

By Catalina Toma | February 15th 2011 | no comments

“Male 41 tall, bright-eyed, pale but interesting, redhead, enjoys an active lifestyle; Looking for partner with whom to share a combined interest in dancing and a love of unusual foods, looking for companionship and maybe more.”- This [...]

Hopping Around Like Crazy

By Catalina Toma | February 12th 2011 | no comments

“I’m great, » the Lion said—“I reign The monarch of the wood and plain!” / The Elephant replied: “I’m great—No quadruped can mach my weight!” /  “I’m great –no animal has half so long a neck!” said the [...]

Run Ostrich…Run

By Catalina Toma | February 10th 2011 | one comment

I know not what ostriches dream of or whether or not they think about global warming or any other issue that haunts our daily lives on planet earth, yet I dare to make a guess to this respect and choose [...]

I Am A Walrus!

By Catalina Toma | February 9th 2011 | no comments

“The time has come, “the walrus said, “to talk of many things: Of shoes and ships-and sealing wax-of cabbages and kings.” – I could add to these lines once written by Lewis Carroll that I should [...]

Frog Concert

By Catalina Toma | February 8th 2011 | no comments

Today I chose to start the day letting myself guided by the rather funny quote stating that when waking up in the morning, the first thing that one should do is to “…eat a frog. Nothing worse can happen to you all day.” [...]

Pearly Touch Of Time

By Catalina Toma | February 7th 2011 | no comments

“There was once an oyster whose story I tell, / Who found that some sand had got into his shell. / It was only a grain, but it gave him great pain / For oysters have feelings although they’re so plain. / Now, did he berate the harsh workings [...]

Must-ard Writing

By Catalina Toma | February 4th 2011 | no comments

“There was an Old Person of Florence, / Who held mutton chops in abhorrence ; / He purchased a Bustard, / and fried him in Mustard, / Which choked that old person of Florence” - I wish these [...]

Saffron Seduction

By Catalina Toma | February 3rd 2011 | one comment

“I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breathe of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets.” – I woke up today [...]