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  • From Rags to Riches – A Fashion Misinterpretation

    Upon the return of an old Japanese soul to planet earth, if it were to find itself on the western hemisphere — midtown Manhattan, Milan or in a secluded town of Minnesota — watching a multitude of individuals wearing torn jeans and seeing these garment pieces in store windows with similar or even more expensive…

    October 16, 2020

    Sila Blume

    Culture, Fashion
    aesthetic, blue denim, Boro, Boroboro, Edo Period, Fashion, Japan, Japanese, jeans, wabi sabi
    From Rags to Riches – A Fashion Misinterpretation
  • Words at the Opera — fear

    Siegfried: Is it some skill I need? Tell me! What is this “fearing”? Mime: If you’ve never felt that, you don’t know what fear is. Siegfried: How strange a feeling that must be! “Siegfried”Richard Wagner — music and libretto

    October 15, 2020

    Sila Blume

    Human Condition, Life, Opera
    fear, Life, Mime, psychology, Richard Wagner, Siegfried, the poetic life
  • The Palate Diaries — Two Problems with what is not a Cigar

    Modified Puro (cigar) Recipe Ingredients: 1 ½ handful chopped Romaine lettuce  25 – 30 whole arugula (rocket, rucola) leaves 20 whole and healthy spinach leaves  Gum Arabic or Bermocoll (starch extracts gained from yucca/manioc and other plants, like corn, wheat, or rice Equipment/Utensils A barn or proper storing area, box, with regulated temperature and humidity …

    October 15, 2020

    Sila Blume

    Animal Noble, Language, Palate
    cigars, food, in the now, Palate, Taste
  • Pushing Foretelling

    Here I went, again. After neglecting to finish one coffee serving, hours later I noticed the cup on the counter with some coffee left. Instead of drinking it, or washing it before going to bed, as usual, I wanted to ‘read’ the cup in its dry state the next day. I wanted to see what…

    October 15, 2020

    Sila Blume

    Coffee, Photography, Still Life
    aesthetic, Coffee, foretelling, Photography, porcelain, tasseography, tasseomancy, the poetic life, Undrinkable Coffee Rests, wabi sabi
  • Tree, Animal, Man

    Questions continue to arise, propellers being life, love, condition, spirit, digression, the refined material, the immaterial, the concept of perfection, of climax, no end. Is it not true that the tree, the animal, and man, all ought to be majuscules, like god?

    October 15, 2020

    Sila Blume

    Conversation, Existentialism, Human Condition, ing form, to be, Language, Questions
    God, Homo sapiens, Life
  • kale’i, tona

    Wisdom, science and culture, all seem to agree that the mother who gave birth in her highlands to the coffea berries, through flowering shrubs and trees of the Rubiaceae family, was the beautiful Ethiopia. Today, the traditional Ethiopian coffee rituals continue vibrantly. These entail the whole process needed to brew a cup of coffee —…

    October 14, 2020

    Sila Blume

    Coffee, Culture, Lifestyle, Recipes
    Coffee, Ethiopia, Hospitality, kale’i, ritual, serving, spirituality, tona, tradition
    kale’i, tona
  • Dilemma in the face of Lexika

    =Friendship =Love That is where names and terms confine, whereas poetry transcends lines, road forks, gravities and chains, tombs, deities, loyalties, blood, sin, and surpasses conclusions. Names allow the contentment of the believer, while poetry knows, even in the absence of commonly recognizable surfaces. suprema

    October 14, 2020

    Sila Blume

    Language, Personal Lexicon
    awake, Homo sapiens, noble, the poetic life
  • fake horizon

    October 14, 2020

    Sila Blume

    Photography
    fake, Photography, the poetic life, wabi sabi
    fake horizon
  • Coffee is always a Story

    If you can not tell a story, if you can not listen to stories, why be part of any?

    October 13, 2020

    Sila Blume

    Coffee, Life, Lifestyle
    aesthetic, china, Coffee, Japan, porcelain, Richard Porcelain, stories, storytelling
    Coffee is always a Story
  • What is love…

    without soil, without branches, without its fruit being eaten?

    October 13, 2020

    Sila Blume

    ing form, to be, Life
    loneliness, Love, pain, the poetic life
    What is love…
  • Man shall not live by bread alone — still!

    October 13, 2020

    Sila Blume

    Bread, Quotes
    Bavaria, Bible, Bread, china, Conus aulicus, Deuteronomy 8: 2-3, Heinrich & Co., Homemade, Luke 4: 4, Matthew 4: 4, olive oil, porcelain, rare shells
    Man shall not live by bread alone — still!
  • When a Day foretells itself in Absence

    That was the Richard Wagner week. The New York Metropolitan Opera streamed some of his masterpieces on a daily basis. Today I will be delighting in yesterday’s streaming of Parsifal. Knowing the schedule in advance, has allowed me to prepare each day accordingly, more or less around the operatic work. I knew, therefore, this day…

    October 12, 2020

    Sila Blume

    Coffee, Conversation, Opera
    Coffee, cornbread, daily life, Life, Parsifal, Parzival, Photography, Richard Wagner, the poetic life
    When a Day foretells itself in Absence
  • Words at the Opera

    October 11, 2020

    Sila Blume

    Life
    Life, Love, the poetic life
    Words at the Opera
  • Coffee used to be a Wine

    October 10, 2020

    Sila Blume

    Coffee
    Coffee, Lifestyle, Photography, Still Life
    Coffee used to be a Wine
  • The Imprisoned in Paradise School for an all encompassing Life with Circumstances

    A fear began to simmer as twenty/twenty began. Twenty twenty is a symbol of good vision — actually, a common measurement for average good sight. By March, the entire globe was hiding, like true globalism in unexpected fashion. Very soon I embraced the idea of being imprisoned in paradise. Limitations became the opportunity to unfold,…

    October 9, 2020

    Sila Blume

    Music, Opera
    COVID-19, Die Walküre, Imprisoned in Paradise, James Levine, Jessye Norman, joie de vivre, love in times of Corona, Opera, paradise, Richard Wagner
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