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This is a day full of firsts. It's the first of the month, it's the first day that my little sister is an adult, and it's the first post of this new blog, Photolumination, a daily photo blog... in progress.
I'm still toying with the idea of this, so we'll just have to see how this goes, but for now I like the idea of having some themed days -- say, Friday is pictures of/to do with nature, Saturday is portraits/people, and Sunday is photos inspired by a song lyric, poem, nursery rhyme, book passage, etc., that I feel like using. And firsts of the month may get a theme of their own. Today would have to be the theme of 'first'... And it's a Sunday to boot, so we get a 'first'-themed photo, and one inspired by the poem "The Winding Stair," by W.B. Yeats--
"My Soul. I summon to the winding ancient stair;
Set all your mind upon the steep ascent,
Upon the broken, crumbling battlement,
Upon the breathless starlit air,
'Upon the star that marks the hidden pole;
Fix every wandering thought upon
That quarter where all thought is done:
Who can distinguish darkness from the soul."
The 'first' theme comes because this picture was taken in my first week staying in Paris last spring, at the lovely Musee Cluny, the national museum of the middle ages, a couple of streets away from my apartment in the Latin Quarter.Set all your mind upon the steep ascent,
Upon the broken, crumbling battlement,
Upon the breathless starlit air,
'Upon the star that marks the hidden pole;
Fix every wandering thought upon
That quarter where all thought is done:
Who can distinguish darkness from the soul."
See you tomorrow!
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