Shifting Sands

Photographer Unknown, (Shifting Sands of Time)

“The desert could not be claimed or owned–it was a piece of cloth carried by winds, never held down by stones, and given a hundred shifting names… Its caravans, those strange rambling feasts and cultures, left nothing behind, not an ember. All of us, even those with European homes and children in the distance, wished to remove the clothing of our countries. It was a place of faith. We disappeared into landscape.”
― Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient

Reblogged with many thanks to https://oznagni.tumblr.com

Introspection

“What is interesting and important happens mostly in secret, in places where there is no power.”
― Michael Ondaatje, The Cat’s Table

Afternoon Rest with Bicardi

Photographer Unknown, (Afternoon Rest with Bacardi)

“To rest was to receive all aspects of the world without judgment. A bath in the sea, a fuck with a soldier who never knew your name. Tenderness toward the unknown and anonymous, which was tenderness to the self.”
― Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient

The Couple

Photographer Unknown, (The Couple)

“We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have plunged into and swum up as if rivers of wisdom, characters we have climbed into as if trees, fears we have hidden in as if caves.

I wish for all this to be marked on by body when I am dead. I believe in such cartography – to be marked by nature, not just to label ourselves on a map like the names of rich men and women on buildings. We are communal histories, communal books. We are not owned or monogamous in our taste or experience.”

-Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient

Image reblogged with many thanks to a great site: https://thouartadeadthing.tumblr.com/archive

The Pensive Moment that Altered Life

Photographer Unknown, (The Pensive Moment that Altered Life)

“What is interesting and important happens mostly in secret, in places where there is no power.”
― Michael Ondaatje, The Cat’s Table