De/by Nichita Stănescu; "Timpul ca lumină." Din volumul "Amintiri din prezent". 1985.
From Literature Category:
A poem and some excerpts of essays written by Romanian poet and essayist Nichita Stănescu.
Cu bulgări de zăpadă-n mâini
A poem and some excerpts of essays written by Romanian poet and essayist Nichita Stănescu.
Cu bulgări de zăpadă-n mâini
"Cu bulgări de zăpadă-n mâini
azvârl în focul veşnic.
O zână, ninsă săptămâni,
îmi ţine luna sfeşnic
când, aplecat şi încordat,
în focul veşnic bulgări reci
azvârl, mai alb, mai nepătat
decât au fost în veci.
Se stinge? Nu se stinge, nu!
El arde-n flame lungi şi iată
sprânceana mea-i de fum acu
şi fruntea încordată.
Apă şi foc, gheaţă şi fum, -
azvârl şi strig, azvârl şi strig:
Priviţi-mă, trăiesc şi sunt acum,
şi mă las nins şi nu mi-e frig."
Versuri din volumul "Un pământ numit România (1969)" de Nichita Stănescu
Nichita Stănescu
"Time As Light"
I.
"Any object, when its internal benchmarks are destroyed, melts into light.
Any object has light inherent in its structure. "
"Orice obiect, după distrugerea criteriilor lui interioare, involutiv se transformă în lumină.
Orice obiect este o formă de lumină oprită într-o structură."
II.
"The main function of objects is absorption. As long as the absorption force surpasses the force of emission, the object keeps forming, growing. For all objects, gravitation is the sum of their absorptions, united as a cosmic field."
"Funcţia principală a obiectelor este absorbţia. Atâta timp cât forţa de absorbţie depăşeşte forţa de ejecţie, obiectul se află în formare, în creştere.
Gravitaţia reprezintă suma absorbţiilor obiectelor reunite într-un câmp cosmic."
III.
"One can observe forms of gravitation or absorption in the semi-abstract field of language. Reciprocal repulsions among groups of words have changed them bit by bit into nouns and verbs with a profusion of surrounding hues."
"Forme de gravitaţie sau de absorbţie se pot remarca si în domeniul semiabstract al limbii. Atragerile şi respingerile reciproce între grupurile de cuvinte le-au transformat pe acestea treptat-treptat în substantive şi verbe cu tot soiul de nuanţe înconjurătoare."
IV.
"An absorbing state expressed in terms of feelings corresponds to a state of wonder. An emitting state expressed in feelings corresponds to normality. A state of wonder can cause awe and terror. Normality is a luminous state."
"Starea de absorbţie exprimată prin sentimente corespunde stării de mirare. Stare de ejecţie exprimată prin sentimente corespunde stării firescului. Starea mirării poate produce sublim şi spaimă. Firescul este o stare luminoasă."
V.
"Wonder stops time, and normality, to the contrary, releases it. Time is, in fact, light. In this respect, the smallest unit of time is the photon."
"Mirarea opreşte timpul, iar firescul, dimpotrivă, îl declansează. timpul este de fapt lumină. In acest sens, unitatea cea mai mică de timp este fotonul".
VI.
"The glow of decay in a forest, while I was a child, affected me, put me in a dream state that felt weird. Later, I imagined that light is the state prior to birth and the state after death. Paraphrasing a formula of Coanda : « man is a hydraulic accident », I would say : « man is a luminous accident ». In this respect we might consider solar light as prenatal life, like time not yet structured."
"Luminiscenţa putregaiului dintr-o pădure, copil fiind, m-a pus pe gânduri. Starea lui de vis mi-a dat un sentiment ciudat. Mai târziu mi-am imaginat lumina ca fiind starea de dinainte de naştere şi starea de după moarte. Imitănd o formula a lui Coandă :" omul este un accident hidraulic" aş zice: " omul este un accident al luminii". In acest sens am putea considera lumina solară ca pe o stare prenatală, ca pe un timp neorganizat într-o structură".
VII.
"Sleep creates equilibrium between absorption and emission. It gives evidence of the discontinuity of Lucidity, i. e., of existence. Time grows less organized during sleep. The light becomes internal, becomes feeling, changes itself into luminosity. "
"Somnul echilibrează absobţia cu ejecţia. Face evidentă starea discontinuă a lucidităţii, deci a existenţei. Timpul se dezorganizează în perioada somnului. Lumina devine interioară, devine sentiment, transformându-se în lucioli."
VIII.
"Existence itself, as light’s sleep, offers evidence of its own discontinuity, that is, of time. In this respect one can consider existence as a quanta of time."
"Insăşi existenţa, ca somn al luminii, face evidentă discontinuitatea acesteia şi deci a timpului. In acest sens putem să socotim existenţa ca pe o cuantă de timp."
IX.
"A photon contains within itself the essence of the Universe : time. Transformation of light into existence or existence into light, as I see it now, may be only a metaphor. But what if it ceases to be a metaphor ?"
"Interiorul fotonului ţine esenţa universului: timpul. Transformarea luminii în existenţă şi transformarea existenţei în lumină, aşa cum mi-o inchipui acum, poate fi o metaforă. Dar, dacă nu e numai o metaforă?"
X.
I ask myself whether that nighttime glow in the forest of my childhood was a birth or a death. Whether it was a delay in light’s transformation, its recognition by the senses, or was, to the contrary, the decay of organs radiating halos.
"Mă întreb dacă luminiscenţa aceea nocturnă dintr-o pădure a copilăriei era o naştere sau o moarte. Dacă era o încetinire de lumină până la transformarea ei, închegarea ei în simţuri, sau dimpotrivă dacă era distrugerea de organe emanând lucioli de vis."
XI.
Time is light. But light? What is light ?"
"Timpul este lumină. Dar lumina, ce este lumina?"
Din eseul: "Timpul ca lumină" din volumul "Amintiri din prezent". 1985, Nichita Stănescu/
The essay "Time as light" from the volume "Amintiri din prezent". 1985; Nichita Stănescu
Arhiva foto privată/ Private photos archive.
Source of video: Mel-p: "Yiruma - My Memory"
Album: Winter Sonata
Piano music
From around the web/media, this week:
2016 Warmest Year on Record Globally
according to NASA and NOAA.* Click to read more info about
Excerpts from the article published at Jan. 18, 2017 on www.nasa.gov
"Earth’s 2016 surface temperatures were the warmest since modern recordkeeping began in 1880, according to independent analyses by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
Globally-averaged temperatures in 2016 were 1.78 degrees Fahrenheit (0.99 degrees Celsius) warmer than the mid-20th century mean. This makes 2016 the third year in a row to set a new record for global average surface temperatures.
The 2016 temperatures continue a long-term warming trend, according to analyses by scientists at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York. NOAA scientists concur with the finding that 2016 was the warmest year on record based on separate, independent analyses of the data.
Because weather station locations and measurement practices change over time, there are uncertainties in the interpretation of specific year-to-year global mean temperature differences. However, even taking this into account, NASA estimates 2016 was the warmest year with greater than 95 percent certainty.
“2016 is remarkably the third record year in a row in this series,” said GISS Director Gavin Schmidt. “We don’t expect record years every year, but the ongoing long-term warming trend is clear.”
The planet’s average surface temperature has risen about 2.0 degrees Fahrenheit (1.1 degrees Celsius) since the late 19th century, a change driven largely by increased carbon dioxide and other human-made emissions into the atmosphere.
Most of the warming occurred in the past 35 years, with 16 of the 17 warmest years on record occurring since 2001. Not only was 2016 the warmest year on record, but eight of the 12 months that make up the year – from January through September, with the exception of June – were the warmest on record for those respective months. October, November, and December of 2016 were the second warmest of those months on record – in all three cases, behind records set in 2015."
Sursa/Source: YouTube
Published on Jan 18, 2017
"2016 was the hottest year on record, continuing a decades-long warming trend. Scientists at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) analyzed measurements from 6,300 locations and found that Earth’s average surface temperature has risen about 2.0 degrees Fahrenheit (1.1 degrees Celsius) since the late-19th century, largely a result of human emissions into the atmosphere."
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Kathryn Mersmann
Music credit: In Dreams We Trust by Chris White [PRS] and Guy Hatfield [PRS]
For more information: http://go.nasa.gov/2016climate
This video is public domain and can be downloaded from the Scientific Visualization Studio at: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12475
Source of quotes: Power of Positivity; Positive Energy.
"Time As Light"
I.
"Any object, when its internal benchmarks are destroyed, melts into light.
Any object has light inherent in its structure. "
"Orice obiect, după distrugerea criteriilor lui interioare, involutiv se transformă în lumină.
Orice obiect este o formă de lumină oprită într-o structură."
II.
"The main function of objects is absorption. As long as the absorption force surpasses the force of emission, the object keeps forming, growing. For all objects, gravitation is the sum of their absorptions, united as a cosmic field."
"Funcţia principală a obiectelor este absorbţia. Atâta timp cât forţa de absorbţie depăşeşte forţa de ejecţie, obiectul se află în formare, în creştere.
Gravitaţia reprezintă suma absorbţiilor obiectelor reunite într-un câmp cosmic."
III.
"One can observe forms of gravitation or absorption in the semi-abstract field of language. Reciprocal repulsions among groups of words have changed them bit by bit into nouns and verbs with a profusion of surrounding hues."
"Forme de gravitaţie sau de absorbţie se pot remarca si în domeniul semiabstract al limbii. Atragerile şi respingerile reciproce între grupurile de cuvinte le-au transformat pe acestea treptat-treptat în substantive şi verbe cu tot soiul de nuanţe înconjurătoare."
IV.
"An absorbing state expressed in terms of feelings corresponds to a state of wonder. An emitting state expressed in feelings corresponds to normality. A state of wonder can cause awe and terror. Normality is a luminous state."
"Starea de absorbţie exprimată prin sentimente corespunde stării de mirare. Stare de ejecţie exprimată prin sentimente corespunde stării firescului. Starea mirării poate produce sublim şi spaimă. Firescul este o stare luminoasă."
V.
"Wonder stops time, and normality, to the contrary, releases it. Time is, in fact, light. In this respect, the smallest unit of time is the photon."
"Mirarea opreşte timpul, iar firescul, dimpotrivă, îl declansează. timpul este de fapt lumină. In acest sens, unitatea cea mai mică de timp este fotonul".
VI.
"The glow of decay in a forest, while I was a child, affected me, put me in a dream state that felt weird. Later, I imagined that light is the state prior to birth and the state after death. Paraphrasing a formula of Coanda : « man is a hydraulic accident », I would say : « man is a luminous accident ». In this respect we might consider solar light as prenatal life, like time not yet structured."
"Luminiscenţa putregaiului dintr-o pădure, copil fiind, m-a pus pe gânduri. Starea lui de vis mi-a dat un sentiment ciudat. Mai târziu mi-am imaginat lumina ca fiind starea de dinainte de naştere şi starea de după moarte. Imitănd o formula a lui Coandă :" omul este un accident hidraulic" aş zice: " omul este un accident al luminii". In acest sens am putea considera lumina solară ca pe o stare prenatală, ca pe un timp neorganizat într-o structură".
VII.
"Sleep creates equilibrium between absorption and emission. It gives evidence of the discontinuity of Lucidity, i. e., of existence. Time grows less organized during sleep. The light becomes internal, becomes feeling, changes itself into luminosity. "
"Somnul echilibrează absobţia cu ejecţia. Face evidentă starea discontinuă a lucidităţii, deci a existenţei. Timpul se dezorganizează în perioada somnului. Lumina devine interioară, devine sentiment, transformându-se în lucioli."
VIII.
"Existence itself, as light’s sleep, offers evidence of its own discontinuity, that is, of time. In this respect one can consider existence as a quanta of time."
"Insăşi existenţa, ca somn al luminii, face evidentă discontinuitatea acesteia şi deci a timpului. In acest sens putem să socotim existenţa ca pe o cuantă de timp."
IX.
"A photon contains within itself the essence of the Universe : time. Transformation of light into existence or existence into light, as I see it now, may be only a metaphor. But what if it ceases to be a metaphor ?"
"Interiorul fotonului ţine esenţa universului: timpul. Transformarea luminii în existenţă şi transformarea existenţei în lumină, aşa cum mi-o inchipui acum, poate fi o metaforă. Dar, dacă nu e numai o metaforă?"
X.
I ask myself whether that nighttime glow in the forest of my childhood was a birth or a death. Whether it was a delay in light’s transformation, its recognition by the senses, or was, to the contrary, the decay of organs radiating halos.
"Mă întreb dacă luminiscenţa aceea nocturnă dintr-o pădure a copilăriei era o naştere sau o moarte. Dacă era o încetinire de lumină până la transformarea ei, închegarea ei în simţuri, sau dimpotrivă dacă era distrugerea de organe emanând lucioli de vis."
XI.
Time is light. But light? What is light ?"
"Timpul este lumină. Dar lumina, ce este lumina?"
Din eseul: "Timpul ca lumină" din volumul "Amintiri din prezent". 1985, Nichita Stănescu/
The essay "Time as light" from the volume "Amintiri din prezent". 1985; Nichita Stănescu
Arhiva foto privată/ Private photos archive.
Click to see enlarged views.
Series of photo instants,
up-close & collages;
Edited in color, sepia and/or black & white.
Visions. January.
Private archive.
2017©AlexaT
GândCălător.blogspot.com
Source of video: Mel-p: "Yiruma - My Memory"
Album: Winter Sonata
Piano music
From around the web/media, this week:
2016 Warmest Year on Record Globally
according to NASA and NOAA.* Click to read more info about
Excerpts from the article published at Jan. 18, 2017 on www.nasa.gov
"Earth’s 2016 surface temperatures were the warmest since modern recordkeeping began in 1880, according to independent analyses by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
Globally-averaged temperatures in 2016 were 1.78 degrees Fahrenheit (0.99 degrees Celsius) warmer than the mid-20th century mean. This makes 2016 the third year in a row to set a new record for global average surface temperatures.
The 2016 temperatures continue a long-term warming trend, according to analyses by scientists at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York. NOAA scientists concur with the finding that 2016 was the warmest year on record based on separate, independent analyses of the data.
Because weather station locations and measurement practices change over time, there are uncertainties in the interpretation of specific year-to-year global mean temperature differences. However, even taking this into account, NASA estimates 2016 was the warmest year with greater than 95 percent certainty.
“2016 is remarkably the third record year in a row in this series,” said GISS Director Gavin Schmidt. “We don’t expect record years every year, but the ongoing long-term warming trend is clear.”
The planet’s average surface temperature has risen about 2.0 degrees Fahrenheit (1.1 degrees Celsius) since the late 19th century, a change driven largely by increased carbon dioxide and other human-made emissions into the atmosphere.
Most of the warming occurred in the past 35 years, with 16 of the 17 warmest years on record occurring since 2001. Not only was 2016 the warmest year on record, but eight of the 12 months that make up the year – from January through September, with the exception of June – were the warmest on record for those respective months. October, November, and December of 2016 were the second warmest of those months on record – in all three cases, behind records set in 2015."
Sursa/Source: The planet’s long-term warming trend is seen in this chart of every year’s annual temperature cycle from 1880 to the present, compared to the average temperature from 1880 to 2015.
Record warm years are listed in the column on the right.
Credits: NASA/Joshua Stevens, Earth ObservatorySursa/Source: YouTube
Published on Jan 18, 2017
"2016 was the hottest year on record, continuing a decades-long warming trend. Scientists at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) analyzed measurements from 6,300 locations and found that Earth’s average surface temperature has risen about 2.0 degrees Fahrenheit (1.1 degrees Celsius) since the late-19th century, largely a result of human emissions into the atmosphere."
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Kathryn Mersmann
Music credit: In Dreams We Trust by Chris White [PRS] and Guy Hatfield [PRS]
For more information: http://go.nasa.gov/2016climate
This video is public domain and can be downloaded from the Scientific Visualization Studio at: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12475
*****
Motto:
"Write it on your heart
"Write it on your heart
that every day is the best day in the year.
He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day
who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.
Finish every day and be done with it.
You have done what you could.
Some blunders and absurdities, no doubt crept in.
Forget them as soon as you can, tomorrow is a new day;
begin it well and serenely, with too high a spirit
to be cumbered with your old nonsense.
This new day is too dear,
with its hopes and invitations,
to waste a moment on the yesterdays.*"
*Source Internet:
By Ralph Waldo Emerson in "Collected Poems and Translations".
Happiness starts with yourself.
Be joyful, amazing and never give up to smile!
Stunning things are all over!
Stay positive, today, tomorrow and always!
Rămâi pozitiv, astăzi, mâine și întotdeauna!
So, very thankful, each and every day, to be inspired...
All is well...
