Talking In The Night

After a few nights of good rest and sleep, though waking up in the middle of the night as it has become a routine since 2005 when I had my goiter almost completely removed and since then those interrupted nights begun...last night was one of those I barely had any sleep at all and found myself talking in the night...

3 A.M.

The time of the night that finds me awake from time to time... More frequently in the last few years as the day hours aren't enough... The early hours of the morning... sometimes the best time of the entire day... the most creative, innovative, illuminating, thrilling... or simply the time to take my coat, hat and walking stick and go down the memory lane...

Night Watch

Keeping a night watch with my commandos - workers who lay concrete base for the main water retention tank at the side of the shrine. Note that we do not have such a luxurious equipment as concrete mixer. Everything is done manually. So, to boost their morale and keep fatigue away, we made some coffee for us so we don't fall on our noses into the pit, and after initial several hours of concrete mixing and pouring by means of water buckets filled with concrete in half and passed from one to another all the way down to the pit where 'mafundi' (masons, experts) were - and a dinner break, we set off with second mix of concrete. Hopefully, if we do not run out of water, which is quite possible as the water level in my home tank is dangerously low, we may finish the job by today's (yes, it is today already) afternoon...

Poznań By Night

I've just come back from local vision of the venue of the wedding Mass and the reception after the wedding. Great couple of hours spent with the bride and the groom. It felt so good to reconnect, share and do some rehearsal of the wedding Mass in the church in Komorniki, just outside of Poznań.

Night Theme

Helena, your suggestion to consider Van Gogh's 'Starry Night' triggered stream of memories and emotions woven around night theme... I consider myself as a night hawk, who barely sleeps and respects night time as a creative time, full of unexpected twists and turns, unlike a daytime job. I will talk more on this later on this blog as night work, night experiences, night mental and emotional journeys are my world, dear to my heart, fascinating, scary, calling...

Here is your painting, Helena...If not those European type houses, I could consider it as an awesome presentation of African night sky. So many times I was left in awe, speechless, going out and looking up in stars and on other occasions admiring full moon fiercely blasting its lunar light like a pale veil falling over the sleeping landscape...

The term 'stars' made me to travel in my mind and heart to Prague, to Alphonce Mucha's museum in Czech Republic capital city (see also here - https://www.artsy.net/artist/alphonse-mucha). I still recall vividly my first and only (so far) visit to his museum a few years ago. His art is so naturally coming to my framework of art concept and sensitivity to beauty...I love his works, but among them 'The Four Stars' series is among top ones (the picture below is of poor quality - these posters are beautifully done in reality, with 'nightish' palette of colors)...

The Four Stars: The Moon, The Evening Star, The Polestar, The Morning Star -1902

And the all knowing Moon looking upon us over Kiabakari...