D is for Delight in Impermanence #AtoZChallenge

Dear Readers,

Welcome to the second week of the #Blogging from A to Z  April Challenge 2021. My theme this year is based on the Japanese concept of Ichigo Ichie which means--"What we are experiencing right now will never happen again. And therefore, we must value each moment like a beautiful treasure."

I've put together a collage of such moments which can be seen as chance occurrences, coincidences , pre-destined or random (depending on who you ask) for this month's challenge.

I thank you for spending your precious moments with me today.

Arti

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 "You know how everyone's always saying 'seize the moment'?" She says excitedly. "I don't know, I'm kinda thinkin' it's the other way round. You know, like, the moment seizes us."

This quote is from the end scene of the film Boyhood. 

Although I've seen and love the film, I came across this quote on page 16 of The Book of Ichigo Ichie and decided to use it for today's post because it fits the photo essay that follows.

April 2019, I was roaming the streets of Barcelona when my attention was captured by two young children squealing with such delight that I couldn't help but stop and look.

Dance in abandon. Let the moment seize you.

 Bubbles burst without warning.

Now rainbows--

now a piece of string.

New beginnings are always buried in ends.

Life's effervescence:

joy, sorrow, breath, death.

I'll sign off this post with a short poem I wrote recently. It's called 'a glass teapot' and it wonders about life's impermanence.

A glass teapot

I'd bought 

a few years ago

had a bamboo handle:

a crescent with nodes

polished with care so that it didn't shine 

but looked beautiful

faded like old embroidery

and just as charming.

Kamala, our cleaner,

one day last May,

washed the pot with such force

that the hook that held the handle broke.

Without the hook, the handle lost its use

and without the handle, 

what's a teapot?

I thought: useless,

empty.

I was upset.

Kamala was sorry.

We couldn't undo that which was.

Why do we play with bubbles when we know they'll burst?

And why are glass teapots bought?

Only in impermanence lies the truth of life.

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Has a broken piece of ceramic or glass made you sad -- ever? 

Have you found a new avatar for remnants of your prized possession? 

I'd love to hear, if you'll share:)

And in case, you'd like to relish the beauty of nature's impermanence, then hop on to last year's 'D' post which wandered through dewdrops on deodars and daisies.

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