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| Buddha in the park |
It is said that in Japan, some words have kotodama, which are spirits that live inside a word and give it special power. Kotodama a conjunctive word in its own right, koto means 'speech' and tama means 'spirit' or 'soul' and I like the idea of this - especially for poets but it works for all kinds of writing. We all have a little talisman of some kind, like juxtapose, or serendipity, or incidentally, or incognito (which is a favourite of mine). Its all just mumbled musing of course but there is a magic to some words just as there are to some actions and our sense of what is and is not. Well that's how it all feels at the moment - sans coffee. This picture of Buddha, which i took in San Francisco, has a light flaw in it - probably the sun catching the lens, but its like a ghost of a bubble floating in front of the held up right hand and for that reason it changes the meaning and symbolism of the picture a little (well for me anyway). Its like the captured essence of a kotadama floating by - just once, in a very blue moon.
