Sort of a Friend

Location: West Nusa Tenggara
Poetry:
-The Sort of a Friend-
I'd like to be the sort of friend that
you have been to me;
I'd like to be the help that
you've been always glad to be;
I'd like to mean as much to you
each minute of the day
As you have meant, old friend of mine,
to me along the way.
I'd like to do the big things and
the splendid things for you,
To brush the gray from out your skies
and leave them only blue;
I'd like to say the kindly things that
I so oft have heard,
And feel that I could rouse your soul
the way that mine you've stirred.
I'd like to give you back the joy
that you have given me,
Yet that were wishing you a need
I hope will never be;
I'd like to make you feel as rich as I,
who travel on
Undaunted in the darkest hours with you to
lean upon.
I'm wishing at this time that I
could but repay
A portion of the gladness that
you've strewn along my way;
And could I have one wish this year,
this only would it be:
I'd like to be the sort of friend
that you have been to me.
[Unknown]

Beach Lover

Location: Pantai Losari, Makassar
Quote:
The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient.
One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea.
[Anne Morrow Lindbergh]

Cinta

Location: Pangandaran Beach
Quote:
Ada Cinta, maka penuhlah dunia dengan bahagia
Ada Cinta, maka indahlah hidup sembari tersenyum
Ada Cinta, maka bermaknalah setiap langkah kaki ini
[ReP]

Mesmerize

Location: Bandung, West Java
Quote:
I want to do drawings which touch people.
In figure or landscape I should wish to express.
Not sentimental melancholy, but serious sorrow.
[Vincent van Gogh]

Blue-Shine

Location: Home, Jakarta
Poetry:
All finite things reveal infinitude..
The mountain with its singular bright shade..
Like the blue shine on freshly frozen snow..
The after-light upon ice-burdened pines..
Odor of basswood upon a mountain slope..
A scene beloved of bees..Silence of wate..
[Theodore Roethke]