It is better to let some beautiful little things happen every day| No. 1384
Memories of Montefontaine, Corot [France]
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Author: Aldridge [United States]
Read the poem for you: Huang Bo | actor
My heart has forgotten a thousand things
For example, the date of the war and the death of the king
But I remembered that hour
The clock tower in the village is at noon
The last sunny day of May
The cool breeze blows lively
Blew the creek beside the road
Then, stop here and sow
The scent of pine trees, again from the wild rose trees
Lazily shake off the two petals
(Translator: Ma Yongbo)
- About the Author -
Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836–1907) was an American writer and poet. He is the author of the poetry collections "The Ballad of the Bell", "Flowers and Thorns", and "Windham Tower".
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Memories always carve deep and shallow dents in our hearts, and they are touched and reminisced by us from time to time, most of them will be consumed by the tides of time, but some of them can always be renewed. In a one-dimensional life, our whole life seems to be made up of a series of memories, which vary in size and have their own texture and luster.
When we were young, our memories were pure and abundant, the swinging fan in our mother's hand on summer nights, the clumsy handwriting on the homework book, and the tree-lined paths full of shadows of the trees that we rode through... It seems that everything can be included in the album of memory in the most moving form, but as we grow older, people begin to pay attention only to the so-called important things, so that the memory becomes outlined, it is no longer like the scattering of hazy shimmer, it becomes one focus after another, bright but dazzling.
Unlike ordinary people, the poet Aldridge has always stared at those seemingly insignificant but spiritual things, and he chooses to forget the grand narrative, but remembers such an ordinary noon village. The "lively" breeze, the "blown-up" stream, the swaying petals... How vivid. So, make a little space for those beautiful but "tiny" things, the container of memory is limited, and don't fill it all with "big things".
On the first sunny day of May, let us start collecting those ordinary and beautiful memories from this moment on, recording this May that will appear frequently in life but is the only one, and perhaps on a leisurely afternoon, you will bury yourself in a rocking chair by the window, rubbing your memories, like a family treasure.
Text/LinZhong Road
- Poetry Music -
The soundtrack is edited from Better Tomorrow by Chinese cellist Tina Guo, from the album Better Tomorrow-Single.
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Huang Bo: Chinese mainland the most popular actor, the national film emperor with double guarantee of word-of-mouth box office. Representative works include "Crazy Stone", "Bullfighting", "Dear", "Dragon Hunting" and so on. The suspenseful brain-burning movie "Memory Master" is in the national hit.