My Inspiration for December 2023

This December has been a bittersweet, wistful month for me; a month of a poetic parting and a month of hope for the beautiful days ahead; days of poetry, flowers and love. Poetic images of these December days and nights are still floating in my mind like scenes from a dream, too pure and too beautiful to possibly be real and yet they are; romantic walks at dusk, birds and bats flying aimlessly above the lake, the moon’s reflection in the dark waters, lonely parks and blooming marigolds, December air tinged with melancholy, December air with its scent of winter, endings and farewells…  And still, after a crazy rollercoaster year full of excitement and disappointments, adventures and broken illusions, full of ups and downs in short, December finally brought me calmness, hope and a restored faith in many things.

“My heartUnable to leave my beloved or my homeland.”

(Qahar Aasi)

“And I’m not happyAnd I’m not sad.”

(The Smiths, This Night Has Opened My Eyes)

Krishna and Radha Gambling with Stick Dice by Candlelight, Kartika (October-November); Folio from a Baramasa Series, 1780

Picture found here.

Picture found here.

Unknown, Women before a linga altar (Bhairavi ragini), 1770 – 1780

Deer Park, New Delhi, India. Picture found here.

Marianne Faithfull waiting for a film producer at The National Film Theatre, 4th December 1966.

Photo by Mayank Austen Soofi, found here.

Alone تنها. Art by Airah Shafqat.

Photo by Annie Spratt (Source)

Abbotsford, Melrose, United Kingdom, The Home of Sir Walter Scott.

Previously unseen photographs of Edie Sedgwick by Bert Stern. These photos were shared by @ bertsterntrust on instagram.

Picture found here.

Two pictures above by elise.buch.

Resolute, Cambria — , found here.

Picture by Laura Makabresku.