2023-05-14 Mother's Day

【Looking Across the Fields and Watching the Birds Fly (1952)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955) Among the more irritating minor ideas Of Mr. Homburg during his visits home To Concord, at the edge of things, was this: To think away the grass, the trees, the clouds, Not to transform them into other things, Is only what the sun does every day, Until we say to ourselves that there may be A pensive nature, a mechanical And slightly detestable operandum, free From man's ghost, larger and yet a little like, Without his literature and without his gods… No doubt we live beyond ourselves in air, In an element that does not do for us, so well, that which we do for ourselves, too big, A thing not planned for imagery or belief, Not one of the masculine myths we used to make, A transparency through which the swallow weaves, Without any form or any sense of form, What we know in what we see, what we feel in what We hear, what we are, beyond mystic disputation, In the tumult of integrations out of the sky, And what we think, a breathing like the wind, A moving part of a motion, a discovery Part of a discovery, a change part of a change, A sharing of color and being part of it. The afternoon is visibly a source, Too wide, too irised, to be more than calm, Too much like thinking to be less than thought, Obscurest parent, obscurest patriarch, A daily majesty of meditation, That comes and goes in silences of its own. We think, then as the sun shines or does not. We think as wind skitters on a pond in a field Or we put mantles on our words because The same wind, rising and rising, makes a sound Like the last muting of winter as it ends. A new scholar replacing an older one reflects A moment on this fantasia. He seeks For a human that can be accounted for. The spirit comes from the body of the world, Or so Mr. Homburg thought: the body of a world Whose blunt laws make an affectation of mind, The mannerism of nature caught in a glass And there become a spirit's mannerism, A glass aswarm with things going as far as they can. —— • —— • —— • —— • —— • —— • —— • —— 【《眺望田野看鸟群飞翔》(1952)】 异乡人·史蒂文斯(1879生—1955卒) 【红霞译】 那些甚为抓狂的辅助理念 出自高堡先生往返 和谐老家探亲途中,事物的边缘,无外乎: 要看得开草丛、树木、云彩, 别把它们变成另外的东西, 毕竟那是太阳的日常事务, 直到我们暗想可能有 沉思天性,死脑筋 又蛮讨厌的操作,不像 人类幽灵,比较夸张但有点相似, 没有文学且缺乏神灵…… 我们确实在空气中超越自己, 并非自我建构的物质世界里, 至此,我们为自己做的事,太大, 排除隐喻或信仰的东西, 不是我们过去打造的男性神话之一, 燕子编织的透明, 毫无任何形式或任何形式感, 我们的所知得于我们的所见,我们的所感得于 我们的所闻,我们的所在,超越神秘的争论, 得于破天而降的融合体, 而我们的所想,飞快地飘动, 运作的活动部分,发现 的觉知部分,变化的更改部分, 共享色彩并成为它的其中部分。 午后显然是源头, 宽广、虹彩、以至无法平静, 很像思考却不是思想, 最隐晦的父母,最隐晦的元老, 每天庄重沉思, 它悄悄地来又静静地去。 我们思考,无论太阳照耀与否。 我们思考如同风掠过田野中的池塘 或者我们继承衣钵因为 同样的风,越来越大,发出声响 就像冬季结束时最后的消音。 新学者取代老专家反映出 这首幻想曲的状态。他寻 找一位能道明白的人。 灵魂归咎于世界的肉体, 也许高堡先生就这么想:一个世界的肉体 其生硬的法则让心灵矫揉造作, 被困在玻璃杯中的大自然风格 在那里变成灵魂风格, 玻璃杯盛满尽其所能的东西。 【注】出于好奇,今天我们把母亲节午餐锁定在名不见经传的北费城“兄弟之爱”秘鲁“富饶之地”葡萄牙风味美食——小阳台酒馆,它位于从事有色金属与镍合金废料废料加工的塔尔海默“山谷居民”兄弟有限公司(Thalheimer Brothers LLC)对面,背后不远处便是华人社区闻名的香港超市,很多前来就餐的食客佩戴安第斯“高山脊”手工线帽(Chullo)、安德烈亚纳“勇敢”帽(Andreana Hat)或利克拉“羊驼披肩”(Lliklla),看得出附近有不少秘鲁移民。这家馆子主要提供油炸海鲜、肉类烧烤、海鲜杂烩和秘鲁国粹——皮斯科“鸟”烈酒(Pisco),常见的食材经这里油煎烘烤熟炖,如法炮制出混搭的融合菜肴,人间至味是烟火。
小阳台酒馆不大,因此我们的出现立刻引起大家的注意,几乎每位食客都投来了热情的目光,让本来只图尝鲜的我们竟横生做客的错觉。 Today in History(历史上的今天): 2017:Aiden's English Writing Class(儿歌英文写作班招生启事) Joe Huber's Family Farm @ Evansville, IN
(印第安纳“美洲土著之地”州埃文斯维尔“河城”——约瑟夫·胡贝尔“神赐·大片土地”家庭农场 05-18-1991) Cades Cove @ Great Smoky Mountains NP, TN
(田纳西“聚集地”州大烟山国家公园·凯兹“圣洁”湾 05-31-1992) Middleton Place (1738) of National Register of Historic Places in Colonial Style, SC
(南卡罗莱纳“自由者”州《国家史迹名录》·建于1738年殖民式“居中安置地种植园”05-22-1993) 
Bas Relief above Bronze Doors of St Patrick Cathedral, NYC (纽约圣帕特里克“高贵”大教堂·青铜门上方的浅浮雕 05-14-1994) Bridalveil Fall & El Capitan @ Yosemite NP, CA
(加利福尼亚“火炉”州优胜美地国家公园·新娘面纱瀑布与酋长岩 05-31-1995) American Natural History Museum, NYC
(纽约美洲自然历史博物馆 05-12-1996) Boat House of Boldt Castle @ Thousand Islands, NY
(纽约“新紫杉树之地”州千岛湖·博尔特“勇敢”城堡船库 05-29-1997) Washington Arch @ Washington Square, NYC
(纽约华盛顿“睿智农家”公园·华盛顿拱门 05-02-1998) Tower-of-Jewels of Longwood Gardens, PA
(宾州长木公园·野蓝蓟 05-01-1999) 
English Garden of Duke Garden, NJ (新州公爵花园·英式庭院 05-22-2000) Reichstag Parliament Bldg in Berlin, Germany
(德国首都柏林“沼泽”·议会大厦 05-25-2001) The New York Times Bldg in Neo-Gothic & French Renaissance (1922–1924) @ 229 West 43rd St, NYC
(纽约建于1922—24年间的《纽约时报》大厦·新哥特与法国文艺复兴式 05-04-2002) 
> 2-Mo-Old Baby @ the 1st Mother Day in Front of Thomas Kinkate's Painting, NJ (新泽西“草”州托马斯·金凯德“双·岩石之巅”绘画前——两个多月大的娃第一个母亲节 05-11-2003)
Toddler-I w/ Alice & Jessica, NJ
(新州·小幼儿生与继松和奕的女儿 05-22-2004) Toddler-II @ Singing in Sight of High Country Meadow by Thomas Kinkade Studio, PA
(宾州托马斯·金凯德工作室《高原草甸》——大幼儿生演唱 05-31-2005) Preschool-I @ Intrepid Museum, NYC
(纽约无畏号航舰博物馆·小幼童生 05-29-2006) Preschool-II @ Colleague Leslie's Garden, PA
(宾州同事莱斯利“冬青园”后院·大幼童生 05-13-2007) 
Pre-Kindergartener in Front of Conestoga Fall @ Ricketts Glen SP, PA (宾州里基茨“强大统治者之子”峡谷州立公园·学前班预科生在康内斯托加“六匹马车”瀑布前 05-24-2008) Kindergartener w/ Bionicle Jetrax T6 @ Backyard, PA
(宾州本家后院·学前班生手握生化战士 05-22-2009) 1st Grade of Cosmic Team @ Olympics of Montgomery ES, PA
(宾州蒙哥马利“巨人山”小学奥林匹克运动会·小学一年级宇宙队 05-28-2010) Brother & Siste w/ Grandma (兄妹俩与外婆 05-05-2011)
3rd Grader @ Four Seasons by Leon Frederic @ Philadelphia Museum of Art
(费城艺术博物馆莱昂·弗雷德里克“狮子·和平统治者”《四季》——小学三年级生 05-05-2012) Brother & Sister w/ Music Scores @ Home, PA
(宾州本家·兄妹俩的乐谱 05-18-2013) Brother, Sister, & Grandma @ Michie Tavern, VA
(弗吉尼亚“圣洁女王”州神一样酒馆·兄妹俩与外婆 05-24-2014) 6th Grader @ Art Show of North Penn School District, PA
(北宾州学区艺术展览·初一生 05-28-2015) 7th Grader @ West End Bridge over Ohio River, the Confluence of the Allegheny & Monongahela Rivers in Pittsburgh, PA
(宾州匹斯堡“设防城镇”阿勒格尼“美河”与莫农加希拉“塌岸"河交汇处的俄亥俄“大水”河上西大桥·初二生 05-29-2016) 8th Grader @ Château Frontenac in Quebec, Canada
(加拿大魁北克“海峡”市芳堤娜“喷泉”城堡酒店·初三生 05-28-2017) 9th Grader @ AP Chinese of Guanghua Chinese School, PA
(宾州光华中文学校中文大学预科班·高一生 05-06-2018) 
10th Grader @ Lailai Garden, PA
(宾州来来花园酒家·高二生 05-04-2019)
Trail @ Jenkins Arboretum & Gardens, PA
(宾州詹金斯“神慈之子”植物园·步道 02-20-2020) Order of Wrist Corsage & Boutonniere for Prom @ A Flower Affair, PA
(宾州花之恋商店·为高中毕业舞会订购手腕花环和胸花 05-22-2021) Freshman @ 1 University Pl (1930), NYC
(纽约1930年建造的大学广场1号大厦·大学一年级新生 05-16-2022) El Balconcito in Peruvian (费城小阳台酒馆·秘鲁风味)
Mother's Day @ El Balconcito in North Philadelphia
(北费城小阳台酒馆·母亲节 05-14-2023)
Peruvian Cuisine @ El Balconcito in North Philadelphia
(北费城小阳台酒馆·秘鲁风味 05-14-2023) Thalheimer Brothers Opposite to El Balconcito
(位于小阳台酒馆对面的塔尔海默兄弟工厂 05-14-2023)
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