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北费城秘鲁葡萄牙风味小吃——阳台酒馆，它位于归心谷有色金属与镍合金废料工厂(Thalheimer Brothers LLC)的对面，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手工线帽(Chullo)、草帽(Andreana Hat)或羊驼披肩(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(Seafood Chowder)和秘鲁国粹——小鸟白兰地(Pisco)，感觉食材一旦经过油煎烘烤乱炖，定会如法炮制出亚非拉欧味道。

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

(美洲土著之地州神慈城——“上帝加添·农田主”家庭农场 05-18-1991)

Cades Cove @ Great Smoky Mountains NP, TN

(蜿蜒州大烟山国家公园·杜松湾 05-31-1992)

Middleton Place (1738) of Natl Hist Landmark District in Colonial Style, SC

(南自由者州《国家古迹》·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

(纽约高贵圣徒大教堂·青铜门上方的浅浮雕 05-14-1994)

Bridalveil Fall and El Capitan @ Yosemite NP, CA

(火炉州灰熊国家公园·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

(新野猪州千岛湖·冒险城堡船库 05-29-1997)

Washington Arch @ Washington Square, NYC

(纽约睿智农场公园·睿智农场拱门 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

(德国首都河道耙市·议会大厦 05-25-2001)

The New York Times Bldg in Neo-Gothic & French Renaissance (1922–1924) @ 229 West 43^rd 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 1^st Mother Day in Front of Thomas Kinkate's Painting, NJ

(新州“双·战斗领袖”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“双·战斗领袖”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

(宾州强悍峡谷州立公园·学前班预科生在六匹马车瀑布前 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)

1^st Grade of Cosmic Team @ Olympics of Montgomery ES, PA

(宾州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)

3^rd Grader @ Four Seasons by Leon Frederic @ Philadelphia Museum of Art

(费城艺术博物馆狮子·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

(圣洁女王州神一样酒馆·兄妹俩与外婆 05-24-2014)

6^th Grader @ Art Show of North Penn School District, PA

(北宾州学区艺术展览·初一生 05-28-2015)

7^th Grader @ West End Bridge over Ohio River, the Confluence of the Allegheny & Monongahela Rivers in Pittsburgh, PA

(宾州沟城水流河与塌岸河交汇处的大水河上西大桥·初二生 05-29-2016)

8^th Grader @ Château Frontenac in Quebec, Canada

(加拿大海峡市新法国城堡酒店·初三生 05-28-2017)

9^th 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)

10^th Grader @ Lailai Garden, PA

(宾州来来花园酒家·高二生 05-04-2019)

Trail @ Jenkins Arboretum & Gardens, PA

(宾州小神慈植物园·步道 02-20-2020)

Order of Wrist Corsage & Boutonniere for Prom @ A Flower Affair, PA

(宾州花事商店·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)

Mother's Day @ El Balconcito in North Philadelphia

(北费城阳台酒馆·母亲节 05-14-2023)

Peruvian Cuisine @ El Balconcito in North Philadelphia

(北费城阳台酒馆·秘鲁风味 05-14-2023)

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