Beautiful Arunachal!

Land of the Dawn Lit Mountains

March 4, 2024 · Mario Jason Braganza

You Can’t Have It All

Mountains in Ladakh. Click to embiggen And when adulthood fails you, you can still summon the memory of the black swan on the pond of your childhood, the rye bread with peanut butter and bananas your grandmother gave you while the rest of the family slept. There is the voice you can still summon at will, like your mother’s, it will always whisper, you can’t have it all, but there is this....

September 1, 2023 · Mario Jason Braganza

Wade in the …

on a canal outside Keukenhof. click to embiggen If you get there before I do Wade in the Water Tell all of my friends I’m coming too God’s gonna trouble the water Wade in the water Wade in the water, children … 🎵 Feedback on this post? Mail me at feedback@janusworx.com P.S. Subscribe to my mailing list! Forward these posts and letters to your friends and get them to subscribe!...

August 29, 2023 · Mario Jason Braganza

What Makes the Desert Beautiful …

Click the pic for a bigger photo “The stars are beautiful, because of a flower that cannot be seen.” I replied, “Yes, that is so.’ And, without saying anything more, I looked across the ridges of sand that were stretched out before us in the moonlight. “The desert is beautiful,” the little prince added. “What makes the desert beautiful,” said the little prince, “is that somewhere it hides a well …”...

July 1, 2019 · Mario Jason Braganza

Road to Nowhere

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be. — Douglas Adams (Shot on the long, beautiful, northern stretch of the E75, between Ivalo and Utsjoki.) P.S. More photography? Subscribe!

June 24, 2019 · Mario Jason Braganza

Daily Writing, 76 – Mother and Son

Mothers yielding Bibles, contemplating smearing the blood of lamb chops over her doorway. Anything to keep her son alive another day. — Antonia Perdu

September 3, 2018 · Mario Jason Braganza

Daily Writing, 75

In geometry, a cupola is a solid formed by joining two polygons, one (the base) with twice as many edges as the other, by an alternating band of isosceles triangles and rectangles. Well … sod that. In real life, a cupola is sheer poetry!

September 3, 2018 · Mario Jason Braganza

Burn Old Logs …

“Burn old logs. Drink old wine. Read old books. Keep old friends.” — El Sabio Also, travel and visit old towns and listen to the classics! — Me

September 3, 2018 · Mario Jason Braganza

Daily Writing, 73 – River God

“Have you also learned that secret from the river; that there is no such thing as time? #####That the river is everywhere at the same time, at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall, at the ferry, at the current, in the ocean and in the mountains, everywhere and that the present only exists for it, not the shadow of the past nor the shadow of the future....

September 3, 2018 · Mario Jason Braganza

Daily Writing, 72

David, and Other Assorted Treasures. 1 Obviously a pun on this one. ↩︎

September 3, 2018 · Mario Jason Braganza