Tibor M. Kalman
@kalmantibs
Building a bridge across the Atlantic, with steel beams and rivets. ๐ ๐๏ธ Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. โ Kierkegaard
โWork stops at sunset. Darkness falls over the building site. The sky is filled with stars. "There is the blueprint," they say.โ โ Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities
โLet us forget, with generosity, those who cannot love us.โ โ Pablo Neruda, 1904-1973. ๐๐ผ๐๐๏ธ ๐ท The Thoughts Library


"Mid-summer vibes at Tisza-tรณ (Lake Tisza), in Heves county in northern Hungary." ๐๐ผ๐๐๏ธ ๐ท Photo by Istvรกn Bagginsยฉ๏ธ | Erdei Utakon

"Daybreak in the foothills of the Gerecse mountains in northwestern Hungary." ๐๐ผ๐๐๏ธ ๐ท Photo by Gรกbor Takรกcsยฉ๏ธ | Erdei Utakon

My unsolicited leopard appreciation post. From an early age when I first laid eyes on one, I have been forever fascinated - and a bit awestruck - by these powerful, agile, majestic creatures. All the big cats are amazing. Leopards, for me, are in a league of their own. ๐๐ผ๐๐๏ธ



"Imagination should be used not to escape reality, but to create it." โ Colin Wilson, 1931-2013 ๐๐ผ๐๐๏ธ ๐ท Beat Poems On The Road


"A nestling fรผlemรผle (nightingale) takes a timid, quivering first step, peering out into the world." ๐๐ผ๐๐๏ธ ๐ท Photo by Kรกroly Nagyยฉ๏ธ | Erdei Utakon

โYou are free and that is why you are lost.โ โ Franz Kafka, Letter to His Father, 1919. ๐๐ผ๐๐๏ธ ๐ท Jerico Silvers


"Mount Wilbur and Swiftcurrent Lake, Glacier National Park, Montana, USA." ๐๐ผ๐๐๏ธ ๐ท Photo by Larry Gorlinยฉ๏ธ

โThe price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.โ โ Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854. ๐๐ผ๐๐๏ธ


Intermittently, I enjoy sharing ethereal, poetic forest landscapes from 19th century Russian landscape painter Ivan Shishkin. As much as I recoil from Putin & modern-day Russia, I equally love and appreciate the Russian Arts from centuries past. Praying for peace in Ukraine. ๐๏ธ




โBe the change that you wish to see in the world.โ โ Mahatma Gandhi, 1869-1948 Franco-Belgian cellist Camille Thomas performs Una furtiva lagrima, a romanza from Gaetano Donizettiโs โLโelisir dโamore,โ composed in 1831. ๐๐ผ๐๐๏ธ