March 14, 2010

孩子

Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite,
and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far.
Let your bending in the Archer’s hand be for gladness;
For even as He loves the arrows that flies, so He loves also the bow that is stable

--Kahlil Gibran, "The Prophet"


孩子不是你的,
他們是『生命』對自身的渴慕。
孩子經你而生非自你而來,
與你為伴卻從不屬於你。

你可以給孩子愛而非思想,
他們自有見解。
你可以庇護孩子的身體,但不可以禁錮他們的心靈,
因為孩子的心靈居所,是你即使在夢中也無法企及的明日之屋
奮力向孩子看齊,而不要設法讓他們像你,
因為生命既不走回頭路,也不滯留往昔。

父母是弓,而孩子是充滿生命力的箭,藉由你的力量射向前方。
弓箭手知道無垠路徑上的目標,
祂將盡其所能將你拉開,使祂的箭射得既快且遠,
欣喜的順服它的旨意吧!
因為正如祂愛那飛翔的箭,祂也愛那堅定的弓。

--紀伯倫《孩子》

March 11, 2010

紙膠帶‧試玩

紙膠帶越來越火紅,自從誠品上架之後每次造訪總會多留意新的花色與樣式。和小芳子合購了幾款很喜歡的花色,這算是第一次正式拿出來試試他們的味道。的確,紙膠帶是個難駕馭的東西,本身有底色、花色,加上平面設計的編排,都需要時間思索與取捨。但,仍舊值得玩味,礙於論文期間,手邊花色也有限,只能小酌一下。

最初是從天藍拼貼這張開始的,光是直線的角度、畫面的平衡、線條的間隔,就花了一些力氣。不規則外型那張,是瑕疵品;小瓢蟲則是一時想到的點子,配點點紙膠帶最合適。


書籤系列,走簡約路線,我一向不傾向太繁複,拿出珍藏很久的緞帶為它們加點裝飾。自己蠻喜歡的。



放在喜歡的書本裡,做個紀念,不知道下次玩紙膠帶是什麼時候了。