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The Dove Keeper Soundtrack (via https://open.spotify.com/user/1183568498/playlist/0xmGmLh0XtEqgxQ9LRYv6Y?si=Hu4f4ESmTv_7A5grC4VCEw)

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Somewhere beyond right and wrong

Somewhere beyond

right and wrong,

there is a field.

I will meet you there. Jalaluddin Rumi

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As you should be kissed - Erich Fried

If I kiss you it is not only your mouth not only your navel not only your lap which I kiss I kiss also your questions and your desires I kiss your thinking your doubts and your courage your love to me and your freedom of me your foot came and that goes away again I kiss you who you are and who you will be tomorrow and later and if my time is over.

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The Promenade by Marc Chagall (1917)

The painting represents the painter holding his wife Bella by her hand, while she calmly floats in the air. In the other hand he holds a small bird, a symbol for their agreement with Nature.

The artist looks at us with a big smile, full of happiness: it’s a beautiful day, he’s having a picnic with his wife, the city they’ve always lived in as a background.  Their happiness is perfect: Bella flies and Chagall holds her by the hand. He looks like he’s flying too thanks to the Love that ties him to the woman. It’s like the two move on different plans: he walks on earth, she’s an angel flying in the sky. The meaning of this picture is that a Love that ties profoundly two people together goes beyond the limits of Nature, it transcends everything else. Bella’s fly means that a reciprocated Love almost goes in an irrational dimension, a Love that flies above everything else.

Chagall first met his future wife, Bella Rosenfeld, when he was working and studying with the painter and theatrical designer Leon Bakst. For the following 35 years, until her death during their wartime exile in the United States, she would be an intensely powerful and positive influence on his development as an artist. Later in life, he would stress her presence in his creative imagination, long after losing her: "She has flown over my pictures for many years, guiding my art."