So Deep Is The Night

So Deep Is The Night 
So deep is the night,
No moon tonight,
No friendly star
To guide me with it's light;
Be still my heart,
Silent lest my love
should be returning
From a world far apart.
깊고 깊은 밤.
오늘밤 달도 없고
다정한 별도 없고
날 인도할 빛과 함께
내 가슴은 잠잠해지고
아주, 아주 멀리 있는 
내 사랑이 돌아올 수 있으니 침묵할지어다.
So deep is the night
O lonely night,
on broken wings
My heart has taken flight
And left a dream.
깊고 깊은 밤.
오 참으로 외로운 밤
날개는 부서지고
내 가슴은 하늘을 날아올라
꿈속으로 떠났다
In my dream our 
lips are blending,
Will my dream be 
never ending?
Will your memory 
haunt me till I die?
Alone am I,
Deep into the night,
Waiting for the light,
내 꿈속에서 우리의 입술은 하나가 되니
내 꿈은 끝이 없는 걸까
당신의 대한 기억들은 
내가 죽는 날까지 괴롭히겠지
나 혼자서
깊이 밤으로 빠져들며
빛을 기다린다.
Alone am I,
I wonder why?
Deep is the night.
나 혼자서
왜 그런 걸까
밤은 깊도다.

Mike Yang

James Last Orchestra

Sun Flower (Loss Of Love)
Henry Mancini

Lang Lang plays Chopin Etude Op.10 No.3 in E Major at The Berlin Philharmonic
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When things in your life seem almost too much to handle, when 24 hours in a day are not enough, 
remember the mayonnaise jar... and it's story... 
A professor stood before his philosophy class and had some items in front of him.
When the class began, wordlessly, he picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar 
and proceeded to fill it with golf balls. 
He then asked the students if the jar was full. They agreed that it was. 
The professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured them into the jar. He shook the jar lightly. 
The pebbles rolled into the open areas between the golf balls. 
He then asked the students again if the jar was full. They agreed it was.
The professor next picked up a box of sand and poured it into the jar.
Of course, the sand filled up everything else.
He asked once more if the jar was full. The students responded with an emphatic "yes." 
The professor then produced two cups of coffee from under the table and poured the entire contents 
into the jar, effectively filling the empty space between the sand. 
The students laughed. 
“Now," said the professor, as the laughter subsided,
"I want you to recognize that this jar represents your life. The golf balls are the important things. 
Your family, your children, your faith, your health, your friends, and your favourite passions. 
Things that if everything else was lost and only they remained, your life would still be full. 
The pebbles are the other things that matter. Your job, your house, and your car.
The sand is everything else. The small stuff.”  
"If you put the sand into the jar first," he continued, 
"there is no room for the pebbles or the golf balls. The same goes for life. 
If you spend all your time and energy on the small stuff, you will never have room 
for the things that are important to you.
Pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness. 
Play with your children. Go Fishing, Take time to get medical checkups.
Take your partner out to dinner. Play another 18. There will always be 
time to clean the house and fix the disposal. 
Take care of the golf balls first, the things that really matter. Set your priorities. 
The rest is just sand."

one of the students raised her hand and inquired what the coffee represented. 
The professor smiled. 
"I'm glad you asked. It just goes to show you that no matter how full your life may seem, 
there's always room for a couple of cups of coffee with a friend."
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2013 National Geographic  Traveler Photo Contest

This photo was taken on a month trip to California. I am from the Channel Islands, part of the UK 
so this was an amazing trip for me! Living on a small island it's crazy to go to a country as big as the U.S. 
This was captured on my last day of a four day trip to San Francisco, I'd visited the Bridge earlier that day 
but it has a whole other feeling at night. I wanted to capture the busy movement of the sky passing over a 
city that is alive day or night. This was also my first time experimenting with long exposures 
- this was a 5 minute exposure. (Alex Lacey) 

A lone tree in the Palouse region of Washington state glows brilliantly in the sunlight as clouds pass by, 
isolating it in a band of light. Undulating hills provide depth to the lit scene, captured during the brief 
growing season where the wheat is a rich shade of green. (Jesse Summers) 

Photo taken on a very foggy night at Point Cabrillo, near Mendocino, 
California. The old blacksmith building could only be seen when hit by the 
light of the lighthouse. (Melissa Loeffler)

Snorkeling with a Humpback whale has always been one of my dreams. When this whale (approx. 12m long) 
swam past me I felt it really looked at me, an amazing unforgettable moment! My mind stopped, time seemed to
stop... eye to eye with such a majestic and gentle creature. Swimming with Whales in Tonga is well organized 
and part of their eco tourism. I will certainly do this again. (Conni Weise) 

I was in Iceland driving to another destination when I came across this abandoned stone structure.
Even though the roof was gone, the walls appeared determined to hold strong. (Adrian Fiorino) 

An inexplicably curious sight along Interstate 90 as it passes through Crow Agency, Montana.
A casino sign erected next to a church marks the town's main attraction - two modern structures 
representative of America's history and settlement. (Christine Tharp) 

The eruption of old faithful geyser at night. (Yang Li)

Sea Sky. I was on top of a mountain on the island of Capri, and shot this 
photo while looking down at the sea below. (Diako Mardanbeigi) 

From the 'Sense of Place' category, a couple paddle out for a sunset surf 
 in the coastal surfing town of Byron Bay, Australia. (Ming Nomchong)