Inevitability

When I fully realised that being happily pregnant  I inevitably had to give birth. It can be quite shocking.

Years later while visiting a professor in hospital I couldn't help remembering. I could tell that he was in a pretty bad state and shape.
"Do you know there was an experience I had, which was at once the best and the worst I ever had?" He laughed and replied doubtingly:"The best and the worst at once?!" "Yes", I grinned back, "It was giving birth to my daughter. It was horrible and at the same time I was so happy I could have died." We had another good laugh at it.

Mirror, Mirror

"...Even in that lonely hour when most it feels,
And, to itself, all, all that self reveals -
...Things light or lovely in their acted time,
But now to stern reflection each a crime,
The withering sense of evil unreveal'd
Not cankering less because the more conceal'd
...till Pride awake,
To snatch the mirror from the soul..."
The Corsair, Lord Byron

All or Nothing

All you continentals of Asia, Africa, Europe, Australia, indifferent of place
All you on the numberless islands of the archipelagoes of the sea
And you of centuries hence, when you listen to me
And you, each and everywhere, whom I specify not, but include just the same
Health to you! Good will to you all - from me and America sent
For we acknowledge you all and each
Each of us inevitable
Each of us limitless - each of us with his or her right upon the earth
Each of us allowed the eternal purport of the earth
Each of us as divinely as any is here

Walt Whitman Salut au Monde

Odd Choices

At the moment there is the local Schützenfest going on and my husband and me were invited to the festive ball at the marquee yesterday. The first waltz is reserved to the Schützenkönig, the king of marksmen, and his wife. Instantly I recognised the melody and I was struck by the odd choice, for of course I imagined pictures and moods from the movie - very beautiful and decadently melancholic at the same time.



But they did not dwell long on this emotion, for the next waltz was this ;).

This Is the Story I Never Told Before

Love the way the piano is laughing at the end. There is something in it that is at the same time light and wicked. "But now you're hooked and I don't mind."

Pure Evil

This is pure evil and Ralph Fiennes manages to nail it. Wow! The way Richard almost cries when he thinks of his torments and sufferings. Great, great art!

Skip The Rope

 "As I write , the beauty and commotion of the last few days and nights flow through my body like an intoxication. For, althogh it is still in the preliminary stages of construction, I declared the new Museum van Heedendaagse Kunst (Museum for Contemporary Art) in Ghent open for the first time for an exhibition of forty artists and a retrospective of Marina Abramovic. Perhaps it might sound unusual - opening the back door when the front door isn't ready yet. But it gives me a nice feeling knowing that the museum never really has to be finished, as it were. In other words, that it should never be dead, never be a tomb for art or a nicely paved passageway only for the elite connoisseurs and collectors of art." _ Jan Hoet, A Yardstick or a Step in Flemish and Dutch Painting - From Van Gogh, Ensor, Magritte and Modrian to contemporary artists

 The Museum van Heedendaagse Kunst was later renamed S.M.A.K.!


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