Merry Christmas and a Joyous 2015!

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You may choose a song here and then choose how much to pay for it and which charity may benefit. There are more than 800.

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"Horror Vacui"

As described by Tom Lanoye in Heldere Nachten

Wirklichkeit - When Reality Suddenly Sets In

and everyday life gets transformed.

Hmmmmhhhhh?!

Vanwege "Tuin"

Though I can perfectly well tell the advantages of owning a smartphone or a mobile, I belief I will refrain from doing so a little bit longer.

The main reason is that knowing myself far too well I fear I will get addicted to this constant possibility of communication. Apart from walking like a zombie, it would also stop me from living my life, living the present. I would not hear the word "tuin" when passing some people in Chichester. I would not realise that they are Dutch tourists looking for the entrance to the beautiful Bishop's Garden. An entrance rather hard to find because one has to step through a gate that does not look like a passage at all. I would not turn to them and give them direction. We would have missed so much of the present...

Pride, Despair and Affection

It's like watching a big train crash in slow motion.

Pride, if the most dangerous person you can be with is yourself. Thus the worst of all the deadly sins.

The only remedy:

Manchmal - Sometimes

Manchmal ist es einfach die Weise, wie sich zwei Linien kreuzen, rein zufällig, für immer eingeschrieben, von Ewigkeiten her gedacht, unseres Erkennens harrend.

Sometimes it's just the way two lines cross each other, accidentally, forever engraved, predicted from the beginning, just awaiting our recognition.

Leerstellen - Blank Spaces

This is where the beholder of art has truly to work his imagination to create - the blank spaces that every good work of art should contain.



Whatever is "the pursuit of fun as you find it on Gate Street" - frankly I can imagine it, though your view might quite differ.

BTW Renauld and Jakob for president!!!

A Taste For The Absurd

The Readiness is All*

Just because the world is full of meaning and meaningful, I like the absurd. There are things out there that I do not understand at once, but because deep in my heart I know there is something behind it, my curiosity is triggered. Often this attitude has had an amazing outcome.

Absynthe Minded - Space from verstaerker on Vimeo.

* Hamlet, William Shakespeare...Judging by this talk to both, Michael Pennington and Kenneth Branagh, their favourite line as Hamlet ;)!

The Eye of the Beholder

Surely an eye can never lie. So if you are looking for the truth the eye is the place to behold.

What if a handshake was not just meant to exclude the existence of a weapon, but also to bring you close enough to look whomever straight in the eye...

Gottvertrauen - Trust in God

I'm still wondering about the Muslim who told me right into my face on first sight ever that he perceived that I had a great trust in God.

All this introspection

Soziale Plastik - Social Sculpture*

There's so many aspects to this term. So many we desperately need to dig once again.

Exampli gratia the idea that everybody has a talent in which he or she excels or the fact that we have to take good care of each other.

Charlie Winston | LATELY from Ellis Bahl on Vimeo.

* cf Joseph Beuys

Monochrome

Awfully Bad

translation compared to the original - but then I do not mind people snatching it...

Layers

The Benefit of the Doubt

Running

deep within but everyone can see

Once

I've heard that Jan van Eyck would combine oil and watercolour.

Way Beyond

Quizzical

Sehnsüchtig

Crisis - Diversity

Dizzy

getting lost in all of this colour ;)

Twisting and Turning

Knight-Errant

Colour Me - En Miniature

but never suppose the original is any way like it ;)

Translation

sometimes is not easy, for the depicted could have more dimension than just two. In the process some dimension could get lost or turned into some strange shadow, though in rare cases something also might be added, which could please the beholder - trial and error.

Wilder

because this is where the heart is at.

Rage

"I felt impotent, shackled, unable to stir against the walls of an obscene but unshakable authority." - Thomas Wolfe - I Have A Thing To Tell You

Once I Was Very Puzzled

 by an image and the emotion it evoked in me. Depicted was humility - a paradoxically bewildering view indeed - to subdue out of free will.

You're My Horizon

You are  the thin line of everything I could ever possibly know and perceive. It's a wonderful thought, a great blessing ;)!

Horizon

Indeed there never could be another as long as there is life there is hope ;).

Horizon

There is some horizon, all heaving all the time, a limit to my world, a limit well defined.

Your Sweet Loving Rage

Beating And Breathing

the heart of matter - fiction depends on it

I'm Sorry ;)

but you will never escape. As soon as there is an I there is choice and responsibilty. Free Will - quite determined to be

Consider-

ate

Sometimes I Wonder

about some person's most obviously wonderful inner life. The pensive eyes and hands ;).

Unexpectedly Expected

dream on because it will still fit the fantastic unruliness.

Being At Ease - Sense of Humour

It Comes From A Different Time,

from a  different place, of love and grace

On The Spur Of The Moment

The Things We Lost In The Fire

Root

radix

Start Making Sense

There is no human being without sense, there is no humane being without looking for some sense employing my senses.

Sanftmut - Gentleness

 A person so gentle, you can hear it in his voice, you can see it in his eyes.

Take It, Steal It

I love to steal images from movies, but alas nowadays there are none that would inspire anymore...

Be What It Is

It certainly reminds me of the action of my life ...

How Selfish of Me

to discover and see all the wonderful possibilties of the above.

Somebody To Watch And Listen

Your unruly hair.

Fear of death, fear of the question without answer.

Somebody To Watch

And over me as well

So Shines A Good Deed...

in a weary world

shine on, shine on