Pragmatism

The faction of the absolute either/or will always accuse you of it, yet true change in attitudes can almost always only be brought about by little steps.


Pas

Rolling My Eyes

So you've resolved to agree with Mr Cave and far from resolving anything, this is exactly the point where all the troubles set in. Yet this is also where it gets interesting.

Matters of the Heart III

Through all the gentle coarseness, the lovely reluctance that in the end will be overcome due to the overflowing cordiality mirrored in the eyes.



".. I prefer a smart heart instead of a smart head..." - Arno Hintjens

Matters of the Heart II

L'avenir, the things to come. Taking one step further, deploying the same Latin root of "advenire" - which is of course also in advent - it will be an adventure.

All the times I longed for it one, two, three, four, five, etc ...



Definitely a ladies' man!

Matters of the Heart I - Postscript

Do not fret my capacities feel enormous.

Matters of the Heart I

aka matters so very close to my heart

I rather like the fact that it says "Word Porn".

And just to add another dimesion, sometimes it's just gratifying enough to know that one is needed.  I love you because you need me.

Hooked And Plugged

"Night and day, day and night my heart is hooked on her." - Elle adore le noir (pour sortir le soir), TC Matic


Or Mother's Eyes - feels a little bit like father and son, though not exactly.

Attitude

So after having told the story of how he once chased after a member of his audience because this person openly expressed his relief at Hamlet's death ("Well, finally!"), the immensely popular actor sang this song. Basically it is about a guy who is planning to take revenge on all women and break their hearts because his materialistic ex-girlfriend left him for a rich guy.




Basically a satirical song even exposing the ridiculousness of the boy's attitude.

And now for something completely different. My love!

Mr Cave Has Said It - And I Agree

“It doesn’t matter whether God exists or not – we must reach as if he does.” - Nick Cave

Last Year in Maastricht at the Zusters onder Bogen (the Sisters under the Arc) I heard a passionate sermon to the same effect. There has to be a relation. There has to be metaphyics.

Hit

Sometimes reality strikes until one must give way. Yet do not fret, there is always imagination.





"There's a power beneath."

Irreducible

Once you've reached the point, when it is impossible to reduce any more because if you boil it down further, it will get stuck or burnt.

Well of Joy

I'd wish to laugh until I cry, like when  I first shared my bedroom with my brother, and my mother remembers that we couldn't stop laughing - my literal comrade.

The mouths overflowing with laughter.

Openess

    "ein faulsein; ist nicht rühren keinen finger; ist nicht tun keinen handgriff" - Ernst Jandl, Das Öffnen und Schließen des Mundes

"a being lazy; is not to move no finger; is not to do no hand movement" - Ernst Jandl, The Opening and Closing of the Mouth

Interesting to define matters in a negative way, yet if you do not want to cofine your mind, if you really want to discover something, it's quite sufficient to have a faint idea of what something is not.

An Interesting Reason

to grow weary of life


To Richard Burton life simply one day became too rich and beautiful.

Confrontation III

Whereas, at the event commemorating the Holocaust the Lutheran priest uttered some beautiful sentiments that were also rather edifying, his Roman Catholic colleague rather confronted the attendees with the crimes their ancestors had committed while his eyes were blazing eternal damnation.

Dangling

"I was beside the master craftsman, delighting him day after day, ever at play in his presence, at play everywhere on his earth, delighting to be with the children of men." - Proverbs 8 30-31


Now this is wisdom to you - play on, play on my dear!

Food For Thought

though too much thinking ought to be avoided

"When an artist begins to count strokes instead of regarding nature he is lost. This preoccupation with technique, at the expense of truth and sincerity, is the principal fault I find in much of the work of modern painters." - Joaquín Sorolla

Confrontation II

There is probably no way to avoid getting literally one's hands dirty.


Or rather, it's a pity manual labour has such a bad reputation nowadays.

Confrontation

taking it in all at once

Why Have a Soul II

when it's yours to lose?!



not your usual siren

Arachne

Little spider persistently crawling over my hand while I'm trying to knit.

Verklaring - Statement

by J.H. Speenhoff (1904!)

Excerpts: "I love all women...I love all women and I never felt sorry for this, and not to brew any evil I love them in turn....I love the whole of life, living for a woman, in order to give a thing to each of them I am faithful to all of them."



But the moral at the end is that though he loves all women, not a single one loves him.

Body And ?

Such curses used to work,  at least to the extend that there was really no need for any punishment in this world.

Who actually believes in a soul nowadays?

Lalalala

as it opens up

you shouldn't feel the same distance to everything

be a person of qualities and characteristics

Impossibly

twisting and turning

yet imageable

Mea Culpa

What are you going to do, whom can you turn to, when you have done something irrevocable, something you regret already the very instant it happens? Who will forgive you? Who will provide the second chance again and again?

My Troll

Just like an unwieldly force of nature you skillfully capture all the things you endeavour to undertake. So you just grabbed the saxophone and though the teacher said it was impossible you played on your gum because the permanent teeth were still missing.

Just

like a force of nature

Hand und Fuß haben

to have hand and foot - to be substantial or make sense

Vantage Point

Maybe there is always more than one direction, just look hard enough!