World Without End

until the bubble finally bursts

and all its wonders are revealed

The Spice of Life

The flipside of freedom and/of choice, you have to take it - even not taking it is a choice - and consequently live with it.


Yet I believe in the second chance at any given moment, the freedom to reverse.


Let it happen.

Spoilt For The Ways of the World

If you have a cake, you can and should but eat it and above all share it.


So as a child I watched this tv-show and there was this shortfilm of a boy who would keep all his sweets to himself, and while the other children played and had a fun time, he grew mean and vicious only looking after his sweet belongings. This episode impressed me a lot.

Stage Hog

I prefer the gentle introverted and yes, there are some pretty shy people, who are great performers for exactly that reason.

Thin Lines

Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live;
Not where I love, but where I am, I die;

- Robert Southwell

The Given Name

the limits of abstraction

as it must never be applied to a person harming her or his essential singularity

Be Silly II

                                                                                                                                                                                        For once we enjoyed life and now we are respectable

Lose your face

Be Silly P. S.

Maybe it is this merry Dutch dance that inspired the strange parade in the fairy tale of the Golden Goose.

Be Silly

A Dutch Carnival tradition that was sadly abolished by the Reformation was to dance a polonaise,  not by holding on to the shoulders of the person in front but by attaching one's nose to his or her bottom.

Be II

As soon as the generals and the politicos

can predict the motions of your mind,

lose it. Leave it as a sign

to mark the false trail, the way

you didn’t go. Be like the fox

who makes more tracks than necessary,

some in the wrong direction.

            Practice resurrection. 
- excerpt from Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front by Wendell Berry, 1973(!)

Root For It

identity is but the boring selfsame

roots may grow and grow, as vast and beautiful as the crown

Mercy Me

as grace stood there, radiantly reflecting upon itself, mercy reached out

Aesthetic Experiences

As I beheld the landscape being eaten by a cold and dark fire.


While Brian Gibbons was citing a poem by Samuel Beckett as part of his lectures on Landsacpes and Introspection, which moved me to tears.

Hardly

According to some psychological survey mentioned in my local paper today, women cry mostly out of surpressed aggressions, whereas men do it out of empathy. Yet also women cry a lot more than men.

Personally I cry out of compassion, joy, fun and love.

Imagine

Cauchon: Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination? - Saint Joan, Bernard Shaw

An Advice Well Taken

So today there was this advice I got: "Be silly" from the lovely people at St. Francis House.

It came in very well because I was worried about how to deal with the situation of having to meet a terminally ill young person who is actually very dear to me.

Paint It Red

fame or infamy

as damnatio memoriae becomes an outdated concept - not that it actually ever worked

Fractured

handle with care

unique

Meinungsmacher/Spindoctor

smear

you never get the essence

yet the distraction is annoying

How To

dare


a burning sensation so close to actually living

Awareness

déjà vu

all these ideas that constantly reappear

Going Places

to think about and marvel at whatever I encounter

today the idea that there is something like the "sleep of security"

is security or a feeling of security designed to lull my senses

so is it actually something to be desired


 security versus foundation

something to run to or something to start from

Concepts

Something Happens

and you can't buy or consume it

Orientation

ex oriente lux

Strength and Power

aus großer Kraft springt Transparenz

Out of great strength jumps lucency

Toujours

always on the move

almost jumping out of the frame

Volition

Heaven and Hell

direction please

the self-serving idiot is getting both

Standing in Line

to be allowed to spend the hard(ly) earned cash in some shop.


Just to keep you from doing, let alone creating.

Seid umschlungen

Be embraced, be entwined

I can't help but feel Catholic about it.

One "hello", "go" and "no", the other "goodbye", "stop" and "yes".