The Weird Stuff

Mostly I'm quite aware of the fact that some of the things I (feel compelled to) do are very strange, but then my inner resistance is overwhelmed by the thought that these are the workings of the nuns' prayer.

Take the Tiger On

The dilemma in the psychological test was that one was stuck between a cliff edge and a tiger, and actually only one of us chose to jump down.

Will Power

Resolution should work, just be a little bit stubborn, and if this doesn't work, there is still imagination.

or just reread Stefan Zweig's Schachnovelle/ The Royal Game

Resolve to Revolve

The oddest notions and gods I'm confronted with these days. Apparently there are people taking a totalitarian view on evolution, so much that evolution is everything to them.

In the best case they are only whitewashing their laziness, in the worst they won't even raise a finger to help.

Raindrops on the Arm

to be or not to be, to suffer or to take up arms, evolution or revolution

recognize the choice

and I'd like to add reaction and action

Maddening

So every time I felt mad at my father, he came to me and asked me to smile, just once, just a little bit. And me, I couldn't help but comply.

To and Fro

So some people would be the ones to exactly run to the place all others are running from.

Transformed

“Love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an orientation of character which determines the relatedness of a person to the world as a whole, not toward one “object” of love. If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to the rest of his fellow men, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism. Yet, most people believe that love is constituted by the object, not by the faculty.” - Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving

When I came across this quote, the quotation marks in "object of love" were missing, yet I knew that there had to be some for else the quote would make no sense, for love does not turn the loved one into an object, into something that can be controlled.

"...I'm heading for satisfaction of soul, that's all there is. Let it be my bliss."

Deus Ex Machina

Hopefully there''s always a Boo Radley about, when he is most needed.

Inadvertently - Right

So my deeply felt advice and wish that somebody should make somebody else laugh a lot, has some very practical benefit in these times, apparently it improves the immune system. So any- and everybody please heed it as well.

Longing

- the sublime thought that the essence is holy.

Resilience

To all you Weltuntergangspropheten, you prophets of doom, I sincerely despise your religion of Schadenfreude and know-it-all. The truth goes far beyond your facts.

Abstract

While I can see that people might be disappointed when some people, though their teachings and ideas are good, do not act in the least accordingly. Yet I do not understand why the teachings would get blamed and not the people.

A little bit of abstraction and subtraction might be of use in this situation.

Mittens Blue and Sort of Gold

Virtually talking to a friend yesterday about the fact that Giorgio Agamben's view that the current worldwide crisis is rather one of conviction and faith, I realized that he has a point, but that I on the other hand do not want to be the one spreading the disease. Moreover I have come to understand that while my friend was also concerned about her own well-being, I am only concerned about others, be it my family or some other people I love, some of which I have also been knitting stuff for.

Stay safe and healthy!

Small Blue Thing

quite at odds, sometimes one could and should also see the potential of a freaking situation 

"O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space, (were it not that I have bad dreams)" - William Shakespeare, Hamlet

Can't Help It

rolling on the floor mad with laughter and hilarity


my kind of humour, just having to listen to this at this moment




Don't panic!

which is actually a very futile phrase

Communion

the altogether

Salute

While us Germans were sitting grumbly in the dry warmth inside, the Italians were singing and having a wonderful time amidst the pouring rain.

1988 - Torquay

Aufheben

sublate - preserve - abolish - pick up


Hegel

Gruelling

Keeping track of time until it almost drives you crazy, and yet this fixed idea is the only means of survival in this situation.

Take care!

Shy

"Don't worry, she's got temperament!" The gynaecologist calmed down the midwife during the birth of my first daughter, as I was yelling away the contractions. Though he might be right I am also a rather shy person.

Exercise

the funny side

morning coffee, evening wine

Hin-gabe

devotion dedication

need not be servile

au contraire

my lovely nosy angel

Holy Moly

be

Spicy

Talk to me, but never spell it out.

Daily Reminders

 to uphold the  spirits


all those wonderful things airborne that you shouldn't be afraid of

Gefallsucht

the craving for admiration that will pose the polylemma to perfectly contain and entrap the self

Strip Poker

Remembering the vivd contrast of the warm early summer night and the white of their briefs in my parents' garden

DNA

The soil may be of some great importance to the outcome as one roots deep in it - radical

The Greatest Freedom

It's miraculous in a way, all the people I felt/ feel drawn to at the moment, about and from whom I have been reading - Mr Campion, Mr Southwell, Mr Gerard what drove them, what in the face of their gruesome fate - they were pretty much aware of - made them unafraid?!

Modern

"The problem of architecture as I see it", he (the Professor) told a journalist...," is the problem of all art - the elimination of the human element from the consideration of form.The only perfect building must be a factory, because that is built to house machines, not men."...Two hours later the foreman in charge of the concretemixer came to consult the Professor. He had not moved from where the journalist had left him. - Evelyn Waugh, Decline and Fall, King's Thursday, 1928