Flourishing

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My travel, my experience ,nothing I have ever done has given me nearly as much satisfaction as this bit of land . I take deep pleasure in going out every morning and seeing the miraculous changes which have happened, and which are happening, and which will go on happening until the end of our lives.

I live in the red

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”“I’m not comfortable with words. I love images, and I love sounds, and I love feelings. I like the idea of intuition. I think a lot of things in life are understood that way. But you internalize these things; they don’t really pop out. Certain things are built inside – little areas of understanding. I feel that I live in darkness and confusion, and I’m trying, like we all are, to make some sort of sense of it.” ~ David Lynch

A bird of metal and glass

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”After this era of great pilots is gone, as the era of great sea captains has gone — each nudged aside by the march of inventive genius, by steel cogs and copper discs and hair-thin wires on white faces that are dumb, but speak — it will be found, I think, that all the science of flying has been captured in the breadth of an instrument board, but not the religion of it. One day the stars will be as familiar to each man as the landmarks, the curves, and the hills on the road that leads to his door, and one day this will be an airborne life. But by then men will have forgotten how to fly; they will be passengers on machines whose conductors are carefully promoted to familiarity with labelled buttons, and in whose minds the knowledge of the sky and the wind and the way of weather will be extraneous as passing fiction.” Beryl Markham 

Pay attention to details

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On the upper right, a model of an antique Alfa Romeo. To the left of the alpha, John Efron’s ” book about German Jewry, placed on Pinchas Sade’s “Diaries”, placed on a collection of one hundred poems published by Helikon, placed on my Mac. To the left of that, a piece of a face that I tore out from Caravaggio book and next to it an ashtray with touches of gold, inside of it a seashell. Above the ashtray, a small basalt stone that I carried from the Golan Heights and above it, a box containing a cycle of works by the composer and bass player William Parker. Born with a pen name. To his left, a wooden cube by Joseph Beuys, on which are placed three tiny bottles of cognac, in case you notice. Below it, stones I collected. To the left of the stones rests the mass in B by Bach and under it some paperwork, a book by Avraham Halfi and the last Odyssey magazine in the pile, as a solid foundation. In the center of the picture below, lies Begaon. The book of Micah Ullman’s works is open.

Float flying

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One of the most challenging aspects of float flying is glassy water landings where the smooth, reflective water surface makes it difficult to judge altitude. The conventional method of overcoming this lack of reliable reference is to establish yourself on a gradual, constant approach with a consistent airspeed, descent rate, attitude, and power input that can take you all the way to the surface where you can then cut the power to idle and apply appropriate back pressure as the plane slows to a near stop on the water.

Just like consistency is crucial to a glassy water approach and landing, consistency can be a crucial part also in more fluid reflections on keeping a solid center.

To do list

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1 and 19. Read Stevenson lighthouse while listening to Max Richter (three worlds) get upset that I didn’t build it.

  1. Read Oppen just in case i miss the City.
  2. Prepare my ski for winter.
  3. Stay immobile.
  4. Dream about the land.
  5. Learn how to eat the forest.
  6. Play with the little one.
  7. Read Ficciones of Borges and get completely perplexed.
  8. Have a drink
  9. Eat some chocolate and feel guilty.
  10. Bike after eating chocolate.
  11. Listen to ”ascension”, john coltrane songs are always pleasant to the soul and good for love.
  12. Read Amichai to remember.
  13. Make love.
  14. Imitate Coltrane.
  15. Read ”Cataclysmes” to friends who think they are coming Sunday to talk to me about their new business…
  16. Go hiking and pick up more raw acorn.
  17. Re-watch “Kingdowm of heaven” next week and learn how to stand up alone.
  18. Be with myself.

Walkability 1

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“I walk everywhere in the city. Any city. You see everything you need to see for a lifetime. Every emotion. Every condition. Every fashion. Every glory. “Maira Kalman 

“There is nothing more revealing than to see a thinking person walking, just as there is nothing more revealing than to see a walking person thinking… Walking and thinking are in a perpetual relationship that is based on trust.” Thomas Bernhard