16 Wednesday Feb 2022
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We alone can devalue gold
by not caring
if it falls or rises
in the marketplace.
wherever there is gold
there is a chain, you know,
and if your chain
is gold
so much the worse
for you.
Feathers, shells
and sea-shaped stones
are all as rare.
This could be our revolution:
to love what is plentiful
as much as
what’s scarce.
Alice Walker
12 Saturday Feb 2022
Posted in Jewish wisdom, Jewishness, Shabbes
“Alone I cannot lift my voice in song—Then you come near and sing with me. Our prayers fuse, and a new voice soars. Our bond is beyond voice and voice. Our bond is one of spirit and spirit.”
Rebbe Pinchas Of Koretz
11 Friday Feb 2022
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Somebody asked me the other day, “What do you do?” “I amuse myself by growing old,” I replied. “It’s a full-time job.
08 Tuesday Feb 2022
Posted in INSTRUMENTS, Uncategorized
“What is best in music is not to be found in the notes….I don’t choose what I compose. It chooses me.” Gustav Mahler
04 Friday Feb 2022
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I would like to geometrize the visible
See a willingness in the world of matter
Everything to the gaze exposed as a surface on a volume
It amalgamates tight densities
Behind the coloured screens
A new type of boredom is created
All grey on lights everywhere you can’t see
Begotten worlds that generations have to dig
Dig deep enough to build a sandcastle
What to cling to, before riding into a narrow bridge
Stay with me
27 Thursday Jan 2022
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Knott’s bowl 2022
“This dish was served to Mr Knott, cold, in a bowl, at twelve o’clock noon sharp and at seven p.m. exactly, all the year round.
That is to say that Watt carried in the bowl, full, to the dining-room at those hours, and left it on the table. An hour later he went back and took it away, in whatever state Mr Knott had left it. If the bowl still contained food, then Watt transferred this food to the dog’s dish. But if it was empty, then Watt washed it up, in readiness for the next meal.
So Watt never saw Mr Knott at mealtime. For Mr Knott was never punctual, at his meals. But he was seldom later than twenty minutes, or half an hour. And whether he emptied the bowl, or did not, it never took him more than five minutes to do so, or seven minutes at the outside. So that Mr Knott was never in the dining-room when Watt brought in the bowl, and he was never there either when Watt went back, to take the bowl away. So Watt never saw Mr Knott, never never saw Mr Knott, at mealtime.”
SAMUEL BECKETT: Watt
26 Wednesday Jan 2022
Posted in Sports
There is something primordially powerful about immersing yourself into the water and propelling yourself into motion and silent thought, the daily bustle of the world left to the land. Most of the researches to understand how swimming affects the brain has been done in rats. The researchers found that 20 minutes of moderate-intensity breaststroke swimming improved their cognitive function. My brain must probably be like a zebrafish.
20 Thursday Jan 2022
Since my mouth is almost silent
I love lives that hardly speak.
A tree; and just stop where I stop,
My way is happy again
The docile animal follows me…(…)..
Eternal truths, in silence, teaches.
Umberto Saba, from Il Canzoniere
Umberto Saba, from Il Canzoniere
18 Tuesday Jan 2022
Posted in Memory
10 Monday Jan 2022
Posted in Childhood
“The older I grow, the more I notice that childhood and old age not only meet but are the two most profound states we are given to live. The essence of a being is revealed in them, before or after the efforts, aspirations, ambitions of life. The eyes of the child and those of the old man gaze with the calm candor of one who has not yet entered the masked ball or already left it. And the whole interval seems a vain tumult, an empty commotion, an unnecessary chaos through which we wonder why we had to go through” Marguerite Yourcenar.
Selbstwehr 
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