The Joy of Swimming

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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.

Childhood before ambitions

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“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.

Tachlis/ תכלס

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Like a bird, man can reach undreamed-of heights as long as he works his wings. Should he relax them for but one minute, however, he plummets downward.

(Rabbi Yisrael Salanter)

חיים שאל ממך נתתה לו
Life he requested of You, You gave it to him. (Tehillim 21:5)

Hashem, I am asking for life from You – but not the life of an animal who merely exists to fulfill its bodily desires. I am asking for a life in which each day I can work to fulfill the tachlis of why You put me here in this world.

Thin periscope

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When I look at you

A reed smell comes to me

Thin periscope

Discreet among all the chirping and bird songs

It’s all about echolocation

Tonight

I wanted to let the sky enter my foundations

Widen the walls

Surprise the slow sway of the branches in the wind

Everything changed

My building no longer needs columns or a water jet

I started looking for air holes that would break the sonorous magma of the city

The envelope of my building is no longer an envelope.

The walls are no longer walls

I told you about Herzog’s diary

How he had undertaken a twenty two days march from Munich to Paris

Against the fate of the imminent death of Lotte Eisner

Haw at the end he walks into the sick room declaring

Open the window for the past few days I have been able to fly

So do I

Variety of meanings

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Feeling nostalgic today. Longing for the past. Not mine but ours. We have fallen into an eternal present where everything that happens is obsessively ′′ cartographed “. The chance to process has vanished as time has vanished, losing the ability to transform into memory. Every fact equals another. In the background there is insisting an endless comment and the feeling is that it’s an empty talk, which never really exists, since there’s no longer a real object of conversation, of comparison. There are no longer events that surpass us and on the track of which we are stubbornly standing. Nothing that deserves to be archived in the remittance of Memory and History.

And then, inevitably, I remember the last Fellini, the one of the moon’s voice, when the naive protagonist, melancholy poet and in love, summarily says: ′′ Yet I believe that if there was a bit of silence, everyone Let’s keep quiet, maybe we can understand something “.