31.7.12
(that hews mountain and continent, Earth, all, out; who, with trickling increment, Veins violets and tall trees makes more and more) Could
Those years and years by of world without event
That in Majorca Alfonso watched the door
30.7.12
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28.7.12
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a common world
What concerns us all and cannot therefore be turned over to the special science of pedagogy is the relation between grown-ups and children in general or, putting it in even more general and exact terms, our attitude toward the fact of natality: the fact that we have all come into the world by being born and that this world is constantly renewed through birth. Educaton is the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume responsibility for it and by the same token save it from that ruin which, except for renewal, except for the coming of the new and young, would be inevitable. And education, too, is where we decide whether we love our children enough not to expel them from our world and leave them to their own devices, nor to strike from their hands their chance of undertaking something new, something unforeseen by us, but to prepare them in advance for the task of renewing a common world.
-Hannah Arendt, Between Past and Future
desk: amsterdam modern
26.7.12
25.7.12
and say how many
Bring me the sunset in a cup,
Reckon the morning's flagons up,
And say how many dew;
Tell me how far the morning leaps,
Tell me what time the weaver sleeps
Who spun the breadths of blue!
-emily dickinson
24.7.12
how to be more patient, less materialistic, and more willing to volunteer time to help others
"jaw-dropping moments made participants feel like they had more time available and made them more patient, less materialistic, and more willing to volunteer time to help others . . . researchers found that the effects that awe has on decision-making and well-being can be explained by awe's ability to actually change our subjective experience of time by slowing it down. Experiences of awe help to bring us into the present moment which, in turn, adjusts our perception of time, influences our decisions, and makes life feel more satisfying than it would otherwise." [here]
23.7.12
21.7.12
play
the experience of joyful play is not something that must be sought on some mystical margin of existence; it can readily be found in the reality of ordinary life
yet within this experienced reality it constitutes a signal of transcendence, because its intrinsic intention points beyond itself
. . . all men have experienced the deathlessness of childhood and we may assume that, even if only once or twice, all men have experienced transcendent joy in adulthood
-peter l. berger
seattle
the point could also be made that many new intellectual departures
have become possible only after the luxuriant complexities accumulated
before them have once more been reduced to surveyable simplicity
-peter berger, a rumor of angels
17.7.12
a flash
the whole of life is learning
to ignite without dependence
on any specific external means . . . it is learning
that the spark, being a flash at the apex and explosion
of all freedoms, can never be subject
to control or to enlightenment,
can never be got by pressing buttons
-t. merton, learning to live
8.7.12
midsummer dream
barefoot on a summer night [edward sharpe and the magnetic zeros]
hop as light as bird from brier; and this ditty, after me, Sing, and dance it trippingly [oberon | wm. shakespeare]
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