Spoken Word

Those unassuming looking people who have so much going on in there!

Thank you to them. Inspiring in a really positive way.

hello there miss moneypussy

Sometimes you feel you wanna put up a resistance. Nothing fancy. Even saying thank you to your bus driver can be an 'up yours' to the spoons that don't. Or arguing your point. Or ceding to someone else's point. Or just kinda feeling courageous.

As a person, living one single life, feeling something on the inside can be just as important as manifesting something on the outside. We all gotta look after ourselves.

Also, sometimes, as we all know, actions speak louder than words. And doing something could be so much more clear...oh and clarity is what we all so dearly lack.

A stunner of a quote from Zhuangzi:

"Words are obscured by the ostentatious blossoms of reputation that come with them" (Chapter 2).

ymfy

a wee delight for a wednesday

Weehee! The weight of importance depends on your perception my friend.

failblog.org

snapshot

This photographer, Ma Hongjie, has done a series of photographs of Chinese families outside their homes with all of their possessions. Kind of incredible. And beautiful too. (via ymfy)

advice fatigue

So, it's like poverty fatigue, you hear about something so often and so intensively that you just end up shutting it out. Stories of poverty just don't sell newspapers anymore because people don't want that guilt and pain at the breakfast table thank you very much. And it happens with advice too.

But then something happens to jolt you back, make you think about that issue or situation or advice in a new way.

And that is quite an awesome moment.

20/20 hindsight yadayada, so do it now and then you'll seem cleverer to your future self.

a bientot.

procrastination. or, more positively, brain-regeneration-downtime

1. Hahaha. Oh what a joy it is to know just enough about international politics to find this verry cute. (via www.superpoop.com )

2. Sometimes a positive recharacterisation of procrastination is wholly unhelpful...oh dear.

[uncliched word for wisdom]

"If an action tires your body, but puts your heart at ease, do it."

-Xunzi, Chapter Two, pre-221 BC

The Inheritance of Loss

Boast of Quietness

Writings of light assault the darkness, more prodigious than meteors.

The tall unknowable city takes over the countryside.

Sure of my life and death, I observe the ambitious and would like to understand them.

Their day is greedy as a lariat in the air.

Their night is a rest from the rage within steel, quick to attack.

They speak of humanity.

My humanity is in feeling we are all voices of the same poverty.

They speak of homeland.

My homeland is the rhythm of a guitar, a few portraits, an old sword, the willow grove's visible prayer as evening falls.

Time is living me.

More silent than my shadow, I pass through the loftily covetous multitude.

They are indispensable, singular, worthy of tomorrow.

My name is someone and anyone.

I walk slowly, like someone who comes from so far away he doesn't expect to arrive.

-Jorge Luis Borges. (used as the epigraph in 'The Inheritance of Loss' by Kiran Desai)

Hit me like a punch in the stomach.

The generosity of ideas.

"I see I have made myself a slave to Philosophy, but if I get free of Mr Linus’s business I will resolutely bid adew to it eternally, excepting what I do for my private satisfaction or leave to come out after me. For I see a man must either resolve to put out nothing new or become a slave to defend it."

-Isaac Newton

(via www.youmightfindyourself.com)

Is that fair? Must we defend our ideas? Really our ideas only require defence or assertion in our own view, not in any one else's. That's kind of impossible anyway, convincing someone of your own point of view entirely, or if it is possible, it seems wrong. Ideas are only real for you when they are unique to you I reckon, and when you acknowledge this uniqueness.

Got that? Primo.

G'night.