Type one thing and say something else. For example, type the word ‘blue’ while you say ‘red’. You can almost feel how your brain is creating new neuronal connections when you do this.
The good life
Ecological sustainability, self-sufficiency, community building, everyday wisdom
An artist is a sort of emotional or spiritual historian [whose] role is to make you realize the doom and glory of knowing who you are and what you are – James Baldwin
Philosophy
“Religions are big slow poems, while most poems are short, fast religions.” – Les Murray
Poetry
“Poetry for me is not work but pleasure, not a career but a second life—a play within a play.”- Peter Davison
Poetry
The English language is nobody’s special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself. – Derek Walcott
Philosophy
To survive myself I forged you like a weapon,
like an arrow in my bow, a stone in my sling.
(Pablo Neruda)
Poetry
Great was that chase with the hounds for the unattainable meaning
of the world.
And now I am ready to keep running
When the sun rises beyond the borderlands of death.
– Czesław Miłosz
Poetry
Well, if it’s a choice between my personal interest and the good of my country, how can I waver? No one shall say Ninotchka was a bad Russian. – Ernst Lubitsch, Ninotchka
Laughs
