Vineyard of Bliss

   

Poem 'from In the Garden of Joy' from Túbọ̀sún Ọládàpọ̀. Source: here.

Very Much

Song 'Lost Stars' from Keira Knightly:

 

"We're searching for meaning
But are we all lost stars
Trying to light up the dark?

 

Who are we?
Just a speck of dust within the galaxy
Woe is me
If we're not careful turns into reality

Don't you dare let our best memories bring you sorrow
Yesterday I saw a lion kiss a deer
Turn the page, maybe we'll find a brand new ending"

Nourishment

Oleg Vladimirovich An, 'The Grail' (2006). This work of art is on display at the Embassy of Free Mind in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Commissioned by the Ritman family.

Scene 'Joseph of Arimathea arrives in France with the Grail'. According to a Provencal legend Mary Magdalena and Joseph of Arimathea wanted to secure the holy grail, after Jesus' death, by setting sail to Marseille, France. The Grail was said to have supernatural healing power and to be an infinite source of nourishment.

Try to Build Something, Out on My Own

  

 Music: Elephant, 'Calling' (from Album 'Big Thing' 2022) here

"Well I don't mind if the money's no good
I don't mind if I'm misunderstood
Well I can't be sure that I know what it takes
But I'll take the shot and take my foot off the brakes

Sure, I'll work as hard as I can in this life
For a house, a car, a kid and a wife
But I'll try to build something, out on my own
That can't be torn down, after I'm gone

I think that I have found my calling
I tried to make it disappear
You fear it only leaves me falling
But I don't want to get away from here

Sure, I'll work as hard as I can in this life
For a house, a car, a kid and a wife
But I'll try to build something, out on my own
That can't be torn down, after I'm gone

I think that I have found my calling
I tried to make it disappear
You fear it only leaves me falling
But I don't want to get away from here

I think that I have found my calling
I tried to make it disappear
You fear it only leaves me falling
But I don't want to get away from here

I think that I have found my calling
I tried to make it disappear
You fear it only leaves me falling
But I don't want to get away from here

I think that I have found my calling
I tried to make it disappear
You fear it only leaves me falling
But I don't want to get away from here"

P.S. More lessons of elephant calling: here.

Mondscheinsonate

 A moonlight sonate 

... in music: here.

... in paintings:

 

... in a picture:

P.S. First painting: Homer, 'Sailing by Moonlight' (1880). Second painting: Kawase Hasui, 'Tsuki no Matsushima' (1919). Picture: Rui Telmo Romão, 'As noites já estão frescas, mas o céu alentejano continua limpo para nos maravilhar. Última lua cheia do Verão' (2021). 

Secret Belief

Take your time to read the quote below and put your prejudices on pause. Skip lesbian. Pause on womon and womyn. Skip the last name of the author. She claims that all individual homo sapiens of the female gender have a secret belief. The belief that she is on the edge of madness and is losing control. Almost every woman!

 

 

Question:  Why is it kept secret? Why be on guard? (Is the claim still valid after 44 years?) Please lose control! Show me your temper, appetite, sexuality, feelings, ambition, secret fantasies, and mind. I'll be in a womanlike listening and questioning mode; and not in a manlike problem solving one. And if you want I'll not even ask questions.

P.S. Source: Elana Dykewomon, 'Notes for a Magazine'. In: Sinister Wisdom. A Journal for the Lesbian Imagination in the Arts and Politics. Number 36 (Winter 1988/89), 'Surviving Psychiatric Assault & Creating Emotional Well-Being in Our Communities'. Copy: here.

Metaphysical Optimism

The past 2,500 years (rounded) of western culture summarized by Pouwel Slurink in 'Can Evolution Explain Evil?' (2020):
 

"In this sense, Darwinism puts an end to the ‘metaphysical optimism’ of Parmenides, Pythagoras, Plato, Aquinas, Leibniz, Voltaire, Hegel ... For Platonism, evil comes from a domain in which the perfection of the world has not penetrated or is not properly understood. For Christianity, it results from bad decisions. For Enlightenment thinkers, it result from bad thinking. For Darwinism, ‘evil’ is a somewhat subjective, umbrella term for the many forms of misery that organisms undergo because they are the product of a partly inherently cruel chance process."

P.S. Mount Sarmiento, Chile in the distance, and a sight of HMS Beagle. Drawing made in 1834 by Conrad Martens (1801-1878).. Source: here.

Tell Me About Tomorrow

P.S. This song from Levante can be found: here. The source of the picture: here.

To Seduce with Words

What is love and when does it come - if ever?

Jacques Audiard, in NRC 27-4-2022 (discussion about movie 'Les Olympiades' from 2022): in times of Tinder, the discourse of love is differently than for the generations before. In the movie 'Ma nuit chez Maud' (1969) two people talk all night about love, it doesn't come to sex, they seduce each other with words. For the Tinder generation it is very common to have sex on the first meeting. The question then is: where and when does love begin? Earlier in the prelude to the first sex, now sometime after.

 

Smell of Rain

And 

... taking a long walk,

... drinking a glass of water and consider it not ordinary,

... reading a book 

... - there must be so much more.
 

P.S. The quote is from Brooke Hampton: here. And the picture is from Alessandro Puccinelli: here.