A moments silence

Japan
Christchurch

Virtual selves

   seeing illusion

How does our brain have a sense of self? There is of course evidence that brain damage such as a stroke can leave a person not knowing they have a left hand for example. Alternatively if a limb is lost then the brain still has a sense of it
Virtual selves.  Mind blowing!
We are equipped to make sense of incoming information via the senses - but what about change blindness??
Baffling!

Loss and grieving

Just a passing thought as I continue to mourn the loss of the relationship I had with JH .....

I think of all the things I am doing and planning that I will now not be able to share with JH. Every little thing I do - cooing a ncie meal, walking in the sunshine, watching the colours of sunsets, enthusiasm for a new programme or film, a new book a art exhibition, amazing conversatons with friends - and so it goes on.

And I think of all the things and experiences that JH will now be having with someone else and not me. And all that was possible.

Ouch! Need to stop thinking.

I know it is how it is.

I am super sensitive. And I guess that was just not OK by him

Dark side

I want to read the recent book from Kevin Brockmeier - The Illumination.

Unlike James Turrell yet similarities

 

 

 

Serpentine Gallery

Please be kind if I'm in a mess

Cigarettes and chocolate milk
These are just a couple of my cravings
Everything it seems I like's a little bit stronger
A little bit thicker, a little bit harmful for me

If I should buy jellybeans
Have to eat them all in just one sitting
Everything it seems I like's a little bit sweeter
A little bit fatter, a little bit harmful for me

And then there's those other things
Which for several reasons we wont mention
Everything about em is a little bit stranger, a little bit harder
A little bit deadly

It isn't very smart
Tends to make one part
So brokenhearted

Sitting here remembering me
Always been a shoe made for the city
Go ahead accuse me of just singing about places
With scrappy boys faces have general run of the town

Playing with prodigal sons
Take a lot of sentimental valiums
Cant expect the world to be your raggedy andy
While running on empty you little old doll with a frown

You got to keep in the game
Retaining mystique while facing forward
I suggest a reading of lesson in tightropes
Or surfing your high hopes or adios kansas

It isn't very smart
Tends to make one part
So brokenhearted

Still there's not a show on my back
Holes or a friendly intervention
Im just a little bit heiress, a little bit irish
A little bit tower of pisa
Whenever I see ya
So please be kind if Im a mess

Cigarettes and chocolate milk
Cigarettes and chocolate milk

Rufus Wainwright

Notes on a parley

Stevie Smith - Not Waving But Drowning
Nobody heard him, the dead man,
But still he lay moaning:
I was much further out than you thought
And not waving but drowning.

Poor chap, he always loved larking
And now he's dead
It must have been too cold for him his heart gave way,
They said.

Oh, no no no, it was too cold always
(Still the dead one lay moaning)
I was much too far out all my life
And not waving but drowning.

Making new souls out of old trainers


Be an optimist, e.g. next week will be better, without overplanning the outcome.

Taking everyday as it comes with a positive attitude.

There is also preparation or planning to introduce to this.

So this does mean having a direction and investment in the future - commitment towards something.

I wish for everyone to have contentment and it is not for me to judge someone elses version of that.

It's all a matter of perspective - who or what is perceived as good or bad
ie someone who lives under a tarpaulin and scratching around for food, a wealthy person can look like bad and selfish and grreedy.

Wisdom comes from being detached from an individuals situation and also with age :)

Nice little chat
Bliss
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