“the shrieks, the moans, the nonsense, and the opacity, which are always in excess of legibility and of the law and which hint at and embody aspirations that are wildly utopian” (SH)
A rosehip freedom dream
Category: landscape
AG2021_2020800a or being itself
“Being itself is relational. […] Our human agency and intentionality transforms the objects of culture into subjects, through the meaning we give to them and the uses we put them to.
[…]
care : a constant attentiveness to the meaning and affect of our entanglement.
[…]
politics : the hard, meaty detail of debate, decision-making, power relationships and status.”
-James Bridle, Ways of Being
“We had fed the heart on fantasies,
The heart’s grown brutal from the fare,
More substance in our enmities
Than in our love; oh, honey-bees
Come build in the empty house of the stare.”
–VI—The Stare’s Nest By My Window, W. B. Yeats.
Bernardo Arévalo, from the progressive Movimiento Semilla party, won Guatemala’s presidential election. (theguardian)
AG2023_1056358a2 or in the scale of things
‘It’s the principle involved–
Truth, Beauty,
Call what you will,
Belittle it …’ Traveling light,
Your lifework, inch-high sculpture
Crammed in a matchbox
Weighs nothing, in the scale of things.
—Matchbox Sculptures by Harry Clifton
Rein by Gustavo Santaolalla for the film, Biutiful, 2010.
AG2023_1066428a or I step quietly … find your shape
It is a good day when I see you,
powder-red bloom
on a floating branch.
Or hear you, sliding your one note
barbershop style.
You are always a distance
from me–I try
to get close.
When the sun has hardly risen,
I step quietly
through the woods,
find your shape. Say
to myself: hide,
desire. Yours are not the kind
of hands
to catch this kind of bird.
– Bird in the Head by Ailish Hopper
AG2023_1056253a, a walking shadow
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more.
–(from Macbeth, spoken by Macbeth) by William Shakespeare
“… to believe that no matter how bad the world gets, there will always be players” (GZ)
AG2023_1870898a is a tendril
“I have faltered in my appointed duty.
It is a small sacrilege, a minor heresy.
[…]
To whom is their offering rendered,
and from whom derived,
these fallen things
[…]
its fragrance is a tendril
connecting my mind to the rain,
a root, a tap, a tether.
–Campbell McGrath, Late Spring.
“There are no ghosts, but up here”—she gestured toward her head—“it’s a haunted house.” (GZ)
Cuckoo Is in the Nest by Daniel Pemberton, Amsterdam.
I ordered my heart to be patient
Bolster our psychological immune system (via theguardian) : position our perspective in a neutral zone rather than see through a negative bias; try to be in present moment; aim for the meaningful and purposeful; accept how, where/when, and what we are while we are in as we experience difficulties in life.
“… And I ordered my heart to be patient: Be neutral as if you were not of me!” – (Mahmoud Darwish)
Life was always arriving
“a gate was … an indication that you had left one space and were entering another. […] life was always arriving. There was always another gate to pass through.
[…]
The greatest pleasures of his life had been when he was by her side, playing or inventing.”
-(GZ)
