Life and other animals

Someone said that in life there are no things, there are processes. Sometimes I like to share the processes I notice, that leave an impression or have impact on me.

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Back to Florence again. Mesmirizing.

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And among all what is happening around, I have the sudden urge to buy myself pair of these....

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Seems like a fitting song. And like many others, should also use this time to watch LOTR again.

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Book thoughts 2

For the cook in me, also from “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to The Galaxy”, about the art of sandwich-making:

“Three knives altogether were required. First there was the knife for the slicing of the bread: a firm, authoritative blade, which imposed a clear and defining will on a loaf. Then there was the butter-spreading knife, which was a whippy little number but still with a firm backbone to it. Early versions had been a little too whippy, but now the combination of flexibility with a core of strength was exactly right to achieve the maximum smoothness and grace of spread.

The chief among the knives, of course, was the carving knife. This was the knife that would not merely impose its will on the medium through which it moved, as did the bread knife; it must work with it, be guided by the grain of the meat, to achieve slices of the most exquisite consistency and translucency that would slide away in filmy folds from the mean hunk of meat.”

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Book thoughts 1

Reading the last part of “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” series, loving it’s soothing effect at times like these. A nice exceprt from the book:

“We live in strange times.

We also live in a strange places: each in a universe of our own. The people with whom we populate our universes are the shadows of whole other universes intersecting with our own. Being able to glance out into this bewildering complexity  of infinite recursion and say things like, “Oh, hi, Ed! Nice tan. How’s Carol?” involves a great deal of filtering skill for which all conscious entities have eventually to develop a capacity in order to protect themselves from the contemplation of the chaos through which they seethe and tumble. So give your kid a break, OK?

Extract from Practical Parenting in a Frantically Demented Universe”

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This is the real secret of life — to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.

Alan Watts

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In order to become good at something we must first truly accept that we suck at that something.

me

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We thought of life by analogy with a journey, a pilgrimage, which had a serious purpose at the end, and the thing was to get to that end, success or whatever it is, maybe heaven after you’re dead. But we missed the point the whole way along. It was a musical thing and you were supposed to sing or to dance while the music was being played

Alan Watts

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It’s been quite a while since I used this place. I somehow just started to need a place where to post some music and words that stick with me sometimes.

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Heather is such an underrated flower.

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Place to be alive.

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Food is art.

From  @emilyblincoe, via UrbanSpoon.

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Summer within.

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As a child, I didn’t like this flower much, but now it’s one of my favourites. The lightness of being.

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Spring is a time of showing off.

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Sometimes ordinary things seem extraordinary.

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Baking like a boss. More from the artist here.