December 2009
19 posts
Endure - Shinobu
The not-happening was so sudden that I stayed there for ever, without knowing, without their knowing me, as if I were under a chair, as if I were lost in the night- so was that which was not, and so have I stayed for ever.
I asked the others after, the women and the men, what they were doing with such confidence and how they had learned their living; they did not actually answer, they went on...
“Human lives…are composed like music. Guided by his sense of beauty, an...”
– //Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being//
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The world is round And so I’ll go around ...
environmental ethics
Bioregionalism gives regionalism an environmental twist. This is the view that natural features should provide the defining conditions for places of community, and that secure and satisfying local lives are led by those who know a place, have learned its lore and who adapt their lifestyle to its affordances by developing its potential within ecological limits. Such a life, the bioregionalists...
“putting something called Nature on a pedestal and admiring it from afar does for...”
– Timothy Morton
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“The re-enchantment of the world through aesthetic experience is also at the same...”
– Theodore Adorno
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“And a woman spoke, saying Tell us of Pain.
And he said:
Your pain is the...”
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Kahlil Gibran, On Pain
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Forgotten while you’re here Remembered for a...
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The question is not whether I can make a difference, but whether I want to be the type of person who tries.