Saturday, February 11, 2012
Sunday, February 05, 2012
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Crazily we left Brussels at 8 a.m. yesterday (snow, - 14° on the car dashboard) to make for the French coast. We made it & enjoyed a bitterly cold but brightly sunny day & a cosy evening of fruits de mer.
This morning we woke to find the snow had hit France, too. Shakings of the head and shrugs from the women at the fish stall where we buy 3 kilos of coquilles saint jacques. & so a hair-raising departure at 50 km along roads you just had to guess at. Then, by Amiens things were thawing & it was plain sailing back to Brussels by 3 p.m.. Phew.
But then what are birthdays for other than to remind yourself you're alive and each day is there for the taking.
(& I got my ukulele!)
Friday, February 03, 2012
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Saturday, January 28, 2012
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January's notebook
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"so much depends
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sit in the morning
brush your teeth
eat mindfully
wash your bowl
drink tea
walk slowly
read in silence
look at someone gratefully
work with focus
(thanks to the zenhabits website
http://zenhabits.net/archives/)
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decision to radically (actually, not radical at all) change certain habits, i.e. to not instinctively check e-mail or Blogs first thing, to not log on at work until a set time, to not fritter throughout the day on absent-minded searches, to not read news updates when all they do is reiterate the same depressing reports ...
... & instead ... do other (more rewarding) stuff ...
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"The proletarianisation of the lower salaried bourgeoisie is matched at the opposite extreme by the irrationally high remuneration of top managers and bankers (irrational since, as investigations have demonstrated in the US, it tends to be inversely proportional to a company's success). Rather than submit these trends to moralising criticism, we should read them as signs that the capitalist system is no longer capable of self-regulated stability - it threatens, in other words, to run out of control." (Slavoj Zizek, The LRB 26 January 2012)
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"Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea...
S e n c h a I r i M a t c h a
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"from the foot of Mount Fuji"
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Wallace Stevens The Noble Rider and the Sound of Words
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& this arrives during the week ...
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Day is a type when visible
objects change then put
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Sunday, January 22, 2012
Saturday, January 21, 2012
Friday, January 20, 2012
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