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  • Some good clay advice: stop for just a moment

    Beautiful work and heart. Hearing about narratives in his works made me look inside and wonder what would my narratives be? I (still) cannot see them … I felt naked. via Iulia 🙂

  • Japanese Words for “Space”

    Thinking of Christopher Alexander and his Japanese Tea House sequence as I was reading this: “a space in Japanese culture is understood by how it shapes relationships … a room is always filled with invisible structures, regardless of its occupants … For example, traditional tea houses have doors that are narrow and low. This forces…

  • Putting your house in order

    “Putting your house in order, if you can do it, is one of the most comforting activities, and the benefits of it are incalculable.” Leonard Cohen

  • Christopher Alexander on Traditional Elements

    a beautiful illustration of the nature and manifestation of static quality “In a natural unfolding of the building – the wholeness of that configuration itself – generates centers at various key points … Consider an imaginary process in which a generalized building is conceived, in outlines, as a hazy volume … even without knowledge of…

  • Improved Democracy Coming from Kurds in Rojava?

    For context you may want to first watch this video (and if you wish others like it available online): As I understand it Kurds in northern Syria are caught in a war and geopolitical mess. They live in three geographically separated cantons which they have declared as an autonomus entity named Rojava. They seem to…

  • Why Efi?

    Efi, the oldest chicken at Bhudeva, died. I found her unmoving but breathing yesterday and carried her outside to some soft green grass and sunshine, placed her back inside in the evening and found her dead this morning. She had a mixture of grey (her name came from the Hebrew word for gray) and white…

  • Hey

  • Stainless – Shinjuku

    Adam Magyar, Stainless – Shinjuku (excerpt) from Adam Magyar

  • Woman

    At LOTE3 I met Annelieke … I like how her name demands to be said … completely properly. Bembo sent her my way on the day before the even opened … initially we sat down in the company of another person … then it was just the two of us … then there was a…

  • Lenny Kravitz

  • Spiritual, but not religious

    I found this piece of writing, but not journalism from the BBC (brought to my attention by my teacher) to be quite amusing: “Research has suggested “spiritual” people may suffer worse mental health than conventionally religious, agnostic or atheist people. “ What if this spirituality-seeking is an indication that humanity is awakening (or at least…

  • Sir

    There is a common courtesy greeting used here in Romania to greet women pronounced something like “serumuna”. It’s a politeness-enhanced version of the American “ma’am ” and it means I kiss your hand. Elderly men not only use it but will also take a woman’s hand and kiss it. It is deeply ingrained in Romanian…

  • A Beautiful Truth

    I have so much to say around this movie that I prefer to just be quiet.

  • Turns out Ignorance isn’t Bliss

    Amazing to watch a society self-combust: “Three days of national mourning have been declared by the authorities in Egypt after at least 74 people died in clashes between rival football fans in the city of Port Said. Hundreds more were injured as fans invaded the pitch after a match between top-tier clubs … Protest marches are…

  • Facts?

    I’ve been thinking a lot about facts recently … well actually for a long time. Yesterday as I was chopping wood (one of my favorite empty-roaming-mind-activities) some clarity hit me and left me with an understanding that there are three kinds of facts 🙂 Mostly Wrong Most taken for granted facts of life (at least…

  • Woosh Woosh

    When, 6 months ago, we moved out to the village we were gifted with 10 chicks, a mother duck and six ducklings. The chicks have gr   own into cocks and chickens. For a week now the cocks have even began to call out with an off-pitch and somewhat broken cuckadoodledoo of which we are…

  • Good Design?

    One of the last software design projects I partook in was with telecom company who wanted/needed to overhaul their product line. They had new hardware in place and needed new software on top of it – which was the purpose of this project. The software they already had was tragic in every possible way. It…

  • Seeing Energy in Markets

    … I am thinking of food-markets, specifically Romanian food-markets. I’ve visited such markets numerous times in two Romanian cities: in Piatra Neamt (north-east Romania) and now in Cluj-Napoca (north-west) where I live. I’m usually there to shop for food though today I also purchased a (first time for me ever) Christmas tree. Cluj-Napoca is a…

  • No Battery

    No Battery

    A couple days ago we went to shop for some herbs and spices and on the way to the store we stopped for a walk in a nature reserve where many birds visit as they migrate between Europe & Africa as the seasons change. I took the camera (with a hefty long lens) with me…

  • Four Parts of Breath

    This series of articles is a preparation for a series on Pranayama – Yoga’s breathing practices. Before we delve into Pranayama we need to get acquainted with a few general qualities of breathing and a few personal qualities – things that are unique to every individual. This article assumes you are familiar and capable of…