http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1B9nBJHhzI
Chöd. And Peter Greenaway talks about A Zed & Two Noughts
emaho
May 28, 2008 – 5:35 pm
[emaho - a yogic exclamation of joy and realization]
Eight Forms of Happiness a song by Milarepa
Here at this place so high, at red rock fortress of the sky Here at this meeting place which dakinis of the four kinds grace This old man on this site which fills him up with such delight
Experiences so strong [...]
intention
May 27, 2008 – 7:00 pm
A ceremony I had been planning with T. is due to take place this week, but I can’t be in it. R. has offered to be my proxy inside the lodge, for which I’m tremendously grateful. I had set a direction and an intention for this ceremony, and thought a lot about sight and insight, [...]
display
May 27, 2008 – 7:57 am
I was half-listening to RNN news yesterday (out of the corner of my ear so to speak) when I heard someone say “braille”. I wasn’t hallucinating, RNN was actually carrying a news item on Alva’s new braille display. I’m using an old one from Baum at the moment, as support for my Mac’s VoiceOver capabilities. [...]
books
May 26, 2008 – 11:29 pm
There’s this story about my grandfather who wrote in the margin of his chumash, next to the commandment “not to steal”: “but with books it’s allowed.” It used to be the rule in both D.’s and my family that books were always given to us if we expressed a desire for them. Toys and other [...]
photograph
May 26, 2008 – 9:36 pm
Had a very interesting conversation this afternoon about how changes in modality force changes in procedure. Very good that now I need to get my head together and start dealing systematically and practically with this. Also because I want to convey something of this shift, or gap. It appears I’ve been using myself as a [...]
postcolonial
May 26, 2008 – 9:02 am
I’m really posting this for L.: what a great conversation that was, last night. N. who, in contrast to me, was able to go to the Pasar Malam, brought a stack of CD’s. Of course, lots of krontjong, but also Balawan and this: Koman Layang and Sekehe Bali Funk: Gending Bali
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxwC_-AWS9I
blindness
May 25, 2008 – 10:36 pm
J. asked me if I was aware of Jose Saramago’s Novel “Blindness” (”City of the Blind” is the Dutch edition’s title) and I am. It’s been made into a film too, which premiered at Cannes earlier this month. Youtube is awash with trailers and it’s obvious that “Blindness” is considered to be “a good novel”. [...]
inspirational
May 25, 2008 – 11:30 am
Listening to a blind skier on BBC’s “God Slot” (don’t know what the programme is called, something with “Heaven”) and hearing his story described as “inspirational”. How would that be then? Inspirational to other blind people? (Go skiing!)? To sighted people? (Stop moaning, blind people actually ski, so what’s there to complain about!) I’m reminded [...]
socialist
May 25, 2008 – 11:10 am
My grandfather was eighteen, I think, when he became a member of the SDAP. That was entirely logical, considering his working class background (his family came from Oude Pekela), but my grandmother, who was a shopkeeper’s daughter from Beerta joined as well. Even today, Reiderland is the poorest municipality in the Netherlands. At that time, [...]
