… requires both our hearts and our heads. To find what is meaningful, we must find what truly matters. Finding what truly matters uses our hearts, because evidence of what matters comes from our emotional responses. But it also uses our heads, because we must reflect critically on our initially responses to avoid the errors to which emotions are prone.
Andrew Kernohan, “A Guide for the Godless – The Secular Path to Meaning”
Now Europe is no longer boring. It used to be like an instruction manual for a fridge-freezer in 20 languages. It is now like a Bunuel movie or a Dostoyevsky novel, compelling but bewildering. And scary. Even the main characters no longer understand the plot.
Todd Chilton | Split, 2011, Oil on linen, 18 x 16 inches
Found on pappy´s tumblr.
Well put:
German Pavilion Giardini, (Source: www.flickr.com/photos/happyfamousartists/)
How many languages do you speak, Herr Werner?
Not too many, I mean: Spanish, English, German, and then I spoke modern Greek better than English once. I made a film in modern Greek, but that’s because in school I learned Latin and ancient Greek, so from modern Greek to ancient Greek it’s not that far. And I do speak Italian and I do understand French but I refuse to speak it. The last thing you could ever do … you can only get some French out of me with a gun pointed at my head.
Thanks to a dear someone.
If wisdom’s ways you wisely seek,
Five things observe with care,
To whom you speak,
Of whom you speak,
And how, and when, and where.
C. L. Ingalls, De Smet, November 15th, 1881
Dito.
The first look means a doubt: is there someone inside drawing the hands? Of course not but we had to check it out. First me, then my daughter. Both of us were driven by the same childish curiosity. This very nice piece of design is located in the basement of the museum, close to a stairway, almost hidden. So, don’t you just pass by but take some time out.
"Grandfather Clock", Maarten Baas, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Dec.10, 2010, 11:38 a.m.
