Archive for the '2. read' Category

Happy

Thursday, November 24th, 2011

Everyone was amazed by his generosity and he arrived and left a very happy man.

John Specht

The Poor Poet

Monday, November 21st, 2011

The Poor Poet

Mother

Monday, November 21st, 2011

Mother

Gardening

Sunday, November 20th, 2011

Burying human bodies in gardens is allowed under the Burial Laws Amendment Act 1880.

David Wilkes

Quiet

Sunday, November 20th, 2011

A quiet mind is all you need. All else will happen rightly, once your mind is quiet. As the sun on rising makes the world active, so does self-awareness affect changes in the mind. In the light of calm and steady self-awareness inner energies wake up and work miracles without effort on your part

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Exhibition Road

Saturday, November 19th, 2011

Leading to the Royal Albert Hall at its northern end and bordered by the Victoria and Albert Museum on one side and the Natural History Museum and the Science Museum on the other, its various institutions collectively get more visitors a year than Venice […]
The craftsmanship reminds me of Lisbon’s pavements, except it’s too perfect. Nowhere has pavements as poetic as Lisbon.

Justin McGuirk

Mandolin

Friday, November 11th, 2011

My feeling has always been that nobody knows anything. If they did, all these bands they sign would have hits. Warner Brothers did not want Losing My Religion as a single. They were saying, ‘No way! There’s a mandolin on it!’

Peter Buck

Verità

Thursday, November 10th, 2011

Sempre meglio una
brutta verità che
una bella bugia

Complete

Thursday, November 10th, 2011

Kieslowski not only leaves us to interpret the films, he leaves us to complete them. As Stanley Kubrick says in his foreword to the screenplay of The Decalogue: ‘You never see the ideas coming and don’t realise until much later how profoundly they have reached your heart.’

Simon Hattenstone

Unique

Thursday, November 10th, 2011

Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.

Margaret Mead