Worrye not about 'being productive,' for thou art not a product. Thou art a star daunsinge yn a hopeful skye. A signal blinking across centuryes and worldes. Thou art a song performid just once and perfectlye.
I have been unbelievably productive today, and I just couldn't be prouder of myself.
"Strictly speaking, no one has a destiny any more, since there is destiny only where one intersects with others."
- The Perfect Crime
youtu.be/L-57FrioeuE?...
A Massive Attack and Tom Waits collaboration? Yes, please!
Finals week, where students and professors forget how everything works but rush twice as much anyway.
Money and rain belong together. The weather itself is an index of the state of this world. Bliss is cloudless, knows no weather. There also comes a cloudless realm of perfect goods, on which no money falls.
—Walter Benjamin, One-Way Street
The only way of knowing a person is to love that person without hope.
— Walter Benjamin, One Way Street
It is not his limit but his completion; freedom and fate embrace each other to form meaning; and given meaning, fate — with its eyes, hitherto severe, suddenly full of light — looks like grace itself.
— Martin Buber, I and Thou
perversion, of vital instincts; and impotence, indeed decay, of the intellect. This is the condition of the entire German bourgeoisie.
— Walter Benjamin, One Way Street
Again and again it has been shown that society's attachment to its familiar and long-since-forfeited life is so rigid as to nullify the genuinely human application of intellect, forethought, even in dire peril. So that in this society the picture of imbecility is complete: uncertainty, indeed
Sadly, as I am sure you are well aware, those who are willing to build the Torment Nexus are very unlikely to heed warnings against building the Torment Nexus.
Relentless robots of want.
Tottering on the brink of apocalypse is fatiguing.
"The fact that the world is illusion follows from its radical imperfection."
- The Perfect Crime
Today is Hana Matsuri in Japan, a flower festival celebrating the birth of Buddha... but amidst all the beauty of the cherry blossoms - be carful what you wish for. Something might actually listen and grant it.
Read more in our 39th #darkspringtide tale below!
🎨 Utagawa Hiroshige
Reuters: Spain’s Prime Minister, on the ceasefire, says Spain 'will not applaud those who set the world on fire just because they turn up with a bucket.”
I can't shake the feeling that we are on the cusp of something horrifying, pretending our day to day will matter as much tomorrow as it does today.
My Kieshiki ceremony was today. I have been given the Homyo Nyu-On, or Serene Gentleness. 🙏🌸
In the land of the blind, and all that.
As a system administrator with over 25 years of experience, I harbor some intensely unpleasant opinions about some software, their developers, and their publishers. Nothing, however, could have prepared me for the ardent hatred I now feel for academic testing software.
She was a dewy, spider-fingered creature who drifted, resolutely uncertain, into my office looking for answers to questions she never finished asking.
"Wherever you are, you are the center of Amida Buddha's compassion."
— Rev. Ai Hironaka, Resident Minister of the Lahaina Hongwanji Mission.
Tarry here a while, and read...
Therapy is a little like Catholicism without the wine: you tell someone your secrets and feelings, they explain how your sins are the cause of these feelings and secrets, you are provided exercises of humiliation and humbling to expiate your sins, and then are told to return next week.
Tiny fists shown actual size.
86 degrees in the evening of March 18 here at the Casita. I have some concerns regarding the coming Summer.
I have the bewildering mandible-petals. I may as well get clicking.