vrijdag 14 januari 2022
donderdag 13 januari 2022
woensdag 12 januari 2022
Opnieuw
Eén gedicht is nooit genoeg –
tienduizend evenmin.
Het moet opnieuw, opnieuw,
opnieuw moet iemand schrijven
hoe verliefd, verdrietig, blij
hij – steeds opnieuw moet iemand
daar woorden voor zoeken en
die moeten bij elkaar zoals
ze nog nooit hebben gestaan.
Iemand moet dit lezen.
Steeds opnieuw
voor het eerst.
– Kees Spiering (1958) –
One of the chief reasons we have so much anguish and difficulty in facing death is that we ignore the truth of impermanence.
In our minds, changes always equal loss and suffering.
And if they come, we try to anesthetize ourselves as far as possible.
We assume, stubbornly and unquestioningly, that permanence provides security and impermanence does not.
But in fact impermanence is like some of the people we meet in life—difficult and disturbing at first, but on deeper acquaintance far friendlier and less unnerving than we could have imagined.
- Rigpa Glimpse of the Day -
dinsdag 11 januari 2022
I’m not telling you to make the world better, because I don’t think that progress is necessarily part of the package.
I’m just telling you to live in it.
Not just to endure it, not just to suffer it, not just to pass through it, but to live in it.
To look at it.
To try to get the picture.
To live recklessly.
To take chances.
To make your own work and take pride in it.
- Joan Didion -
maandag 10 januari 2022
ANDERS KIJKEN
Als je blijft kijken zoals je altijd hebt gekeken, zal je blijven denken zoals je altijd hebt gedacht.
En als je blijft denken zoals je altijd hebt gedacht, dan zal je geloven wat je altijd hebt geloofd.
En als je gelooft wat je altijd hebt geloofd, dan zal je blijven doen wat je altijd hebt gedaan.
En als je doet wat je altijd hebt gedaan, dan overkomt je wat je altijd is overkomen.
I always felt it would be like prison to me…if I got to, 'Oh, he’s that.'
It would sort of rip my guts out as a writer…because my writing is based on the idea of transience.
My writing is a very clear understanding that nothing in this world is a real reality.
It’s not something you can hold on to.
It can be something you can enjoy briefly, tentatively for the moment that it’s there…love or a sunset or whatever…but like a sunset…it’s a transitory thing.
And I didn’t want to get locked into being this one thing…
Once I’ve done something and said it the way I felt it should be said, drop it and move on.
-David Bowie-
NITCH
I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes.
Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world.
You’re doing things you’ve never done
before, and more importantly, you’re doing something.
So that’s my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself.
Make new mistakes.
Make glorious, amazing mistakes.
Make mistakes nobody’s ever made before.
Don’t freeze, don’t stop, don’t worry that it isn’t good enough, or it isn’t perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life.
Whatever it is you’re scared of doing, Do it.
Make your mistakes, next year and forever.
- Neil Gaiman -
zondag 9 januari 2022
-Herman De Coninck (1944-1997) -
R.I.P. Marilyn Bergman
forever's a lie.
All we have
is what's between
hello and goodbye.
- Marilyn Bergman -
