Animal Noble
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Happy Birthday, Dorothea Erxleben! 1715
The title of being “first” has always been a weird classification to me. I find noting intrinsically unique in being the first, except for the calling that prevails. Yet, something can be said about the doors that are opened for others, once one goes through. Born on November 13 of 1715, Dorothea Erxleben became the…
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Beyond language and vocabulary
Thank you, William Shakespeare, Miguel de Cervantes, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe! Where would I be without your poetic tongues?And Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, and Alexander Pushkin, who can be more inspiring to dive and fly in life through your cultural, and equally transcendental wordings?You all understood something beyond our physical being which has had your…
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My Life Coach
Large mirror, naked self, and a mild, sincere smile onto the reflection. (repeat as often as needed)
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Dissecting Hospitality — the guest always sits with a drink at hand
In 1988 I visited the magnificent city of Vienna for the very first time. For the following twelve years I sat in about ten of their traditional Coffeehouses, most of which have been in operation at least 80 years, some over a century. Café Hawelka was my most frequent choice. It was opened in 1939…
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On writing a book, I wonder…
Is it an expansion of my being, or mere storytelling? Is it a wonderful story, or literature? Is it addressing a problem, or a solution?
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That is the selfSimpleSingularMajusculeQuite a featIn the mind with the English tonguewriting it displays a highly concerted and concentrated effortIn that which I prepare to drink or eatand in how I drink or eat itIn the sounds with timing I wish to composethe words I conveyeither for poetryor conversation In the frames I freeze through…
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Life Spices (a collection)
Intention Intensity Introspection
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What happens after death?
Another question I find much more crucial, much more relevant, much more exciting, much more profound, much more spiritual and intellectual: what happens before death?
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The Heart of a Struggle
Every struggle— Inwardly or outwardlyIs not on a winBut on love
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Wordy Men
Happy Birthday to these men of words, born on a 24th of August Join us at the Birthday & Celebration Club, on Clubhouse — August 24, at 1pm EST.
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A Mortar Animal-Noble Perspective
Our intrinsic drive for growth, understanding and preservation requires neither talent nor inspiration. It is rather an organically flowing existential process. Just as heart and lungs pump, it is our natural automatism. This is the animal us – quotidian, ordinary, simple. It may remain that simple, as we hunt, multiply and rest, with which we…
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In joy and duty of the little we know
Clubhouse Notes Room: “Which tools are missing in how we activate knowledge?”Moderators: Ni’coel Stark, Deborah ChiDate: June 19 2021 Understand the reason for acquiring knowledge — to be shared Be creative in sharing knowledge effectively Put it on the table, play with it, visibly (e.g. in conversation)
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