Life
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Frank Sinatra *XII 12 1915 — The Life You Give
Frank Sinatra, born December 12, 1915, in Hoboken, New Jersey, was a singer, and motion-picture actor who, through a long career and a very public personal life, became one of the most sought-after performers in the entertainment industry; he is often hailed as the greatest American singer of 20th-century popular music. The Aristipposian Poetcelebrates the…
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beyond this?
I imagine — with some sense of logic — that life is our limited term for something vibrant, well beyond our current conception of that which we know physically. I do not claim to know what life is, nor what may be beyond our perception. Yet, the fact that our knowledge seems to be extremely…
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two frameworks for exercising respect /
As a being, respect shall always be granted.
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Marina Abramović *XI 30 1946 — The Life You Give
Marina Abramović, born November 30, 1946, in Belgrade, Yugoslavia [now in Serbia]), is a performance artist known for works that dramatically tested the endurance and limitations of her own body and mind. Abramović was raised in Yugoslavia by parents who fought as Partisans in World War II and were later employed in the communist government…
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C. S. Lewis *XI 29 1898 — The Life You Give
Clive Staples Lewis, born November 29, 1898, Belfast, Ireland [now in Northern Ireland] was scholar, novelist, and author of about 40 books, many of them on Christian apologetics, including The Screwtape Letters and Mere Christianity. His works of greatest lasting fame may be The Chronicles of Narnia, a series of seven children’s books that have…
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Meredith Monk *XI 20 1942 — The Life You Give
Meredith Monk, born Meredith Jane Monk, November 20, 1942, New York City, New York, U.S.A., is the performance artist, a pioneer in the avant-garde, whose work skillfully integrated diverse performance disciplines and media. Monk studied piano and eurythmics from an early age. She earned a B.A. in 1964 from Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York.…
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Prophylactic tears
If one can look at beauty today, and imagine it today disappearing tomorrow, would the tears that come ahead of its disappearance prevent us from allowing it to disappear?
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Love is out of our control
It is for this reason that for years I have avoided defining it, or, at least have refused to see it within the commonly given personified contexts. I can no longer trust societal and human habits of conceptualizing surroundings, and existence, as we succumb to language and communication by the use of single words as…
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Music versus Life
I remember very little of my childhood I can’t recall my parents ever touching meneither to caress, nor to punishI did not know anything about lovetenderness, contact, intimacy, warmthOnly through music did I have a chance to show my feelingsSometimes, when I lie awake at nightI wonder wether I have lived at allIs it the…
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sending you a very different hug, now
At a given time, in the most concise bundle of energy, of emotions, as the lightest of gestures possible, in the shortest form we have ever been able to convey — an sms, a short text — I may send you a hugSuch a short message differs greatly from the use of the phrase at…
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truth be thought
If we can agree that counting our current year makes reference to a much longer human presence and being than two-thousand and twenty-two cycles If we can agree that we retain all we have been — be it by reading about it, by being it, or both why hunger for a truth? If we can…
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Meditation
not to bring one to oneself but to bring one to the essence of us, of all, of everything not to search for beauty, not to avoid what is not beauty rather be beauty
Sila Blume 