Verba Volant /
Scripta Manent
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Spoken words fly away /
but writing remains 
via The Treehouse  - Naomi Wolf 
“…This is one of the … words. Its roots sink deep and stretch out far…There is a great moving force therein.
A great moving force and yet again, only a lost sound.
It is a lost sound, when somewhere - in that [...]

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Image: Perseverance (c) Harry Araten 
Backstory / Story with image 
Please note: not all this backstory relates to image/notion above - you may prefer to scroll down to ‘related stories‘ section… 
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"When is the best time to plant a tree?
20 years ago…
When is the best time to plant one?
Now…"
Or if you prefer, [...]

In conversation with Chaim yesterday he mentioned, almost in passing, letting go to "life’s intricate dance".
I’ve been thinking about his words - and thought you might also like to.
As I sit and write I also recall a line from Dr. Seuss’s Oh The Places You’ll Go "I’m afraid that some times you’ll play lonely [...]

I just saw this image and was reminded of something I wanted to blog about almost 2 years ago - "everyone can draw"

If you ask a child if they can draw they will likely say ‘yes’ and grin. They will also likely go draw you something and expect you to see what it is and [...]

"Sound is the rubbing of notes between two drops of water, 

the breath between the note and the silence,

the sound of thought -
To write is to note down the music of the world"

- Helen Cixous

This quote was just emailed to me by a dear friend and storyteller Kaja - telling [...]

"Who Am I Alreay Now That I Can Be?"

- question thanks to Diederick Janse, at The Hub Amsterdam ’s Collaboration Day - thanks for a great conversation all!)

Can Image: Campbell’s Soup 1968 (c) Andy Warhol
[...]

The Point
of Life
is Life
- Goethe
“Don’t search for answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live [...]

Maxim of the ever-wonderful Danish mathematician and poet, the late Piet Hein - author of some of my favourite poems, Grooks. (Gruks).
See below for my two favourites - The Road to Wisdom and T.T.T. - though there are many more I enjoy!
Read some more here. And here. And a bit more about him [...]

This being human is a guest house

Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all! Even if they are a crowd of sorrows, who violently sweep your house empty of its furniture, still treat each guest [...]

‘If I would be like him,
Who would be like me?’
 
- An old quote thanks to the brilliance of Barry, a brother of a beautiful friend of mine, Annie, and my friend too…