Friends=Strangers

We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the

moment during which we knew them. And they have changed since then. To pretend

that they and we ar the same is a useful and convenient social convention which 

must sometimes be broken. We must also remember that at every meeting we are 

meeting a stranger. 

 

Wise words from T.S. Eliot, The Cocktail Party. 

He is right, is not he? 

Photo from: Paul Klee. Tightrope Walker. 1923 | MoMA

Pittura Metafisica

"The Great Metaphysician"  by Giuseppe Maria Alberto Giorgio de Chirico.

What do You see and how this makes You feel?

Past and Future

"The past is unpredictable; the future is inevitable."

This sentence from the final scene of HBO series Fargo, Season 3, Epizode 10 just blows my mind!

How do You understand it?

Picture from Wikipedia.

The Catcher in the Rye

This wonderful book reminded me of some very important topics. I would read it over and over again, just love it.

“I’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot.” J. D. Salinger. Applies!

I also like this one: “What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn’t happen much, though.”

Photo from The Catcher in the Rye Quotes - J. D. Salinger - Lib Quotes

Garden as Philosophical Concept

I am blessed with two big gardens: Pronoia Garden and Aletheia Garden.

There are so many beautiful quotes about garden and gardening, here I chose three:

Gardening simply does not allow one to be mentally old, because too many hopes and dreams are yet to be realized.

Allan Armitage

So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.

Jorge Luis Borges

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Glory

In my book "Flatland Blues" I ask myself and readers few times who and how long is going to remember us? I pointed that noone remember any more actors from the silent movies or Nobel prize winners? And only these days I have found this part in Albert Camus's "The Myth of Sisyphus".

"The actor’s realm is that of the fleeting. Of all kinds of fame, it is known, his is the most ephemeral. At least, this is said in conversation. But all kinds of fame are ephemeral. From the point of view of Sirius, Goethe’s works in ten thousand years will be dust and his name forgotten. Perhaps a handful of archologists will look for “evidence” as to our era. That idea has always contained a lesson. Seriously meditated upon, it reduces our perturbations to the profound nobility that is found in indiference. Above all, it directs our concerns toward what is most certain—that is, toward the immediate. Of all kinds of fame the least deceptive is the one that is lived"

This session resonates with me not just because of the same topic we discuss but also because I agree with Camus regarding actors. I believe that is one of the worst jobs in the entire universe and kind of punishment.

Camus also writes: "A writer has some hope even if he is not appreciated."

Sisyphus (1548–49) by Titian, Prado Museum, Madrid, Spain

What a View!

Nature: Abundance of Joy!

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