Happy Holidays

Dear All,

Given the festive time of the year
I make use of the three mediums of communication
to which I relate the most,
to share a few last 2011 words, thoughts and inspiration.

Wishing you all a holiday season filled with

serenity

love

and

good laughs


And an special start to 2012.

FELICES FIESTAS!

By http://lookslikegooddesign.com/photography-victor-eredel/

The Life of a Bauble on Nowness.com.

"...a taste for winter, a love for winter vistas—a belief that they are as beautiful and seductive in their own way, and as essential to the human spirit and the human soul as any summer scene—is part of the modern condition.

Wallace Stevens, in his poem "The Snow Man," called this new feeling "a mind of winter," and he identified it with our new acceptance of a world without illusions, our readiness to live in a world that might have meaning but that doesn't have God.

 A mind of winter, a mind for winter, not sensing the season as a loss of warmth and light, and with them hope of life and divinity, but ready to respond to it as a positive, and even purifying, presence of something else—the beautiful and peaceful, yes, but also the mysterious, the strange, the sublime—is a modern taste."
- Adam Gopnik, Winter, p.3

Istanbul

Capital of empires

Cradle of civilization

Meeting point of cultures and civilizations

Mystical

Magnetic



 

Mysterious



El arte de amar

Spike Jonze: Mourir Auprès de Toi on Nowness.com.

Shared Wisdom

Very much time appropiate

“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change”

- Charles Darwin

“We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles”

- Jimmy Carter

"One cannot do the same thing over and over again and expect different results”

- Albert Einstein

“If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got”

- Susan Jeffers



Easy to say,

I know

but good

bumper stickers

for dazed days.

Erik Wåhlström

swedish photographer

http://erikwahlstrom.se/

cool photography

Communal living

In response to my inability to produce virtual activity in the last week,

a member of our blog community

has stepped up and donated the following pictures.

Must say that I love the idea of this, that y otras cosas mas becoming

an e-commune.  

Thanks to Malu for today's contribution.

 SENEGAL

Basic living:

Beer and Patti Smith