Thursday, May 31, 2007

Quotes of the day

Put your backbone where your wishbone is.

Raj Seth, Uncle of Vikram Seth in "Two Lives"

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Generellt sett är generaliseringar praktiska
Men generellt sett felaktiga

(Generally speaking, generalisations are practical
but generally speaking, they are mistaken)

Timbuktu

Wednesday, May 30, 2007

Quote of the day

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies
but the silence of our friends

Martin Luther King Jr.
(many thanks to Teresa for teaching me these wise words...)

Monday, May 28, 2007

Today's quote

We must strive to be like the moon

Ishmael Beah
http://www.alongwaygone.com/

Friday, May 25, 2007

Quote of the day

You have to be scared to be brave

Tuesday, May 15, 2007

grand fathers






My mother's father













My father's father

Thursday, May 10, 2007

Prayer for dreams

Beyond the limits of consciousness
we find ourselves, beautiful & free, uninhibited by our expectations & aspirations,
shaping our world as we go along, without the censorship of selfperception.

Beyond our human borders of consciousness lies the utter liberation of humanity.

Tuesday, May 08, 2007

May fest











Just sharing a few photos from this weekend's annual May fest in the so-called Huset - a house in my 'old' neighbourhood owned by a bunch of great people :-)






Monday, May 07, 2007

disappointment

You make promises
that you can't keep
It's like the lion
within you falls asleep
You used to roar at me
and sharpen your teeth
Now you grunt and snore
and hide what lies beneath

Friday, May 04, 2007

card from a friend

i beg you...to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. don't search for the 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 your way into the answers...

Rainer Maria Rilke

Thursday, May 03, 2007

going home from work, remembering

the earth is shaking beneath my feet
deafening the voices in my head, all thoughts that converge in a roar of madness
the earth is calling for my resistance
calling for calm

the wind is laughing at me, walking uphill on a sunny day
blowing the early spring blossoms off the trees
as if to mock the light from which they came
laughing at me because i am not in it, because my earth is rattling

i wish i was wearing different shoes
i wish i had put a pin in my hair
i wish there was something that would make me go faster
think faster, feel faster
but it's still uphill and the wind reminds me of the world outside of myself

i see my little pond, the park where i used to lay on the grass with my shoes off
looking at branches of trees, shimmering and cackling in the wind
i remember when i sat there with my english friend who smoked king's blue
famous danish cigarettes - because he liked the colour of the pack
blue as the sky, blue as my eyes, blue as my favourite t-shirt

the park is downhill and uphill, at the same time
my mood changes when i remind myself of myself in that spot
of the ant that crawled across my striped socks that day
of friends i brought there to feel the calm

today i pass the park, i don't go to lay on the grass
i have things to take care of, bills to pay, food to eat
thoughts to think
but tomorrow, i promise myself, tomorrow
i'll go there and find peace