annalee

When I'm in quiet, green places everything feels... just as it should. When I'm in the city, working in the hospital, watching the news, listening to the cars, the people arguing and criticising each other, all this suffering... then I'm not sure. But to get to the green, quiet places I have to do those other things too. I wonder how I would feel if
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It seems like you guys proved me wrong in my last journal, which is always nice! Maybe these new digital formats and structures just make it easier and more acceptable for us to be lazy and it's our responsibility to keep making the effort if we want to communicate with each other in fruitful ways. As in don't give in to things? Don't become a
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I don't think anyone reads journals here anymore which makes me unmotivated to write anything proper. I have realised that I hardly read or reply to anything either, it's feels to me like the design has shut everyone off from each other. The format feels unusable for most things I used to use it for. Because the site is very similar to instagram now, people...
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“Bodily delight is a sensory experience, not any different from pure looking or the pure feeling with which a beautiful fruit fills the tongue; it is a great, an infinite learning that is given to us, a knowledge of the world, the fullness and the splendor of all knowledge...the individual...can remember that all beauty in animals and plants is a silent, enduring form of love...
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I am aware of and am most grateful for the benefits of the age. No matter what complaints we may have, Japan has chosen to follow the West, and there is nothing for her to do but move bravely ahead and leave us old ones behind.... I have written all this because I have thought that there might still be somewhere, possibly in literature or...
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One of the basic human requirements is the need to dwell, and one of the central human acts is the act of inhabiting, of connecting ourselves, however temporarily, with a place on the planet which belongs to us and to which we belong. This is not, especially in the tumultuous present, an easy act (is attested by the uninhibited and uninhabitable no-places in cities everywhere),...
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***And, on the positive side, it should produce changes in consciousness more interesting, more intrinsically valuable than mere sedation or dreaminess, delusions of omnipotence or release from inhibition.***

I was just thinking that this great Aldous Huxley observation should apply to everything in human life, not just drugs. It could be pretty useful if we applied it to the internet. Yes Aldous, yes.

I was recently rereading and feel certain that Aldous Huxley's Doors of Perception is one of the best pieces of advice that society could take and certainly one of my favourites books. It's such a gloriously multi-faceted text in that it also happens to be, along with his Heaven and Hell, the best art history essay I've ever read. I can't recommend this book enough,...
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I've started the Everest task of clearing out my room so I can make space for painting. And making space to breathe and move. One of the most important things we may do is to make space I think, in all aspects of life, in an organisational sense and in the way we carry out our life and daily tasks, in our environment, in our...
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