I love this:
"Mutable, mercurial and elusive, the Taoist saint frolics about, appearing and then disappearing, first here and then there. Like the diver of Lieh-Tzu, he follows the movement of the waves, knowing how to let himself be seized by the swell and bob up again into view between the crests. He also knows how to rise and fall with the wind and the...
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"Mutable, mercurial and elusive, the Taoist saint frolics about, appearing and then disappearing, first here and then there. Like the diver of Lieh-Tzu, he follows the movement of the waves, knowing how to let himself be seized by the swell and bob up again into view between the crests. He also knows how to rise and fall with the wind and the...
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"if not...
...winter"
(Sappho)
...winter"
(Sappho)
earthgodd3ss:
Just stopping by to say hello 
Someone said to me in an email today that without conflicts and contradictions it isn't possible to be an artist. And I found myself once more not speaking the same language as anybody else. I hear sentences like that and I find it so obvious that they need disarming, like a bomb that turns up in a conversation, and it's only made up of the...
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earthgodd3ss:
What part of Germany do you live in? The closest that I've come to Germany is driving my VW and visiting Holland...haha. I would love to see the world, and will one day make it to Hamburg, Berlin, Frankfurt...and hundreds of other cities and towns.
I have, for years, had a recurring dream theme - where sometimes I'm in Germany and sometimes I'm in Holland. But I am speaking the appropriate language, and not just translating it, but knowing it....I am often giving directions to others in a train station. Sometimes Centraal Station in Amsterdam, sometimes other stations that I have never visited. The dreams have evolved to reflect what I currently look like, who is in my life, etc. I feel that I'm supposed to live in the EU, at some point in my life. I have made it a goal to be there in four years.
We shall see.....
I have, for years, had a recurring dream theme - where sometimes I'm in Germany and sometimes I'm in Holland. But I am speaking the appropriate language, and not just translating it, but knowing it....I am often giving directions to others in a train station. Sometimes Centraal Station in Amsterdam, sometimes other stations that I have never visited. The dreams have evolved to reflect what I currently look like, who is in my life, etc. I feel that I'm supposed to live in the EU, at some point in my life. I have made it a goal to be there in four years.
We shall see.....
huzzah:
Thank you very much for the music recommendations. I can't wait to check all them out. 
I work online and theoretically I can work anywhere I can be online. I'm always dreaming of travelling and exploring. Just going to an airport or a port and getting on a plane or a cargo ship, vanishing into the world for a year or two, or ten, or however many I've got left. Who knows where I'd end up, what would happen, who I'd...
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Translating, working with cold-winter languages like German and Swedish, with fog and damp outside, I'm thirsty for light and colour, for a southern approach. So I read Odysseus Elytis' "Axion Esti" and dream of the Aegean:
"...And then I understood the surf and the long endless whisper of the trees
I saw the red water jugs lined up on the dock
and closer to the...
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"...And then I understood the surf and the long endless whisper of the trees
I saw the red water jugs lined up on the dock
and closer to the...
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addison:
umm sure, hahaha. As long as I can get a copy!
addison:
sounds awesome. cant wait, and good luck with your novel!
I was flying to Zurich, where the Alpine winter has descended like... a slap to the face with a wet haddock. There's lots of snow, but sadly it's all in liquid form. As the climate changes, ski resorts are going to need to rebrand themselves - I think the great old English traditional sport of cheese rolling would be ideal - all that cheese and...
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fatality:
So, what's the biggest news since I spoke with you last?
A poignant weekly interlude... my barefoot Portuguese cleaner has been. She isn't barefoot all the time, you understand - she's a practical girl who arrives in stout boots, then leaves them in the hall to perform her duties. She speaks no English and I am not proud to admit that the only Portuguese I can manage is "welcome" and "thank you". We communicate by smiles,...
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mrginger:
Do you know of any sad and haunting solo violin compositions?
fatality:
So nice to see you back? And I'd like the answer to that ^ question, too!