Wednesday, June 16, 2010
that is the question
In 1938, Heisenberg and Borg were walking in the Danish country talking about physics. They came to Elsinore Castle. The Germany Scientist said, "Oh, There's nothing special about this castle!" The Danish physicist said, "Yes, but if you say Hamlet's castle then it becomes special."
Elsinore the real. Hamlet the imaginary.
Reality? or Imaginary?
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
MoRe Im·PREssioN·isM
Monday, June 14, 2010
Im·PREssioN·isM VaN·couvER
Monday, June 7, 2010
I wish I wrote this...
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a deep ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair.
— The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell
Once upon a time, I live in a street name after him......
Saturday, May 29, 2010
How Far
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go. — T. S. Eliot
Joey’s mother depend on her very much. Being the only girl in the family and the oldest with four younger brothers, she
took over some of her mother’s housework. Grandmother worked very hard too, unlike some older women who just sat by the door and stared at the passers-by daily. Joey’s father only came home from the city once a month. When he was home he usually slept all day to make up for the long working hours. So the three generations of women were left to take care of everything.
Her grandmother and mother ran a convenience store near a elementary school. They left early in the morning to the store so the school children could buy food and drinks when they missed their breakfast. When her grandmother and mother were gone for the day, Joey was left in charge. She sent the older boys to school and kept the youngest one within her sight. Her daily workload included cleaning, doing the laundry and helping her brothers with their school work.
She dropped out of school in grade six. Her mother said, " Girls don’t need education. All they need is a good fortune. You marry well, then you are guaranteed a lifelong good living." Joey wanted to ask her mother what would happen if the husband deserted you. But she dared not.
Joey loved to read and finished all the books in the village library, although there weren’t too many. Austen, the Brontes, Dickens, Lawrence, Joyce, Woolf, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Balzac, Kafka etc., she read them all. She didn’t understand some of them but she read them anyway. Every night her grandmother had to order her to put down the book and go to sleep. Sometimes she went up into the hills or sat on the rocks by the sea, places where she could read in peace. She had no friends, since she spent all her spare time reading.
Joey never argued with her mother. She finished all her daily work and still found time to tutor the other children’s homework, to write letters for the elderly and to paint posters for the theatre. Anything to make some extra money. Life was going on quietly for a few years, except that she turned down two marriage proposals. Her mother was quite upset, more about Joey’s rebellion than about her daughter’s future.
Not long after her youngest brother entered high school, Joey told her family that she’s leaving to North America. Her father thought she was crazy. Her mother was furious. Her grandmother cried and her brothers begged her not to leave.
She was nineteen. It was a chaotic era, the Vietnam-war, the hippies, Woodstock, the civil right movement, the assassinations and the Watergate conspiracy.
Thirty-five years later, Joey is in her office, a heritage building with exposed wood beans and brick walls. Every morning she stands by the window looking up at the sky with a cup of coffee. It is her way to welcome the day. Rain or shine, she never complaints about the weather. She makes her own coffee because she doesn’t like to order people around, and bakes biscotti for everybody in the office. She listens to classical music in the morning and jazz in the afternoon. On her desk, facing her is a photo of her two daughters. The elder girl finished English Literature in UBC and is currently working in Toronto. The younger girl got a Fine Arts degree from Nova Scotia College of Art and wants to be a artist. Joey’s husband is her business partner. They own an art gallery. Behind her chair are bookcases of books, mostly art and literature. Joey still read, but these days she prefers poetry.
Her grandmother and mother ran a convenience store near a elementary school. They left early in the morning to the store so the school children could buy food and drinks when they missed their breakfast. When her grandmother and mother were gone for the day, Joey was left in charge. She sent the older boys to school and kept the youngest one within her sight. Her daily workload included cleaning, doing the laundry and helping her brothers with their school work.
She dropped out of school in grade six. Her mother said, " Girls don’t need education. All they need is a good fortune. You marry well, then you are guaranteed a lifelong good living." Joey wanted to ask her mother what would happen if the husband deserted you. But she dared not.
Joey loved to read and finished all the books in the village library, although there weren’t too many. Austen, the Brontes, Dickens, Lawrence, Joyce, Woolf, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Balzac, Kafka etc., she read them all. She didn’t understand some of them but she read them anyway. Every night her grandmother had to order her to put down the book and go to sleep. Sometimes she went up into the hills or sat on the rocks by the sea, places where she could read in peace. She had no friends, since she spent all her spare time reading.
Joey never argued with her mother. She finished all her daily work and still found time to tutor the other children’s homework, to write letters for the elderly and to paint posters for the theatre. Anything to make some extra money. Life was going on quietly for a few years, except that she turned down two marriage proposals. Her mother was quite upset, more about Joey’s rebellion than about her daughter’s future.
Not long after her youngest brother entered high school, Joey told her family that she’s leaving to North America. Her father thought she was crazy. Her mother was furious. Her grandmother cried and her brothers begged her not to leave.
She was nineteen. It was a chaotic era, the Vietnam-war, the hippies, Woodstock, the civil right movement, the assassinations and the Watergate conspiracy.
Thirty-five years later, Joey is in her office, a heritage building with exposed wood beans and brick walls. Every morning she stands by the window looking up at the sky with a cup of coffee. It is her way to welcome the day. Rain or shine, she never complaints about the weather. She makes her own coffee because she doesn’t like to order people around, and bakes biscotti for everybody in the office. She listens to classical music in the morning and jazz in the afternoon. On her desk, facing her is a photo of her two daughters. The elder girl finished English Literature in UBC and is currently working in Toronto. The younger girl got a Fine Arts degree from Nova Scotia College of Art and wants to be a artist. Joey’s husband is her business partner. They own an art gallery. Behind her chair are bookcases of books, mostly art and literature. Joey still read, but these days she prefers poetry.
— Writing is, give oneself from here an elsewhere, more here than before.
Monday, May 24, 2010
Blowing In The Wind
How many roads must a man walk down,
before you call him a man?
How many seas must a white dove sail,
before she sleeps in the sand?
yes and how many times must a cannon ball fly,
before they're forever banned?
The answer my friend is blowing in the wind,
the answer is blowing in the wind.
how many years can a mountain exist,
before it is forced to the sea.
how many years can some people exist,
before they're allowed to be free.
yes and how many times can a man turn his head,
and pretend that he just doesn't see.
The answer my friend is blowing in the wind,
the answer is blowing in the wind.
how many times must a man look up,
before he can reach in the sky.
yes and how many years must one man have,
before he can hear people cry.
Isn’t how many deaths will it take till he knows,
that too many people have died.
The answer my friend is blowing in the wind,
the answer is blowing in the wind.
It was the first LP I bought in Canada, Bob, Happy Birthday!
before you call him a man?
How many seas must a white dove sail,
before she sleeps in the sand?
yes and how many times must a cannon ball fly,
before they're forever banned?
The answer my friend is blowing in the wind,
the answer is blowing in the wind.
how many years can a mountain exist,
before it is forced to the sea.
how many years can some people exist,
before they're allowed to be free.
yes and how many times can a man turn his head,
and pretend that he just doesn't see.
The answer my friend is blowing in the wind,
the answer is blowing in the wind.
how many times must a man look up,
before he can reach in the sky.
yes and how many years must one man have,
before he can hear people cry.
Isn’t how many deaths will it take till he knows,
that too many people have died.
The answer my friend is blowing in the wind,
the answer is blowing in the wind.
It was the first LP I bought in Canada, Bob, Happy Birthday!
Monday, May 17, 2010
Don, August 21, 1953 — May 12, 2010
Charles Dickens hates lawyers.
Everyone in his books is redeemable, except lawyers, who
for Dickens as for Shakespeare constituted the Devil's profession.
Don was a lawyer, he didn't like it neither.
He didn't send invoices most of the time.
He wants to be a architect, (Frank Gehry, lucky you)
Can a lawyer be a good man?
Perhaps, may be, one in a million?
Yes, that one is Don.
He was the poorest lawyer I'd ever known, in money term,
and yet he was the wealthiest of them all.
Everyone in his books is redeemable, except lawyers, who
for Dickens as for Shakespeare constituted the Devil's profession.
Don was a lawyer, he didn't like it neither.
He didn't send invoices most of the time.
He wants to be a architect, (Frank Gehry, lucky you)
Can a lawyer be a good man?
Perhaps, may be, one in a million?
Yes, that one is Don.
He was the poorest lawyer I'd ever known, in money term,
and yet he was the wealthiest of them all.
Saturday, April 10, 2010
Thursday, April 8, 2010
Life without them is unthinkable
Don't smoke, drink only occasionally, no dependence on
prescription pills, legal or illegal drug and any kind of wild grown weeds...
But I get high on music, art and nature. Emotionally high, very high indeed. Say, a magnificent sunset at English Bay, Van Gogh's Café Terrasse, Chopin's Nocturne in C-sharp Minor.
Not only breathless, goosebumps, so are free flowing tears. I have no control of them.
I love Ingmar Bergman's films, crazy about Opera, completely wild about Mozart, so you can imagine when I saw Ingmar Bergman's 1975 film on Mozart's opera The Magic Flute.
Here's a Chagall's vision. In wisdom and beauty forever abound!
prescription pills, legal or illegal drug and any kind of wild grown weeds...
But I get high on music, art and nature. Emotionally high, very high indeed. Say, a magnificent sunset at English Bay, Van Gogh's Café Terrasse, Chopin's Nocturne in C-sharp Minor.
Not only breathless, goosebumps, so are free flowing tears. I have no control of them.
I love Ingmar Bergman's films, crazy about Opera, completely wild about Mozart, so you can imagine when I saw Ingmar Bergman's 1975 film on Mozart's opera The Magic Flute.
Here's a Chagall's vision. In wisdom and beauty forever abound!
Friday, April 2, 2010
Of Glory in the Flower
What happen,
to the girl you want to hold her hands?
What become to the place,
where you saw her standing there?
Yet she loves you but
Michelle become a grandmother
Eleanor Rigby is in nursing home
Blackbird had flew to Norwegian Wood
John was gun down in 1980, George also gone in 2001.
Ringo sang when I'm 64 in 2004, Sir Paul followed him 2 years later.
Marcel Proust Remembrance all things past.
John Donne asked, Where all pass years are?
It is no use to hear the mermaids singing.
Though nothing can bring back the hour
of splendour in the grass,
of glory in the flower...
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
The Pain of the Falling Trees
Twenty meters of trees front
after that was clear cut
Ask McGuinty, Harris
or the previous one or the
one before previous one
What had they done?
Other side was a lake painted by
the group of seven, were eight, not seven
Hollowing...
the trees were asking each other
the wind said, I don't have a answer
I was racing on the map
no cars before and no cars after
prehistorical solitude hunt me down
run rabbit run!
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
The Last Lizard
The lizard wakes up and finds he's the
last lizard alive. His family and friends
are all gone. Those he didn't like, those
who picked on him in school are also
gone. The lizard is all alone. He
misses his family and friends. Even his
enemies. It's better being with your
enemies than being alone. That's what
he thought. Staring at the sunset, he thinks:
What is the point in living, if I don't have
anyone to talk to? But even that thought
doesn't mean anything when you're the last lizard.
— Yukio Mishima, 三島 由紀夫, 1925-1970
last lizard alive. His family and friends
are all gone. Those he didn't like, those
who picked on him in school are also
gone. The lizard is all alone. He
misses his family and friends. Even his
enemies. It's better being with your
enemies than being alone. That's what
he thought. Staring at the sunset, he thinks:
What is the point in living, if I don't have
anyone to talk to? But even that thought
doesn't mean anything when you're the last lizard.
— Yukio Mishima, 三島 由紀夫, 1925-1970
Monday, March 29, 2010
We Only Live Once
How do you plan to live it?
What kind of person you want to be?
Fearless Spontaneous Curious Intriguing Daring... New job New friends New adventure New plan... Sunrise Sunset Nothing is New
When the sun come up
we see the ambition the wealth the fame
seem like a everlasting view
more money more houses more titles more cars
more clothes more shoes more diamond
meetings after openings after parties after balls... Tokyo in the morning Beijing at evening Munich the next
What for?
When the sun go down
you realize that all you really need
are good health family friends
work you love to do
and some basic things
a warm bed some clothes some food
That's All.
Sunday, March 28, 2010
You Must Believe In Spring
Because it is the garden. What is left to us.
Because silence is not silence without sound.
Because you have let the cat out, and then in, and then out,
and then in, and then out, and then in, and then
out, and then in, and then out, and then in,
enough.
Because otherwise their precision at the blue line would
mean nothing.
Because otherwise death would mean nothing.
Because the light says so.
Because a human being can gladly eat only so much cabbage
Because the pockets of your overcoat need mending.
Because it's easy not to.
Because your sweaters smell.
Because Gregory of Nazianzen said geometry has no place in
mourning, by which he meant despair presumes toc
much.
Because it ain't over 'til it's over. - Hank Aaron, Jackie
Robinson. Satchel Paige.
Because Kant was wrong, and Socrates, Descartes and all the
rest. Because it is the body thinking and Newt
Gingrich would like you not to.
Because the signs are not wrong: you are here.
Because I love you. Or you love someone. Because someone
is loved.
Because under the sun, everything is new.
Because the wet snow in the trees is clotted light.
Because in 1841 it took six cords of wood to get through a
winter in one room at Harvard and two-thirds
of Maine used to be open country as a result.
Because sleeping is not death.
Because although an asshole was practising his Elvis Presley
imitation, full voice, Sunday morning, April 23rd
at Spectacle Lake Provincial Park, the winter wrer
simply moved 200 yards down the trail.
Because the wren's voice is moss in sunlight, because it is
a stream in sunlight over stones.
Because Beethoven titled the sonata.
I mean: would Bill Evans and Frank Morgan lie to you?
Because even sorrow has a source.
For, though it cannot fly, the heart is an excellent clamberer.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)