Friday, October 14, 2016
#myBudapest
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Humor Project,
Transylvania/Hungary
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Tuesday, October 11, 2016
This is America
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Monday, September 26, 2016
Top Ten
turkish delight
wide-brimmed straw hats in summer
jasmine pearl tea
eyewear
outdoor fruit and vegetable markets
tepertős pogácsa
freshly ground peanut butter
baking bread
being in my body
pockets
Széchenyi Fürdő
my mother's dumplings
rocking chairs
scarves
giving books I love to people I think might love them too
The Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton-Porter
diners
grandma Kelley's rice casserole
home made play dough
Le Mans Hall
midwives
baking muffins
Spencer Tunick
wool socks, knee-high, with stripes in the winter
clowns
"Coin-Operated Boy" by the Dresden Dolls
bread and butter
pumpkin
cooking split-pea soup
democracy
church bells
Gellért Fürdő
African chicken and peanut soup from the New England Soup Factory
martini with blue cheese stuffed olives
1059 Riverside
singing the ABC's as a lullaby
gesztenyepüré
Greek yogurt with honey, in Greece
sneaking away from a sleeping baby
sneaking back into my bed where my four and five-year-olds are tangled up, deeply breathing
bodza
Book Club
Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins
Rome
sunflowers
avocados
Indigo Girls
dandelions
sleep
Warren Dunes State Park
french fries
blue
the fact that baking bread is so simple
clean pressed sheets
V-Day
walking by a lilac bush in bloom
holding hands
playgrounds
NPR
Prairie Home Companion
PBS
hard wood floors
freshly squeezed ABC juice--apple, beet, carrot
handmade afghans
coffee
Jeune Homme Nu Assis au Bord de la Mer, by Jean- Hippolyte Flandrin
marching bands
my clever, funny friend
roasted chestnuts
wide-brimmed straw hats in summer
jasmine pearl tea
eyewear
outdoor fruit and vegetable markets
tepertős pogácsa
freshly ground peanut butter
baking bread
being in my body
pockets
Széchenyi Fürdő
my mother's dumplings
rocking chairs
scarves
giving books I love to people I think might love them too
The Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton-Porter
diners
grandma Kelley's rice casserole
home made play dough
Le Mans Hall
midwives
baking muffins
Spencer Tunick
wool socks, knee-high, with stripes in the winter
clowns
"Coin-Operated Boy" by the Dresden Dolls
bread and butter
pumpkin
cooking split-pea soup
democracy
church bells
Gellért Fürdő
African chicken and peanut soup from the New England Soup Factory
martini with blue cheese stuffed olives
1059 Riverside
singing the ABC's as a lullaby
gesztenyepüré
Greek yogurt with honey, in Greece
sneaking away from a sleeping baby
sneaking back into my bed where my four and five-year-olds are tangled up, deeply breathing
bodza
Book Club
Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins
Rome
sunflowers
avocados
Indigo Girls
dandelions
sleep
Warren Dunes State Park
french fries
blue
the fact that baking bread is so simple
clean pressed sheets
V-Day
walking by a lilac bush in bloom
holding hands
playgrounds
NPR
Prairie Home Companion
PBS
hard wood floors
freshly squeezed ABC juice--apple, beet, carrot
handmade afghans
coffee
Jeune Homme Nu Assis au Bord de la Mer, by Jean- Hippolyte Flandrin
marching bands
my clever, funny friend
roasted chestnuts
Rachel flodnija
birdie sing in the tree, woo woo woo, wee wee wee, I love you and you love me
Henszlmann Imre utca, 5
cuckoo clocks
soft-boiled eggs in egg cups
potluck dinners
Kelet Kávézó
Henszlmann Imre utca, 5
cuckoo clocks
soft-boiled eggs in egg cups
potluck dinners
Kelet Kávézó
7-year-old Leo with missing front teeth
tabasco sauce
massage
Amanda Palmer
the truth
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Personal Narrative
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Anna Moschovakis
[The challenge: to start]
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The challenge: to start
not with theory but with tangible performance
You and others, approaching
We shall be asked for a way out
to be fed
to keep warm and dry
Starting with experience, magic
genuine science
More than once we have been lost
in a trackless wilderness
dwarfed and shadowed by mighty buildings
subway trains wild as elephants
One goes blindly back to one’s desk
These moments come, their dark
shadow
We glimpsed control
and more tragic waste
We entered with 40,000,000 warriors
with the dignity of cathedrals
The lake is upon you.
You have two canoes, your tent
The child has entered upon this desert
You have your axes
What, precisely, is your procedure?
Anna Moschovakis, “[The challenge: to start]” from You and Three Others Are Approaching a Lake. Copyright © 2011 by Anna Moschovakis. Reprinted by permission of Coffee House Press. www.coffeehouse.org
Source: You and Three Others Are Approaching a Lake (Coffee House Press, 2011)
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/56495
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Poetry
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Monday, June 13, 2016
America's Moral #Pulse
More love. More vulnerability. More kissing.
#SpencerTunick photo
#Orlando
America's Moral #Pulse
#LoveIsLove
#SpencerTunick photo
#Orlando
America's Moral #Pulse
#LoveIsLove
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Ideas,
Personal Narrative
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Thursday, April 07, 2016
Claire Wahmanholm
by: Claire Wahmanholm
Lullaby with Daughter Cells
Embedded, the sleeping body is ship and shipwreck, reef, fish den,
oyster nest, once my own anemone, once a wish,
transmission of ten thousand trillion divisions, so almost infinite,
so infinitely far from it.
Beneath the skin, repetition churns
its whirls of fingerprints and strands of future selves,
constructing endless daughters, endless spindles, endless paths
into the woods.
Sleep passes for safety, but is only a curse’s deferral,
never its breaking. Your body’s already a whir, was always
an engine, gendered and generative, her from the first. All I gave
you was a pair of points. Sleep between them for as long as you can.
oyster nest, once my own anemone, once a wish,
transmission of ten thousand trillion divisions, so almost infinite,
so infinitely far from it.
Beneath the skin, repetition churns
its whirls of fingerprints and strands of future selves,
constructing endless daughters, endless spindles, endless paths
into the woods.
Sleep passes for safety, but is only a curse’s deferral,
never its breaking. Your body’s already a whir, was always
an engine, gendered and generative, her from the first. All I gave
you was a pair of points. Sleep between them for as long as you can.
Given
A point is that which has no part
—Euclid, Elements, Book I
—Euclid, Elements, Book I
A given
is always
is always
a point
of departure,
of departure,
a puncture,
origin of
origin of
a wound,
some newness.
some newness.
For example,
this given:
this given:
that points
are partless,
are partless,
when really
they’re couple-
they’re couple-
numbered, binary;
the way,
the way,
no matter
how fast
how fast
it flies,
a bluebird’s
a bluebird’s
blue can
never outstrip
never outstrip
its bird,
or butter
or butter
drain from
its cup,
its cup,
rattle shed
its snake.
its snake.
What would
it do,
it do,
that bird—
unblue, unselved,
unblue, unselved,
blanched on
winter’s branch,
winter’s branch,
absent against
its white?
its white?
Without you,
I’m only
I’m only
the idea
of flight.
of flight.
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Poetry
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Wednesday, March 16, 2016
perspective
There are two parenting styles at the playground. One views a slide as uni-directional. The other style is espoused by a parent whose kid challenges such one-way linear thinking.
My kid proved today that there is more than one way to shimmy down a fire pole.
#videobyhissister
#letthemfail(fall)
#blesshissoul
#passthewine
My kid proved today that there is more than one way to shimmy down a fire pole.
#videobyhissister
#letthemfail(fall)
#blesshissoul
#passthewine
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Ideas,
Izabella,
Lenard,
Personal Narrative,
Transylvania/Hungary,
Videos
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Tuesday, February 16, 2016
One Billion Rising Budapest 2016: Theater and Dance (video)
This year's event featured the Break the Chain dance followed by an innovative theater piece created to explore sexual consent.
The play focusses on the idea that sexual violence is often committed by acquaintances who use other methods than physical coercion.
The play focusses on the idea that sexual violence is often committed by acquaintances who use other methods than physical coercion.
A theatre performance, website (www.nane.hu/kerszteat), and short films send messages to perpetrators, victims and the society:
no means no, and only yes means yes.
View the dance below:
View the dance below:
#rise4revolution
#vday
#kerszteat
#Budapest
#breakthechain
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Ideas,
Transylvania/Hungary,
Videos
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Friday, February 12, 2016
RISE DANCE DISRUPT! BY EVE ENSLER
1 FEBRUARY 2016 > V-DAY
RISE DANCE DISRUPT!
I think we must live now on the edge of incomprehensible madness, refusing to give up
and refusing to pretend. Dancing on the precipice of annihilation while passionately
encouraging and welcoming the new paradigm. This is most difficult in a world, in
a system that has thoroughly indoctrinated us in a refusal to think, in the sound bite,
in yes and nos, likes and unlikes, with us or against us pathology, in idiotic,
consumable brandable, reductionist absolutes. To be an enthusiastic absurdist requires
embracing ambiguity, insecurity, and it means looking at the predicament we are in
head on. It means leaping and assuming you will fall, dancing in the chaotic
impossible passionate possible.
So we must learn the art and practice of disruption. We must release the tentacles
of our false securities and interrupt the world as we know it. We must assume that
anywhere we live or anything we are doing can change or disintegrate on a dime and
we must practice changing and letting it go. Living as if there is no future but the one
we are creating. Nothing guaranteed but our willingness to live as pioneers of a new
consciousness and way. And we must become disrupters. That is the power of creative
resistance. Interrupting business as usual, taking stands that forfeit our acceptance or
economic elevation, risking disapproval and controversy, participating in actions that
loosen our grip on the suicidal givens and push the tyrants to fall. Disrupters, fighting
and dancing with all our might for life over comfort.
– Eve Ensler
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Ideas,
Personal Narrative,
Poetry
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Thursday, February 04, 2016
Laugh: Cannonball Ice Dude
so much to love about this video
#cannonballicedude
#haha
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