Of Impromptu Writing

Originally posted on Of Opinions:
Source: http://static.tumblr.com/pwtcre5/mZiltlwnp/random_-_004.jpg Maintaining a living, growing body of written work means that it often requires skills of the impromptu – “unpremeditated, spur-of-the-moment inspiration without studied care.” My initial blogging was nearly all impromptu. I wrote when I felt like it, and that was that. No structure, no plan, only inspiration…

The Beauty of Wabi-Sabi

Originally posted on Michelle Luu:
Wabi-sabi (侘寂) represents a comprehensive Japanese world view or aesthetic centered on the acceptance of transience and imperfection. The aesthetic is sometimes described as one of beauty that is “imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete”. My pottery pieces are not perfect.  There are so many steps that go into making a finished…

Of Beauty and Doubt

Originally posted on Of Opinions:
Source: http://cdn.tinybuddha.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Stand-Strong.jpg You can be the most beautiful person in the world and everybody sees light and rainbows when they look at you, but if you yourself don’t know it, all of that doesn’t even matter. Every second that you spend on doubting your worth, every moment that you use…

fighting and fight

tiddles of my expectations; ruptured like glass within glass, an imploding babushka-vortex teeming is my rhythm of depression, like a knife that knows butter, knows the meat sabotages the flesh, the artery, the blinking electrical impulses of a thing it corners as refuse — it’s  my heart you bloody, selfish cancerous tumour that looks like

capital’s biodiversity

Originally posted on Etches of Ink and Light:
Would diverse species of flora and fauna be valuable today if they were not resources that could be exploited through research and biotechnology in a knowledge economy to ultimately generate a surplus for capital? Would ethnic communities in rain-forests be allowed to live their lives as peasants…

Sometimes, suddenly…ceased…

You know somethings are bound to be finite, temporal and it looks at clockwise and anti-clockwise as intrinsically as a phoenix’s life cycle.  It is still hard to imagine why you were so invested in something when the investment, maybe not fiscal or economically measured as in with better libra scales on feelings, but pain

Of hypocrisies

Have you  ever stared down the barrel of hypocrisy? I supposed I have on many occasions. It is not an easy thing to digest let alone stand but tolerance and patience can also be abused. I mean think of the mother/father, abusive, but easily retorts  to false claims of ownership, grandiloquent as they are,  on

Of The Qualities of Success

Originally posted on Of Opinions:
Source: http://ericennotamm.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Steinbeck_Seated_1500.jpg It has always seemed strange to me. The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits that we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And…

techniques of resisting knowledge

Originally posted on Etches of Ink and Light:
Ignorance is not a blank slate on which one can write-in knowledge. Ignorance is an organic state of being that, through various strategies and manoeuvres, evades and resists knowledge. It then becomes important to understand these technologies that ignorance employs to fight its growth and fortification, and…

If I Had a Dollar (Why I Am a Feminist)

Originally posted on girl in the hat:
image courtesy Devil Doll Because my mother was a painter and a beauty when artists had patrons and a woman like that needed a man to take care of her, so she married a money man. Because my mother’s mother was a beauty and her mother was, too,…