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Unterwegs skizzieren und zuhause zeichnen und verarbeiten – Susanne Haun

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Post date March 26, 2018
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Es ist wichtig, sich vor einem Urlaub zu überlegen, wie man seine eigene Kreativität ausleben und die neuen Eindrücke verarbeiten möchte.

Afrikanische Krähen in der Namib Wueste – aus dem Skizzenbuch (c) Zeichnung von Susanne Haun

Wenn man nicht eine der zahlreichen Malreisen gebucht hat oder von Anfang an bei der eigenen Reise Malzeit (nicht Mahlzeit 😉 ) einplant, kann es zu großem Frust führen, wenn dann keine Zeit zum Malen zu finden ist. Außerdem ist es wichtig, Rücksicht auf seine Mitreisenden zu nehmen. Es kann zu Spannungen führen, wenn ein aktiver Radfahrer mit einer Zeichnerin in den Urlaub fährt 😉

Tom (siehe hier) schrieb in den Kommentaren zu einem meiner Afrikaberichten, dass er meine Zeichnungen mit Feder und Tusche aus dem Fass als viel eindrücklicher empfindet als meine glatten Zeichnungen mit dem Artpen aus dem Skizzenbuch. Ich habe Toms Kommentar als Anlass genommen, über das Zeichnen im…

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Self-Acceptance in the Social Media Age

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Post date March 26, 2018
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Dr. Eric Perry’s Blog

By Dr. Perry, PhD

“Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.” ~Marilyn Monroe

We are living in a world where we are able to form a virtual reality presence on a number of different platforms. Currently, we have YouTube, Instagram, Snapchat, Facebook and numerous other social media and dating apps available to us. Many of us use these apps recreationally for a healthy amount of time. Current research shows that 88% of 18 to 29-year-olds indicate that they use some form of social media, specifically, 78% among ages 30 to 49, 64% among those ages 50 to 64 and 37% among Americans 65 and older. It is estimated there will be 2.67 billion social network users by 2018. For those able to maintain a healthy and responsible relationship with their online presence this is a wonderful way to stay connected to others. It opens a…

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An America cousin writes-a found poem

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Post date March 24, 2018
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Spring will be here soon

and how I am looking forward to it.

It doesn’t help

that now I live so close to the water.

Many people around here

go out on the frozen water

drill holes and fish.

They even drive vehicles out

on the ice which I feel is stupid.

Every now and then,

someone falls through the ice and drowns.

We still don’t know many people

in our new area.

People are not as friendly here

as they were at the farm.

I used to like it

when folk stopped in for coffee at the farm.

People just wave here

but never stop in,

though invited to.

I miss the farm a lot

after having lived there

43 years.

Image result for lake michigan frozen

With thanks to my mid-West cousins

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Schimmernde Zeiten

Klapperhorn

Ostern geht es nach Holland. (Entgegen unserer sonstigen Gewohnheiten, bereits zum zweiten Mal nacheinander Zuidholland) Endlich wieder Meer.

Es sind niedrige Temperaturen angekündigt. Das stört mich nicht. Vielleicht ist dann nicht so voll am Strand. Mehr Ruhe sind mehr wert als einige Grad wärmere Luft.

Vereinzelte Spaziergänger dürfen aber als Statisten die neuen Sonnenuntergangsfotos beleben. Da lasse ich mit mir reden.^^ Neben Fotoapparat werde ich diesmal aber auch Notizbuch und Skizzenbuch mitnehmen. Mal schauen, wie die Tinte fließt.

Es gibt kaum einen schöneren Ort für mich, um die Seele baumeln zu lassen, meinen Gedanken nachzuhängen und Kraft zu schöpfen. Die Hunde sehen das genauso. Naja, was deren Gedankennachhängungen angeht, kann ich natürlich nur vermuten. 😉

Zum Seele baumeln lassen: Ich habe Yoga und Meditation lange vernachlässigt. Aktuell fange ich wieder damit an. Meditation am Strand wird sicherlich eine schöne neue Erfahrung und zum weitermachen motivieren. Wie weit ich meine Yogaübungen da…

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“All the Leaves are brown……” ‘Autumn’ – Ali Smith

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Post date March 22, 2018
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Hard Book Habit

Autumn is the first of a series of four Seasonal books that Ali Smith has written in response to our post-Brexit world. I don’t know about you, but I find Autumn the most difficult season of the year to face. Nature might be putting on a dazzling show in reds and gold, but all the beauty signals the dying of the year and the unavoidable approach of Wintry bleakness. I don’t fear Winter – I actually enjoy it when it arrives, but it’s the transition that feels so destabilising. It is this state of flux which Smith explores in Autumn, the uncertainty of our future now we’ve shifted direction and are heading who knows where?

At the beginning of the novel, centenarian Daniel dreams of the seashore from his hospital bed. He finds himself covered in leaves, transported to an Eden-like forest, an in-between place. This is a novel…

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schreibfreude

Klapperhorn

kein reimen kein dichten

kein poetischer vers

ich greif einfach in die seiten


lass klappern und läuten

was klangfarben malt

wird es etwas bedeuten?


es schert mich nicht

und hoffentlich

suchst auch du keine tiefen


in dem was hier herausgeschossen

steht nur eines geschrieben:

freude das worte nun fließen


© J.F. Wolf 2018

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Baudelaire fait du mal-être un élément grandiose, le Spleen

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Post date March 16, 2018
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Direct-Actu.fr le blogzine de la culture pop et alternative

Selon l’article sur “L’autopsie du mal-être: Du Spleen de Baudelaire à la nausée de Jean Paul Sartre.

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Road; shadows

Fotografi

Maharashtra 9 januari 2017 3

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‘The Garden of the Finzi-Continis’ by Giorgio Bassani (Italian Lit Month)

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Post date March 12, 2018
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A really great book and a film by Vittorio de Seca gathered much attention when it first came out. Particularly important and pertinant after the Italian election results!

Intermittencies of the Mind

For many years I have wanted to write about the Finzi-Continis — about Micòl and Alberto, Professor Ermanno and Signora Olga — and about the many others who lived at, or like me frequented, the house in Corso Ercole I d’Este, Ferrara, just before the last war broke out. But the impulse, the prompt, really to do so only occurred for me a year ago, one April Sunday in 1957.

So begins the prologue of The Garden of the Finzi-Continis. The event that prompted the narrator was a visit to some Etruscan tombs and an innocent remark from a little girl about why the old tombs are considered less sad than modern tombs. This makes the narrator think about the Finzi-Continis’ tomb, built about a hundred years before but now nearly completely overgrown with weeds. A tomb that does not hold the more recent Finzi-Continis as most of them…

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‘Afternoon Men’ by Anthony Powell

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Post date March 11, 2018
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I enjoyed this review which I think covers the book, which I have just read, very well. The boxing scene I found rather interesting. There seems to be a fair amount of prejudice looking back on this writing-not at all funny by today’s standards. A minor character, Susan’s father is well drawn and prefigures in an amusing way, figures in “A Dance to the Music of Time”.

Intermittencies of the Mind

Afternoon Men was Anthony Powell’s first novel and was published in 1931 when Powell was only 26 years old. I found this copy in a secondhand bookshop when I was reading his twelve-volume series of novels, A Dance to the Music of Time. It’s a fun book and will certainly be of interest to anyone that has read Dance as the style and structure of the book is so similar to his later work. The book has little plot and instead concentrates on characters and the dialogue between the many characters, who are all from the same jaded semi-aristocratic, intellectual milieu as in Dance.

The main character is William Atwater who has an unsatisfying job at a museum. The book opens with Atwater in a bar discussing with his friend, Pringle, Pringle’s current medication regime. We are then introduced to several other characters who enter the bar and…

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