tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5055598777203654547.post6270931526790873468..comments2024-03-01T06:20:29.087+00:00Comments on qualia and other wildlife: Paris? – call me by my true namesrosellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00971482422276765335noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5055598777203654547.post-60478838277863054332015-01-15T13:07:01.412+00:002015-01-15T13:07:01.412+00:00Sophia, thank you - both for the comment and for r...Sophia, thank you - both for the comment and for reading my blogs...rosellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00971482422276765335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5055598777203654547.post-30724694222336471652015-01-14T20:08:52.968+00:002015-01-14T20:08:52.968+00:00Excellent post. Thank you Roselle.Excellent post. Thank you Roselle.walking the yarnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02149462336943917095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5055598777203654547.post-82969302557658668522015-01-13T12:02:30.412+00:002015-01-13T12:02:30.412+00:00What a beautiful, moving, poignant response, Bea. ...What a beautiful, moving, poignant response, Bea. I love the little haiku, too. Thank you. I can't add to that.<br /><br />Much love. Rxxrosellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00971482422276765335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5055598777203654547.post-1528869666815044952015-01-13T11:25:14.985+00:002015-01-13T11:25:14.985+00:00On this beautiful morning with the sun already ris...On this beautiful morning with the sun already risen, the sound of my small meditation stone in my ear and tits twittering through the window gap – I am still stunned, have been trying for days to grasp what happened in Paris last week, to respond with words to the insightful Thich Nhat Hanh poem, but words seem to have abandoned me. And yet:<br /><br />The glimmer of the remaining beech leaves in the sun – a flicker of hope <br /><br />- that our memories last longer than a few weeks and months<br />- that the latest application for an apprenticeship of the immigrant youth will get a reply<br />- that verbal and graphic geniuses will still aim at changing the world bearing in mind that humour is ethnically rooted<br />- that fathers and their families attempting to escape from the horrors of war will no longer be sent out in crew-less boats to drown in Mediterranean waves<br />- that displaced children will be at home in two worlds like migrant swallows<br />- that the poacher’s compassion with the elephant will be stronger than his family’s hunger<br />- that human warmth in a refugee camp is more effective a heating than solar panels<br />- that total surveillance will never replace receptive senses and mindful acting<br /><br />waiting for the tide<br />the bubble in the sand is<br />sucked up by sun<br /><br />Wih love, dear Ro, B xx<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5055598777203654547.post-88657946117957756832015-01-12T07:55:16.261+00:002015-01-12T07:55:16.261+00:00Miriam, thank you. I've been thinking so much ...Miriam, thank you. I've been thinking so much about it all, as so many of us will have been, and especially in the light of more extremist comments for instance on facebook and the fear of a serious backlash on Muslims it seems so important to keep remembering that we're all in this together, doesn't it? 'The line between good and evil runs through the middle of every human heart', as Solzhenitsyn (sp??) put it.<br /><br />Thanks for the solidarity, Miriam. Rxrosellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00971482422276765335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5055598777203654547.post-74122179299233593742015-01-12T06:23:38.943+00:002015-01-12T06:23:38.943+00:00It is so good to hear the voice of reason, empathy...It is so good to hear the voice of reason, empathy, mutual understanding amongst all of us. Thank you for saying all that, Roselle, for putting so well the dilemma and horror of it all when the only reaction can sometimes be to shake one's head in disbelief and horror, feeling completely helpless, angry and fearful. Here, you strike the perfect balance it seems, articulating exactly what I've been feeling these last few days.<br />I think of Israel, of course, and urge people not to be too driven by anger and hatred but try to understand much more. All that needs the cool, balanced, detachment as well as that intense involvement of feeling that we must all try to achieve. And it's difficult, but we must keep trying.<br />(I know I seem to be using a royal-sounding 'We', and it all starts with self, of course, but I also feel strongly that we as a group need to feel we're a gentle, firm force working together.)<br /><br />With love and thanks, Miriam.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com