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walking: still life
As I were wandering today, what caught my attention, besides beauty, were the cut flowers lying on the ground every few metres. I don’t like the idea of cut flowers, but I can understand the possible intention: someone who wishes to take home some part of the surrounding beauty, knowing it’s an ephemeral act (or…
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“I seem to be a verb”
I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing – a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process – an integral function of the universe. “I seem to be a verb” Buckminster Fuller, p.3
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The meaning of holism
The word holistic is used in regard both to therapy and to CAM, although it is more clearly expressed in CAM. Leader (2009) sees therapy as working ‘with a person holistically’, while CAM practitioners frequently refer to treating the ‘patient as a whole’ (European Committee for Homeopathy et al., 2008, p. 15). Leader’s usage of…
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“waiting for the fisherman”
On the island some time ago. The teenagers’ group sits around in a circle. They are unaccompanied children, some of them have been on the road since they were eight years old and they are now reaching fifteen. They are surviving best way they can. We are not speaking the same language, but somehow we…
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telling/ listening to stories
Stories we choose to tell and the way we tell them form conscious actions. Each dialogue – written or spoken, comprised of words, movement or actions – is part of a process through which roles are chose, identities are reproduced in order to narrate something specific, while forming a particular version of the world. Think…
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benches
Benches are made so that they can host relationships: between one human and another, between humans and their surroundings or other creatures – winged or four-legged. Some people open personal discussions while sitting on benches, others feed the pigeons or read a book or “simply” watch life unfolding in front of their eyes. Benches exist…