Life &Poetry Entropy | 02 Feb 2012
The cherished Polish poet and Nobel Prize winner Wisława Szymborska passed away on Wednesday evening at her home in Kraków at the age of 89 “In Szymborska’s poetry, we divide ourselves not into body and surviving work but into body and unfinished whisper, poetry is no more than an unfinished whisper, laughter that swiftly falls [...]
Realize that Christmas is a pause. The word is beautiful and the idea behind it more beautiful. Christmas is not just for children. To believe that is to believe that innocence without knowledge is better than understanding and faith and grace. To be clever about Christmas is to be profoundly stupid. The early springtime of [...]
The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less… Václav Havel– 1936-2011- A global ambassador of Conscience” – The relationship to the world that the modern science fostered and shaped now appears to have exhausted its [...]
Words to live by .. Looking Backwards “If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, [...]
Hope is not Rational and Optimism is overrated .. We like to think of ourselves as rational creatures. We watch our backs, weigh the odds, pack an umbrella. But both neuroscience and social science suggest that we are more optimistic than realistic… Read Time Feature The Optimism Bias – Here