Baraka Blue
@BarakaBlue
Sending love, light & ancient wisdom through modern mediums via: music, poetry, workshops, retreats & classes. Contact: [email protected]
Iain McGilchrist on how imagination thrives on the implicit.
Goethe on what makes a poet: “As soon as he can appropriate to himself, and express the world, he is a poet.”
The literary depth and disciplined reading habits of early 20th-century miners easily surpass those of many contemporary students, including some with English degrees.
I find a peculiar delight in that initial phase of acquaintance with a poem, when its meaning is not yet fully discerned but only delicately suggested, when understanding hovers just beyond reach, beckoning you to deeper reflection.
Mark Twain, Adam writing about Eve
define ‘chemistry’
You need time alone to clear the psychic debris in your mind and the thoughts and ideas you pick up from others. You need silence and boredom to tap into your creativity. Most people are terrified of being alone with their thoughts, never mind plumbing into the depths of their…
“Only those who take leisurely what the people of the world are busy about can be busy about what the people of the world take leisurely.” — Chang Ch’ao
Yes. Writing is not a second thing that happens after thinking. The act of writing is an act of thinking. Writing *is* thinking. Students, academics, and anyone else who outsources their writing to LLMs will find their screens full of words and their minds emptied of thought.
A 20-year longitudinal study on sun exposure & all-cause mortality showed: Highest quartile of sun exposure = lowest all-cause mortality Highest quartile of sun exposure + being a smoker = same level of all-cause mortality as those in the lowest quartile of sun exposure