Emma
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Emma
The Shape of a Pocket: : John Berger: Bloomsbury Paperbacks ...
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John Berger writes: 'The pocket in question is a small pocket of resistance. A pocket is formed when two or more people come together in agreement. The resistance is against the inhumanity of the new world economic order. The people coming together are the reader, me and those the essays are about - Rembrandt, Palaeolithic cave painters, a Romanian peasant, ancient Egyptians, an expert in the loneliness of certain hotel bedrooms, dogs at dusk, a man in a radio station. And unexpectedly, our exchanges strengthen each of us in our conviction that what is happening to the world today is wrong, and that what is often said about it is a lie. I've never written a book with a greater sense of urgency.'
I had this hunch that the way we change is through relationships where we feel safe, and that we can only learn anything new because someone we trust is teaching it to us.
Then this friend of mine, Sarah Stein Lubrano, wrote this book called Don’t Talk About Politics, and what she concluded is the only way anyone changes their minds is through their
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Beauty can be coaxed out of ugliness. Wabi-sabi is ambivalent about separating beauty from non-beauty of ugliness. […] Wabi-sabi suggests that beauty is a dynamic event that occurs between you and something else. Beauty can occur at any moment given the proper circumstances, context or point of view. Beauty is thus an altered state of
... See moreI am way more handy now I find time for radical acts of ridiculous beauty as often as I possibly can
Caroline Ross
The place culture resides is in the extraneous beauty
Caroline Ross
Lack of meaning and lack of beauty manifest together when efficiency rules
Dougald Hine
The things you have to do are not interesting because you have to do them, so there is no question
Why do something you didn't have to do IS a question.
All these things that are not the most efficient way you could do something attach meaning, because of the ‘why would you do that?’ that's attached to it
Dougald Hine
https://youtu.be/MjWFZ44Xch4?si=vw
... See moreWe humans have energy and we have time and we don't have anything else … so when we spend that money of our time and our energy on love, on making beauty… those are precious places
Caroline Ross
