Views from Geneva, #switzerland

#nature #architecture #travel #photography

‘True revelations are granted by Grace.

They are soft whispers, often in the desert; or the wilderness; in prison or in quarantine.

They come from a small still voice in the wilderness…’

https://www.amazon.com/Quarantine-Notes-Aphorisms-Morality-Mortality-ebook/dp/B0CBCWV7HS?ref_=ast_author_mpb

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📖 #Today's #meditation :

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We live and unlearn…

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https://www.fomitepress.com/quarantine-notes.html

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nostr:npub153vkpzctt4tadv3ztp0tggm4fup4suyv3fhz9e3zm7krhr02mf0q99deel 🤪

nostr:npub153vkpzctt4tadv3ztp0tggm4fup4suyv3fhz9e3zm7krhr02mf0q99deel Hah! Good one :) I see that impressive, snowed in driveway but I also see a face that is youthful & joyful (perhaps, two words for the same thing :)

#Today

The snow of old age falls, daily

while I stand before the mirror

using the razor as a shovel

to clear the walkway

to a face I remember.

#poetry #writing #time

nostr:npub1c9jdfa2uu809wl70nan86y20jqnn833y40tmmrg7mtn64cvkqmvqk79zj6 Best of luck, Marco. Nearly 50, in less than 2 months, and still struggling how to make a living as an artist...

We live only to discover #beauty.

All else is a form of waiting.

— Kahlil Gibran

[#Nature #photography: Kent Burgess]

#motivation #inspiration #photo #naturephotography #quote #photos

Luck: another name for Grace.

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Chance: another word for Destiny.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/157817652-quarantine-notes #QuarantineNotes

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nostr:npub12tg44utszglx7t3hr037ysuy7vr4j7pxvxynmecnqr0z5qwh8fqs6f3pk6 Interesting that you majored in Spanish

I remember, around a decade ago, reading a somewhat less celebrated work of Marquez, "Chronicle of a Death Foretold" and weeping at the beauty of his longing and imagination...

nostr:npub1lahs7p29aszfzwmwyk3kxpe2c7sydguaqwqv6yccgyp8zxekv05qe3q8h5 I’m a big Gary Oldman fan (what can he *not* do?) & in Season 2 — not wanting it to end 🫣

If you’re interested, you can find some of my movie, art, book reviews, here:

https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/author/yahia-lababidi

Cheers ✌🏼

‘As for the signal of my heart

and the plans of my flesh,

as for the writing on the wall,

I am always ignoramus: I can’t

read or write

and my head is empty as a weed,

knowing only the secret whisper

and the motion in the wind

when a fate passes through me, to

some other place.'

— Yehuda Amichai,

“As for the World”

( #translation : Stephen Mitchell )

#poetry #israel #mystery

"Thou shalt see my back parts, my tail, he seems to say, but my face shall not be seen."

— Melville, Moby Dick

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"Thou shalt see my back parts: but my face shall not be seen."

— Exodus, Bible

#quotes #literature #bible #mystery #spirituality

🗞️ #Google’s “Genesis“ #AI can write #news articles

Google is actively meeting with news organizations to pitch an AI tool, code-named "Genesis," that can write news articles.

• The tool has been pitched to several publications, including New York Times, Washington Post, & the owner of Wall Street Journal

• Google clarifies that the AI-enabled tools are not meant to replace #journalists but rather to act as co-pilots

#Tech #technology #technews #journalism #artificialintelligence

Indoor #kitty meets outdoor #cat for the first time — I hope this is the beginning of a lifelong #friendship 🥰

#catsofmastodon #cats #pets #love #family #video #animals

https://a.mindlycdn.com/media_attachments/files/110/752/684/204/775/301/original/89db261f2513571f.mp4

Thinking of #sanfrancisco and the many, colorful #poet #friends that I met there...

Below, is #video of a #reading I gave at their #International #Poetry #Festival :

https://youtu.be/SOCvgrZUWz8

#usa #ThrowbackThursday #memories #travel

‘We must have

the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless

furnace of this world.

To make injustice the only

measure of our attention is to praise the Devil.

If the locomotive of the Lord runs us down,

we should give thanks that the end had magnitude.

We must admit there will be music despite everything.’

https://m.soundcloud.com/yahia-lababidi/a-brief-for-the-defense-by?fbclid=IwAR3_7VScaiEZrNdnad-Az-70FXVxQjSSUnYVQLpaN5A2KoXz9fn0Q6ECn18_aem_AZ5HiT9cNJqIzPF-iY4HQEbTpVNGE6dleY_-HXgUIBejjuMEZUY6O59sIDU3O4n5lho&mibextid=Zxz2cZ

#poetry #poetrycommunity #soundcloud #reading #inspiration #spirituality #motivation #audio #hope #prayer #gratitude

New videos from Marc Neys, video artist, composing with sound and images and paint:

https://marcneys.wordpress.com/

#wordpress #video #poetry #art #artist

‘You can know someone by the angels and demons that gather around their name.’

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1959984225/ref=x_gr_bb_amazon?ie=UTF8&tag=x_gr_bb_amazon-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1959984225&SubscriptionId=1MGPYB6YW3HWK55XCGG2#customerReviews

#intoxicatedvisions #wednesday #spirituality #literature #books #Angels #quotes

It is foolish to think we will enter into heaven without entering into ourselves.

— Teresa of Avila, 'The Interior Castle.'

Image: from Alter St.-Matthäus-Kirchhof cemetery, Berlin.

#spirituality #quotes #faith