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PUSH el BUSH
4 07 2014Comments : Leave a Comment »
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Beauty is Sanskrit, the language that opens the heart
3 07 2014– Luna (age 5)
Thank you St James for a wonderfully rich school year (and for giving my girls the gift of Sanskrit).
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Beauty: Are things beautiful because they give delight, or do they give delight because they are beautiful?
3 07 2014Luna: Mummy your have so many grey hairs now.
Mummy: Is that bad?
Luna: No, it just looks funny.
Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty. – David Hume
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Tupi or not Tupi
29 06 2014“Tupi or not Tupi: that is the question.” – Oswald de Andrade
Haiti
Cucurrucucú paloma (originally written by Tomas Mendez)
Caetano Veloso (the 5th of 7 children) is a Brazilian musician, writer and political activist. He was born in the city of Santo Amaro da Purificação, in Bahia, a state in the northeastern area of Brazil. In the 60s, at the beginning of the Brazilian military dictatorship, Veloso collaborated with a group of artists (including his sister) and founded Tropicalismo, which fused Brazilian pop with rock and roll and avant-garde music. But the government at the time found him threatening and he and fellow musician Gilberto Gil were exiled in 1969–they moved to London. When Veloso returned to his home country, in 1972, he started recording and performing again–still a rock-star, age 71.
Veloso studied philosophy at the Universidade Federal da Bahia, which influenced both his artistic expression and viewpoint on life. Two of his favourite philosophers were Jean-Paul Sartre and Martin Heidegger
THANK you WIKI [If you’re interested in donating to Wikimedia Foundation, you can do so here.]
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Tags: 1960s, Brazil, Caetano Veloso, Giberto Gil, Heidegger, Sartre
Categories : consciousness, Governance, Music, Poetry, Uncategorized
So well said
29 06 2014
“I know all the competitive insecurity that infects parents around schools, exams and universities. I’ve seen too many desperate kids becoming extensions of adults’ vanity, insecurity and desire for a second chance. And I told my children I had no interest in seeing their reports or knowing their exam results. Nothing they achieve will ever make me prouder of them than the day they were born. Nothing they do or don’t do will make me love them one iota less.”
– AA. Gill
http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/newsreview/features/article1427723.ece
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Categories : consciousness, Education, Happiness (Wit = α+βxit+εit), Uncategorized
Is it wrong to teach children to believe in God?
29 06 2014
– Mummy, do you believe in God?
– Yes.
– Which God?
– All Gods.
“Plato was prepared to force people to believe even false things for the sake of societal harmony. In the Republic, it is clear that Plato did believe in a god, although he was probably iffy about the Mount Olympus gods. But he thought god-belief necessary to keep order in the ideal society he was sketching. In the Laws Plato suggested that non-believers should be imprisoned, subjected to extreme thought control, served only by slaves and, when dead, buried anonymously.” –
http://aeon.co/magazine/world-views/is-it-wrong-to-teach-children-to-believe-in-god/
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Beauty is language, happiness is putting it to good use
28 06 2014
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Stickernomics
26 06 2014Mummy – Philomena how did the sticker trading day go at school, which new players do you have?
Philomena – I had no one to trade with because none of the girls in my class are trading football stickers.
http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21603019-got-got-got-got-got-need-stickernomics
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Categories : Economics, Games, Uncategorized
I LOVE Sushi: let children lead the way towards peace
20 06 2014
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5 min in a Mom’s head
11 06 2014What time is it? What day is it? Oh gosh this bed feels so good. Why can’t I just stay here all day. That would be the perfect vacation. Screw the Caribbean, I just want my bed. My bed with Netflix and cheesecake. And Tostitos. Guacamole, too. Mmm. Nachos. And sangria. I’ll never be skinny. Maybe I should do that Facebook ab challenge. Because I need something fresh to fail at. I should do a cheesecake challenge. Try a new cheesecake every day.
What are they fighting about? A highlighter? In a room full of toys that I paid good money for, these kids are fighting over a highlighter? Speaking of toys, I should probably wash their stuffed animals. What if they’re full of dust mites. What if there’s an entire city of dust mites right behind Tenderheart Bear’s eyes? A dust mite community with freeways and infrastructure and elected dust mite officials. I need to be more on top of this stuff. Why can’t I be a normal, responsible, Pinterest mom? I haven’t made my baby one sensory table or ice tray full of colorful little finger foods.
See rest of article by Bunmi Laditan here:
http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/5445948?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000037
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A 7-year old’s wrath of justice
9 06 2014
Philomena – It’s fine if people smoke, I understand that but I would make throwing cigarette butts on the street illegal.
Mummy – What else would you make illegal if you had the power to do so?
Philomena- If I were Queen, I would make stealing–robbery–illegal.
Mummy- Stealing is already illegal. Tell me, what would you do if you caught a robber?
Philomena- I would have the police make the robber return everything he stole. And then put him in jail.
Mummy- For how long?
Philomena- Until he said he was sorry and promised never to do it again. Mummy- And what if he broke his promise and after he was free began steeling again? Philomena- I would put him in jail until he said he was really sorry and promised not to do it again. He would have to return everything though. Mummy- And what if he broke his promise again after that? Philomena- I would put him in jail again until he swore to God and crossed his heart never to do it again. Mummy – And if he broke that promise again? Philomena – I would have my servants tie up his legs and his arms and put him up against a wall. Then I would have them shoot arrows at him until he was completely dead.
Mummy – What else would you make illegal if you had the power to do so?
Philomena- If I were Queen, I would make stealing–robbery–illegal.
Mummy- Stealing is already illegal. Tell me, what would you do if you caught a robber?
Philomena- I would have the police make the robber return everything he stole. And then put him in jail.
Mummy- For how long?
Philomena- Until he said he was sorry and promised never to do it again. Mummy- And what if he broke his promise and after he was free began steeling again? Philomena- I would put him in jail until he said he was really sorry and promised not to do it again. He would have to return everything though. Mummy- And what if he broke his promise again after that? Philomena- I would put him in jail again until he swore to God and crossed his heart never to do it again. Mummy – And if he broke that promise again? Philomena – I would have my servants tie up his legs and his arms and put him up against a wall. Then I would have them shoot arrows at him until he was completely dead.
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What is REAL? asked the Rabbit
8 06 2014
“What is REAL?” asked the Rabbit one day, when they were lying side by side near the nursery fender, before Nana came to tidy the room.
“Does it mean having things that buzz inside you and a stick-out handle?”
“Real isn’t how you are made,” said the Skin Horse. “It’s a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.”
“Does it hurt?” asked the Rabbit.
“Sometimes,” said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. “When you are Real you don’t mind being hurt.”
“Does it happen all at once, like being wound up,” he asked, “or bit by bit?”
“It doesn’t happen all at once,” said the Skin Horse. “You become. It takes a long time. That’s why it doesn’t happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don’t matter at all, because once you are Real you can’t be ugly, except to people who don’t understand.”
– The Velveteen Rabbit, by Margery Williams, Illustrated by William Nicholson
“If we cannot distinguish between a simulated and real Universe, then the question of living in a simulation is moot: this reality is ours, and it’s all we have.” – Mathew Francis
http://aeon.co/magazine/nature-and-cosmos/can-we-tell-if-reality-is-a-computer-simulation/
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Categories : Children's Books, Imagination, Relativity, Senses, Uncategorized
Footballers, like philosophers, need to have passion as well as intellect; they need to be a part of the game, not apart from it.
7 06 2014
Football is a dance, the partner is the ball. – Brazilian football coach for children.
Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals – Aristotle
Football is a grand game for developing a lad physically and also morally, for he learns to play with good temper and unselfishness, to play in his place, and to play the game, and these are the best of training for any game of life.
– Robert Baden-Powell
I love football. I love the aesthetics of football. I love the athleticism of football. I love the movement of the players, the antics of the coaches. I love the dynamism of the fans. I love their passion for their badge and the colour of their team and their country. I love the noise and the buzz and the electricity in the stadium. I love the songs. I love the way the ball moves and then it flows and the way a teams fortune rises and falls through a game and through a season. But what I love about football that it brings people together across religious divides, geographic divides, political divides. I love the fact that for ninety minutes in a rectangular piece of grass, people can forget hopefully, whatever might be going on in their life, rejoice in this communal celebration of humanity. The biggest diverse, invasive or pervasive culture that human kinds knows is football and I love the fact that at the altar of football human kind can come worship and celebrate. – Andy Harper (Former Newcastle player)
Click to access PDF_Vol_06_No_01_053-63_SI_Hutchinson.pdf
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Tags: Andy Harper, Aristotle, Bolivia, Evo Morales, Jacques Derrida, Robert Baden-Powell, Steve Payne
Categories : Aesthetics, Beauty, Games, Governance, Senses, Uncategorized
are you a science denialist or a philosopher?
6 06 2014
http://thedailyshow.cc.com/videos/g1lev1/an-outbreak-of-liberal-idiocy?xrs=share_copy_email
[geo-blocked to the US. If you want to watch US clips try this – easier than it sounds.]
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2012/sep/09/science-philosophy-debate-julian-baggini-lawrence-krauss
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LOVE = FORGIVENESS
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Push the Bush: The Mostar Diving Club
5 06 2014Tonight at the Bush Hall – the beautiful poetry of Mostar Diving Club: with Vicky Osterberg, Will Worsley, Michael G Moore and Damian Katkhuda.
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Time present and time past: keep me traveling along with you
5 06 2014
“Space and time are the framework within which the mind is constrained to construct its experience of reality.”
― Immanuel Kant Time present and time past
Are both perhaps present in time future,
And time future contained in time past.
– T.S. Eliot
― Immanuel Kant Time present and time past
Are both perhaps present in time future,
And time future contained in time past.
– T.S. Eliot
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A Matisse for Mummy
4 06 2014
“Mummy this is for you. It’s our Matisse. And see, it’s your path through trees and storms, under rainbows and into sunshine.”
– love Philomena & Luna
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Notes & Neurons: In search of the common chorus
3 06 2014Comments : Leave a Comment »
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Push the Bush: Artists at Home 2014
2 06 2014Seventy artists across the hood are opening their houses, studios and flats for you to check out their art. You’ll find a mix of painting, sculpture, photography, jewellery, textiles, ceramics, glass-blowing and all sorts of other goodies.
Easy to cycle (or roller-skate) around [see map for details].
June 13 6-9pm
June 14 & 15 11-6pm
http://www.artistsathome.net
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