WALKING MEDITATION

Reflections
2nd Avenue

"The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment, every sin already carries grace in it."
-Hermann Hesse-

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The Gandhi Garden
Broadway

“The life that you live in order to photograph it is already, at the outset, a commemoration of itself”
-Italo Calvino-

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Public Prayer
Union Square

"All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt."

-Susan Sontag-

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Chess

At least ten tables at the front of the park on the West side of 14th street offer chess games with local 'masters' of the game. Fascinating to watch the relationships develop.

Because we were friends and sometimes loved each other,
perhaps to add one more tie
to the many that already bound us,
we decided to play games of the mind.

We set up a board between us:
equally divided into pieces, values,
and possible moves.
We learned the rules, we swore to respect them,
and the match began.

We’ve been sitting here for centuries, meditating
ferociously
how to deal the one last blow that will finally
annihilate the other one forever.

by Rosario Castellanos
25 May 1925 – 7 August 1974

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Sky

"The sky is the only roof I have over my head and when I'm weary

Mother nature makes me a bed"

-by Haven Gillespie, Seymour Simons, and Richard Whiting-

1926

https://youtu.be/z2ATkurruzQ

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Links

Photography

https://www.brainpickings.org/2013/09/16/susan-sontag-on-photography-social-media/

Chess

http://239393044769220898.weebly.com/

WHILE PLAYING IN THE LANGUAGE POOL

OBSERVATION COMPOUNDED FROM THE OMISSION OF AN "R"





Ergotism |ˈərgəˌtizəm|

noun
Poisoning produced by eating food affected by ergot, typically resulting in headache, vomiting, diarrhea, and gangrene of the fingers and toes.


Egotism |ˈēgəˌtizəm|
noun
Poisoning produced by the practice of talking and thinking about oneself excessively because of an undue sense of self-importance, typically resulting in paralysis of empathy,
and gangrene of all intimate connections.




THE RIGHT WORD

Egotism- a negative term that combines extreme self-preoccupation with a tendency to show off or attract attention.


Conceit- there is nothing neutral about this term, which carries strong connotations of superiority and a failure to see oneself realistically.

Vanity- on the other hand, is not based so much on feelings of superiority as it is on a love for oneself and a craving for the admiration of others.


Narcissism- means self-love and preoccupation with one's physical or mental attributes.


Solipsism- refers to someone who is completely wrapped up in his or her own concerns.




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