A quotation from Douglas Adams

Douglas Adams (1952-2001) English author, humorist, screenwriter
Hitchhiker’s Guide No. 2, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, ch. 19 (1980)

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A Brief Moment of Time -the book

A Brief Moment of Time is based on a series of thoughts that I put together separately.

Revisiting part 27 of my A Moment of Our Time.

Actions

Think about all those people and their actions at that moment

Think about all those people baking bread at that moment

Think about all those people making breakfast at that moment

Think about all those people making lunch at that moment

Think about all those people cooking dinner at that moment

Think about all those people writing an article, a poem or a book at that moment

Think about all those people writing a script at that moment

Think about all those people brewing beer at that moment

Think about all those people making jam at that moment

Think about all those people arriving at work at that moment

Think about all those people leaving the office at that moment

Think about all those people pressing a key on their keyboard at that moment

Think about all those people watching TV at that moment

Think about all those people listening to the radio at that moment

Think about all those people knitting at that moment

Think about all those people weaving at that moment

Think about all those people looking at their phone or tablet at that moment

Think about all those people catching a fish at the moment

Think about all those people watching a comedian at that moment

Think about all those people in a coffee shop at that moment

Think about all those people learning to play an instrument at that moment

Think about all those people learning to fly at that moment

Think about all those people learning to read at that moment

Think about all those people playing an instrument in a concert at that moment

Think about all those people who are ironing at that moment

Think about all those people making a telephone call at that moment

Think about all those people who are having their hair cut at that moment

Think about all those people who are putting on makeup at that moment

Think about all those people who are helping somebody or something at that moment

Think about all those people who are smoking at that moment

Think about all those people who are vaping at that moment

Think about all those people who are going to the toilet at that moment

Think about all those people who are having sex at that moment

Think about all those people who are making love at that moment

Think about all those people doing DIY at that moment

Think about all those people changing a light bulb at that moment

Think about all those people sawing wood at that moment

Think about all those people chopping wood for firewood at that moment

Think about all those people carving wood at that moment

Think about all those people stretching at that moment

Think about all those people meditating at that moment

Think about all those people sleeping at that moment

Think about all those people dreaming at that moment

Think about all those people waking up at that moment

Think about all those people yawning at that moment

Think about all those people arguing at that moment

Think about all those people hating at that moment

Think about all those people shopping at that moment

Think about all those people buying something at that moment

Think about all those people remembering at that moment

Think about all those people sculpting at that moment

Think about all those people celebrating at that moment

Think about all those people whose birthday it is at that moment

Moments pass without us knowing of their passing

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Someone From The Past, Fahrelnissa Zeid, 1980

I put this up because I think it's good! and also because it compares to the one before this in the sense that the person in this one is almost distorted in the opposite way, where they are hidden under layers of arbitrary socialization? I don't know if that really makes sense but that is what my head is doing with this stuff right now. The other one exposes the free animal sense experience of a child and this is like the same level of exposure of a socially limited and well-trained adult of the same species. Ok enough out of me, good day to you all

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A Brief Moment of Time

Based on previous thoughts. This is revisiting part 26 of my A Moment of Our Time which became the book A Brief Moment of Time.

Sport

Think about all those people involved in sport at that moment

Think about all those people making sport at that moment

Think about all those people who are amateurs at that moment

Think about all those people who are professionals at that moment

Think about all those people in the gym at that moment

Think about all those people playing football at that moment

Think about all those people playing rugby at that moment

Think about all those people playing baseball at that moment

Think about all those people skiing at that moment

Think about all those people snowboarding at that moment

Think about all those people running at that moment

Think about all those people kicking a ball at that moment

Think about all those people playing tennis at that moment

Think about all those people playing basketball at that moment

Think about all those people running at that moment

Think about all those people playing cricket at that moment

Moments flow like the drops of water in a stream

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Origin, or: Beyond blue

A ‘Golden Shovel’ poem

‘Beyond Blue’, a haiku by Ivor Steven

My poem above is a golden shovel based on Ivor’s haiku:

Golden shovel?

A golden shovel is a kind of poem where each line ends with a word taken from another poem. The words come in the same order as they appear in the original poem. The new poem can be about something completely different, even though it uses those words.

d’Verse

Poets are encouraged to compose ‘golden shovel’ poems at d’Verse.

Let’s write poetry together!

When it comes to partnership, some humans can make their lives alone – it’s possible. But creatively, it’s more like painting: you can’t just use the same colours in every painting. It’s just not an option. You can’t take the same photograph every time and live with art forms with no differences.

Would you like to create poetry with me and have a completed poem of yours featured here at the Skeptic’s Kaddish? I am very excited to have launched the ‘Poetry Partners’ initiative and am looking forward to meeting and creating with you… Check it out!

Quote of the day, 29 April: Père Jacques

God himself is pure actuality, pure act. Nothing in him is in the state of possibility, passing from nonexistence to existence. All is infinite existence in him.

The human person, on the contrary, far from being this totality of realization, is a creature of infirmity and dependence. Remember what I was saying to you regarding creation? Nothing exists that cannot be annihilated instantly, if the creative action ceases to operate.

It is this way, because we are not self-existent beings, as the words of Our Lord to Saint Catherine of Siena indicated: “You are she who is not.”

This is the foundation of our being. We are not; we have only a borrowed being, unceasingly renewed by God.

The Virgin Mary shares this condition of creaturehood with us. By herself, she was not; she was totally dependent, as we are totally dependent.

Servant of God Père Jacques de Jésus

Conference 6, Virginity in God and in Mary
Retreat for the Carmel of Pontoise
Wednesday evening, 8 September 1943 

Jacques, P 2005, Listen to the silence: a retreat with Père Jacques, Murphy, F (trans. & ed.), ICS Publications, Washington DC.

Featured image: This beautiful cope hood depicting the Immaculate Conception was embroidered in the 1850s by the Dominican Sisters of St Catherine of Siena, whose motherhouse is in Stone, Staffordshire. Image credit: Lawrence Lew, OP / Flickr (Some rights reserved).