Ontvangshal van de dag

#Fundafun #Funda #Hal #Halvandedag #ontvangshal #zwartwit #trap #hout #tegeltjes #grandeur #groot #Boxmeer

https://www.funda.nl/detail/koop/boxmeer/huis-steenstraat-54/89600874/

Quote of the day, 26 January: St. Edith Stein

Yesterday, when I looked at a picture of the Infant of Prague, it suddenly occurred to me that he is wearing imperial coronation dress and surely it was not accidental that his efficacy should come to the fore precisely in Prague.

After all, Prague has been the court of the old German or Roman Emperors, respectively, and the city makes such a majestic impression that no other city known to me can compare with it, not even Paris and Vienna. The Little Jesus came exactly when the political imperial grandeur came to an end in Prague.

Is he not the secret Emperor who will someday put an end to all misery? After all, he holds the reins even though people believe they are the rulers.

Saint Edith Stein

Letter 333 to Mother Johanna van Weersth, OCD

Stein, E 1993, Self-Portrait in Letters, 1916-1942, Koeppel, J (trans.), ICS Publications, Washington DC.

Featured image: The miraculous image of the Infant Jesus venerated in the Discalced Carmelite Church of Our Lady Victorious, Prague. Image credit: Discalced Carmelites (by permission).

#grandeur #InfantJesus #InfantOfPrague #StEdithStein #StTeresaBenedictaOfTheCross

Qu'est-ce que l'énergie ?

https://tube-sciences-technologies.apps.education.fr/w/2x4BHESrtNBo8Gp5mkvCSL

2007 was a simpler time. I thought of that when I read about the #Sony Anycast Station AWS-G500HD. What a cool, functional machine for composers, DJ’s, and tinkerers.

People were more motivated and companies were a little better in terms of their behavior back during this period.

The recent uptick in conservatism (read: austerity) in business and also the austere malaise within political circles with regard to all of the awful patterns in their behavior and controlling the purse strings for funding of government, too — which most happy and content people now just process as “crazy;” immediately, off the bat and without putting much thought into it — really *has* made many important elements which we all NEED in this world of computing and business a bit worse.

I miss both the #grandeur and lessened sophistication of the late nineties and the early aughts or early 2000’s.