coldhardcash

everythingisaytoyouisawfullyserious
idontmakepuns
ihavenoslipsoftongue
ipayincoldhardcash

annesexton

...and then jump again!

Erdanziehungskraft, but with style.
Originally uploaded by philipinperu.

Milano, Piazza Affari.

[photos taken yesterday by my instant friend philip ( http://flickr.com/photos/philip_koch/ )]

jump!

zwei (sive lucisnegotium quatit!)
Originally uploaded by philipinperu.

confusion

*Confusion is the welcome mat at the door of creativity
*Michael J. Gelb

[if you follow the link by clicking on the three colored balls, you'll discover a wonderful photographer]

Felix Frankfurter, a famous judge of U.S.A. Supreme Court of Justice, wrote this letter to a young man he knew, who wanted to become a lawyer.
I read it today, but these words have been my rule of life in the last ten years.

"My dear Paul,
No one can be a truly competent lawyer unless he is a cultivated man. If I were you, I would forget about any technical preparation for the law. The best way to prepare for the law is to come to the study of law as a well-read person. Thus alone can one acquire the capacity to use the English language on paper and in speech and with the habits of clear thinking which only a truly liberal education can give. No less important for a lawyer is the cultivation of the imaginative faculties by reading poetry, seeing great paintings ... and listening to great music. Stock your mind with the deposit of much good reading, and widen and deepen your feelings by experiencing vicariously as much as possible the wonderful mysteries of the universe, and forget all about your future career.
With good wishes,
Sincerely yours,
Felix Frankfurter"

dearly though we seek to learn

Originally uploaded by babeffe.

"Chorus: Hast thou heard
Some tiding sure? Or is it Hope, hath stirred
To fire these altars? Dearly though we seek
To learn, 'tis thine to speak or not to speak."

[Aeschylus, The Agamemnon

paraiso

"El paraiso no es un lugar donde ir, es un estadio del alma para vivir"

"Heaven is not a place to go, but a state of mind to live"

I read this sentence on a shopbag years ago. Never forgot it.
I'm going far away, but heaven will always be IN me.

breathing under water

and living under glass