for good, warm, old times...

Odi et Amo

Odi et amo. quare id faciam fortasse requiris?
nescio sed fieri sentio et excrucior.

I hate & love. And if you should ask how I can do both,
I couldn't say; but I feel it, and it shivers me.

by Catullus

boring Diamonds*

The essential teaching of the Baal Shem Tov:

Be simple, be earnest, and spread that simplicity throughout everything you do.
Simplicity is a receptacle for G-d's simple Oneness.

*not really much connection to this post. everyone breathe

Measuring life.. in death

You that live in my ancestral Thebes, behold this Oedipus,
him who knew the famous riddles and was a man most masterful;
not a citizen who did not look with envy on his lot-
see him now and see the breakers of misfortune swallow him!
Look upon that last day always. Count no mortal happy till
he has passed the final limit of his life secure from pain.
~Oedipus by Sophocles

And that, as they say, is that.

of Sweet Days

..soft rain... light scarves... warm bookstores...books.. and mugs..and couches...and little kids running... wet.. hair..smiling...happy..content
winter.. music...nostalgia...firelight...
sweet..love
life...

or

sweet...life
love...

maths.

Mr. Jeavons said I liked maths because it was safe. He said I liked maths because it meant solving problems, and these problems were difficult and interesting but there was always a straightforward answer in the end. And what he meant was that maths wasn't like life because in life there are no straightforward answers in the end. because in life there are no straightforward answers in the end. and that's not a bad thing. or a good thing. it's just a thing. it's life. and in life, there are no straightforward answers in the end.

because in life, there are no straightforward answers in the end.

Chanukah was here.

moment of Glory

No limitation, a new inspiration, a world that is free...
Just as free as my mind