„Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it. There is a very real thing which may be called the love of humanity; in our time it exists almost entirely among what are called uneducated people; and it does not exist at all among the people who talk about it.
A positive pleasure in being in the presence of any other human being is chiefly remarkable, for instance, in the masses on Bank Holiday; that is why they are so much nearer Heaven (despite appearances) than any other part of our population.
I remember seeing a crowd of factory girls getting into an empty train at a wayside country station. There were about twenty of them; they all got into one carriage; and they left all the rest of the train entirely empty. That is the real love of humanity. That is the definite pleasure in the immediate proximity of one's own kind. Only this coarse, rank, real love of men seems to be entirely lacking in those who propose the love of humanity as a substitute for all other love; honourable, rationalistic idealists.” (G. K. Chesterton, Tremendous Trifles/Chapter XXII)
February 28, 2012
February 27, 2012
"Last song"...
http://youtu.be/GruQoiymZ_s
"Last Song" - Autumn McEntire and Fred Shafer (Coffee Amici, Findlay, OH)
February 21, 2012
Two life-size mistakes
„The man who cannot believe his senses, and the man who cannot believe anything else, are both insane, but their insanity is not proved by any error in their argument, but by the manifest mistake of their whole lives.”
-- G. K. Chesterton - "Orthodoxy", Ch. II
Image source
Ice Age flowers
Interesting news: Flowers regenerated from 30,000-year-old frozen fruits, buried by ancient squirrels (Discover Magazine, reporting on the achievement of a team of Russian scientists led by David Gilichinsky).
February 17, 2012
Mental Calculation (Nikolai Bogdanov-Belsky, 1868–1945)
Mental Calculation. In Public School of S. A. Rachinsky. Oil on canvas. 1895
The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
February 16, 2012
Amazing tango flamenco
http://youtu.be/i4bbDQ8jVJI
Blanco-rojo-negro flamenco.
Dancing: Carolina Scalas and Corrado Ponchiroli.
Florin Caragiu: "univers în expansiune"
au nevoie de noi
„fug de omul de ştiinţă”
– o veche glumă – îmi spui,
strecurând în pahar două cuburi de gheaţă
uneori adormim în rugăciune,
drepţi, ca nişte lumânări tot mai lungi,
întinse spre un candelabru ce se roteşte în noapte
căci numele Domnului e flacără ce nu consumă,
ci face lumânarea să crească, plămădind în trupul ei
ceara unor suferinţe învinse de o strălucire
ce ne apropie
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Image Credits: NASA/ESA and Trinity Church, Antarctica
February 15, 2012
February 14, 2012
Gustav Leonhardt (1928 - 2012)
http://youtu.be/L91bOmtenIg
Gustav Leonhardt (30 May 1928 - 16 January 2012)
- J. S. Bach Goldberg Variation 25 adagio
- Gustav Leonhardt, Dutch harpsichordist who led early-music revival, dies at 83 (The Washington Post, January 18)
February 10, 2012
February 7, 2012
Al Di Meola - The Grande Passion - Live in Warsaw
http://youtu.be/jyRi7eaZ9mo
Al Di Meola - The Grande Passion - Live in Warsaw, 2000 [1]
http://youtu.be/7pNhwHGwS-o
Al Di Meola - Soledad - Live in Warsaw, 2000 [2]
February 4, 2012
Blue Marble 2012
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/6806922559/
Credits: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
NASA - VIIRS Eastern Hemisphere Image - Behind the Scenes
Infinity is being born in the manger of finitude...
http://youtu.be/JyrazSP5WA8
George Enescu, sonata #3
February 2, 2012
Olhos Negros
http://youtu.be/C1zhsg-2YCc
"Olhos Negros", Maria Ana Bobone, Miguel Capucho, Josè Fontes Rocha
Clube de Fado Ano 2008
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