Green yellow flowers
a long winding path downstream
hiding for the rain
Day 3706, winding.
Daily picture, HaikuDay 3705, goodbye.
Daily picture, Poetry
There are goodbyes
and there are goodbyes
this was the last one
between you and me
though we never said goodbye
Day 3704, evening.
Daily picture, Poetry
The river
the landscape
a quiet evening
calm water
the sun set
the night slowly
Day 3703, I used.
Daily picture, Poetry
I used a filter
to color the sky
atleast
that is what I say myself
Day 3702, water fall.
Daily picture, Poetry
It is endlessly fascinating
to see water fall
reflect light
sliding down the metal
of this statue
depicting part of
my life
Day 3701, nature.
Daily picture, Quotes
Friedrich Nietzsche
Daybreak
Book V
468 The realm of beauty is bigger. – As we go about in nature, with joy and cunning, bent on discovering and as it were catching in the act the beauty proper to everything; as we try to see how that piece of coastline, with its rocks, inlets, olive trees and pines, attains to its perfection and mastery whether in the sunshine, or when the sky is stormy, or when twilight has almost gone: so we ought to go about among men, viewing and discovering them, showing them their good and evil, so that they shall behold their own proper beauty which unfolds itself in one case in the sunlight, in another amid storms, and in a third only when night is falling and the sky is full of rain. Is it then forbidden to enjoy the evil man as a wild landscape possessing its own bold lineaments and effects of light, if the same man appears to our eyes as a sketch and caricature and, as a blot in nature, causes us pain, when he poses as good and law-abiding? – Yes, it is forbidden: hitherto we have been permitted to seek beauty only in the morally good – a fact which sufficiently accounts for our having found so little of it and having had to seek about for imaginary beauties without backbone! – As surely as the wicked enjoy a hundred kinds of happiness of which the virtuous have no inkling, so too they possess a hundred kinds of beauty: and many of them have not yet been discovered.
Day 3700, to wait.
Daily picture, Poetry
The sun has set
behind the dark horizon
but it is still light
when you look up
to wait for the stars
Day 3699, blue.
Daily picture, Poetry
Day 3698, vaarwel.
Daily picture, Poetry
Day 3697, neatness.
Daily picture, Poetry
I pretend that all my memories
and futures
are captured
ordered at equal distances
and lined up into infinity
the neatness
keeps me calm
Day 3696, the self.
Daily picture, My thoughts
It is something we all take for granted, our sense of having a self. Not like the formless soul, but more like the painted pictures that first appeared on walls during the Renaissance. Some historians believe that the self, as we know it, was not a concept in Greek and Roman societies. There are even societies today that lack that concept, or it is only weak. Think of many East Asian cultures, traditional African societies, and Buddhist and Hindu philosophical traditions.
It is hard for us to imagine living in a world without good mirrors or pictures to see ourselves. And this is only the visible part. We now have TV and movies that show us many selves we can mirror, as well as all the books we can read, and the attention companies give to ourselves and how to improve ourselves.
I think it would be better to recognize that we are originally selfless, especially since the sense of self we possess is actually a construct or perhaps a byproduct of influences like Christianity. Consider Augustine’s Confessions, frequently cited as one of the earliest works of autobiographical introspection in Western literature. He examines his thoughts, memories, and moral conflicts, viewing the self as a unified, reflective entity capable of profound inner scrutiny, but this is a story for another time.
Day 3695, a book.
Daily picture, Quotes
Friedrich Nietzsche
Daybreak
Book V
454 Digression. -A book such as this is not for reading straight through or reading aloud but for dipping into, especially when out walking or on a journey; you must be able to stick your head into it and out of it again and again and discover nothing familiar around you.
Day 3694, me.
Daily picture, Poetry
I see what moves me
but what drives me
Day 3693, scale.
Daily picture, Poetry
I sometimes wonder
If your old measurement
scale
can still be used
Day 3692, Civil disobedience.
Daily picture, Definitions
Civil Disobedience
From the Boston Tea Party to Mahatma Gandhi’s Salt March, and from suffragists’ illegally casting their ballots to whites-only lunch counter sit-ins, civil disobedience has often played a crucial role in bending the proverbial arc of the moral universe toward justice. But what, if anything, do these acts, and countless others which we refer to as civil disobedience have in common? What distinguishes them from other forms of conscientious and political action?
On the most widely accepted account, civil disobedience is a public, non-violent and conscientious breach of law undertaken with the aim of bringing about a change in laws or government policies (Rawls 1999, 320). On this account, people who engage in civil disobedience operate at the boundary of fidelity to law, have general respect for their regime, and are willing to accept the legal consequences of their actions, as evidence of their fidelity to the rule of law. Civil disobedience, given its place at the boundary of fidelity to law, is said on this view to fall between legal protest, on the one hand, and conscientious refusal, uncivil disobedience, militant protest, organized forcible resistance, and revolutionary action, on the other hand.
This picture of civil disobedience, and the broader accounts offered in response, will be examined in the first section of this entry, which considers conceptual issues. The second section contrasts civil disobedience, broadly, with other types of protest. The third focuses on the justification of civil disobedience, examining upstream why civil disobedience needs to be justified, and downstream what is its value and role in society. The fourth examines states’ appropriate responses to civil disobedience.
Read the rest here: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/civil-disobedience/
Day 3691, for yesterday.
Daily picture, Poetry
At the end of the day
we have fished for all day
just enough for today
and tomorrow
we fish for tomorrow
like we did yesterday
for yesterday