Wednesday, 18 June 2014

“Diving is a leap of faith plus gravity.”

― Gabrielle Zevin

Tuesday, 17 June 2014

Synchronised

Water, dance, synchronised swimming , music, community, joy.
Humans doing good things together.

From imovearts and the Balbir Singh Dance Company .

“Stories can feel like some shiny thing on the ground … You keep turning the thing over and over, noting its qualities in detail, hammering at it, putting it near flame, pouring different acids on it, and then finally you figure out what it is, or you just give up and mount it on a ring and have an awkward chunky piece of jewelry.”

-- An interview with Rivka Galchen at The Paris Review.

The Earth Underwater

Lapis Lazuli Moonscape ring and necklace from the Laura Lee Blue Moon collection..

Image by Damion Berger
Found here via koerperlich

Monday, 16 June 2014

"Artistic discipline and athletic discipline are kissing cousins, the require the same thing, an unspecial practice: tedious and pitch-black invisible, private as guts, but always sacred."

-- Leanne Shapton, Swimming Studies

Ryan McGinley | Olympic Swimmers

Wishing i was here!
(found via awelltraveledwoman)

Salt

“I really don't know why it is that all of us are so committed to the sea, except I think it's because in addition to the fact that the sea changes, and the light changes, and ships change, it's because we all came from the sea. And it is an interesting biological fact that all of us have in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea - whether it is to sail or to watch it - we are going back from whence we came."

― John F. Kennedy

Remarks at the Dinner for the America's Cup Crews, September 14 1962. Not 100% scientifically correct, our blood is 1% salinity while the sea has an average of 3.5%, but I like the notion.

(Image found here)

Sunday, 15 June 2014

Sunday Tune

Saturday, 14 June 2014

Saturday Cartoon

Saturday Poem

All night the storm had raged, nor ceased, nor paused,
When, as day broke, the Maid, through misty air,
Espies far off a Wreck, amid the surf,
Beating on one of those disastrous isles—
Half of a Vessel, half—no more; the rest
Had vanished, swallowed up with all that there
Had for the common safety striven in vain,
Or thither thronged for refuge. With quick glance
Daughter and Sire through optic-glass discern,
Clinging about the remnant of this Ship,
Creatures—how precious in the Maiden's sight!
For whom, belike, the old Man grieves still more
Than for their fellow-sufferers engulfed
Where every parting agony is hushed,
And hope and fear mix not in further strife.
"But courage, Father! let us out to sea—
A few may yet be saved." The Daughter's words,
Her earnest tone, and look beaming with faith,
Dispel the Father's doubts: nor do they lack
The noble-minded Mother's helping hand
To launch the boat; and with her blessing cheered,
And inwardly sustained by silent prayer,
Together they put forth, Father and Child!
Each grasps an oar, and struggling on they go—
Rivals in effort; and, alike intent
Here to elude and there surmount, they watch
The billows lengthening, mutually crossed
And shattered, and re-gathering their might;
As if the tumult, by the Almighty's will
Were, in the conscious sea, roused and prolonged
That woman's fortitude—so tried, so proved—
May brighten more and more!

-- William Wordsworth

Friday, 13 June 2014

Have a wonderful weekend.
I'm going window shopping; galleries, markets and junk shops.

Friday!

(Found here)

On Handwork

'The use of the hands is vital for the human being, for having flexibility, dexterity. In a way the entire human being is in the hands. Our destiny is in the hands."

I love the idea that through movement (more specifically here through working with our hands) we come into direct contact with our most human values, with the essentials that must be felt to be known... to be remembered. I was thinking a lot yesterday about accessing memories through movement, and then about knowledge as memory, so I'm really seeing this video today through that lens.

a little more about Renate and her work here.

“ Better a broken arm than a broken spirit."

- Lady Allen of Hurtwood, 1968

(images of 1950's Cuban playground found here)

YES!

YOGA DO'S

1. Start where you are.
2. Make space.
3. Use what you've got.
4. Commit to it.
5. Do what you can.
6. Be present without judgement.
7. Sense the quality and clarity of the movement.
8. Feel moment by moment through the movement.
9. Add nothing unnecessary to the movement.
10. Constantly return and realign.
11. Act without expectation.
12. Be curious.
13. Experiment.
14. Listen to your body.
15. Have fun.
16. Be soft.
17. Remember the one thing that is constant is change and what worked for you once may not right now or ever again.

Meditation and movement is not a constant state. Things change and shift, reverse and skip steps, your job is to constantly return, reassess and realign. Be your own student and teacher. Educate yourself about what works best for you...no-one else can do it for you!

Renate Hiller

'The use of the hands is vital for the human being, for having flexibility, dexterity. In a way the entire human being is in the hands. Our destiny is in the hands."