We, more ephemeral than anything else.
(…)
But this: to have been once, even if only once,
to have been of this earth, seems irrevocable.
R. M. Rilke, 9th Duino Elegy (excerpt)
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dimensions of our lives
impact and turmoil
a murder right next door . . .
life hangs by a thread
human life . . . rare, unique, fragile
precious because it is fragile
Vincent van Gogh, Almond blossom
extreme violence on your doorstep : direct, chilling, inevitable impact
followed by : shock, terror, mental obsession, madness
expanded vision
about the social fabric :
in a state of shock and stupor, terror and distress crack people’s defences
fixed forms are shaken : they harden (and thus become more fragile) or bend a little
but the destabilisation is inexorable, there is no turning back
the community’s relational system is changing
extreme polarisation
on another level : a local glimpse of the collision of opposing forces
the global conflict that has been tearing the planet apart for millennia
hardening of positions : the noose tightens even further
climax of the clashes
that which destroys, that which enslaves, relentlessly attacks that which sustains life and living beings
and then, something else entirely
at the heart of the contraction of forces, something else is born
something else
coming from another dimension
descends a completely new, unheard-of vibration
ineffable
a quality of infinite softness
that spreads delicately all around
Voces8, a boy and a girl (excerpt)
Little overturned bottle,
who gave you this slender base?
From your floating, rocked misfortune,
the air is in ecstasy.
the air is in ecstasy.R. M. Rilke, Orchards (excerpt)
