Sometimes I just wish I could isolate myself and snooze inside a pile of duvets for 3 months on end.
Worst is yet to come - arriving in the dark to work and leaving in the dark.
I don't know how the Nordic countries manage this...
The fact is that what we're experiencing right now is a top-down disaster. -Paul Krugman
As if Germany's no. 1 goalkeeper throwing himself in front of a train wasn't some symbol of the times.
i'm convinced that constant association with news of the hijacking of our systems, coupled with our relative impotence to do anything about the insanity, affects us all in ways so subtle we don't notice it, especially as it's been so bad since Bush and before the Iraq war.
One reason i constantly try to upload music and film stuff, and comment about sports or something seemingly "surface," is to try and negate this epidemic of depression, mild or otherwise.
Call me crazy, but i find the concept of hibernation "cuddly." Worth aspiring to. Then i remember (sometimes) how amazing life can be when lived fully. Hang in there Nomad.
"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin
To see how the wealth capture bandits took the economy to the brink, got saved by tomorrow's taxes payable by anyone but them, and are already out there serving up the same bunch of lies economic theory as before to justify continuing with the same madness (for anyone but them). To see their servile pundits still scribbling away on their knees while the media turn up the volume on what's good for them. While Sigmar Gabriel tells us German social-democracy is making a fresh start, and Ségolène Royal and the French socialists go on with their music-hall show, and New Labour, ah, New Labour...
You know, the bandits and their flunkeys are getting big psychic-buzz ego-validation from a get-so-much-richer system. Like cocaine. High and invincible. While we struggle to find the energy to get a word in edgeways.
(this said, wtf, don't let's give up... ;))
Solution? Go into the yard with a pick-axe and start planting fruit trees (talk about putting frustration to good use!). At this rate, pretty soon I'm going to have a commercial size orchard in my back yard. "Beware of the man who does not talk, and the dog that does not bark." Cheyenne
Highly recommended, searing honesty, and yes, they actually talked like that. Get the series DVDs, and watch the Director's explanation.
Amazing evolutionary sociology.
http://www.hbo.com/deadwood/
brain fart
having briefly stepped away from euro-consciousness, all tv, and almost all blogging here in costa rica, and looking back at my euro-self from here, i get the same flash i got last time i was here: that w take life way too seriously in europe, and have mostly forgotten how to relax naturally.
then of course there is the SAD, as the days shorten, and we head for the solstice, zenith of darkness, the most trying of seasons spiritually, so much so that we had to invent a festival of light to cheer our (s)elves up, ho ho ho...
problem is when you can't even show up for that because the gap between the forced cheer and the depressing reality becomes more irritating than the depressing reality itself...
xmas is the bottleneck, once that's over it starts to brighten considerably, though january is still grim city, and if february were one day longer suicides would increase...
by march the first of several dozen false springs start to appear, sending hopes zooming and crashing as one's energies and immune system are reeling and staggering, after defending one from all the smorgasbord of nasty viruses that run riot during the dark months.
by april spring really does start to deliver the goods...
meanwhile, charging up the batteries with some more tropical light is definitely in order, together with some deep pacific therapy for body and soul.
cuz hitting the appenines again in mid january is going to be... well, interesting... ~Government budget deficits are not nearly as dangerous as the deficits we have created in vital and complex natural systems.~ Naomi Klein.
