feel free to choose a topic!

[Arcadia]

It would be great that this (the fact that these guys can be presidents) can be only a funny episode.... the point is, that it´s already becoming dangerous & there are people suffering the consecuencies ...

http://www.lacapital.com.ar/politica/tr ... 85441.html

I drank two hours ago as a sort of antidote an Alejandro Grimson lecture, I don´t expect a miracle but it´s something...!

[Arcadia]

well. first it was the left knee and the peroné
later it was the right femur cóndilo
now it seems it´s ´s a little bit of the meseta tibial plus a posible quiste...
trauma & stress
damn, really travelling bones...!
RX to resonance
now resonance to again RX
and turn with the traumatologist with luck in one month
I wonder if those are good news or not...
the good thing is I can walk without pain now
that, in my family story is itself good news..!

[Arcadia]

Meanwhile in Gothic country, somebody´s is reciting Math...

2 x 1


https://www.pagina12.com.ar/35399-les-e ... -genocidas

[Arcadia]

14th of julies
stupid people
& white cars still gives me fury & chills
but
I can bear somehow to walk downtown streets again
peroné & fémur are ok
meseta tibial not al all,
paramethers changed:
it seems a near half of a century years old knee plus a crash
has already a more subjective than an objective appreciation
(according to my knee specialist):
"if you right now don´t have pain
-a pain like a knife erodating your outer side of the knee-
& it´s not in your plans to run a marathon
it´s ok"

so I guess it´s ok... heheheh...

[Arcadia]

who wants deja vu times ?

http://www.rebelion.org/noticia.php?id= ... /i%3E%22)-

an who´s Ayn Rand???

http://www.rebelion.org/noticia.php?id= ... eoliberal-

[Arcadia]

silence since July...??? nothing happened...???

Maybe we someday can think beyond meteorology, who knows..!!

http://www.revistaanfibia.com/ensayo/ni ... gentina-2/

[Arcadia]

summer books:

Mitomanías argentinas - Alejandro Grimson (book lent by my cousin)
it´s a 2012 book, someone should have sent one to our actual president...

http://www.sigloxxieditores.com.ar/fich ... -629-238-2

first myth "Argentine is an european country"... I already read the "Mitos patrioteros" and the "Mitos decadentistas"... acute & at the same time funny read!!!

Del reloj a la flor de loto - Ana María Llamazares

http://www.cuspide.com/9789876092814/De ... or+De+Loto
(I have read only the introduction, now I have to enter the Modernity... ).

Shaman´s path -in spanish- fotocopies- (various authors, Gary Doore edition, an old book from 1988).
I specially liked Joan Halifax´s, Jurgen Kremer´s, Jim Swan´s, Lewis Mehl´s & Jeanne Achterberg´s essays.


https://www.shambhala.com/shaman-s-path.html

The practice of the Wild - Gary Snyder (1990 - a collection of his essays) -
I founded a pdf archive online with the essays in English, I printed them -can´t read online...- and I´m reading beyond the By way of thanks the first one: "The Etiquette of Freedom" and searching the meaning of words such as afield and baubles...

https://terebess.hu/zen/mesterek/The-Pr ... Snyder.pdf

[Arcadia]

one more book!: "Dramaturgia rural" by Weben Carvalho...a beautiful handmake book...!. (it´s in portuguese but I can understand it!) I presenced and participated (the "public" learnt to sing sambas for the end of the performance too) in "Dramaturgia cuenta Milton Santos" performed by Movimiento de Dramaturgia Rural Brasil. I feel connected with their struggles concerning the land, maybe my father´s side grandmother who was born & working in a coffee fazenda in Brasil until her twenties as an empoverish italian-venetian imnigrant fuerza de trabajo in replacement of african slaves had something to do with it. Moving experience!

[Arcadia]

yeah, meanwhile people continue dying...let´s celebrate their voices...! Good trips Michael Harner & Liliana Bodoc (here I post a great, to the point full of clarity and tenderness talk she gave last year, thanks to a remembering of a friend today. .. I wish you could listen to her! ).



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27DCN0f_1fc (sharp & calm sense of humor he displayed in this..)



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsZ1S1iSBSA

[Doreen Peri]

Missing you around here, Veronica!

[Arcadia]

Miss you too, Doreen & friends!! but later I noticed that I need some kind of presence plus distance to be able to write and read in something like English, not had much of those at hand in the second part of 2018. Nice to read you all again!


Next post I´ll tell you about summer readings!

[Arcadia]

2020...wow!

I saw last year one and a half time on public tv an animation movie name "Window horses", so beautiful & unexpected film! Searching yesteday for a link to the full movie with no exit, I only found the trailer on youtube:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZnsj1I3rSA

[judih]

2020...wow!

I saw last year one and a half time on public tv an animation movie name "Window horses", so beautiful & unexpected film! Searching yesteday for a link to the full movie with no exit, I only found the trailer on youtube:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZnsj1I3rSA

What a gorgeous trailer! And now, I too will be searching for the film. Thanks, Veronica

[Arcadia]

Well, according to the facts and/or/plus what we see in our cell phones or on TV it seems in the following days we´ll not be in danger of dying in masses thanks to a nuclear war or thousands of terrorists blowing up themselves (& also the context) but instead maybe the coronavirus could work for that... Youtube did some kind of automatic research for me in the last days and a lot of videos about what was called at that time the Spanish flu came to Youtube town.
My grandparent who at the end of the World War I had to do the military service in the Italian Army in Anatolia survived miracously to a grave neumonia during 1919 or 1920, they refered to it like if it were the war for him "they thought I will die, and I thought the same", surviving that it was somehow his battle with honours. Crazy things that wars at least (to be soft) promote... After that there were another epidemias in his biography: her mother died from malaria in the ´30 in a pantano near Lazio where Mussolini translated venetians from their original lands and began to construct the city of Latina... and maybe at the same time her first son contracted polio in a tremendous epidemy in Rosario... not so lucky the cronicle of the last epidemias refered, so only the neumonia´s surviving (despite it left visible traces in his lungs and the fact he continue smoking wihtout pause non filter black tobacco until he died at 87) was a kind of celebratory narration.
This long story for what? you may guess... Well, it still amazes me how memory can work, with lots of details but also with a lot of condensation and desplazamiento... and how trauma & stories can be told for ourselves and also be transmited to other generations... and also finding some kind of resilience in doing that.
Literature as also a sort of shared memory maybe also applies. Have you read Daniel Defoe´s "Diario del año de la peste", Albert Camus´s "La peste" and the great Phillip Roth´s "Némesis"? (I read the last one thanks to you friends here and there in these sites we´ve been sharing- this book is also maybe the only fiction book my father read during his entire adult life haha..). So, if it´s of your interest, your defenses are enough high and you´re not too afraid to get infectious or catch a virus or somenthing like that you can try them! (the opposite also works, Boccaccio may say...! )

[jackofnightmares]

Camus is my benefactor

wars and plagues he wondered why they always seem to take humanity by surprise

“A great writer is the friend and benefactor of his readers.

Theology and Geometry: Essays on John Kennedy Toole's a Confederacy of Dunces

My dad and your granddad were contemporaries