what children know and we forgot

Jeanette Winterson wisely writes that the only things she really regrets, 

were not errors of judgement but failures of feeling.

Henry James would agree. 

And in the midst of this hot, steamy Brussels summer,

I can't help but think about his imperative.

The answer should always be to feel more,

never less.

And what better place to remind us all of this forgotten way of life, 

than next to a children's bookshop?

Dangerous women and unmeasurable pleasure

Lazy days of summer. 

A bowl of coffee, and then another one.

Pondering with the help of Kundera.

We classify things and people by measuring their output.

Here, in this quiet garden, 

surrounded by the sounds of birds and 

embedded in the smell of the sea,

I am wondering what to do with all the unmeasurables.

Many writers on this shelf has thought a lot about this. 

Sontag will be consulted next. 

And, on a semi-related note:

a force more powerful than..force?

people's power, popular uprisings, people's republic...

Same, same, but very different. 

In the end, what better place to remind people of the power of non-violence,

than a communist bar next to Harvard University?

"a force more powerful"

(thank you Halisa, for your transliteration)

Also, check out the real thing

http://www.aforcemorepowerful.org/