Imagining there is a better world

Combining ideas from the World Poems on the Underground and Socialist Union reading, 

we got an inspiration for imagining and singing for a better world...

All this whilst enjoying a wonderful up of coffee in a beautiful garden 

in a small bookshop in Notting Hill.

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/

Time is money?

Here in capitalist heaven

Just a small reminder to think about what we're doing

whether it's making money, spending money, needing money.

It's all secondary to what we're actually doing. 

Contrary to popular belief, money can't buy time.

Time is now.

This may not last, but this is now.

Losing the battle, winning the peace

After a few overwhelming days studying non-violent conflict, 

my very understanding of the world is in turmoil. 

Sometimes questions are more fruitful than answers and here, Fletcher School really delivers. 

Picking up the pieces of these thoughts on peace and struggle, 

I'm leaving a few behind for someone to pick up on..

Grand narratives, small truths

Shakespeare is known to have said that all the world is a stage. Is our perception of reality is just an illusory interpretation of a carefully staged performance?

But there are ways to break out of our theatrical chains, fortunately. 

In the end, the truth in the eye of the beholder. And this note is hidden in another Eye.