{"id":8705,"date":"2024-12-19T14:13:49","date_gmt":"2024-12-19T14:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.seeingthings.me.uk\/blog\/?p=8705"},"modified":"2024-12-19T14:13:49","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T14:13:49","slug":"warmest-winter-solstice-salutations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seeingthings.me.uk\/blog\/?p=8705","title":{"rendered":"Warmest Winter Solstice Salutations"},"content":{"rendered":"

Winter Solstice & Season’s Salutations friends<\/span>
\n Saturday 21st December 2024<\/span>
\nin the northern hemisphere<\/span>
\nthe day of least daylight…
\n\u00a0(& the return of the light)<\/span><\/span>
\nwinter’s commencement
\n\"\"
\n<\/span>kitchen sink studio: recommendations<\/span>
\nThe Color of Pomegranates <\/strong><\/em>(1968) groundbreaking film,
\nexquisite: stunning imagery, poignant, evocative.
\nSergei Paradjanov’s celebrated, dreamlike masterpiece
\npaints an astonishing portrait
\nof the 18th century Armenian poet Sayat Nova,
\nthe ‘King of Song’.<\/span>
\nPJ Harvey documentary A Dog called Money<\/strong><\/em> (2019) (on Mubi)
\nstunning, poignant, heartbreaking, heroic:
\ndocumentary footage PJ in Kosovo, Afghanistan
\n+ live in the studio<\/span>
\nLaura Poitras\/Nan Goldin
\nAll The Beauty & the Bloodshed<\/strong><\/em> (2022) (on Apple tv)
\nbiographical documentary film about photographer,
\nartist, and activist Nan Goldin and the downfall
\nof the Sackler family: the pharmaceutical dynasty
\ngreatly responsible for the opioid epidemic in the U.S.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\" \"\" \"\"
\ngratitude\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 gratitude\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 gratitude<\/p>\n

grace<\/span>
\ngorgeousness<\/span>
\nhonouring friendship<\/span>
\nacknowledgement<\/span>
\nkeepin’ on keepin’ on<\/span>
\ncomplete perceptual openness<\/span>
\nfreedom in the immediacy of each perception<\/span>
\n\"\"
\nthe beauty of decay<\/span>
\nthe loveliness of impermanence
\n\"\"<\/span>
\n\"\" \"\" \"\"
\nthe past comes to visit in the present:<\/span>
\nthe gift that keeps on giving<\/span><\/p>\n

it’s never too late to have a happy childhood
\n<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Chuck Spezzano
\n\"\"
\nin the 70’s some of us squatted in the wild <\/span>
\nwonderful Kingdom of Frestonia, <\/em>west London
\n\"\"
\na handmade book (circa 2015) honouring all those
\nwho have generously shared their
\nstrengths, gifts and talents with us
\n\"\"
\nbeautiful teachers and teachings everywhere<\/span>
\neach life contains the seeds for flourishing,<\/span>
\nwhich ones will we water….<\/span>
\n*********************<\/span>
\nI see each human being as complete.
\nWithin each one shines a sun so bright
\nthat it can make any darkness go away.<\/span>
\n<\/em>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Prem Rawat<\/span>
\n***************************<\/span>
\n\"\" \"\"\"\" \"\"
\n<\/em>work from the studio:<\/strong> collage unstuck
\n********************************
\n<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

noticing differently, <\/em>the quotidian transmutes into the mysterious
\n\"\"
\n\"\" <\/em><\/span><\/span>\"\"<\/em><\/span><\/span> \"\"\u00a0 <\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

creatives we admire<\/span>
\nTove Jansson (1914\u20132001)
\nmurals exhibition <\/span><\/span>in Finland:<\/span><\/a><\/span> Paradise<\/em> <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

William Kentridge<\/strong> co-creator of
\nThe Centre for the Less Good Idea<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/span>
\nin Johannesburg….he states
\nmost of the interesting things that have appeared in my art –
\nor what was of interest to viewers I should say –
\nhave not been things I\u2019ve planned,
\nbut things that other people have recognised
\nand things that I\u2019ve later come to recognise myself.
\nAll the clear good ideas I think I\u2019ve had,
\nhave always been much more shaky,
\nwhich is why I<\/em> (co) started the Centre<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Lillian F. Schwartz<\/strong><\/a><\/span> During the 70s and 80s
\nSchwartz developed a catalogue of visionary techniques
\nfor the use of the computer system, by artists
\n\"\"
\nbeauty everywhere….<\/span>
\n\"\"
\nbehind the bathroom door…<\/span>
\n\"\"
\naround the Vale of Health & Wellbeing aka Arnos Vale, our local cemetery<\/span>
\n\"\"
\n\"\"
\nthank you for visiting<\/span>
\nwe trust something tickled your fancy
\n\"\"<\/span>
\n***********************<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

this post honours Lilla’s heart teacher, Ziji Rinpoche;
\nwe are enjoying listening to the wisdom <\/span>nature of mind
\nin her profound Timeless Awareness<\/em> audio talks
\nhttps:\/\/timelessawareness.org\/<\/a>
\n*************************<\/span><\/span>
\nWhen the death of the physical body occurs, you will be separated from all the things that you have ever loved. Just as you were born alone, you will enter death absolutely alone. It is necessary to spend some time thinking about this, for contemplation on death is a great form of meditation on impermanence.
\n<\/span><\/em>from Ziji Rinpoche’s book When Surfing a Tsunami<\/em>
\n****************************************
\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Winter Solstice & Season’s Salutations friends Saturday 21st December 2024 in the northern hemisphere the day of least daylight… \u00a0(& the return of the light) winter’s commencement kitchen sink studio:…<\/p>\n

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