Pain and HMS

Pain and hypermobility syndrome. Very interesting! Especially the bit about dental anaesthetic not working properly...been there!

http://www.hypermobility.org/painandhms.php

Sunset

Sunset - Rainer Maria Rilke

Slowly the west reaches for clothes of new colors
which it passes to a row of ancient trees.
You look, and soon these two worlds both leave you
one part climbs toward heaven, one sinks to earth.

leaving you, not really belonging to either,
not so hopelessly dark as that house that is silent,
not so unswervingly given to the eternal as that thing
that turns to a star each night and climbs-

leaving you (it is impossible to untangle the threads)
your own life, timid and standing high and growing,
so that, sometimes blocked in, sometimes reaching out,
one moment your life is a stone in you, and the next, a star.

Scilly Isles

Wow. The Scilly Isles are incredibly beautiful. Can't believe I've lived so close to them for so long and yet never visited. Absolutely amazing. I'll definitely be going back...

Minack Theatre, set in the cliffs of Cornwall - Many a happy hour spent here...

Porthcressa Beach, St Mary's, Scilly

St Mary's Harbour, Scilly

St Michael's Mount, Cornwall

What's living in Cornwall like?

Well, in 20 words, just like this really...

"You shout and wave to someone in the cove, they wave back, and then you realise you don't know them"

 ~ Kurt Jackson

http://fag.looksystems.net/Exhibitions/2011/216~Kurt_Jackson_at_50

Bubble-wrap Rain

perched on a solitary leaf

the world gathers

all thoughts merge, concentrated

in the spheres of fresh rain

balancing their diamond scent on

the magnified cells below

seconds alone, maybe; yet

no space for other truths or quandries

one moment fully absorbed

and each day the seconds grow

open your eyes a little wider tomorrow

to the small, the beautiful, the overlooked

the sky is unbound, and it calls

Small is Beautiful

I'm juggling so many books at the moment, trying to pick ones that are completely different so that I can dip into each for a couple of chapters at a time and feel like I've only just started reading. Re-reading Schumacher's Small is Beautiful last night, I remembered how much I loved some of the chapter openers - I love the confidence he had in putting forward his opinion, even when it was one that contradicted so much economic thought at the time, and still now.

'The most striking thing about modern industry is that it requires so much and accomplishes so little. Modern industry seems to be inefficient to a degree that surpasses one's ordinary powers of imagination. Its inefficiency therefore remains unnoticed.'

Anyone that can consider industry and imagination in the same breath is alright by me. Good book.

Her Morning Elegance

Oren Lavie - Her Morning Elegance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_HXUhShhmY

This is such a fantastic video - stop motion at its best. How long must this have taken to produce?! I love the creativity that's gone into it; the way it turns the simplest of things into something so graceful. It reminds me of the film The Science of Sleep by Michel Gondry which I haven't watched for ages. Thanks Dikla for nudging me in its direction!