semblent grises sous la lune

reality monitoring

...“You have to take in outside information, record it accurately and with a high degree of fidelity. You have to be able to monitor your internal thoughts, recognize they’re occurring internally, and remember them. Then you have to compare the inside with the outside. In a healthy brain, this happens without us even being aware of it.

Prevestíre

How can she possibly keep her eye

on all the five continents?

Could it be

that in her pupils

that Pythia now resides

who has the power

to predict

the whole of history

without a full-stop or comma?

couleur des choses

first autumn

Can I learn from what they taught the disheveled nature of mourning?
These images press together the very thing they are, the evening star

encouraging thought, an address where the ageless assemble,
that perfumed perfection mirrored in a spring rain

settling now on the limestone quarried near this spot. Their sweet
society sings and avows presence; though far off they are ever nigh.

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New Year’s Day

Among varieties of religious experience, games rarely rank first, yet what we feel in the final moments of a unique collective experience (like the last Eagles/Giants game) could qualify as transcendent. And the transcendent qualifies for philosophical attention. In this sense, New Year’s Day represents a chance not only for deep personal reflection, but also for transformative, shared emotion. Harvard philosophy Professor Sean Dorrance Kelly has a cool blog. He writes posts on things like the relation between what’s right and what matters. And, is there a phenomenon of the sacred now?

Un an mai bun !

Le G20

Le programme identifie neuf domaines où une action s'impose, notamment celui de la formation, et dans l'amélioration des structures matérielles des pays en développement. Selon un projet du communiqué qui doit être publié vendredi à l'issue du somme, le principe des prêts bonifiés sera confirmé, ainsi que les engagements des pays membres du G20 concernant l'aide au développement. Une avancée significative ? Que nenni. Pour Ben Phillips, de Save the Children, ONG britannique, le projet de communiqué oublie l'engagement du Groupe des Huit (G8) de 2005, qui annonçait le doublement de l'aide au développement à 50 milliards de dollars d'ici 2010. «C'est maintenant qu'on a besoin d'aide. Les pays se cherchent des excuses pour ne pas tenir leurs promesses», souligne-t-il. La crise financière est passée par là, pourraient lui répondre les chefs d’Etat du G20, et il vaut mieux sauver les banques que les pauvres…

1. Security officials placed six goldfish inside a tank supplying toilet water to the conference, the Mirror of London, England, reported. The officials will watch the fish for signs of illness or poisoning in an effort to protect the conferees, according to the Mirror. An animal rights group is up in arms over the use of the finned defenders.