Oh Guido, yes, you are right. I agree about that and don't mean to put other peoples' favorites down. Put yellow near my face and I look to a casket. Put red near my face and you think I am going to dance. It is my opinion of course, and you might disagree. No problem, sweetie, I like yellow,. I my family I now have all the colors of the world. Sakura is the name of my great grand daughter who carries all. Is this another mailart project comin" up? LaV
--- Guido Vermeulen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is an interesting side debate. > Favorite things = self damaging, well yes because it > is damaging > altogother. > When you say this is my favorite you exclude all > others, meaning you put > others down for a so called favorite which is often > dictated by fashion or > "the culture of the moment in your own soicety or > environment". > A quote of a Flemish poet I saw recently in the > Brussels Center for Fine > Arts (where I work in the evenings as a second job): > "admiration and favoritism are the blindfolds for > people who are able to > see" > This in a way is more or less also that what Guido > B. says. > The damaging of excluding leads to self damaging, to > a reduction of > personal vision, heart and soul. > Everything is connected, when you hurt someone, you > hurt yourself. > > I was 16 or 17 and I read a book by a contemporary > author (Willy > Spillebeen) and had the chance to meet him with a > group of students. > His book starts also with "the dangers of > favoritism". > He used the example or the metaphor of a group of > young kittens that are > born. What to do with them? > Well, what are the most pretty kittens? (your > favorites) > They stayed alive, the others were killed without > remorse. > This strong image (for a teenager anyway) lead me to > write a poem and to > have a very suspiscious attitude to all kind of hit > parades or lists like > "give me your favorite color, author, book, music > piece, femail or male > person" and so on. > How can we always narrow us down so much? > We are able to see the beauty of differences in a > complex world but still > we tend to isolate a few things and embrace that as > "the ones". > Justice is also blindfolded for a reason, I guess... > > Postal Greetings, > > Guido Vermeulen > http://groups.msn.com/POPOPEINT/guidovermeulenartiste.msnw > > Memorial BLOG > http://shadowtributes.blogspot.com > > BLOG on artist books and small print publications > http://boklist.blogspot.com > > FRIOUR zine blog(s): > http://Friour1.blogspot.com > > A BLOG ON MY LIFE IN BRUSSELS > http://brusselsesjoekes.blogspot.com > > > > > " If everyone demanded peace instead of another > television set, then > there'd be peace." > > - John Lennon - > > > > > -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- > Van: Tamara Wyndham [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Verzonden: zaterdag 1 april 2006 14:39 > Aan: ma-network@yahoogroups.com > Onderwerp: (",) favorite color > > What a new idea to me, that having a favorite color > would be a "self damaging choice". I had always > thought of it as a kind of self expression of > individuality. But, you are pointing out that it can > also be self limiting. > > It is in meditative states that we make no > judgements. > > - T > > --- ma-network@yahoogroups.com wrote: > Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 10:13:47 -0800 (PST) > From: guido bondioli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: suicide continued. > > > > --- LaVona Sherarts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > I haven't had a tv set since 1957. > This does not prevent you from adopting the fiction > derived sentimentality of TV. > > I felt the pain of the loss of a good person. > There > is nothing > > egocentric about that in my mind > To me it seems extremely egocentric. There is no > loss > to you. what would confuse you in that way if not > some > constant irritation to conform such as is offered by > media? > Just as you probable have a favorite color, a self > damaging choice, You have many other unconscious > self > damaging choices. Feeling loss about someone else > taking care of themselves can only come from the > expectations placed on you by your choice of > associates just in the way you acquired a favorite > color. These responses are the work of fiction > writers. Get them in books, at church or where ever. > They remain self damaging. > > Yes, the people need to go but I have a right to > > feel a loss just as you do not. > We have many rights to do wrong. There is little > reason to use those rights just because they are > there. Use damages us as well as the rest of the > world. > As you know by now at age 72, there are many GOOD > ways > to be evil. And that phrase reminds me of the good > Baptists I witnessed burning to death a black man in > Arizona in 1947. All those people believed they were > doing GOOD. Good seems less relative than many > people > prefer to believe. > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! 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