One eye sees, the other feels.
—Paul Klee (1879-1940)
1 March 2014
28 February 2014
When you need a helping hand, there’s one on the end of each arm.
—Dieter Rams (overheard at the World Design Congress in Glasgow, 1993)
25 February 2014
Realists make the best dreamers. Need is the father of thought; necessity is the mother of invention.
—Robert L. Peters
14 February 2014
Immature love says "I love you because I need you." Mature love says "I need you because I love you."
—Erich Fromm (1900-1980)
12 February 2014
You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.
—Dr. Seuss (aka Theodor Seuss Geisel), 1904-1991
10 February 2014
Save our planet…
Munich, Germany
Austrian-born Horst Haitzinger is one of Germany’s most prolific political caricature artists, well-known for his robust brushstroke-style as well as his sarcastic irony. The watercolour illustrations shown above are from his 1989 book Globetrottel.
9 February 2014
Truth is a pathless land. Man cannot come to it through any organisation, through any creed, through any dogma, priest or ritual, not through any philosophic knowledge or psychological technique. He has to find it through the mirror of relationship, through the understanding of the contents of his own mind.
—Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895-1986)
4 February 2014
27 January 2014
Today is Holocaust Memorial Day
(across the United Kingdom)
Holocaust Memorial Day takes place on 27 January every year in the UK. It marks the anniversary of the liberation in 1945, by the Soviet Union, of the largest Nazi death camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau, towards the end of World War II. The Holocaust (or Shoah in Hebrew) claimed the lives of six million Jewish men, women, and children between 1933, when Hitler came to power in Germany, and 1945, when the Nazis were finally defeated.
The commemorative poster shown above is by my friend Dan Reisinger: “This is a photo of an authentic yellow Star of David we were forced to wear prior to deportation—preserved in my family since 1944.”
(Thanks to Iva Babaja for the link).