29.6.19
– Celebrity & privacy
– When you don’t feel like doing anything, what can you do to get out of the rut?
– Security – mobile (data backup & anti-theft) + personal (emergency SOS & location tracking for immediate family)
Property insurance
Blacklisting & whitelisting
Spare mobile
1.7.19
– Tastebreakers
– Movies:
Starfish
Personal loss & the post-apocalyptic genre
One of the worst movies I’ve ever seen?! It should’ve just been a short film.
Why couldn’t you just make a (melo)drama instead of a contrived, messed up Sci-fi??
The monsters of despair & rage that lurk around periods of grief, regret & anxiety…
Hanging on to sanity via slivers of memory – nostalgia & hope
The signal & the portal – “Do this in remembrance of me”!
“White’s wild formal experimentation and narrative cul-de-sacs result in a strange identity crisis for the film — a sense that he wasn’t entirely sure which movie he wanted to make” – NY Times
The compulsive (& futile) search for a “pattern”……
Virginia Gardner is amazing, but A. T. White sucks.
– Augsburg Confession
confessor
Synaxis of the Twelve Apostles
kontakion
2.7.19
– Facebook Events, pages
Meetup groups
MEP – Members in the European Parliament
– canoeists
ethology
Legitimacy of the state
Equality & liberty
Instincts, rationality & spirit
The well-ordered soul
Nobel lecture
Content & method
Punishment & taboo
Rotated image – up-&-down and side-by-side
knickers
lam
ghoulish
Untamed & wicked
wail (n.)
sufferance
– Nutrition:
EFA = PUFA?
4.7.19
– Resignation – well done, Rahul Gandhi! This might just be your best move yet……
– Who do you work for?
And what exactly are you doing?
Do you really know why??
– Off-the-books assignment
Phoebe Waller-Bridge
diaphanous
tutu
MI5 & MI6
Precariously curated lifestyle
Alone, bleeding out & hunted
– Psychopath = criminal (& vice versa)?
– Hold the space, Joe! (For self & others)
– Spiritual Formation Groups – flirting allowed! 😜
– Weed – grow it yourself! 🌿
– Fluorescent bikini
GCHQ
Spies, investigators & whistle-blowers
– No Copa America 2019 on Indian TV!
– Today is Wednesday (Work day) on my calendar (compensating)
– Which are the best places to live & work in India?
– Distinguish:
Inconvenience (Develop tolerance)
&
Hardship (Create solutions)
5.7.19
– Desert splendor
Black light trance
Sudden plans
– Imaginary facts
My wife’s girlfriend(s)
– From in-between to beyond…!
From neologisms to drawings
– Figure-ground image
Absolute privatives
Loading the dice
ostensible ~ ostensive
Finite ~ indefinite ~ fallible ~ material ~ immanent metaphysic
From representation to participation
Concept, non-concept & pseudo-concept
The experience of impossibility and the impossibility of experience
Realized contradiction
Vertiginous picture
RSVPed
sibilant
affricate, fricative
Anglophile Indians
wispy
cheroot
Washed-up
invidious
scree
– ICC CWC:
Bangladesh – truly lion-hearted!
India Vs. England – in the middle order, only Hardik Pandya really chased after the target!
– Wimbledon – did Kyrgios throw his tantrums as a strategy to put Nadal off balance?
– Navigate the tension:
Accepting things as they are
&
Continuous improvement
How does Christian theology deal with the relation between justification & sanctification?
Is the former just a stepping stone to the latter??
What would Robert Farrar Capon say to the question, “Why sanctification?”?
Justification – GOD’s Yes to man
Sanctification – GOD’s No to evil
Glorification – the essential unity & ultimate union of GOD & man!
– Love is the most elaborate lie of all.
True or false or……?
– Is suicide a brave or cowardly act?
– Contact & gather known people and others (Meetup, etc.)
Start with a nucleus of relevant & interested persons. Spread out from this.
Once in 4 weeks SFG meetings (local & online separately) + annual retreat/seminar
Members & invitees
1 month annual vacation
Hold the space… even if no one else does, NEVER give up, Joe!
Be hyper-flexible, future-oriented & stubbornly positive.
But also discern the signs of the times and adapt, without compromising.
You learn how to do this, only by committing to a determined engagement with the process, in spite of all the temptations of withdrawal……
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