There’s: turmeric, oat milk, cinnamon, ginger, etc.
It smells really thick. A bit like a perfume and I don’t know how I feel drinking perfume. But it’s supposed to be medicinal so I guess I won’t die from it! Only on the inside!
A very strong kick to the taste buds that feels nothing like a latte, or milky at all. It is, very specifically, a spicy Christmas oat milk drink (Christmas because of the ginger giving gingerbread house flavour). Not my thing. Took me 3 hours to finish. Sipping.
Peace reached a never before concentration in this session. And it was lovely. It may be a bit early for me to say it but presently I am feeling confident about having left the phase of my meditation practice called ‘spiritual wilderness’.
There was definite direction to my gathered Peace last night. Imagine going from a thin Peace that is easily distracted with intuitive images to a more solid Peace and finding it charged. Peace, when thickened and purified with practice, has direction. Who knew!
Developing calmness requires a degree of egoistic purpose. Calmness draws out Peace. Peace is absolute calmness. Peace will exist even when ego doesn’t. Having worked on my calmness long enough to bring about Peace, the task at hand is to thicken Peace.
Peace thickens and becomes overpowering with meditation. Meditation is an opportunity for Peace to reveal its deep self. Having got a glimpse of a somewhat thickened Peace last night, I can tell that Peace knows which way to go. Peace has a direction of its own. Does ego join the Peace walk or not, regularity of practice will tell.
Frank Stella (*1936) situates his oeuvre not only in the present. Abstraction or representation, simulacrum, sign, and ornament, as well as questions of surface and space have fascinated him anew time and again.
The publication presents the following phases in his oeuvre in the context of the Museum Wiesbaden’s collection: the early works, the stripe paintings attributed to minimalism, the departure into space, and thus from the picture to the relief, as well as the use of ornament and arabesque. In interplay with current sculptures by the artist, not only the rigorousness of his oeuvre but also the relevance of his work until today is thus shown.
Events
Frank Stella. Alexej-von-Jawlensky-Preis 2022, 10.6.–9.10.2022, Museum Wiesbaden
‘Day time drinking’ is the best title for this session.
It has something to do with a slight shift in my day time working routine. Over the last two weeks, my attention has been caught with facilitating my daughter’s ongoing exam preparations. The shift from indulging in the cross stitch hobby to exam preps went unnoticed. I was simply rising to the occasion of a child’s exams.
The exams are still on. I can’t immediately and fully pull myself out of another’s life changing schedules. However, the subjects scheduled in the coming week don’t demand my fully immersed involvement. That leaves my attention somewhat free. I have been snoozing off during the day for the last 3 days. The snoozing also may have something to do with my subconscious fighting intuition’s Peace. This afternoon I chose meditation over a snooze.
I think my subconscious knows that old motivations don’t have the same grip over me. I will wake tomorrow, I will remain with my routine and perform my duties and I will appear to be the same old me tomorrow. The motivations, I have a feeling, would have altered. It’s possible Peace changes the motives behind activities.
I have been finding self seeking activities boring these days. Exam preps that I have always found a fearful motivation for, seems to be devoid of the fear factor. I have a playful, non deadline seeking, broad minded learning kind of fearless approach now. It is a somewhat boring approach to exam preps. That’s a first. Peace is calming my subconscious desires, I guess.
Selecting a movie on Netflix and watching it from beginning to end is something I can do with great intensity. I love watching movies. I don’t like blinking my eyes while watching movies. Yet, it is now months that I have noticed a flagging intensity of viewership across genres. The joy of giving finished embroidered projects may be influenced by Peace. It worries me. I have got to have faith in Peace.
Peace, as the single big influencer to embroidery, might make me more productive. I can’t assume that Peace will not provide me with greater-than-before kind of motivation to work.