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Elindulnék is Casavaria's new blog project, managed as a personal creation and exploration by Casavaria's editor-in-chief Joseph Robertson, featuring his own texts, as well as those of others who might want to join the forum. The blog functions as a meeting point for books and readers, excerpts and experiments by people interested in Casavaria's overall style and mission and in Joseph's intimate, personal way of writing, often taking the everyday and crafting into an abstract exploration of the human experience, or just painting the world with his own brush. |
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COMENZARÍA
elindulnék significa "comenzaría", o "arrancaría", o incluso "tomaría ya el camino", despegar en condicional, con el futuro inseguro, sin garantías, y porque comenzar es lo que hay que hacer...
se puede decir que el proyecto principal, siempre, es comenzar, o volver a comenzar, o respirar hondo y saber que el próximo paso no es una repetición, sino otra cosa, otro mundo, un próximo paso...
comenzaría : a divulgar : a soñar más : incluso más, sí : a volver al principio : a ver : si lo hicimos bien : si perdí el hilo : si todo es : o sólo recuerdo : o sólo ultranza : comenzaría ahora mismo...
nos decimos que cuando sea así, cuando todo esté en su sitio, cuando pueda ver con más claridad, cuando los ojos no se cansen, cuando haya descansado, pero ya no será comienzo, sino final...
se trata de buscar entre las herencias íntimas del recuerdo y de los mil abrazos, de la pérdida de un trayecto o de una brindis trivial cualquiera, la sustancia misma de lo que somos, y ahí, despegar...
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Wavering Ground » Joseph Robertson
Much talk about the 'Slippery Slope' informs our cultural discourse. It is an important conceptual tool, and it works best if it is understood in its most precise meaning. The popular wisdom is that the slippery slope begins only at certain obviously crucial moments. In fact, it is the nature of human events that they occur on always shifting planes of reasoning, comprehension and desire. The 'slope', then, which must amount to the collective 'inclination' of these shifting planes, is itself constantly shifting. We must then also factor in the momentum of the shifting of these planes of human events. Only when considering all of the factors that shape the topography of human events can we begin to assert where the slope is or how slippery it might be. [Keep reading...]
MEDITERRANEAN SUNSET
Karla Ingleton Darocas
Down into the valley,
Out to the steely-blue sea.
Dogs are barking at the dusk,
A subtle salty smell whips the air. [Keep reading]
RESORT TO BEAUTY
Joseph Robertson
Beauty, though mysterious, undefinable, even variable according to subjective experience, is woven into every aspect of life and lived experience. Maybe it is the poet's province alone to take on the burden of working this through, seeing it always, being aware of the most menial, severe and terrible beauties. But the poet's work has resonance because it conjures up a latent awareness of improbable charms, hidden among the tortuous threadwork, the causeways of consciousness.
Life itself, as biological fact, is such a magnificent achievement, it lends a certain quality of beauty and wonder to everything that occurs within it. But beauty as such arises with the consciousness of it; it is a conscious condition, a state of the mind, however sensual, in which one deliberately approves of being in the world, and one's whole self resolves implicitly to continue life's exploration of the living world. [Keep reading...]
SELF-RELIANCE
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.
... but the sour faces of the multitude, like their sweet faces, have no deep cause, but are put on and off as the wind blows and a newspaper directs. [Keep reading...]
STARTING FROM PAUMANOK
Walt Whitman
After roaming many lands, lover of populous pavements,
Dweller in Mannahatta my city, or on southern savannas,
Or a soldier camp'd or carrying my knapsack and gun, or a miner
in California,
Or rude in my home in Dakota's woods, my diet meat, my drink from
the spring,
Or withdrawn to muse and meditate in some deep recess,
Far from the clank of crowds intervals passing rapt and happy,
Aware of the fresh free giver the flowing Missouri, aware of
mighty Niagara...
Solitary, singing in the West, I strike up for a New World. [Keep reading...]
LONDON: QUIET LUXURY OF TIMELESS CULTURE
CITY PROFILE FROM SENTIDO TRAVEL
London is often thought of as one of the world's great capitals, seething with millions upon millions from every corner of the world, known for its labyrinthine transit network and its multicultural makeup. Its museums, many of the best of which are free to the public, every day, stand as some of the most important reservoirs of cultural history in the world. [Keep Reading]
CRAFTING INVISIBLE FIRES
A NARRATIVE OF LONDON & BRISTOL, DECEMBER 1995
The streets around Leicester Square were laced with street performers of surprising quality. I would later come to know this is not uncommon in the center of London. In particular, I found a string quartet enthralling. They were playing Beethoven and Bach, and within a few minutes had gathered a large crowd around them. They could easily have been playing in any concert hall, but the acoustics of the street and its rushing throng were the site of their sound, and they used it just as well... [Keep Reading]
LANGUAGES ENDANGERED WORLDWIDE
WORLD CULTURE NEWS FROM CASAVARIA'S SENTIDO.TV
As many as half of all known languages may die out during the next century. That figure is already staggering, but paired with the estimate of 6,800 believed to be spoken today, it represents a looming cultural catastrophe. In a world where languages with less than 10 million speakers are considered to be "minor" or "obscure" languages by many people, the world's native and regional languages are threatened. [Keep Reading]
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