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Falling slowly

Posted on January 27, 2011 by Michaela

I don’t know you But I want you All the more for that Words fall through me And always fool me And I can’t react And games that never amount To more than they’re meant Will play themselves out Take … Continue reading →

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Laudate dominum

Posted on January 25, 2011 by Michaela

The laudate dominum is the opening verse of psalm 11. Laudate Dominum omnes gentes Laudate eum, omnes populi Quoniam confirmata est Super nos misericordia eius, Et veritas Domini manet in aeternum. Gloria Patri et Filio et Spiritui Sancto. Sicut erat … Continue reading →

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I am a rock….

Posted on January 25, 2011 by Michaela

A winter’s day In a deep and dark December; I am alone, Gazing from my window to the streets below On a freshly fallen silent shroud of snow. I am a rock, I am an island. I’ve built walls, A … Continue reading →

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Black Swan

Posted on January 23, 2011 by Michaela

Black Swan is a very unusual and very contemporary movie. I cannot remember ever having seen the discovery and gradual opening up to the possibility of living a life without the boundaries of limitations and control,in such an intensely impressive … Continue reading →

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Street dancing…

Posted on January 21, 2011 by Michaela

Such relentless beauty…. Thank you Lilli for finding this.

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Levitation in a swirl…

Posted on January 1, 2011 by Michaela

Bells and whistles for the New Year – and a waltz.  This lovely performance is from today’s Vienna Philharmonic New Years Concert. It a waltz by Johann Strauss so aptly called “My résumé is love and passion “. Enjoy

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In the bleak mid-winter…

Posted on December 30, 2010 by Michaela
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all my secrets away…

Posted on December 28, 2010 by Michaela

Great song…. One Republic Secrets I need another story Something to get off my chest My life gets kind of boring Need something that i can confess Till all my sleaves are stained red From all the truth that I’ve … Continue reading →

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The Destroyer

Posted on December 27, 2010 by Michaela

I watched a movie yesterday which actually was not very good, but it made me contemplate on an important archetypal pair: the destroyer / creator I love archetypes. They help us to communicate beyond the conditioned or individual meaning of … Continue reading →

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Sublime beauty

Posted on December 26, 2010 by Michaela

This is just such a beautiful work of art: Botticelli’s Madonna of the Magnificat from c 1481. The work portrays the Virgin Mary crowned by two angels. The Child Jesus is keeping in a hand the pomegranate, symbol of the Resurrection. The … Continue reading →

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