Friday, 18 December 2020

How polite is too polite?


Had so much fun 'assembling' this image, dagger and all. Canva is wonderful!

There's this couplet (doha) by Kabir Das that I love very much and think about often:

बुरा जो देखन मैं चला, बुरा न मिलिया कोय |
जो दिल खोजा आपना, मुझसे बुरा न कोय ||

I set out looking for evil to chide,
Found it when I looked inside.

Wednesday, 25 November 2020

Lofty, loftier, loftiest

 



Had a whole lot of fun experimenting with this one.

'Before sunset' is among the loveliesssssst things I've ever watched and making this reminded me of this exchange from the movie:

Jesse: Have you ever spent time with monks or nuns? 
[...]
I was shocked - I expected them to be all glowering and stern but they weren't - they were quick to laugh and really easy to be around, very attuned to everything. They're not trying to hustle anybody, they're not trying to accomplish anything, they are trying to live and die in peace and be close with God or whatever part of them they feel is eternal - it's so refreshing to be around. You realize that the bulk of people that you meet are trying to get somewhere better, make a little more jack, get a little more respect, have more people admire them...it's exhausting.

Celine: Yeah, no kidding.

Jesse: And it's exhausting to be one of those people yourself. I'm at a monastery, greedy to be a little more spiritual, "I want to be a better person". You can't escape.

Sunday, 8 November 2020

Creator

 


Little heretic's gonna lose an eye to retributive poking