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Khalil Gibran-Dessin

Qu'en est-il de la Raison et de la Passion ?

Il dit :

Votre âme est parfois un champ de bataille au sein duquel votre raison et votre jugement luttent contre votre passion et votre instinct. Puissé-je être l'émissaire de paix de votre âme, et transformer la discorde et la rivalité de ce qui vous constitue en unité et mélodie. Mais comment le pourrais-je, à moins que vous-même ne soyez l'émissaire de paix, plus encore, l'ami intime de ce qui vous fonde ?

Votre raison et votre passion sont le gouvernail et les voiles de votre âme qui navigue de port en port.

Si votre gouvernail ou vos voiles se brisent, vous ne pouvez qu'être ballottés et aller à la dérive, ou rester ancrés au milieu de la mer.

Car la raison, régnant seule, est une force qui brise tout élan ;

et la passion, livrée à elle-même, est une flamme qui se consume jusqu'à sa propre extinction.

Aussi, laissez votre âme exalter votre raison jusqu'aux hauteurs de la passion, de sorte qu'elle puisse chanter ;

Et laissez la diriger votre passion avec raison, afin que la passion puisse vivre au travers de son incessante résurrection, et tel le phœnix renaître de ses propres cendres.

Je voudrais que vous considériez votre jugement et votre instinct ainsi que vous le feriez dans votre maison de deux hôtes bien aimés.

Vous ne voudriez certainement pas honorer un hôte plus que l'autre ; car celui qui porte plus d'attention à l'un perd l'amour et la confiance de tous les deux. Lorsque parmi les collines, vous êtes assis à l'ombre fraîche des peupliers blancs, partageant la paix et la sérénité des champs et des prairies qui s'étendent au loin - alors laissez votre cœur dire en silence, "Dieu se repose en la raison".

Et quand la tempête arrive, et qu'un vent fort secoue la forêt, et que le tonnerre et l'éclair proclament la majesté des cieux - alors laissez votre cœur dire avec respect, "Dieu agit dans la passion".

Et puisque vous êtes un souffle dans la sphère de Dieu,

et une feuille dans la forêt de Dieu,

vous devez reposer en la raison, et agir avec passion.

Khalil Gibran,Le prophète_Extrait_La raison et la passion.

La raison et la passion

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i didn't manage to meet too many of last year's goals, but i did get several of them done and some of the others i made a bit of progress towards - i borrowed a flute for a few months, even though i didn't get to buy one, and that was grand and made me realise how much i've missed having one. so most things on the list i did get at least partway towards even if i didn't get to a point where i could tick them off. i think the only one i totally failed on was the weight loss - i went backwards - but one out of a whole list isn't bad, i think. still, aiming to do better with this year's list. there've also been some surprise achievements in 2009 which i couldn't have foreseen - 2 performances of my music and a film score commission for a start, selling a score, and tons of random travel for a follow-up!

• start work on recording a cd of piano music with my friend cashman
• enter one call for scores
• work on my ear training a little each week, or at the very least once a month
• write a new piece for consideration for this year's london new wind festival (the mob who played my pieces of eight last year)
• explore some of the unlistened-to corners of my cd collection
• upgrade to the latest version of finale - this can't be too hard - it's a claimable expense!

• keep an illustrated journal/sketchbook for the year as a way of trying to draw more regularly (but i'm not going to try to shoehorn myself into this one as to how often i do it or commit myself to filling the book)
• if finances and time permit, i'd still like to do another course at central st martin's - maybe the drawing london on location one once the weather warms up a bit more
• knit a hat and gloves to go with the green strangling vine scarf that doesn't match anything
• try recycling some yarn into a new project - help to clear some of the worn-out jumpers i'm not wearing without having to throw them out
• bake pumpkin scones
• try to clear some of the collage materials i've got lying around by working in my composition journal/new journal every couple of months so the collection doesn't get too out of hand or irrelevant
• finish writing my web book. i'm about a third of the way through the first draft now, but if i leave it too long it won't be relevant. aiming to have the first draft finished by the end of june, final draft no later than october
  
• learn enough crochet (*shudder*) to do a crochet cast-on for knitting.

• bring my weight under control again. i'd like to have it down to under 70kg by about august (i'm 76kg at the moment, thanks to a year of no exercise and the excesses of christmas), and be able to maintain that right through till next christmas
• as part of point one, i want to start doing some regular exercise again, preferably of a couple of different types - wii, walking, yoga, etc. obviously this has to wait until the sprained ankle is fixed...
• walk part of the thames valley path
• cook at least 5 recipes out of my new greek cookbook
• eat less sugar. i want to cut out buying sweets pretty much altogether
• take more time over things and do more things that force me to take time over them, like drawing, knitting and baking. get out of the habit of rushing everything
• try to learn some techniques to deal with the headaches without drugs, seeing as how they seem to be becoming a semi-permanent part of my life - pilates, perhaps, maybe some stress management stuff
• allocate one evening per week again for composition, plus one hour per other evenings for getting essential admin stuff done - updating accounts, writing emails, paying bills, clearing my inbox
• re-read getting things done
• get back to doing my weekly review every week, however roughly
• clean up my desk at least once every couple of weeks
• declutter a bit - get rid of some clothes that i can't wear in public, read and dispense with at least 2 books
• cull the damn time out magazines. fed up with the huge pile.
• sleep
• take regular weekends out to do bugger-all
• review my commitments, social networks, chores, and see where i can simplify and/or cull.

• do at least two of the following travel things i want to do before we leave the northern hemisphere:
  • barcelona
  • prague
  • walk across luxembourg
  • spend 2-3 days in the louvre
  • visit the palais de tokyo in paris
  • properly explore the garden of the musée albert khan in paris
  • walk through the bois de boulogne in paris (sensing a theme here?)
  • go back to cornwall with djeli and spend a good full day at the eden project. go to tintagel
  • spend a weekend in the tate in liverpool
  • holiday in the lake district
  • visit a german christmas market
  • road trip through italy
  • corfu
  • go back to the greek islands
  • do a residential cookery course somewhere - greece, italy or france, probably
  • go and visit haiku in sweden
  • edinburgh
  • bruges
  • go off somewhere on my own for a week/end of composition
  • attend a summer festival
  • attend dartington summer school

• clear my debt with djeli
• buy a new camera if i find one i like and can afford - this one's causing me too much stress, and then disappointment when the photos turn out rubbish (not to mention time trying to fix them in potatoshop)
• have a real birthday party while we still have friends (plural) in the country
• start making regular backups of my computer

I brought a 2010 diary eventually, despite hundreds of styles we offer in our stores, I couldn't choose one I like so eventually I settled to make my choice regardless of the cover design, just the content.  And I love Alife Design's content best, it has a vague resemblance of NAVA Design's font and layout which I also love.  Yup, I gave up using Moleskine diary, couldn't find the layout design beauty out of it.

Collaged 2010 Diary Cover - Front

Much the same as how I did a 1Q84 book cover (in progress, finished book one), I used scrap paper bag, butter paper, MT masking tapes, stamps and photos printed on coarse paper to create a collage cover I like.  It is durable enough for parts where butter paper is glued onto the surface.

Collaged 2010 Diary Cover - Back

The beauty of a collaged cover is that it ages well :).  You don't have to worry too much about protecting its appearance coz you already accepted that battered look as a design.  Fixing peeling corners is easy, just stick something on it by tapes.

Collaged 2010 Diary Cover - closeup

The problem with Alife Design's diary is that it lacks a bookmark, but this can be easily fixed by gluing a ribbon to the spine.  I chose to fix a soft leather strip on the back page which looks more like a real bookmark to me.  I looooove this diary ;)

Collaged 2010 Diary Cover - Leather bookmark

L’artiste montréalais Peter Gibson, alias Roadsworth, humanise la ville en utilisant directement la rue, les trottoirs ou autres éléments urbains comme supports artistiques. Artiste controversé, Roadsworth a malgré tout reçu plusieurs commandes publiques pour son travail et continue d’être actif dans les domaines des arts visuels et de la musique.

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  D'autres infos sur son site : 

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