—Times New Roman is not a font choice so much as the absence of a font choice, like the blackness of deep space is not a color. (Matthew Butterick)
Helvetica was the first typeface to be included in Museum of Modern Art´s architecture and design collection, and has for years been the only one, until a range of other fonts, such as Verdana, has been included, too. Helvetica is the default font for this website, considered it is installed on your device (we hope it is). The type we use for italics is Times New Roman, btw. Although technically not a bad font, nobody seems to like it, so we figured we should give it a chance. That being said, we disagree with Matthew Butterick. Who, by the way, is an interesting character, being a typographer and type designer, as well as a lawyer, holding a Doctor of Jurisprudence and being an officially accredited attorney in the US state of California. (Article about fonts in the MoMa´s collection from the New York Times, personal website of Matthew Butterick)
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GOLDEN
27 January 2020
—I’m living my life like its golden (Jill Scott)
I’m holdin on to my freedom, can’t take it from me I was born into it, it comes naturally I’m strumming my own freedom in the god in me Reverence in his glory, hope he proud of me
There is also a quite nice (if you like Reggae) remix of this song by Collen & Webb available on Soundcloud.
THE RED GIRAFFE
24 November 2019
—Of all ridiculous things the most ridiculous seems to me, to be busy – to be a man who is brisk about his food and his work… What, I wonder, do these busy folks get done? (Søren Kierkegaard)
I think more than life is pain, it’s about the pain teaching us life lessons to advance our psyche
I wouldn’t exactly say the pain teaches us. But we have a choice how we fill the void.
I think the (whichever specific) pain will keep on coming back until we have learned what it has to teach us
I’m struggling with “teaching from pain” , I admit, I think pain has always a reason. Maybe I bother about technicalities, though. I think we’re pointing in the same direction here.
Well the way I see pain is that it originates from some initial trauma, and each piece of trauma acts as a lens that you see a situation through. So an initial trauma becomes a complex one with time. Once you are able to heal (in one way or another) a trauma, then in theory you will no longer get triggered by instances related to the initial act
So in that sense, one can learn from pain. For example, if I get upset because people ignore me, then maybe it’s because my mother or father, or first cousins ignored me, so I’m just calling for the experience to be repeated so as that I can understand why it happened, and therefore release the pain, forgive and move on. And once this happens then you no longer feel pain by similar situations. Not saying it’s easy…
I know what you mean about re-enactment, although I think it’s not the right term (not sure what is) – something along the lines of complex trauma (one trauma feeding into the next one etc etc throughout time thus causing some complex psychological syndrome of sorts
Trauma reenactment. And I know what you mean by learning from pain. Still struggling though 🙂
Like trauma causing trauma, you mean?
Let’s say If you have an existing trauma and you find yourself in a situation that triggers it, then anything new that you experience at the point gets added to this original trauma – even though the elements of the new experience are not the initial cause. So if you fear the colour red, and you see the colour red and a giraffe, chances are you’ll experience the same emotions every time you see red as well as the giraffe. And it goes on and on and that’s how you get a complex trauma
