Showing posts with label Sex Relationships Man Woman Gender. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sex Relationships Man Woman Gender. Show all posts

Monday, January 18, 2010

Happiness in life: to love and be loved


collage/drawing by marguerita


Happiness is, of course, a complex concept and difficult to measure, and John Stuart Mill had a point when he suggested: “It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied.
”But in any case, nobility can lead to happiness. Professor Haidt notes that one thing that can make a lasting difference to your contentment is to work with others on a cause larger than yourself.
A solid marriage is linked to happiness, as is participation in social networks. And one study found that people who focus on Try A Little Tenderness
Otis Redding

oh she may be weary
them young girls they do get wearied
wearing that same old miniskirt dress
but when she gets weary
you try a little tenderness
oh man that
un hunh
i know shes waiting
just anticipating
the thing that youl never never possess
no no no
but while she there waiting
try just a little bit of tenderness
thats all you got to do
now it might be a little bit sentimental no
but she has her greavs and care
but the soft words they are spoke so gentle
yeah yeah yeah
and it makes it easier to bear
oh she wont regret it
no no
them young girls they dont forget it
love is their whole happiness
yeah yeha yeah
but its all so easy
all you got to do is try
try a little tenderness
yeah
damn that hart (hard?)
all you got to do is know how to love her
you've got to
hold her
squeeze her
never leave her
now get to her
got got got to try a little tenderness
yeah yeah
lord have mercy now
all you got to do is take my advice
you've got to hold her
don't squeeze her
never leave her
you've got to hold her
and never
so you got to try a little tenderness
a little tenderness
a little tenderness
a little tenderness
you've got to
got to got to
you've gotta hold her
don't squeeze her
never leaver her
you got
got got got to
now now now
got got got to
try a little tenderness
ye
achieving wealth and career advancement are less happy than those who focus on good works, religion or spirituality, or friends and family.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/17/opinion/17kristof.html?em


Friday, January 1, 2010

On Human Nature: Here I am To Be Homeless,Goes Year,Comes Year.... Looking for a Miracle,It Should Happen,No,Why Not?

drawing/collage by marguerita


As my friend Antonio,wrote to me yesterday,Even though there is a lot of drama going on in your life....
I LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I wish that a miracle happens in your life and a star(who is you) guide all your steps
HAPPY NEW DAY EVERYDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!

Thanks and HOPE SO, Antonio!
I had ENOUGH of my bitters .
Some kind of Vita Dolce, vivere dolcemente, quite welcoming here......

cada día es un milagro para disfrutar intensamente

Pacifiez votre esprit Soyez connectée à la réalité de l’instant. Le passé n’est plus, l’avenir n’est pas encore. Cultivez la pleine conscience du moment, éveillée à tout ce qui surgit autour de vous : bruits, odeurs, sensations.


Yes,the mind is a lonely hunter.

Reading throughout the years about Insects,their way of interacting,
and Humans, I enjoy to peep
into my books.(now in danger of being separated from me,which means a death threat to me) I will not allow.
.So,while I have lost so far within two weeks 10 pounds,out of my regular 117 pounds or less,due to the menacing threats of my landlord,who non stop is banging and buzzing the door,in the day and until 3 a.m,leaving me here in a state where I feel my bones flying out the closed windows and not eating,thanks to a neglectful husband for years.I meditate.
My son Stefan,is coming around.
My yonger,Jacob come by also.
All I want and need is peace Love,roof and food and a place to work on my art.
My art,runs in my veins and more stable then my own blood,which is filled with toxins.
I mystify my doctors ,who cannot understand how I endure so much pressure from outside,inside and within .
I love Life, I still have dreams and desires. Very grateful, for having an incredible mental and spiritual energy and intensity which carries me .
My senses are sharp,I have a joie de vivre, the same one ,my parents had.
There are two of me.My mind,spirit,soul and my frame,organs,bones and tissues.
My kidneys are about to stop. To continue alive I will need either dialysis or a kidney transplant.
I find in Edward O.Wilson's On Human Nature, parallels.I watch human behavior and draw upon that fountain of the absurd,maybe an inspiration for my art,for my unequivocal existence since my birth.
My feelings towards someone who has no understanding or able to absorb,who instead of sharing my thirst for grasping the marvel of living,resorts and forays into decay and the morbid.
I am at a loss.
From his denial to the marvels of existence, I brought to this world two sons.I battled for them to see them adults. I enjoy,that despite the turmoils and painful challenges,both are individuals,determined to be their own person, looking upon me to be the fortress and be at every crosspoint , the phoenix out of the fire and be able to fly.
I keep my radio on, as long as the utilities bill paid, the music turns me on ,particularly jazz.

As, O'Wilson writes,to address human behavior systematically is to make a potential topic of every corridor

in the labyrinth of the human mind, and hence to consider not just the social sciences but also the humanities, including philosophy and the process of scientific discovery itself.
Instead of observing the individual in question,who behaves in a self destructive mode, this one when caught,falls into an abysmal system,where emotions,feelings of the ones around or left behind are discounted and now the bureaucracy by the numbers escalates to match similar occurrences . Perhaps a dialogue to cleanse the dysfunctional mind of the perpetrator,which I must admit should be accountable for his actions.
" This qualification does not represent false modesty but instead is an attempt to maintain strength. The uncompromising application of evolutionary theory to all aspects of human existence will come to nothing if the scientific spirit itself falters, if ideas are not constructed so to be submitted to objective testing and hence made mortal.
How does the mind work, and beyond that why does it work in such a way and not another and from these two considerations together, what is man's ultimate nature?
This pursuit seems certain to generate great spiritual dilemmas."
We are not here o this Earth,forever.
We must all try to calm down and learn how to forgive and realize our fragility and ephemeral standing.
" The reflective person knows that life is in some incomprehensible manner guided through biological ontogeny, a more or less fixed order of life stages. He or she senses that with all the drive , wit, love, pride , anger,
hope, and anxiety that characterize the species he or she will in the end be sure only of helping to perpetuate the same cycle . Poets have defined this truth as tragedy.Yeats called it the coming of wisdom:

Though leaves are many, the root is one;
Through all the lying days of my youth
I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun;
Now I may wither into the truth.

" Freud said that God has been guilty of a shoddy and uneven piece of work. That it is is true to a degree greater than he intended: human nature is just one hodgepodge out of many conceivable. Yet if even a small fraction of the diagnostic human traits were stripped away, the result would probably be a disabling chaos.
Sarava!








Thursday, February 26, 2009

The Ape and Signum Temporis

drawing by marguerita ( one of my submissions for New Yorker's 2008 cover competition)Flickr: The THE NEW YORKER'S EUSTACE TILLEY CONTEST, 2008 Pool


“Here’s the bottom line,” Carlie says.


“He’s very beguiling,” Bob says. “He puts his hand out, looks at you with those beautiful brown eyes, and you feel compelled to hold hands.”
“I’d love to say he loves me,” Bob says scrupulously. “But he can’t.”
“I’m just too attached to him,” he says.
“I can pick from his bowl. Unless it’s something he really likes.”
On one occasion, they got in a wrestling match, and Higgins put one of his “steel-like fingernails” through Bob’s scrotum.
Living Together - Sharing Your Home With a Primate, or If a Cat Just Isn’t Enough - NYTimes.com

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

J'attendrai

collage by marguerita
J'attendrai lyrics

(L. Poterat / D. Olivieri / N. Rastelli / T. Rallo)

J'attendrai le jour et la nuit
J'attendrai toujours ton retour
J'attendrai car l'oiseau qui s'enfuit
vient chercher l'oubli dans son nid
Le temps passait court en battant tristement
dans mon coeur si lourd
Et pourtant j'attendrai ton retour
J'attendrai le jour et la nuit
J'attendrai toujours ton retour
J'attendrai car l'oiseau qui s'enfuit
vient chercher l'oubli dans son nid
Le temps passait court en battant tristement
dans mon coeur si lourd
Et pourtant j'attendrai ton retour
Le vent m'apporte de bruits lointains
Guettant ma porte j'écoute en vain
Hélas, plus rien plus rien ne vient
J'attendrai le jour et la nuit
J'attendrai toujours ton retour
J'attendrai car l'oiseau qui s'enfuit
vient chercher l'oubli dans son nid
Le temps passait court en battant tristement
dans mon coeur si lourd
Et pourtant j'attendrai ton retour
Et pourtant j'attendrai ton retour
Le temps passait court en battant tristement
dans mon coeur si lourd
Et pourtant j'attendrai ton retour

Sunday, February 1, 2009

Midwinter Sunday Interval

collage by marguerita

Friday, January 23, 2009

Sigmund Freud & female eros

collage by marguerita
Chivers has struggled to make sense of her data. She struggled when we first spoke in Toronto, and she struggled, unflagging, as we sat last October in her university office in Kingston, a room she keeps spare to help her mind stay clear to contemplate the intricacies of the erotic.
She has been pondering sexuality, she recalled, since the age of 5 or 6, when she ruminated over a particular kiss, one she still remembers vividly, between her parents. And she has been discussing sex without much restraint, she said, laughing, at least since the age of 15 or 16, when, for a few male classmates who hoped to please their girlfriends, she drew a picture and clarified the location of the clitoris.

And what are known as paraphilias — erotic desires that fall far outside the norm making desire not an emotion to explore but an element to be feared, a source of epidemiological disaster.
The interest has brought scattered sightlines, glimpses from all sorts of angles.About female sexuality as divided between two truly separate, if inscrutably overlapping, systems, the physiological and the subjective
.That female desire may be dictated — even more than popular perception would have it — by intimacy, by emotional connection.

The penis is external, its reactions more readily perceived and pressing upon consciousness.

She joked about including, for comparison, a movie of mating chickens in a future study.Magazine Preview - What Do Women Want? - NYTimes.com

Sunday, November 23, 2008

Attention : "Two shall become one flesh" also spracht Solomon

collage by marguerita
Keep it going.
Sometimes he reclined on the paisley coverlet while flipping through a Bible, emphasizing his point that it is time for the church to put God back in the bed.
“Today we’re beginning this sexperiment, seven days of sex,” he said, with his characteristic mix of humor, showmanship and Scripture.
“How to move from whining about the economy to whoopee!”

We should try to double up the amount of intimacy we have in marriage. And when I say intimacy,
I don’t mean holding hands in the park or a back rub.”
“If you’ve said, ‘I do,’ do it,” he said.
As for single people,
“I don’t know, try eating chocolate cake,” he said.

Just look at the sensuousness of the Song of Solomon, or Genesis: “two shall become one flesh,”
or Corinthians:
“do not deprive each other of sexual relations.”

“God thought it up, it was his idea.”Texas Pastor's Advice for Better Marriage - More Sex, More Often - NYTimes.com


Monday, September 22, 2008

Something to Be Applied Anywhere

“The old Jewish joke tells about a bridegroom, who demanded, a minute before stepping under the wedding canopy, that the bride be undressed for his sake. One does not say no to a bridegroom. She was undressed for him, and then he said: I don’t like her nose.”

Monday, September 15, 2008

“Beautiful Inside My Head Forever, after Damien Hirst”

It could be argued that with fundamental assumptions about race, gender and politics up for grabs in an election that might pivot on things besides policy, having a woman in the anchor chair with a history of roaming across all kinds of subject matter might be a pretty good asset.
“This is a great story for everyone, clearly,” she said. “But with the candidacy of Hillary Clinton and the emergence of Governor Palin, it is also worthwhile to have a female perspective on the news as well.”by David Carr from The New York Times

Saturday, June 14, 2008

Men are pigs, they know that each other are pigs, so they can operate accordingly. It doesn’t mean anything.”

“I can’t say that anything has changed for us personally,” said David Eppley, who married Chad Garner in 2004. What has changed for gay couples is that marriage is part of the dating landscape, adding tension or romance, pressure or excitement. “It makes me completely think differently about the relationship".

,”“gets as excited about seeing me as I get about seeing him,” because “sometimes he’ll do my laundry and fold it the way I like it,” and because “he makes my coffee really well — one Equal with just a tablespoon of fat-free half-and-half.”
“Maybe I should move out and maybe that will make him appreciate me,” Mr. Collins said. “I’ve gone so far as looking for an apartment.”
Amy Bullock married in 2004 after her partner of nine years said “we’ve got to quick do it because maybe they’ll reverse” the law, Ms. Bullock recalled. They had a child and were considering having another. But five months after the wedding, “she decides she is straight,” Ms. Bullock said. “Maybe being married triggered those feelings,” she said. “I didn’t see it coming.”

“I don’t want you to get concerned that I’m pushing marriage or anything.”

“I don’t feel safe,” Linda said. “I’d rather freeze my butt off and be with my honey.”
‘Why don’t you have a Christmas tree? Is it the Jewish thing?’ ”
“almost brings a tear to my eye; and honey, it takes a lot to bring a tear to my eye.”
“It’s a hard commitment to make,” Mr. Venter said. But they try to settle their disagreements. “I’m more willing to figure it out,” he said. “In the past I might have just ended the relationship.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/15/us/15marriage.html?pagewanted=1&hp