Hilary Mantel and Jane Haynes in conversation. August 29, 2009
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This is a conversation between Hilary Mantel and Jane Haynes on: Mind, Memory, Mood and Sleep. July 2009.
Please listen here:
John Haynes’ photograph of the week: ‘Bacchante couchee’ August 28, 2009
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Quote/Word of the week August 28, 2009
Posted by janehaynes in : Becoming..., Holistic health , comments closedQUOTE OF THE WEEK: The sorrow that hath no vent in tears makes other organs weep. Sir Henry Maudsley.
WORD OF THE WEEK: Qualia: (from Quale 1675: The qualities of a thing).
These are recognizable qualitative characters of the given, which may be repeated in different experiences, and weather set off quite different vibrations.’
John Haynes’ photo of the week: Tiger, Tiger. August 20, 2009
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Becoming an expert August 19, 2009
Posted by janehaynes in : Becoming... , comments closedThe other day I realized that I could no longer turn a blind eye to the fact that the windows on the fourth storey of our house are about to fall out of their frames. Imagine, they have been in situ since 1870 when the house was built. Imagine, how many people in different emotional states have looked out onto the horizon from the windows across a street in which only the trees and
Quotes of the week August 14, 2009
Posted by janehaynes in : Becoming..., Thinking skywards , comments closedNietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra:
“What is love? What is creation? What is yearning? What is a star?” – Thus asks the last human and so have I. And I can prove it.
R.D. Laing, (spoken in a strong Glaswegian accent):
‘The World Health Organisation cuts no ice with me’.
John Haynes’ photograph of the week R.D. Laing August 14, 2009
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Quotes/Word of the week. August 6, 2009
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snail-horn perception of Beauty.
THE PRISONER AND THE FUGITIVE MARCEL PROUST:
There is in our body a certain instinctive sense of what is good for us, as in our hearts of what is right, which no doctor or medicine or theology can replace.
Consolations of Proust August 2, 2009
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