I cannot bring myself to talk to my younger brother of the war he had witnessed in 2000 and bring those memories back and I feel there is a part of him that I don’t know and cannot connect to. Waltz with Bashir, it feels, allowed me to at least imagine some of the feelings [...]
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Waltz with Bashir
Posted in Films on March 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Out of Russia: Hedgehog in the Fog
Posted in Films, Out of Russia, tagged cartoon, Yuri Norstein, hedgehog, transformation, fears, stop-motion movie, delusions on July 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
My short visit to Russia made me nostalgic of the good old cartoons we grew up with in the former USSR. “Hedgehog in the Fog” (Russian: Ёжик в тума́не, “Yozhik v tumane”) was never among my favourates when I was a child: it had no songs in it, hardly any words at all and although [...]
Charter for Compassion. Will you listen?
On November 12, thousands of people across the globe will listen together.A Personal Note From Irisha
Welcome to AR blog! What matters to me in this brief life is the exploration of what it is like to be human, learning to be present in my own life without the constant struggle - "to feel yet not to suffer" as Adrienne Rich wrote - and getting to know how my mind works, who and what I am underneath the layers of conditioning.
Here I reflect on how to be awake in the activities of life itself and on anything that has to do with practice on and off the cushion. I am happy to share the blog space with others who feel they have something to say about their practice.Reading
Primate's Memoir: Love, Death and Baboons in East Africa by Robert M Sapolsky
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I want to unfold. I don't want to stay folded anywhere, because where I am folded, there I am untrue.
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