Der Valentinstag (am 14. Februar des Jahres) gilt in einigen Ländern als Tag der Liebenden. An Popularität gewann er durch den Handel mit Blumen, besonders jedoch durch die umfangreiche Werbung der Floristen. In Europa handelt es sich um einen primär kommerziellen Anlass, der mit traditionellem Brauchtum verbrämt wird, ähnlich dem in den neunziger Jahren populär … Continue reading Happy Valentine’s Day!
OPERNBALL
2 days left: The last preparations for the Vienna Opera Ball are being made - Austria in ball fiever! See here the TV commercial of the ORF (Austrian national broadcaster) to the "Opernball 2007" And who spots my enchanting little daughter? Just try and tell me....
Klagenfurt: cutting down a tree
Last week holiday in Klagenfurt - my home town. No snow but spring time - which means garden work... ...and Smoky is cutting down a tree...
*LOL*
*LOL* may mean: Laughing Out LoudLots Of LaughsLeaning Over LaughingLoud Online Laughter Lautes Online Lachen (German) or: Loads Of Love Lots Of Luck And also: Little Old Lady Log On Later List Of Links Language of Love Love Our Lord Lips on Lips Last or Least Loss of Light Land of Legends Loser On Line … Continue reading *LOL*
4 the family
My husband's birthday, cheerful family dinner...
Festa Candelarum
light a candle 4 peace! INTERNATIONAL WEEK OF PEACE !!! Light a candle as a sign of solidarity against war and other forms of violence ! Put a candle as avatar! Candlemas Lichtmess Candelora Chandeleur Candelaria Kyndelsmässodagen Сретение Господне Modern Pagans have argued that Candlemas is a Christianization of the Gaelic festival of Imbolc, which … Continue reading Festa Candelarum
prom
high school ball - my son's last school year - diploma ("Matura" =Abitur) hopefully soon...
Wednesday Lectures
today @ my Guru Walter SeitterPierre Klossowski lecture... La monnaie vivantewhat are affects, needs, desires... what are the differences...
“I am the escaped one”
"I am the escaped one, After I was born They locked me up inside me But I left. My soul seeks me, Through hills and valley, I hope my soul Never finds me." Fernando Pessoa
wednesday lectures
Let's read Aristoteles: poetics... No tea in the afternoon - a ghastly experience - I'm still shivering. Next week I'll take some teabags to our reading circle... discussing Ἀριστοτέλης - ΠοιητικήQuestion: what means "art" nowadays (according to our Guru Walter Seitter)? It's both a maximal complexity - id est facing an artwork the viewer, listener … Continue reading wednesday lectures
Passage to India
Hopefully in a month I'll be in INDIA - writing a travelogue "From Delhi to Mysore". How will it be? Is this culture, are these people so different from us Europeans? Will is be hard to travel as a single woman through this incredible country?
English – an easy language?
"Well, there isn't much left, because that money has been being spent for months now." was my answer. This was met with instant and intense laughter. The kind of laughter reserved for those moments when I say something so wrong, and therefore so cute, that she is compelled to love me even more, and show … Continue reading English – an easy language?
“Die Wahrheit ist dem Menschen zumutbar” (Ingeborg Bachmann, 1959)
"The truth is reasonable for a human being" read more @ my sophisticated blog
Dagmar Travner 