Arcitecht Mick Pearce. What I liked about his talk was that he told about how he tried to learn how to build a house with the nature involved in the building itself, environment thinking. This is good house building for the future.
It reminds me of Alvar Aalto, a Finnish arcitect that also used a closeness to nature within his building, but the difference here is that Mick Pearce do work together with the scientists knowledge of as the first example in the video the Termites housewarming technique, their lung as he says, he needed the scientists for him to learn the functionality and then he makes it into a building in humansize with his arcitect skilled design of course. The waterfall building in China is an interesting project mentioned in the same video piece. Its fascinating to learn about how the trees also get integrated into a parkingspot.
More collaboration of science and arcitect might make a better future for sustainable houses.
In the history of time in the ancient Greece there is a story about how women stopped a war going on. The drama/comedy was written by Aristofanes 411 B.C. It's called Lysistrate. The wifes had a sexstrejk(meaning the women stopped pleasuring their husbands). And in frustration the war-headed men stopped the war.
Now I'm not sure what the joke was.
I am looking at notes from yesteryear and as I am looking for something to do, like a buisness to make a living of I like the thought of a Big Sister program. It will be about sisterhood then. Because women can do better than be stay at home wifes. We are teachers, personal assitent, secretaries, cleaning ladies, Yoga, impretator, hair dressers. Women are mothers, sisters, daughters, diplomats, peace ambassadeurs, Composers, Journalists, Reporters, gardeners, artists, filmmakers, bakers, chefs, nurses, daycare, police, firefighters, doctors.
I mention all of these professions like each woman has to know how to do all these things to take care of her family, after her fulltime work she comes home and do the cooking and laundry, cleaning if she is this middle class woman living in Sweden. Doubletime, she´s working at home too unpaid business just to get the family happy. Is she happy with that? Do we not need to be good helping sisters in this large village or community on this Earth. Woman/Man and all in between. Were we not all once children?
The Mothers of Ukraine sons went out on the streets to stop the fighting yesterday. The president of their country is on a sick leave now.
We women take care of you men. Be nice to us. Honour your ladies.
Take care of eachother women. Be good sisters to one another.
I take a coffebreak and turn on the telly. Kunskapskanalen(that is the knowledge-channel) shows a program about Pompeii and old rome. the lady that presents it is lovely, she tell all about how the romans used their slaves as inhuman like a piece of furniture but how some of them slaves got to be married to their owner and be set free. Free slaves that got to become husband or wife to the owner. Mary Beard tells explicit how one of the slaves chores was to do sex duty. The rich household had an own bath for those services, the mosaic at the entrance floor showing a man with erect penis and then the pool floor showing more naked personas lets the historic storyteller guess that here was the sex room, where slaves that did not even own their own body got to do things for their master, man or girl or woman an boy? Who knows?
I switch channel and there are reporters eagerly waiting for president Hollande to make a statement about his personal affair, but when he talk he only mention the job situation and how to make France matter in the EU and to help out by making a new job arrangement program, make some changes for France.
Then the head press journalist get to ask a question, and he trips delicately with the words first thanking for the president mentioning them prisoned journalists abroad and hoping freedom for press yada yada, but the question is will the presidents wife be joining him to the Obama meeting in few weeks time?
Oh Irony. No, he is asking about personal affairs. The humanity needs to know is he having an affair or not?! How about the jobs? Isn't that more important? I am jobless so I wonder about the jobs more than the private matter of a man and woman. The wife in question hospitalized so leave them alone I think quietly. If I were that wife I would not like to see the newspaper of tomorrow throwing images out there for everyone to see about those private matters... not the choice a woman makes when getting married to someone? For better or worse.
In ancient Rome, the tombs of a rich household contained 24pairs in katakomb like square(48persons!) The slaves and master of the household indifferent in death. The freed slaves of a man got to share his grave. In aristocrat England it would be unthinkable to have the lord in same familygrave as the household.
The romans had another kind of lifestyle for sure or is it the same as we have today? Is it just forgotten about? Looking back in time and seeing dramas of the past makes one see the humanity is one of a kind, the same no matter what age, the difference of today is the Big Brother(read 1984 by George Orwell) eye that sees all and can document it to the delight of others. I feel sick of the ever curiousity that explores all over, that want to know all, its sickening, thats my thoughts of the day.
Yes, I'm an amateur artist. I know it´s not anything anyone would buy... I got maybe more paintings I´ve begun to paint with an idea and then in reality it does not turn out the way I imagined. Kind of like the relationships I've had. Things doesn´t turn out the way I imagine, perhaps because I am a dreamer and there is noone that can read minds are there?
I counted that it is about twenty paintings I have not found a way to complete yet. Its work in progress, although I've managed to do portrait work in between and they are finished paintings, so its the odd ones out really. Too bad on the hours colouring these not good enough work of arts. Oh well I'm a mess.
Andrew Solomon - Depression, the secret we share. (Shows pictures of famous persons that had depression Emily Dickinson, Goya, ) 1991 mother died, relationship dead, 3 years later, did not want to do anything. - Everything to do seem like to much to do. Instead of feel good to have friends what alot to do. Difficult to eat. You know it is ridiculous to be depressed. Feel myself doing less, thinking less. Then anxiety. If you told a month only. A sensation of being afraid all the time. Too painful to be alive. Lay in bed thinking something is wrong. Finally the phone rang. His Father rang him. Who am I if I cannot be myself? What if the medication do me someone else. There be something. Merge and relapsed. Have to be in therapy for life. Is it philosophical or...
The treatment is a disaster, I hope in the future. No thing of love without desprair. Depression, grief and sadness. Loss, six months later feel better it is grief. If loss and still at a loss six month later, then it is depression.
Andrew Solomon interviewed depression people. It is a serious thing.
Lithium without the medicin she katatonic. I was singing to myself Where have all the flowers gone over and over to get the voice out of your head. - Think about killin self.
Thats true but I think what to focus about now is what to have for breakfast.
Play videogame an hour. The healthy thought killing more than the depressed group thought of killin little monsters.
A husband and wife hiding their depression to eachother. Hiding medication in different places in the same
If u have braincancer.
If you feel better you get better from depression.
How medication - making little things from yarn helped a woman. (Look out if she had OCD too)
Rwanda, westafrica, east africa - Treatment - take the people into sunshine and music and community, no the westernes just took them to a room and make them talk about bad things in this damp room.
A woman of 7children just laid on the bed, covers over her head, abusive husband. 6months later she is single mother can help the kids with their homework, she got happier kids and says: I asked the lord to send me an angel and he did, she said.
Think it through. What is the mechanism of resillience? Those who hide from it get worse. Those who have it. Im glad to have been in hospital 40times. Learned to give all the things I need. Have found a soul inside myself says Andrew Solomon. Found a way to love my depression, to cling to the reasons for living.
