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October 28, 2006

From time to time we need a poem

If

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too:
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim,
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same:
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build’em up with worn-out tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings,
And never breathe a word about your loss:
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on!”

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much:
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!

Rudyard Kipling

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By Eric | Category: Backyard
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October 27, 2006

Our Weekly Postcard (XXXII)

Sculpture in Olbia

Olbia, Sardinia (Italy), 2006. A dark chapter in my life (as I said before):

One of the ugliest sculptures I’ve ever met. Created by an artist apparently hating people (especially women), hating water (a fountain without…) and, last but not least, hating the art itself.

By Eric | Category: In Flagranti
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October 26, 2006

Leo’s Toothpaste Collection

Toothpaste

Examples: Splat from Russia (left) and Toothpaste Tube Style Keyrings from South Africa

To the collection starting page (more in form of a timeline HERE)

By Eric | Category: Linktips
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October 13, 2006

Hunting Hares?

CritterThe height of hunting season is just around the corner now (here in Europe). Hence this special note: Last winter and by popular demand the author of the M40’s Wilderness Survival Pages added a chapter about Skinning and Gutting Your Kill. Then he went out for a little hunting, as he wrote, also trying to take some pictures to update the page again. But he didn’t come back yet.

Nevertheless, the instructions are very comprehensible, also due to the supplemented detailed drawings. Have a look.

By Eric | Category: Linktips
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October 9, 2006

Art: The Real St Ives Story

St Ives Carnival
For a few extraordinary years in the post-war era, the small town of St Ives was an art centre of international significance. While it was often overshadowed by Ben Nicholson and Barbara Hepworth there was a more subversive and anarchic side to the Cornish phenomenon.

TATE ETC. (Issue 8 / Autumn 2006): The Real St Ives Story – an edited version of a conversation recorded in St Ives on 4 May 2006

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