Joanna Karpowicz „7 AM, Poland”, 42 X 29,7 Cm, Acrylic On Paper, 2024 (from Artist's Fb Page)

Marriage of decay and awakening.

Last rays in a snowy forest

niiloi

We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Photo by tt+ on Flickr.

Fine Art of the Forest

(c) riverwindphotography, August 2024

Richard Doyle (1824-1883) 

Pursued by elves

In the period between the attack on the World Trade Center towers and the American response, a reporter from the Los Angeles Times called to ask me if the events of the past weeks meant 'the end of relativism.' (I had an immediate vision of a headline - RELATIVISM ENDS: MILLIONS CHEER - and a photograph with the caption, 'At last, I can say what I believe and mean it.')

Stanley Fish

It is not possible deliberately to create ideas or to control their creation. When a difficulty stimulates the mind, suggested solutions just automatically spring into the consciousness. The variety and quality of the suggestions are functions of how well prepared our mind is by past experience and education pertinent to the particular problem. What we can do deliberately is to prepare our minds in this way, voluntarily direct our thoughts to a certain problem, hold attention on that problem and appraise the various suggestions thrown up by the subconscious mind. The intellectual element in thinking is, Dewey says, what we do with the suggestions after they arise. Other things being equal, the greater our store of knowledge, the more likely it is that significant combinations will be thrown up. Furthermore, original combinations are more likely to come into being if there is available a breadth of knowledge extending into related or even distant branches of knowledge.

- W.I.B. Beveridge