Saturday, April 25, 2020

The wind and the cherry tree

I was reading in my studio during one spring weekend day trying to delight myself with the oftentimes fascinating perspectives of other brilliant minds. And during one brief pause my accidental glance on the window caught the unannounced white petals parade enacted by the playful interaction between the wind and a nearby cherry tree. My buzzing mind abandoned for a moment all previous activities...
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Tuesday, April 21, 2020

Hypothesis for CORONA’s origin

When faced with uncertainty and unpredictability we naturally struggle to fill in the void with plausible explanations. Making sense of what we see and coming up with credible theories represent a legitimate attempt to better orient ourselves in the new environment. The increasing number of CORONA infections and deaths, the massive disruption for our daily life and the economy made us fill in...
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Sunday, April 19, 2020

The value of attitudes

Attitudes possess a hidden power to shape and color the melodic and even atonal notes of our lives in most circumstances we have to face throughout the journey. They can set a starting point for what may come later or change the action’s course in the same way as a musical key sets the tone (or pitch) for the notes that unfold on its portative. And my feeble musical allusions are only meant to introduce...
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Sunday, April 12, 2020

Could the second joy be happier for you too?

I’ve been told that my texts seem too dense for some readers, with hidden meanings remaining mute at first glance. Probably some of the unexpected moves, abrupt comparisons, sudden changes and wired associations fancied by my excited neurons preclude the normal predictions in an unanticipated fashion. I do apologize for forcing you to hike into such a dense tropical forest of metaphors instead of...
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Saturday, April 11, 2020

Brief guide against baloney theories

I’ve argued in another post that our CORONA-invaded world is currently in suspension. That leaves our bodies, our home office, the lamp and a bunch of unanswered questions to freely float in a zero-gravity field we couldn’t even imagine last month. We are not used to tolerate such a massive amount of uncertainties, and we really hunger for some solid and sound assurances that could help us navigate...
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Friday, April 10, 2020

A world in suspension

In our day and age ideas can bounce from one brain to the next continent in seconds due to our loved-hated technology. Let me illustrate, using the six degree of separation framework, how an idea bounced to me from a previously unknown person. For this story I need to activate only four out of the six degrees of separation. In one of my longer than one hour phone talk with a dear Romanian friend...
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Wednesday, April 1, 2020

Healthy principles for staying home

Disclaimer: I just hope you will find charming when I spill over the limits of my English as a second language. Most of us lead complicated, multifaceted lives and entertain various roles in our struggle to experience life fully and attend the endless diversity of our needs. Usually we wear different outfits especially designed for each role we play on separate scenes for distinct audiences. And...
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Our different reactions to staying home

When it comes to explaining our reactions to usual situations, let alone unprecedentedly extreme crisis ones, there are many factors that came into play: personality, education, cognitive distortions, anxiety levels, financial income, physical and mental illness, cultural norms and much, much more. But the natural diversity of our behaviors, which otherwise would not cry out so loud, becomes particularly evident...
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