Ten days and no post, needed time to think

Many times you do,
do,
do,
you get into a frantic rhythm of things to do, books to read, friends to meet. You are a slave to your own life and habits. You cannot stop and see the big picture. You cannot stop and realize where you are going to. What is that you are really trying to achieve and what is important for you NOW, today in this moment.

Maybe you try too hard to reach something and you miss the flavour, the joy of the process of getting there, the process that you go through every day. And then when you reach that goal, you are not happy. And you realize that what you really wanted was the PROCESS of getting there, the research, the launch into that direction, the every day work for getting that. The present always but not the future.


Last week I was in the blues, I was demotivated for creativity,demotivated for music, demotivated for anything.So I stopped. I stopped for a few days to search what I really want. What is making me happy and if it wasn´t there I would not be me, I would not be complete and I would not be happy.

And I read a lot, about the sky, quantum physics and mystery.
When I was a kid I wanted to become an explorer.An adventurer, a female Indiana Jones.
I found out that I still do!!!
I am still that adventurer!
That explorer!

And by the way my last name "Di Nauta" , comes from Latin and it means something like
sailor
coming from the sea
navigator

Funny isn´t it?

Minimalism and Philip Glass

During my piano class the other day my teacher told me that my song " Spaceman" or "Uomo dello spazio" ( the same song has two versions one in Italian and one in English) reminds him of a work of Philip Glass.
Philip Glass was a musician of the 20th century that created the musical style of MINIMALISM.



According to wikipedia, minimalism is: an originally American genre of experimental or Downtown music named in the 1960s based mostly in consonant harmony, steady pulse (if not immobile drones), stasis and slow transformation, and often reiteration of musical phrases or smaller units such as figures, motifs, and cells. Starting in the early 1960s as a scruffy underground scene in San Francisco alternative spaces and New York lofts, minimalism spread to become the most popular experimental music style of the late 20th century.

I was somehow honoured to have created a song that sounded similar to what this guy created! and now I know something more

Ghosts or surprises in the closet?

How many things you forgot you own?
Yesterday I was making order in my closet,that is always a big mess and I got some surprises! In fact I found a few items that I had forgotten to own, or forgot where they were.
Item number 1:
a brown leather bag,very 70´s that I got for present 1 year ago for my birthday.When I got it I was not so crazy about it so I decided to stuff it in the closet for a “possible future use” but now I see a charming look to it, so I guess I am going to use it soon.

Item number 2: a black leather belt, quite short but of good quality and it will go well with my new trousers,that are a little bit too large in the waist.

Item number 3: a golden plastic glittering belt( kind of for kids)that looks quite naïve and kitsch at the same time and will revive some of my more serious vintage dresses.

Item number 4: a pair of black trousers, that I couldn´t find for the past 6months, they are perfect for the winter and the wear is smooth and comfortable, so I will use them quite often!

THE TRUE SELF IS OUT OF THE KNOWN-RULES, Grant Morrison

I came across five videos of Grant Morrison (the comic writer of THE INVISIBLES)where he explained what he learnt from his encounter with aliens.
It takes time to watch them all (5 videos of 9mins each)thus I will summarize his points before posting the link:

1: The universe does not have space-time, space and time have been created to let our evolution proceed, though the illusion of space and time
2: the True self lies beyond space and time, so to say: our cells change all the time, are you the same you were when you were 10 or 12 years old?How come you think you are but in reality your mind has changed and your body has changed?
3:Individuality does not exist, we all are part of the nature, we are nature, we are just ONE whole thing.
4: When people tell you that " that's the way I am that's how I do it" that's basically bullshit bc we change all the time.
5: We have been told that each of us is different and that we are truly ourselves, but indeed no-one knows what that really means, no-one can explain.
6: If we reverse this process and we realize that we are all one thing, things could change. For centuries people have been doing wars and argue for preserving themselves. But if there is no "themselves" but only US all together, then there is no need for wars. Then we can all evolve together.
7: An adult man has such does not exist.We are still evolving like a foetus in the womb, we are at the latest stage, the stage where the liquid inside the womb is getting toxic and we need to be expelled out of the womb, to be the REAL SELF. To be born for real.
8: With our mind, with our will combined with the power of words we can make things happen. We can re-program the reality to make things happen.

This is the link

THE WORLD NEEDS MORE LOVE, don't give it all for granted, then you will become happier

Today checking in the online community ipower,that I am member of, I entered a discussion on the forum post: everything is amazing yet nobody is perfect.

I have to say that it gives much food for thought and I totally share the ideas. We are so much into the things built by our society that we do not realize how great they are.We have all,1000 types of gadgets, objects to fulfill any possible necessity yet we are never happy.
And us, in the western world,we have all that we really need:
we have food,we have a shelter
and if we work on it we have love. And these main three things are all that we need.Can't we just realise it? And relax? and use our type to make the rest of the world, the poor countries have the same three necessary things:
food, shelter and love ?

We should do this. It should be law, it should be advertized everywhere.It should be as a message in cartoons. On the packages of food.
yet it is not.
I have made a video called:

youtube needs more love



The conversation on ipower was related to this video:

Earrings from recycled surprises!

I made this pair of earrings last Saturday,I keep accumulating things,and everytime I think that I want to keep it because one day I will do something creative with it...in the meanwhile is filled with junk or "potential treasures...." as I want to optimistically call them :-)

At least i found some time and I really like these earrings! Made from surprises of chocolate eggs.It was a dog and a lion, with the head of the lion I plan on doing a brooch,will soon do it and post a picture!

A different meaning for the same word: FRIENDSHIP

What is the value of friendship for you? I think I have a deep and loyal sense of friendship but so to say, I found out many times that for as much as I liked a person and consider this person a friend,well at a certain point I got hit by the realization that the concept of our friendship for this person is not the same as mine.
So to say, all can be seen from different perspectives so If I think a friend did not behave as a friend should, but this person thinks he/she did behave like a friend at all times, how can conflicts be solved?
I am in a situation for which,I am trying to get into someone´s else perspective, that this person actually did not behave wrongly and hurt me but how can the logic make the heart change its mind?
And should I follow my normal instincts of following the heart or instead try to solve the situation in the logical and more practical way? Even if this means,getting into compromises with my own principles?