Eudaimonia or eudaemonia (Ancient Greek: εὐδαιμονία [evðaimoˈnia]), sometimes Anglicized as eudemonia ( /juːdəˈmoʊni.ə/), is a Greek word commonly translated as happiness, however "human flourishing" is a more accurate translation.[1] Etymologically, it consists of the word "eu" ("good") and "daimōn" ("spirit").
I love words. Here's one I thought of today, because of Verity's "wabi sabi" post. More on this tomorrow... Hopefully!
Jul 27, 2011
Jul 26, 2011
All at Once
All at once, if I let it, the world can overwhelm me. The last couple of (blogless) days haven't been too out of the ordinary, but have seemed heavy... Maybe it was the heat, maybe it was the loss of the baby birds we've been watching near the house, maybe it the pressure of meeting with a graduate studies program on lunch today, maybe it was me just being me and adding too many things to my plate as usual...and maybe I'm being a big whiner right now :-) Yeah, that's probably it...
Instead of babbling on in Whinese, I'll leave you with a little excerpt I've enjoyed pondering lately about decisions, and envy (connotations of green takes on another facet). This is by Elizabeth Gilbert: "The philosopher Odo Marquad has noted a correlation in the German language between the word zwei, which means "two," and the word zweifel, which means "doubt" - suggesting that two of anything brings the automatic possibility of uncertainty to our lives. Now imagine a life in which every day a person is presented with not two or even three but dozens of choices, and you can begin to grasp why the modern world has become, even with all its advantages, a neurosis-generating machine of the highest order. In a world of such abundant possibility, many of us simply go limp from indecision. Or we derail our life's journey again and again, backing up to try the doors we neglected on the first round, desperate to get it right this time. Or we become compulsive comparers - always measuring our lives against some other person's life, secretly wondering if we should have taken her path instead."
Food for thought? I'll have pictures of real food soon. Promise.
Instead of babbling on in Whinese, I'll leave you with a little excerpt I've enjoyed pondering lately about decisions, and envy (connotations of green takes on another facet). This is by Elizabeth Gilbert: "The philosopher Odo Marquad has noted a correlation in the German language between the word zwei, which means "two," and the word zweifel, which means "doubt" - suggesting that two of anything brings the automatic possibility of uncertainty to our lives. Now imagine a life in which every day a person is presented with not two or even three but dozens of choices, and you can begin to grasp why the modern world has become, even with all its advantages, a neurosis-generating machine of the highest order. In a world of such abundant possibility, many of us simply go limp from indecision. Or we derail our life's journey again and again, backing up to try the doors we neglected on the first round, desperate to get it right this time. Or we become compulsive comparers - always measuring our lives against some other person's life, secretly wondering if we should have taken her path instead."
Food for thought? I'll have pictures of real food soon. Promise.
Jul 22, 2011
Dimunae Potter
I know this of myself: I get a bit (okay, more than a bit) dramatic after viewing something dramatic. Despite this, I can't shake the feeling of some sad sort of closure. Viewing the last Harry Potter film does not signify the end of an era of my life, nor even the close of a rather long chapter; rather, it feels as though a thread of the tapestry of my life has been *snipped*. Everything comes and goes in it's due time, so I'm surely not devastated. I am glad, though, to have loved that story, and it's part in my life... and think, "What a bloody good time..."
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