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Eksistensiële Gesondheid Onsekerheid, Sterflikheid, Identiteit vs Rol Die Gesprek  Elemente Uit Die Gesprek  Kreatiewe Stuk Alberto Giacometti - L’Homme qui marche (Die Lopende Man) 1960 Alberto Giacometti se beroemde bronsfiguur L’Homme qui marche (Die Lopende Man) beeld ’n man uit, besig om te loop, met sy arms wat los langs sy sye hang. Dit word beskryf as ’n nederige beeld van ’n doodgewone man, én terselfdertyd ’n kragtige simbool vir die hele mensdom. Giacometti het die natuurlike balans van die treë gesien het as ’n beeld van die mens se eie lewenskrag. Die figuur het geen klere, geen professionele kenmerke, geen gesigsuitdrukking van bravade nie. Hy is bloot mens—breekbaar, alleen, maar steeds aan die beweeg. Dit verwoord visueel daardie vraag: Wie is jy wanneer jy nie meer jou rolle "dra" nie? Jy is nie die harnas van jou werk of doeltreffendheid nie; jy is die essensie wat deurbreek wanneer alles afgestroop word. Daar is 'n diep ironie daarin dat Giacometti se...

  Existential Health Inhabit existence; Create Meaning; Assuming Authorship The Conversation Elements From The Conversation Creative Piece This week's creative piece, a painting, is actually more about the painter than the painting itself. In this quiet, introspective man, one can see 3 characteristics of existential health. L.S. Lowry, the British painter who painted "Going to the Mill" in 1925, looked his reality, the industrial city of Manchester, squarely in the eye. While others viewed the industrial cities of the time as ugly and crude, Lowry saw the beauty, the loneliness and the humanity in it. He did not paint an artificial, elevated world; he painted the point of contact with reality. Returning to last week's subject: To rest meaningfully requires that we, like Lowry, stop waiting for an "ideal" or "perfect" world to come to a standstill in front of us. It requires that we look the reality of our daily lives with its mills, its smoke and...

  Eksistensiële Gesondheid Midde-in Realiteit; Jou eie Outeur; Ongeleende Betekenis Die Gesprek Elemente Uit Die Gesprek Kreatiewe Stuk Hierdie week se kreatiewe stuk, 'n skildery, gaan eintlik meer oor die skilder as oor die skildery self. By dié stil, inkennige man kan mens 3 kenmerke van eksistensiële gesondheid sien. L.S. Lowry, die Britse skilder wat "Going to the Mill" in 1925 geskilder het, het sy realiteit, die industriële stad Manchester, vierkantig in die oë gekyk. Terwyl ander die industriële stede van die tyd as lelik en kru beskou het, het Lowry die skoonheid, die eensaamheid en die menslikheid daarin gesien. Hy het nie 'n kunsmatige, verhewe wêreld geskilder nie; hy het die raakpunt met die werklikheid geskilder.  Om sinvol te rus, vra dat ons, soos Lowry, ophou om te wag vir 'n "ideale" of "perfekte" wêreld voor ons tot stilstand kom. Dit vra dat ons die realiteit van ons daaglikse lewe met sy meule, sy rook en sy onvolmaaktheid...

Meaningful Rest? The Conversation Elements From The Conversation A good yardstick for a period of rest:  Creative Piece If we look at Danish painter Carl Vilhelm Holsøe's (1863-1935) 'Interior, Light of Spring', a woman sits, alone with the light. She has no list. She is not busy balancing the finances, or doing anything "useful", even though the book is on the table. She just sits. Not someone who is wasting time, but someone who is busy resting in her own humanity. Perhaps our winter here on Tafelkop is our own Holsøe interior, where the greatest challenge is to learn that our value does not lie in the book on the table, but in the light that falls on us through the window. Music As always, with love and the longing that you are doing well. George & Matilda  

Sinvol Rus?   Die Gesprek Elemente Uit Die Gesprek 'n Goeie maatstaf vir 'n tyd van rus: Kreatiewe Stuk Kyk ons na die Deense skilder, Carl Vilhelm Holsøe (1863-1935) se 'Interior, Light of Spring', sit ’n vrou, alleen met die lig. Sy het geen lysie nie. Sy is nie besig om die finansies te balanseer nie, of iets "nuttigs" te doen nie, al is die boek op die tafel. Sy sit net. Nie iemand wat tyd mors nie, maar iemand wat besig is om te rus in haar eie menswees.  Miskien is ons winter hier op Tafelkop ons eie Holsøe-interieur, waar die grootste uitdaging is om te leer dat ons waarde nie in die boek op die tafel lê nie, maar in die lig wat deur die venster op ons val. Musiek Soos altyd, met liefde en wense dat dit goed gaan met julle. George & Matilda

Artificial Intelligence   What I'll Miss Should Humanity Fade The Conversation Elements From The Conversation Creative Piece Starting with this week's blog entry, we're adding a new facet - something creative in whatever form, that expresses the theme without words. This week it's the famous painting by Joseph Turner, "The Fighting Temeraire" (1838). An old, glorious wooden warship (the Temeraire, which had fought in the Battle of Trafalgar) is being towed away at sunset by a small, black, smoking steam tug to be broken up. It is probably the most famous visual metaphor for the transition from the old, hand-crafted, wind-powered world to the cold, efficient machine age. The steamboat does not care about the history or beauty of the wooden ship; it is simply efficient. The word Temeraire literally means "the one who dares" or "the fearless one" (from the French téméraire). And the ship repeatedly lived up to her name; at the Battle of Trafa...